Staying Fit, the Bollywood Way
A Bollywood-style dance performance at the Arts in Motion Dance Studio in Mumbai.
MUMBAI | Staying fit in Mumbai, with all its heat, humidity and lack of green space, can be a challenge. Enter a new way to stay in shape: Bollywood dance. Gyms and dance studios across Mumbai are now offering Bollywood inspired fitness classes as a fun way to lose pounds and beat gym fatigue.
I arrived at
Gold’s Gym (J. Mehta Marg, Napean Sea Road; 91-22-2369-4654) expecting to be intimidated by sequin clad teenyboppers, but my class is reassuringly normal, mostly 30-somethings in track pants and loose T-shirts. As Bollywood hits boom out, my classmates swivel their hips and rotate their shoulders with enviable ease. I am reminded of the scene in the Gurinder Chadha film
“Bride and Prejudice,” where a nervous modern-day Darcy attempts to dance Bollywood style at a wedding.
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