While we may have a long ways to go, salsa is definitely becoming more mainstream in India. A few months back I ended up experimenting with my life by renting my first full bollywood film. While not the best film to be encompassing of the bollywood experience, I thought it was a good start. While the plot won’t win any “Oscars” like Slumdog Millionaire, the soundtrack and music video production was spectacular. It features an amazing music fusion of Bhangra music (I believe), with other genres like Spanish, Latin and Hip-Hop. As Latin sounds fused with ‘Bollywood’ is becoming more popular, I thought I’d give our viewers at taste of the catchy beat that made me buy the whole soundtrack. The clip below is from the movie (they play music videos between specific scenes in the movie). The song name is called “Touch Me, Don’t Touch Me”. You should notice that they sing all three languages in the song: English, Spanish and Hindi. (how cool is that?)
You can see most of the dancers perform salsa-like moves in the very beginning of the video. As for the music, pay attention to the rhythm section of the song. Enjoy!
There is one amazing dancer in this movie that I should point out, his name is Hrithik Roshan (*drool picture here for ladies). You can see him dance in the intro song to the movie called “Dhoom Machale” (recommended). Now, to hopefully help others break the stereotype of what they think are “Bollywood” movies, here is the trailer for Dhoom 2: Back in Action. If it were up to me, I would want to make a Bollywood version, with lots of dancing, of Transformers. However, I’ll first have to check out the latest salsa related movie called “Mumbai Salsa“.
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Hey anthony,
nice to see a bollywood post on your blog.I am from india and have seen these movies when they were released.
Do watch the song “Pyar ki yeh kahani” from movie “honeymoon travels pvt ltd” (link: youtube link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-nObA_Vgao) also do have look at “banda yeh bindhas” song from film “aks” youtube link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-nXLQepiWk
Do have a watch and yes we in india,ppl like me crave for salsa from you ppl.anthony i have seen you videos and as i am learning salsa now in advance course lots of your videos are helping me out.
nice post dear..keep writing and updating me.
Do you know any nice salsa songs which i can salsa on?
Hey anthony,
Well its really nice of u to show interest in India and bollywood.Do check out the song”pyar ki yeh kahani” as mentioned by swapnil….a very neatly done tango piece, hope u will like it.!!!
Hi Anthony,
Its heartening to know that u takin keen interest in indian movies and music. Just wanted to point out that “MUMBAI SALSA” has got nothing to do wid salsa music or salsa dancing.. there is no salsa anywhere in the movie except for in the title..
Anthony, the pictures are just for the ladies? Come on! Evolve! O no te has dado cuenta de la cantidad de chicos a los que nos gustan los chicos andamos por la escena de la salsa, sin perjuicio de nuestras dotes como bailarines y nuestras ganas de aprender.
Hey Anthony!! Nice to see Bollywood here.
But being a purist, I hate all the salsa dances they show in movies here. They are all crap. I haven’t seen anything on screen that could impress me.
Its nice that they are atleast trying. Maybe they will get it in 5 years time. lol
Good dancers don’t dance in movies.. most of the time.
Just another taste of Salsa’s growing popularity in India – Richard and Sneha from Lourd Vijay’s Dance Studio , Bangalore are now in the finals of “India’s Got Talent” (a show similar to “America’s got talent”) with their super slick Salsa routine, which can be seen here->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skotwGQKxao
Keep in mind, salsa is not mainstream in India yet and given that they’ve been competing with more popular singers and dancers, their performance thus far has been remarkable.
Hopefully this will only serve to increase the popularity of Latin dancing further in India.
Hi Anthony!
Even the first part of this film – Dhoom has some latin genres. Look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdKwYSPTAsE they also have some latin moves there.