Bollywood Episode of ABDC

[Champion09]

http://remotecontrol.mtv.com/2009/08/27/video-watch-our-bboys-monkee-around/

The butchering as already started!!!

 

[mafzal]

Oh wow they used 1 move from KJ, already butchered it, and that's supposed to be exposing america to "baang-ra".

So stupid i hate this kind of shyt

 

[COMTONDAJATT]

ughhhhhh wtf i hate mtv

 

[vaibhav]

i wonder how bad their bharatnatyams gunna be lol

 

[Pooja]

It seems that what may happen is they just get like one or two steps from each style and they have to incorporate it somehow...

BLEGH.

 

[mrchicity]

It seems that what may happen is they just get like one or two steps from each style and they have to incorporate it somehow...

BLEGH.

That's kinda the point, they're supposed to stay true to their own personal styles while fulfilling some challenge. They're bboys, it's not like they're gonna do 2 minutes of jhummar or sumthin. It'll be interesting to see just what they do with it, prolly gonna be the most traditional bhangra routine anyone's gonna see from a bboy team

 

[Varun]

i loved how Lil Mama pronounced Bharatnatyam, lol.

anywayyyy, who has that MIA "bang my raa raa" song Massive Monkees danced to? sounded sick, post if u can please, thanks.

 

[zagreus]

This was just bad. I couldn't find entertainment in this. I was missing Tool Academy for THIS?! hahaha...bad.
The butchering of the Indian culture was not good, plus all the cliches...ahhhhhh

 

[faizan]

bullshit, ignorant, terrible...typical.

 

[Vivek]

all the teams did a good job of "incorporating" the styles they were given...rythym city did it the best though...massive monkeys probably did the best bhangra I've seen on American tv haha...not saying much though

 

[kamdeol]

anywayyyy, who has that MIA "bang my raa raa" song Massive Monkees danced to? sounded sick, post if u can please, thanks.

i think the song is called "Bang" by Rye Rye, saw it on youtube but i dont have it :/

 

[Champion09]

this is what was expected and i hate to say this but they could have atleast gotten someone who was mentioning the names of the dance styles to be able to pronounce them properly...like is it really that damn hard to pronounce giddha and not geeta??? like look at the damn letters and say it slowly or read it 3 times if it takes that much effort to say giddha...if it was geeta it would be spelled that way...makes me mad that our culture looks so bad on tv

to the actual episode what was the point of doing this?? like give the dance teams (who without a doubt a extremely talented - like the breakdancing and stunts and choreo is really awesome) but they used the actual step for like 3 seconds...how is that fusion b/c then bhangra teams who use a rap song remixed would be considered fusion...

all in all this was stupid and i hate that stupid teacher (who taught on that global dance show too) so much for letting these dance crews and the show do what they did...over and out

 

[Avneet]

Wellll you're not going to get the announcers to pronounce the dance styles right if the experts dancers teaching it can't say it right... just saying. The only styles this dance troupe and the head choreographers were excellently skilled in were Bharatnatyam and Kathak (and that showed when the two teams that got these styles performed their routines)... Bhangra, Giddah, Rajasthani and Garba were a HOT MESS! It was very anti-climatic.

 

[Champion09]

Wellll you're not going to get the announcers to pronounce the dance styles right if the experts dancers teaching it can't say it right... just saying. The only styles this dance troupe and the head choreographers were excellently skilled in were Bharatnatyam and Kathak (and that showed when the two teams that got these styles performed their routines)... Bhangra, Giddah, Rajasthani and Garba were a HOT MESS! It was very anti-climatic.

Agreed...though I didn't think the giddah was thaaat bad (still pretty bad), the bhangra rajasthani and garba were terrible...bhangra atleast i saw some steps that looked familiar (i liked how they called the step diagonal haha) but the rajasthani with the "scarves" and the garba with nothing whatsoever (i thought they were going to do raas and do something cool) were terrible...oh well

cannot believe lil kim said "bharat-ya-it-me"!!!!!

 

[Saleem]

i think the song is called "Bang" by Rye Rye, saw it on youtube but i dont have it :/

arent u in aruba?! what are you doing on BTF haha

 

[Avneet]

Wellll you're not going to get the announcers to pronounce the dance styles right if the experts dancers teaching it can't say it right... just saying. The only styles this dance troupe and the head choreographers were excellently skilled in were Bharatnatyam and Kathak (and that showed when the two teams that got these styles performed their routines)... Bhangra, Giddah, Rajasthani and Garba were a HOT MESS! It was very anti-climatic.

Agreed...though I didn't think the giddah was thaaat bad (still pretty bad), the bhangra rajasthani and garba were terrible...bhangra atleast i saw some steps that looked familiar (i liked how they called the step diagonal haha) but the rajasthani with the "scarves" and the garba with nothing whatsoever (i thought they were going to do raas and do something cool) were terrible...oh well

cannot believe lil kim said "bharat-ya-it-me"!!!!!

The team that had Giddah were good, and they saved themselves big time, BUT the only giddah I saw was two seconds of clapping and some kicks- what saved them was alllll the belly dancing they randomly threw in, and the judges ignorance proved to be the teams bliss because they probably saw all those belly rolls and the arabic style hand flexing and thought- "THAT must be Giddah! Good job ladies! Very Sexy!"

If culturally we were buried, our Punjabi great Grand Mother's would be turning in their graves as we speak!

 

[JasBains]

anywayyyy, who has that MIA "bang my raa raa" song Massive Monkees danced to? sounded sick, post if u can please, thanks.

i think the song is called "Bang" by Rye Rye, saw it on youtube but i dont have it :/

See Attached. Enjoy ;D

 

[Jeeti]

This was to be expected...does not surprise me one bit.

 

[freaxs03]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYDoV-_Q4Us

 

[mafzal]

I love how these classic traditional Indian dance styles were all "types of Bollywood dance".

LMFAO