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Bollywood Actresses

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The term Bollywood Movies that refer generally today to Hindi Cinema, and in a broader sense to the whole gamut of movies in Indian Cinema, could well be an inferior derivation of the term Hollywood Movies, but then the imitation rests solely on the term. The style and substance of Bollywood Movies, the song and dance has no rivals. In terms of audio visual entertainment in Music and Dance, Bollywood Movies rocks while the rest of the world cinema wriggle. Then there are the spice and honey, the color and glamor: the gorgeous and the sexotic Indian actresses of Bollywood, the lissome ladies with matchless grace whose abundant natural talents were made overflowing with superior training in the riches of classical Indian dance and music.

The Bollywood actresses could dance on a dime. The Bollywood Golden girls would dance even where there is no space to have their feet on. As the 18 year old Indian contestant, as cool as anybody could ever get into, in a high voltage, goose bump atmosphere, seated on a tall stool, with her long legs seductively crossed, showed the enthralled world how an Indian classical dancer could showcase fundamentals of classical dance. She depicted a loveliest flower with her fingertips. Her fingers slim and long like stems, supple as petals, the subtlety of the gestures and the resultant symbol held the world gasped, at the stage live, in the auditorium live, in the hotel beaches on wide-screens and in front of their televisions at the residences the world around. That was at the Miss World Competition 2000, the Millennium Dome, London, United Kingdom. Right there, that evening she was peerless. She was unconquerable in her honey-drop juicy beauty, feather-like floating grace and silk-like flowing eloquence. Miss Chopra, the reigning Miss india was crowned Miss World 2000.

Today, tonight and another millennium to come, Bollywood or Hindi Cinema or Indian Cinema, as you would see fit to call it, has no rivals. And the sheer fall of a hand, or a rise of a hand of a songstress dancer at Bollywood would bring about the grace of the loveliest garland of loveliest flowers.

There was never a dancer of the class of Bollywood actress, ever-resplendent Madhuri Dixit, who had trained for eight years in Kathak, one of the eight forms of Indian classical dances. Such was the spell binding effects of Madhuri, following the filming of the 1992 Bollywood movie Beta (Hindi: son), Anil Kapoor, confessed that he had to shake himself up, remind himself that he was a professional actor, not to fall into a trance when a ravishing Madhuri Dixit, red hot in the dark night rocked, rolled, floated, bubbled and sizzled: Dhak Dhak Karne Laga (Hindi: heartbeat). It was a heartbeat on overdrive. Beta won four Filmfare Awards including Best Actress Award for Madhuri Dixit. “For me it is not just about shaking my hands and feet or moving to a rhythm. It just comes from my soul. It’s a very spiritual thing for me whether it is a Western number or an Indian one” said Madhuri Dixit.

If Madhumati (starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayantimala) was an enchanting breeze in 1958, in the year 1991, Saajan (staring Sanjay Dutt and Madhuri Dixit) took Sri Lanka, without which India could never draw her map, by storm.

Bollywood or Indian Cinema which has been wining award since 1951 at Cannes Film Festival (Awaara starring exotic Nargis and monkey Raj Kapoor) shot into greater heights of popularity worldwide in the year 2000, the same year Priyaka Chopra was crowned Miss World. Year 2000 led the Bollywood filmmaking to greater heights in terms of quality, cinematography and innovative story lines as well as the technical advances in areas such as special effects and animation etc. In the 2000s, Bollywood spread its influence into the musical movies of the Western world and played a particularly instrumental role in the revival of American musical film genre. Baz Luhrmann stated that his musical film Moulin Rouge (2001) was directly inspired by Bollywood musicals. A. R. Rahman, the master composer wrote the music for Andrew Lloyd Webbber’s Bombay Dreams.
From where did all that jazz plus overload, the astonishing spectrum of music and dance land in India?

Indian art, Indian music has been enriched with millenniums of great traditions of classical oriental art and music. The classical music of India traces its origins to the vedic times (2000-700 BC). It has imbibed the best of the cultural diversity that has enriched the subcontinent. From its beginning in the spiritualism of the most sacred scriptures of Hindu philosophy, Indian musical tradition has become the most sophisticated medium of expression of human thought, emotion, and feelings, which encompass many cultural overlays, the most prominent of these being the Persian influence.

The Indian Classical Music is associated with two major concepts, the Rasa and Raga. There are nine Rases, which define various human emotions or sentiments. The concept of nine Rases spreads over the whole array of arts, including the performing arts of song and dance. Indian classical dance such as Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Manipuri, Kudiyattam, Kathakali too are underpinned by the concept of nine Rasa.

Rasa has been an important influence on the Indian cinema, the Bollywood Movies. The Rasa method of performance is one of the fundamental features that differentiate Indian cinema from that of the Western World. In the Rasa concept, empathetic emotions are conveyed by the performer and thus felt by the audience. The Bollywood sing and dance so that we could feel. And feel overwhelmed.
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