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Aag Ki Raat (USC) Bhangra Teams Review

Psant

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Winner of category: UNC Bhangra Elite

Exhibition: Gamecock Bhangra. This team was not traditional. You can clearly see that they were a first year team. However, they did seem to be having a lot of fun out there. They had good crowd support. Their ending was sunny browns "picture perfect", where they pulled out cameras and took pictures of the audience. I found it a little odd.

Duke Dhamaka - Yet another modern team. They had flashy big lettered boards. Lacked energy in comparison to past performances. I sort of felt Deja vu watching their performance because some of the choreo has been seen in other teams' performances. Their intro video was hilarious though. Strong point was their coordination. They used props too. They spelled out Duke in their formations as a person said D U K E sort of like what VCU did at Blowout last year.


UNC Bhangra Elite - They had a creative theme involving a struggle between Harry Potter and Voldemort. You don't often see a traditional team with a theme, but BE pulled it off. They had a lot of cool gimmicks like throwing a girl in the air as voldemort comes out. The beginning mela involved Harry walking around and unfreezing jodis. They integrated traditional moves very well. Saaps part was amazing. Death eater masks were used at the end. They had great nakhre, especially the Asian Jodi in the red and yellow. The jhummar was absolute fire. Lehriya was cool too. Creative formations and consistently high energy. The clear winner in this category.

Hopkins Hareepa - A modern bhangra team once again. Their mix was good, but they were sloppy in general. A guys necklace broke on stage and beads went everywhere. A guys pugh was falling off, and he walked off stage and then THREW IT. He walked all the way there, might as well have put it down gently with respect. Good nakhre ( facial expressions). I'd suggest taking the traditional route with moves.

Lomaticc and Sunny Brown - Awful live performers. Great songs, but a lot of people just sat in their seats for most of it.
 

kinnell

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jvirk said:
i love duke dhamaka......
I really really want to see this performance now. I hope it's like an episode of Pokemon where you try to see if you can name 'em all, but in this case, name all the copied segments! I choose you... VCU?
 

jvirk

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kinnell said:
jvirk said:
i love duke dhamaka......
I really really want to see this performance now. I hope it's like an episode of Pokemon where you try to see if you can name 'em all, but in this case, name all the copied segments! I choose you... VCU?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

ehhh you'd have to listen to the mix as well...
 

Tuckerrrr

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Psant said:
A guys pugh was falling off, and he walked off stage and then THREW IT. He walked all the way there, might as well have put it down gently with respect.

respect the turban
 

npshah

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rajkaran said:
npshah said:
Shout out to my boy Chirag Thakkarrr who ripped it on stage with UNC!!!!!!!!!
Met him and my boy "Guam" lol. Congrats, dude!
What Guam went down there too! Looks like im the only one that missed out on the party. Wagwan Guam Wagwan?
 

Varun G.

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Rajkaran aka "The Real Guam" you killed it man! Also Chirag you were dirtyyyy!! Shoutout to Varun on Columbia haha..i shoulda cheered for you!
 

rajkaran

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Varun G. said:
Rajkaran aka "The Real Guam" you killed it man! Also Chirag you were dirtyyyy!! Shoutout to Varun on Columbia haha..i shoulda cheered for you!
"The Real Guam" hahahaha yup! thanks dude! Nice meeting Wolfpack, finally! Ya'll were really chill... Next time we meet, hopefully I'll be dancing bhangra and not raas haha
 

ChiragT

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rajkaran said:
Varun G. said:
Rajkaran aka "The Real Guam" you killed it man! Also Chirag you were dirtyyyy!! Shoutout to Varun on Columbia haha..i shoulda cheered for you!
"The Real Guam" hahahaha yup! thanks dude! Nice meeting Wolfpack, finally! Ya'll were really chill... Next time we meet, hopefully I'll be dancing bhangra and not raas haha
Yeaaaaa the REAL guammy bear. This competition was a TON of fun, nice meetin all you folks, it was a blast. Rajkaran you gota come down here and expose nikhil for the imposter that he is haha. To all my BE kids..there's no higher prestige than the president himself congratulating us on our win. Holla.
 

rajkaran

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ChiragT said:
rajkaran said:
Varun G. said:
Rajkaran aka "The Real Guam" you killed it man! Also Chirag you were dirtyyyy!! Shoutout to Varun on Columbia haha..i shoulda cheered for you!
"The Real Guam" hahahaha yup! thanks dude! Nice meeting Wolfpack, finally! Ya'll were really chill... Next time we meet, hopefully I'll be dancing bhangra and not raas haha
Yeaaaaa the REAL guammy bear. This competition was a TON of fun, nice meetin all you folks, it was a blast. Rajkaran you gota come down here and expose nikhil for the imposter that he is haha. To all my BE kids..there's no higher prestige than the president himself congratulating us on our win. Holla.
hahaha sounds like a plan! Maybe AKR 2011 lol
 

Bianca B

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Hmm, I have to say Prashant, I agree with some of what you said, but completely disagreed with other bits. I won't give a review because of biases, so I'll refrain. PM me if you really wanna hear though.


The competition itself wasn't particularly efficient and their attention to the teams left much to be desired, but I know everyone had a blast and a really good time anyway. I just hope everyone remembered it ;)


Shoutout to all the UNC teams that competed, (there were four altogether!) you ALL killed it on stage, and I know I was on my feet cheering after every performance I saw, you all ripped it!


Also, rajkaran, you danced for Columbia? I LOVED your performance, and I think you all converted me to enjoying raas :) Do me a favor and tell your team that all of UNC Ek Taal cheered for you and we were def. talking about how much we enjoyed watching you all on stage!


Chirag..I'm impressed with how you picked up the choreo so fast, you KILLED it on stage! Congrats!
 

rajkaran

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Bianca B said:
Also, rajkaran, you danced for Columbia? I LOVED your performance, and I think you all converted me to enjoying raas :) Do me a favor and tell your team that all of UNC Ek Taal cheered for you and we were def. talking about how much we enjoyed watching you all on stage!
yup! I'll let them know! glad you liked it! thanks :)

AND...please tell Ektaal that our jaws DROPPED after your performance...we actually couldn't stop talking about it the whole ride back...actually possibly the best desi dance routines I've seen in ages, in my opinion! I can't wait to see the video again online!
 
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