Bollywood Dance Evolution
People around the world believe Indian Bollywood dancing is just running around the trees wearing colorful clothing. However, several Bollywood actors had taken their inspiration from many American singers and dancers. The early years of Indian motion pictures didn’t really appreciate too much motion from the actors themselves. These were due to limited technical abilities in the filmmaking, budget controlled and cultural appropriation. Hence the actors would stand still or walk a few steps and use a maximum of a head nod or small radius hand sways. Thus, making dancing to tunes look like kindergarten recital of rhymes.
Raj Kapoor: One of the first of the Kapoor family tree to make it big in Bollywood. And ever since, his family has the largest monopoly in Bollywood movies. Raj Kapoor used comical dancing to entertain audience. In the movie, Mera Naam Joker, his dancing was a copy-paste of Charlie Chaplin’s dance moves.
Shammi Kapoor: Another Kapoor prodigy who’s dance was heavily inspired by Beatles band and Elvis Priestley. The head shakes, body n leg twists all were a replica of the greatest pop star Elvis Presley. Dev Anand: Known as the Evergreen Actor, for his youthfulness until the ripe ages of 80s always played a young actor role. But his dancing wasn’t always matching his claimed youth since it was mostly limited to walking sideways like a crab, nodding head and crossing hands. However, this became his iconic moves and still remains so.
Mithun Chakraborty: The dancing legend of Indian cinema and one of our favourites in Bollywood. His movies Disco Dancer, Dance Dance and many others were all dance themed to show the best of his moves. Mithun’s dance moves are majorly inspired by John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever).
Dharmendra: Straight out of the gym khana of Punjab, Dharmendra had to invent dance moves for the songs in his movies. He showed his guns(biceps), jumped up and down, crawled on the floor and made up moves with combinations of these movements = Hilarious outcome.
Amitabh Bachan: The biggest actor ever to play in Bollywood. One of the tallest too.. such long arms and legs aren’t the best design for dancing. The limited space also could have contributed to the creation of his dance moves of walking and alternate forward arm swings. Easy steps replicated by every Indian in every house party.
Anil Kapoor: An actor that doesn’t seem to get old at all. Know for his cheerful smile and dances which resemble a chicken walk with head bob. Cute moves that complimented most of cheeky songs that were written for his movies. Mostly dance moves inspired by alcohol infused punjabi weddings.
Govinda: A close rival to Mithun’s dance movies in Indian cinema. Govinda started his dancing style similar to Mithun but in the 90’s adapted afresh new and Bizarre clothing styles and dances. His moves seemed inspired by daily activities like washing, cooking and the pelvic thrusts also inspired by after dark activities.
Salman Khan: one of the highest grossing actors in Bollywood and one of the first with a toned body which he flaunted in each movie. At any given excuse, the man takes his shirt off and flexes his muscles. This is major part of his dancing along with tight fitting shirts and trousers.
Akshay Kumar: An Actor that is well trained in martial arts uses all the karate chops, kicks and somersaults as part of his dance routines. Stand close to him while he dances and you sure will end up with few broken bones and bleeding nose.
Prabhu Deva: Man with no bones at all. Dances like mercury let loose. But again, his moves are very much inspired by the king of pop Michael Jackson. However, PrabhuDeva couldn’t manage to shake off his genetically designed Tapanguchi moves from the streets of Chennai and they are clearly evident in his dancing techniques.
Hritik Roshan: Indian Bradley Cooper, made his entry to Bollywood with his iconic dance moves in first movie and 20 years later he is still repeating the same moves in every movies. It’s all about his legs and body waves and every kid in India has attempted to dance his moves atleast once!
Varun Dhavan: This good looking actor has adopted dance moves from the mumbaiyya Ganapathi and Holi festivals. Girls in india watch him no matter how he dances or acts.
Shahid Kapoor: Shahid started off in cute boy sort of movies and now evolved into the big bad roles. During his transition he spent time learning dances that were inspired by Usher and body popping dancers.
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