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★★★★★ FAUJ @ Boston Bhangra Competition 2012 ★★★★★

vishalp819

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We would like to thank everyone on the BBC committee for running an amazing competition this year. A special shout-out to Priya Bhambi for being an amazing and accommodating liaison. Most importantly, we would like to thank everyone who came out to support us - we truly would not have been able to pull off this performance without you. Stay tuned to FAUJ next year - bigger things are coming. :)

Congrats to Shaan E Punjab, Furteelay Shokeen and all the other teams for putting on an amazing show.

Red & Green: Cherag Selhi & Aminder Gill
Baby Blue & Pink: Abhi Sehli & Vipul Chawla
Blue & Yellow: Krishna Soni & Vishal Patel
Purple & White: Anu Selhi & Tim Baloda
Dark Purple & Cream: Ankit Sood & Tarundeep Singh
Orange & Green: Derek Kallarackal & McLovin


FAUJ @ Boston Bhangra Competition 2012
 

Govind

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My general impression was that this was a very difficult routine, but it was incredibly entertaining/hype. Clean up the mistakes and variations in dancer styles, and get some of your dancers to tone it down and not overdo a lot of power moves which contributed to some of the sloppiness. Choreo was great and ending too good! No surprise this placed :) Congrats...big improvements from when I saw you a few months ago at MIT's India Day.
 

Shahrukh

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great performance, i feel like fauj always has great prop segments sapp and khunda segments were fun to watch. I also really really really liked your mirza segment, and the tank at the end was epic. Also cherag is such a next level dancer man, too good, nakhra is sick. Congrats on 2nd!
 

jasraj93

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Set was amazing, consistent energy through out the set which was also good, congrats on second :)
 

Danny

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Oh snaps now thats a performance right there! Props to FAUJ! that was bananas


*Also sick job with this video and the intro Kinnel! Love um!
 

voxanimus

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Pankaja said:
Great energy throughout, not surprised at all that this placed so highly. Why did you guys decide to bring back your old vardi?

probably because their current vardi are REALLY similar to nishani bhangra's
 

abhij95

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voxanimus said:
Pankaja said:
Great energy throughout, not surprised at all that this placed so highly. Why did you guys decide to bring back your old vardi?

probably because their current vardi are REALLY similar to nishani bhangra's
You mean furteelay*
 

Cherag

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abhij95 said:
voxanimus said:
Pankaja said:
Great energy throughout, not surprised at all that this placed so highly. Why did you guys decide to bring back your old vardi?

probably because their current vardi are REALLY similar to nishani bhangra's
You mean furteelay*
Ya Furteelay's Vardiyaan are similar to the new ones that we have been using since last BBC, but we brought these old fits back because we wanted to do twelve solid colors while keeping jodis. It was just something that was a little, different, that's all ;)
 
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ruined this for me ... bhangra idols BS view changes .. chill out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i shall not watch till i get a video without view changes lol
 

smehta313

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abhij95 said:
voxanimus said:
Pankaja said:
Great energy throughout, not surprised at all that this placed so highly. Why did you guys decide to bring back your old vardi?
probably because their current vardi are REALLY similar to nishani bhangra's
You mean furteelay*
He probably meant to include Nachde Sher/ Mustang Bhangra as well.
 

voxanimus

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smehta313 said:
abhij95 said:
voxanimus said:
Pankaja said:
Great energy throughout, not surprised at all that this placed so highly. Why did you guys decide to bring back your old vardi?
probably because their current vardi are REALLY similar to nishani bhangra's
You mean furteelay*
He probably meant to include Nachde Sher/ Mustang Bhangra as well.

actually, no, i meant nishani. let's do a side by side comparison:


FAUJ:





Nishani:


 

Sue Sylvester

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Pankaja said:
Why did you guys decide to bring back your old vardi?
Because Furteelay was borrowing ours. haha I kid I kid... :) Not seeing the Nishani similarity nor did we know what their new ones looked like. But since BBC was suppose to be a modern competition and we knew most of the teams there would bring white-kurta-rangla-jodi vardii, we, as Cherag pointed out, just tried to set ourselves apart in a creative new way.

Govind said:
Congrats...big improvements from when I saw you a few months ago at MIT's India Day.
To be fair, IAGB India Day was a gig performance used to train and test out 4 new recuits/potential dancers. :)

Danny said:
*Also sick job with this video and the intro Kinnel! Love um!
Thanks, bro!

Deepi253 said:
ruined this for me ... bhangra idols BS view changes .. chill out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i shall not watch till i get a video without view changes lol
Cool.
 

rajkaran

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loved the choreo! so refreshing! nice balance between powerful, traditional moves and weaving intricate, dare I say "modern", moves into the routine.
 

kazminaut

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voxanimus said:
smehta313 said:
abhij95 said:
voxanimus said:
Pankaja said:
Great energy throughout, not surprised at all that this placed so highly. Why did you guys decide to bring back your old vardi?
probably because their current vardi are REALLY similar to nishani bhangra's
You mean furteelay*
He probably meant to include Nachde Sher/ Mustang Bhangra as well.

actually, no, i meant nishani. let's do a side by side comparison:


FAUJ:





Nishani:


Cool story, bro.

Back to the vid. 5:35-5:50, too sick. what's the song there? ending left me speechless.

Thinking back, these dudes should have taken first. Hands down the most creative team on stage in terms of choreo, and swag through the roof. I didn't know jumping jacks could win a bhangra comp...
 

Psant

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