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Think colourful costumes, elaborate make-up, and soul shaking moves and you have Surrey’s Bollywood Dance Society! Started in 2016, it now has 30 members who strut their stuff every week. Music and Media student and society president Riddhish Mistry tells us more.
We are all very passionate dancers from various cultures who came together to form our University team Rangeela Surrey. ‘Rangeela’ means colourful in Hindi and we are certainly that!
I have danced since I was little, whether it was for fun or for a performance in front of an audience. I have always loved Bollywood, be it the movies, the stories, the music, or the dance. What really attracts me to Bollywood is how we experience it – it is all about the way we are moved to another universe, relating to stories, and performing tunes that stick in your subconscious or beats that emotionally drive you through dance.
The team came together for the first time in ‘Just Bollywood’, a UK-wide dance competition organised by Imperial College London. We subsequently took part in a ‘dancethon’ by the Salsa and Bachata Society, where we taught students Bollywood and Bhangra as a fun exercise, and that’s how Rangeela Surrey was born.
We run free classes for all students to enjoy themselves and find a healthy and fun escape and it has been a real pleasure to share our culture.
The most important date of the year for us is ‘Battle of Bollywood’, which is the world’s biggest Bollywood dance competition for universities. We have won three awards
in the past, which is the most achieved by any university in the UK.
In this year’s competition we were thrilled when one of the judges, Naz Choudhary, founder of ‘BollyFlex’ (Europe’s leading Bollywood dance production company), invited us to join his classes and the opportunity to perform in his shows. It’s moments like this that make all the hard work worthwhile.
And, even more exciting, is that we have been approached by a television producer to compete on an upcoming television show based on our exceptional participation in Battle of Bollywood – unfortunately I’m not allowed to say more at this stage!
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