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Hi, guys, I am back with performance analysis for 20-21st august. Sorry, was out of town, just came back and watched the epi. Must sad, I am a little disappointed to see
none of you made any thread on the overall analysis, would have been nice, to vent out ot gush.
Anywho, back to performances.
Good to see JD people read our posts, since performances have their names added now.
starting performance was ankan with robotic act. well it was more like popping,locking acc to me, but something is better than nothing( for showing the name). Ankan was as usual good, wouldn't say outstanding but was
above average for sure.I like the guy, but it feels like he one of the fortunate few to get good choreography and challenging choreography. if HV is the lead choreographer, i would request them to sit up and groom the weaker
ones with iron fist. IT feels like, the better are polished and made best, the good stays just where they are.
anyways, i disagreed with VM a bit, i thought his isolation to that good, and the small tutting not very remarkable either. But overall, good one.
second performance Soumita, same ol same ol, classical. I am a sucker for classical, myself being trained, and i love to see classical, but doesnt mean every episode will have to have classical from same person,same form, almost same costume, same moves, and same expression.
again choreos, there are 8 classical dance forms in India, if u r so keen on showing classical, then why not make the contestants do several forms. What is
the challenge in making a trained kathak dancer, do kathak, day , after day, after day? Try something new, give her fushion with kathak, if she wants to prove her classical prowess, make her do bharatnaytam, kuchipudi, manipuri, odissi, thaat would also be a feast for viewers.
I am nothing to say about this performance, it was decent at the best. dancers have taken this song and done much better job elsewhere.
up 3rd was surjit, with contemporary, kinda felt a bit funny seeing him in 3 piece suit( costume recycling from rajit?), but he danced well. Actually it was really good, emotions were good, some movements were good and appluad the fact that he did something outside his forte
instead of soumita just before
swarali did a charlie chaplin act. It could have been better, her lines would have been a little dedined,but it definitely was one of the best acts of today. Inspite of being a girl, she kind of pulled off quite a believable Charlie.
Rajit, up next did mime. Since mime depends a lot on strong body language, i felt it was a bit lacking. but nevertheless, he did a decent job. Specially after obe of his gloves came off, and his shoe,he carried of really well.
Up next , karan pangali, props to him, for doing folk, bhangra. and thank god,m finally no more dhoti pant and front open kurta. I was beginning to think he bought one in every color. So far those jacket kurtas and dhoti pants is what i have been seeing. Thank God, for changing the costume.
The bhangra, imo, was a little low on energy.but his expressions and lip sync was really good. It could have been a little more, it stopped just as i was feeling good about it and even he was picking up. Man, this one reminded me of the group performance of the western yodhas in dance premier league. why didn't HV make such an impactful choreography once again? Karan alone managed quite well inspite of the not so good choreography.
next meher malik, contemporary with belly. her expressions were outstanding. but i didn't understand the choreography and the match up of the theme. actually, until VM said clearly, i didnt realise it was about abortion. i felt some sort of struggle for women trying to give birth and female foeticide. dance was average.
Irfan did folk next. while his attempt was good, because of his injury or some reason, his dance was very weak, steps, energy, expression. Props to him for trying folk though: danger zone was unfortunate, but quite justified.
what folk form is it? If anyone can tell me, that would really be nice.
up next abhas. I am not sure why he landed in danger zone, has anyone done krumping in the show already? i think he was the first, and i loved his krumping. though his song selection, i donno, i guess it needed a little more aggresive song, or same song with a little more
aggressive beat: i actually liked his performance. presentation and costume was also nice.
kruti came with hip hop next. There were lots of nice breaking in it.I am not much of a hip hop expert, but is breaking different from hip hop? it looked more like breaking .however her expressions killed it for me, kruti is such a sweet girl, i said before, she cannot do the sassy, aggressive thingi well, and she couldn't do
it well today too.
karan khanna was the last one today, he handles his props really well.and his lines are so good, expressions ,adequate acting.today his was the second best performance.
Top4:ankan: predictable, though todays was ok.
surjit: surprise, but he was good, considering contemporary is not his fort
swarali: well deserved
karan khanna: well deserved
bottom 3: except for abhas, other two were ok imho. irfan was the weakest, pangali wasnt much impressive today, low energy, poor choreography,but kruti could have been there too, hers was quite weak imo.
The day soumita doesnt do one lame ass kathak routine or meher shakes her belly, or someone doesnt do a jazz routine on either day,i think sun will rise in west probably, seeing as they never fail to do it in every episode.The ways soumita dances, it takes all the beauty of kathak from me now, initially it was fine but now , kathak can be so pretty if done properly,my guess( soumita said in last epi too), soumita
choreographs her steps on her own and then they are polished. This shows in the repetitive steps. if this is same for everydancer, no wonder some are getting better than others. Coz, there is no grooming going on then, the dancers are fairly on their own. and good choreography needs a lot of innovative thinking, not every good dancer
can choreograph so well, it comes sometimes with experience but these people are quite new. Hmm, problem problem.
This is for saturday, if u guys reply a lot, then i will think of doing it for sunday too, but not now, i am lazy and i want to watch a chupke chupke.
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