Sonay Gabroo Punjab De @ Elite 8 Bhangra 2010 (GTVHD)

[nick_jatt]

SGPD = QUALITY!! cant wait till they come to uk this year

when they comin to UK ?? and what for...... competition :S ??

 

[Shahrukh]

sick performance
navi during jugni
and rahul in the end
sick performance guys you all ripped it

 

[siddyp]

down right nasty

 

[Sukhman Singh Mundi]

sick wi ittt

 

[kinnell]

A few things hit me HARD when I watching this:

1. You guys are mad versatile. To change up your entire set from Idols to Elite 8 is definitely a risk, but it proves how versatile you all are. You took a creative set that had messy parts (Idols) and brought a completely new set with new creative ideas that was cleaner than the previous and had 4 more dancers than before (Elite 8). Hot Damn.

2. You guys got CLEAN. I applaud you guys for the time and effort you spent to make sure you guys brought a clean set. GTV does not lie and the cleanliness showed.

so, Here is what it comes down to: You guys hands-down deserved first. You had the perfect balance of creativity and cleanliness. The 2 judges got it right, I'm sad that the team votes skewed what has become so obvious from watching the videos. I'm not going to lie though, when I watched this in person, I was inclined to say Nachdi Jawani should have won, but the GTV videos spell a completely different story. It is very difficult to be a judge, let alone a judge of teams of this caliber.

I love the new fits and they're a classy variation of folk fits. But it seems that everyone know misses the rainbow chaadre that everyone hated on hahaha. You guys really utilized 16 man in formation mechanisms and you get respect for that. I disliked the sequence after jhoomer but before jugni (6:34 to 6:40). The effect that you want is not achieved and it looks messy. The kaato "Ground Hogs" effect was cool initially, but if the formations are too complicated, you lose any appeal you had going for you. I'm inclined to think that someone messed up because after the diagonals, it got weird. I want to see more facial expressions from dancers - it was obvious that many weren't smiling as much. (I miss the Pathuk brothers' naakhre) The intro with the voice over looked really weird. It reminded me of a Nativity scene with the birth of Jesus and all of you huddled around. Other than that, the khunde throws were perfect, y'all truly utilized 16 people in formation sequences, jugni and jhoomer were creative and sick and that ending/mela was very well executed. You guys have come along way and it's obvious you have a new batch of dancers - best of luck!

 

[Gurpal]

Thank you guys for ur criticism

As for the Jodis:

Red - Rahul Singh & Jag Chera

Blue - Navi Dhillon & Raman Judge

Green - Karan Sagoo & Raj Soordar

Black - Pavan Klotia & Harvin Singh

Yellow - Gaurav Sharma & Jatinder Singh

Purple - Rajbir Gill & Robby Deol

Orange - Sunny Sidhu & Sukhchain Grewal

Pink - Navi Sidhu & Gurpal Gill

 

[Bal]

when they comin to UK ?? and what for...... competition :S ??


well i dont know if its confirmed but from what iv hurd...there's gonna b a competition in uk i think round july time... and rumour has it tht sgpd are comin to judge aswell as do a exibition performance!! i jst want them 2 come n show uk bhangra how its done..ppl over here end up doing a copied routine n winnign the bhangra showdown and think they're sik but really they're shit loll

So TURE!!! Can't wait to see these guy's in the UK!!

 

[mrchicity]

A few things hit me HARD when I watching this:

1. You guys are mad versatile. To change up your entire set from Idols to Elite 8 is definitely a risk, but it proves how versatile you all are. You took a creative set that had messy parts (Idols) and brought a completely new set with new creative ideas that was cleaner than the previous and had 4 more dancers than before (Elite 8) . Hot Damn.

2. You guys got CLEAN. I applaud you guys for the time and effort you spent to make sure you guys brought a clean set. GTV does not lie and the cleanliness showed.

so, Here is what it comes down to: You guys hands-down deserved first. You had the perfect balance of creativity and cleanliness. The 2 judges got it right, I'm sad that the team votes skewed what has become so obvious from watching the videos. I'm not going to lie though, when I watched this in person, I was inclined to say Nachdi Jawani should have won, but the GTV videos spell a completely different story. It is very difficult to be a judge, let alone a judge of teams of this caliber.

I love the new fits and they're a classy variation of folk fits. But it seems that everyone know misses the rainbow chaadre that everyone hated on hahaha. You guys really utilized 16 man in formation mechanisms and you get respect for that. I disliked the sequence after jhoomer but before jugni (6:34 to 6:40). The effect that you want is not achieved and it looks messy. The kaato "Ground Hogs" effect was cool initially, but if the formations are too complicated, you lose any appeal you had going for you. I'm inclined to think that someone messed up because after the diagonals, it got weird. I want to see more facial expressions from dancers - it was obvious that many weren't smiling as much. (I miss the Pathuk brothers' naakhre) The intro with the voice over looked really weird. It reminded me of a Nativity scene with the birth of Jesus and all of you huddled around. Other than that, the khunde throws were perfect, y'all truly utilized 16 people in formation sequences, jugni and jhoomer were creative and sick and that ending/mela was very well executed. You guys have come along way and it's obvious you have a new batch of dancers - best of luck!


[/quote

I actually disagree with the cleanliness comments, because there were several minor slipups. One of the red joris (Rahul) had some problems through the props segments, but he absolutely murdered the rest. This set was different because it was slower than the idols and masti sets, but I still think that their idols set is their cleanest one, at least in recent years. I really wish that I could see the rest of the team match the intensity of the red and blue joris at the ending bhangra segment. If we could see those betkaan and ending moves absolutely crushed and in complete sync, it would be so much more powerful. Of course, I'm just nitpicking, and I was definitely on my feet thru the entire performance when I saw it live.

btw, if you guys remember, I was 'olive garden', lol

 

[sb123]

for having 16 people on this stage that was clean. props, this was pretty sick.

 

[Dippy]

The red jodhi is on drugs....they have to be they were on FIRE! LOL

 

[HarmanG]

Sickkk Performancee
u guyss killedd it !

 

[Sim.G]

left pink merkkked chaal

Sidhuuuuu

 

[dheerja]

Sigh I still just don't understand how a Toronto team didn't win Elite. But that's been discussed enough...

I'm so lucky to have seen this live. I definitely didn't feel the energy lacking when I was watching the routine in the moment. Blue/red jodis you guys are absolutely ridiculous. The green jodi is amazing before and into the dhamaal.

You guys have completely reinvented kato segments, they've just gotten better and more creative since Masti last year. There isn't another team out there that works with katos like you guys do and it's so much fun to watch. Oh and I loved the lines coming up to the side for khunde leprechaun kicks. I had to force myself to stay in my chair.

Only two things I thought could have been left out were the random sitting/standing up parts during Nachdi De, it felt too forced. And I don't think the shadow effect at the beginning of jhummar had the wow factor you guys were expecting.

Other than that I absolutely loved it. You kept the creativity but it was a beautiful bhangra routine. Amazing amazing job.

 

[kinnell]

I actually disagree with the cleanliness comments, because there were several minor slipups. One of the red joris (Rahul) had some problems through the props segments, but he absolutely murdered the rest. This set was different because it was slower than the idols and masti sets, but I still think that their idols set is their cleanest one, at least in recent years. I really wish that I could see the rest of the team match the intensity of the red and blue joris at the ending bhangra segment. If we could see those betkaan and ending moves absolutely crushed and in complete sync, it would be so much more powerful. Of course, I'm just nitpicking, and I was definitely on my feet thru the entire performance when I saw it live.

btw, if you guys remember, I was 'olive garden', lol

Cleanliness to me is relative. Relative to both a) other teams competing and b) previous performances. Judges should care about the former but we as fans, tend to care more about the latter. Yeah, there were minor slip-ups, but nothing major like people actually not jumping on cue or obviously forgetting moves in the moment. I know when discussing Elite 8, we're normally talking about the top 3 teams, but even other teams at the competition had some noticeable major slip-ups like AEG (yeah, I just threw my own team under the bus) and LBC. And compared to their previous sets, this was definitely more cleaner, but I agree with you that this was a slower set too.


EDIT: Formatting of Quote

 

[Sukha]

Definitly the best overall performance at Elite... this should have been the 1st place team without a doubt.

 

[jvirk]

one thing is...although this performance may of/should of gotten 1st...ppl will always be much more accurate at watching judges and giving their opinions...but when theyre actually there and see it live and only ONCE...i bet they would have completely diff opinions...judges are put on the spot and sometimes they miss things (good or bad things) in a performance which could help/hurt a team...so when you watch this great video of sgpd - dont start whining about how it should of been first - b/c we get to catch allll the mistakes from the first joridar to the last...if we actually sit at the venue we probably wont catch half the stuff we do while watching vids

and on top of this id like to say - thank you harjot...these vids are fantasticcc

 

[dheerja]

one thing is...although this performance may of/should of gotten 1st...ppl will always be much more accurate at watching judges and giving their opinions...but when theyre actually there and see it live and only ONCE...i bet they would have completely diff opinions...judges are put on the spot and sometimes they miss things (good or bad things) in a performance which could help/hurt a team...so when you watch this great video of sgpd - dont start whining about how it should of been first - b/c we get to catch allll the mistakes from the first joridar to the last...if we actually sit at the venue we probably wont catch half the stuff we do while watching vids

and on top of this id like to say - thank you harjot...these vids are fantasticcc

Agreed but in this case that means watching SGPD/NJ live would have been beneficial for them, since compared to VCU they had a messier performance with more mistakes.

 

[imsunnysingh]

anyone know if they put the mix up? if not can you

 

[imsunnysingh]

sorry but anyone know the name of the song that starts at 4:10

 

[Harvin Singh]

A few things hit me HARD when I watching this:

1. You guys are mad versatile. To change up your entire set from Idols to Elite 8 is definitely a risk, but it proves how versatile you all are. You took a creative set that had messy parts (Idols) and brought a completely new set with new creative ideas that was cleaner than the previous and had 4 more dancers than before (Elite 8) . Hot Damn.

2. You guys got CLEAN. I applaud you guys for the time and effort you spent to make sure you guys brought a clean set. GTV does not lie and the cleanliness showed.

so, Here is what it comes down to: You guys hands-down deserved first. You had the perfect balance of creativity and cleanliness. The 2 judges got it right, I'm sad that the team votes skewed what has become so obvious from watching the videos. I'm not going to lie though, when I watched this in person, I was inclined to say Nachdi Jawani should have won, but the GTV videos spell a completely different story. It is very difficult to be a judge, let alone a judge of teams of this caliber.

I love the new fits and they're a classy variation of folk fits. But it seems that everyone know misses the rainbow chaadre that everyone hated on hahaha. You guys really utilized 16 man in formation mechanisms and you get respect for that. I disliked the sequence after jhoomer but before jugni (6:34 to 6:40). The effect that you want is not achieved and it looks messy. The kaato "Ground Hogs" effect was cool initially, but if the formations are too complicated, you lose any appeal you had going for you. I'm inclined to think that someone messed up because after the diagonals, it got weird. I want to see more facial expressions from dancers - it was obvious that many weren't smiling as much. (I miss the Pathuk brothers' naakhre) The intro with the voice over looked really weird. It reminded me of a Nativity scene with the birth of Jesus and all of you huddled around. Other than that, the khunde throws were perfect, y'all truly utilized 16 people in formation sequences, jugni and jhoomer were creative and sick and that ending/mela was very well executed. You guys have come along way and it's obvious you have a new batch of dancers - best of luck!


[/quote

I actually disagree with the cleanliness comments, because there were several minor slipups. One of the red joris (Rahul) had some problems through the props segments, but he absolutely murdered the rest. This set was different because it was slower than the idols and masti sets, but I still think that their idols set is their cleanest one, at least in recent years. I really wish that I could see the rest of the team match the intensity of the red and blue joris at the ending bhangra segment. If we could see those betkaan and ending moves absolutely crushed and in complete sync, it would be so much more powerful. Of course, I'm just nitpicking, and I was definitely on my feet thru the entire performance when I saw it live.

btw, if you guys remember, I was 'olive garden', lol

the boxes were leaking like MADDDDD ahahahahah i warned u before u got into the elevator lol