What's your Bhangra story?

[MundeNyDe]

Babiyo Thaan Thaan Karthiye!

ahem.....ik din iddan hoya ki, main ik wedding reception teh chala gaya.....galti naal nahi si gaya. lol. anyways, othe ik team performance deyn aayi si. oo team haal-e nami nami banayi gayi si. ous team da ik Gabru jawaan, mera door da rishtey-daar nikleya. so, jadon unha di performance khatam hoyi, he walked by me and main keha kiddan bai. ohne keha theek thaak aa. so we hello'd and hi'd and went our own ways. so thorrey jahe din baad...main ohnu "facebook" teh takkar gaya. main keha yaar, meinu vi bhangre di team ch rakh layo. ohne keha "koi gall nahi bai", tu aa jayi mere naal practice te and dekhde aa ki tenu kuch aaunda vi aa jaa nahi. lai pher, yankee ho gaya tyaar and chala gaya bhangre di practice teh. othe jaake tan bas tabaahi mach gayi....everything looked so new....main keha aa kithey aa ke phass gaya. par main dil houla nahi keeta...teh practice teh aaunda reha. bas houli houli idda e sihk gaya. Rabb di mehar naal team ch entry vi ho gayi te doh tin bhangre deh competition vi kar laye. nazaara aa gaya "dooji place jitt ke this yr. at CSUN Bhangra", kya baatan neh!!! haal-e tak meri kahaani chaldi payi aa....hopefully, rab di mehar naal sahi salamat challi jaave Rabb Rakha eh team da, jehne meinu apni dil di tamanna poori karn da chance ditta, teh eh team hor koi team nahi, par apni mann pasand "Cal Bhangra" from UC Berkeley hi aa

 

[Yankee Saini]

thank's you's for's the's love's N' the story continues . . .

 

[Govind]

i heard this song milk goat da by malkit singh, and i was hooked.

 

[Navkarn]

^^ coot

 

[apbhangra]

I really wanted to preform at this one local event for diwali and I thought ill join this team for a while n do just one preformance but after the first preformance i was hooked and couldnt stop and my bhangra addiction got on everyones nerves haha but my parents are making me take a break from bhangra this year and focus on school i cant wait to get back to bhangra!!!

 

[Nikhil]

My Afghani friends thought it would be funny to freak out the white population of Damascus, Maryland. So they brought me along. It turns out, white people like it too, so we kinda won? Anywho, since 2003 been doin that College THANGGG

 

[Yankee Saini]

aa "manpreet brar" kaun aa? lol

 

[Navi Sandhu]

One of my first Bhangra experiences was dancing to Hunterz- Yaaran di Yaari from the Phat Trax Vol 1 : Blazin

I decided there had to be more out there in the Bhangra world than this...

HUNTERZ - YAARAN DI YAAR - PHAT TRAX

 

[ban3rg]

^^je jatt bigr Gaya is huuugeee sick

 

[Arjun Barua]

Attended Southern Bhangra Stampede in Charlottesville, Virginia. Had fun. Attended Bhangra Blowout in Spring 2005 to cheer for VCU. Had more fun. Nikhil convinced me to try out for VCU Bhangra in Fall 2005. Was selected as an alternate dancer. Then began the real fun...


Wooooo, what a ride!


143, Nikhil.

 

[Jeeti]

At a blowout many, many years ago..I think it was early high school for me..my parents were asked to be judges at blowout, I went with them..and definitely saw KJ live as exhibition...just the intro video, changed my life forever.

I can tell you for a fact that most of the old-heads bhangra stories start with KJ. hahahha....watching those dudes live was a powerful experience.

 

[Navkarn]

my sister danced for cal poly pomona's bhangra team before the KJ and independent team era. they got into the FIRST bruin bhangra competition ever and about 2 weeks before the comp one of the guys got injured and they needed a quick filler. even though i was 14 or 15 years old at the time, my sister knew i could dance and i was dragged into it. i got the opportunity to dance with a college team and it was an unreal experience and placing 2nd made it that much better! funny thing was, back then i remember Berkeley bhangra coming out with a haystack and manji and it was just totally unheard of at the time. what is now a typical mela scene in a routine was ground breaking then and people went insane for Berkeley! crazy to see how far bhangra has come since then, i miss the rumaals on my hands =P

 

[RAJ22]

At a blowout many, many years ago..I think it was early high school for me..my parents were asked to be judges at blowout, I went with them..and definitely saw KJ live as exhibition...just the intro video, changed my life forever.

I can tell you for a fact that most of the old-heads bhangra stories start with KJ. hahahha....watching those dudes live was a powerful experience.

haha tell me about it, i play volleyeball and basketball with those guys every week haha,

 

[Govind]

At a blowout many, many years ago..I think it was early high school for me..my parents were asked to be judges at blowout, I went with them..and definitely saw KJ live as exhibition...just the intro video, changed my life forever.

I can tell you for a fact that most of the old-heads bhangra stories start with KJ. hahahha....watching those dudes live was a powerful experience.

I downloaded the blowout performance on Kazaa waaaay back in the day HAHA...Still have it lying around somewhere on a harddrive lol. Definitely the team that inspired me to start bhangra! shout-out to PJ!

 

[Gidhe Di Shakeen]

aa "manpreet brar" kaun aa? lol

this really super cool person you can prob meet on vent....=D

lol @ Manpreet Brar!!! =) I hope she soon makes another appearance on vent.

 

[Yankee Saini]

lai, kar layo gall Chal Manpreet Brar da tan lagg gaya pata ki oh insaan aa....par aa "vent" kya teh kehrri cheej aa hun =/

 

[HarmanG]

"yankee ho gaya tyaar and chala gaya bhangre di practice teh"


HAHAHAH!!! +++1

LMAO ahahha

 

[Raashi]

At a blowout many, many years ago..I think it was early high school for me..my parents were asked to be judges at blowout, I went with them..and definitely saw KJ live as exhibition...just the intro video, changed my life forever.

I can tell you for a fact that most of the old-heads bhangra stories start with KJ. hahahha....watching those dudes live was a powerful experience.

+1

i know exactlyyy what you're talkin about. was there for that blowout and it was awesomeee.

 

[masterscorpiorv]

In High School, as a young gujurati lad, I always danced Hip Hop / Fusion, and the extent of my bhangra knowledge was just Daler Mendhi, Jazzy B, & Sukhshinder Shinda -- I thought Rishi Rich, Jay Sean, & Juggy D. were like some of the best bhangra tracks I ever heard lol -- That's what I expected to dance too when I came to college and tried out with my roommate -- and oh boy, did I not know what I was getting myself into...but fell in love w. the overall essence of it -- the structure of the dance, the vardiyan, the energy, just the whole enchilada ;D

 

[J Wong]

I needed a ride home one day and my friend said she would only if I waited until she finished bhangra practice. So I came and watched until she was finished and I thought it was interesting so I came back a week or so later and watched again (I didn't dare try). The third time I came I gave bhangra a try ( I WAS SO BAD) but eventually I got a lot better and I have been dancing ever since. The best things happen by accident.