Dance

There are a few things that I love. One of the key members of the list is dance. Although I'm moderately good at dancing, I can tell a good dance when I see one. The following are the people who I consider great and really good at dancing:
1. Chiranjeevi
2. Kamal Hassan
3. Prabhu deva
4. Rishi Kapoor
5. Shammi Kapoor

The following are the people who I consider bad at dancing:
1. Lawrence
2. All the new telugu heroes (because of Lawrence)
3. Venu
4. Jagapati Babu
5. Krishna
and the list goes on.

Many might wanna fight for the people in points 1 and 2 in the I hate category, but let me first give you my side of the argument.

Dancing according to me means letting your body move as per the underlying meaning or beat of a song. If you express the words of the song with your movements then its called classical dance. If you move based on the beat, then its modern. And then there is the Bad dancing which may have some awesome steps but have no corelation with either the song or its meaning. The bad dancers just move. Dance in its purest form is liberating and an absolute bliss. But these guys just do it the wrong way. They don't know how to immerse themselves into the song or how to interpret it, so they just do a few steps and make their 'bhajantris' to call it awesome dance. These bhajantris also don't know the difference between good and bad dance so they fake their likings and say that their hero's dance is the greatest.

I hate this Lawrence guy. He ruined Chiranjeevi dance for me. When Chiranjeevi danced to his steps (no matter complicated they were or how incredibly he could do that at age 50) he wasn't Chiranjeevi. There was no energy in the dance. When Chiranjeevi danced for Ilayaraja songs they were greatest moments of Telugu film history. The energy that was in those songs was incredible. Everytime I hear the song 'Eureka......... ' I wanna jump and land on my knees.That energy has left since the arrival of Lawrence. The dance for the title song of Shankardada MBBS was heavily disappointing. It was a great song with a lot of energy and scope for some heavy duty theen-mar type dancing and the greatest dancer of the industry was in it, but it still failed.

Everyone and anyone can dance. And they can dance really good if they feel the music. Let the music move you and not the materialistic stuff that you set out for (materialistic stuff like money or the attention of someone). Its an art, so feel it. The simplest of steps done with absolute heart can always defeat any Lawrence or Fako.

P.S: If you want to watch a good dance movie then watch the following:
1. Sagara Sangamam
2. Billy Elliot
3. Shankara Bharanam (watch the part when the heroine dances shes incredible).
4. Indrudu Chandrudu, Michael Madan Kamaraju... lets just say Singeetham Srinivas movie with Kamal Hassan as hero.
5. All 1980s and 90s movies with chiranjeevi dancing to the tunes of Ilayaraja.

'Style' is not a dance movie, just as 'Amma Naanna O Tamil Ammaayi' is not a kick boxing movie. These are the worst dance and sports movies respectively.