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#Riva riva song dance video series#
Megha re megha, Mohe chedo na and Morni were a series of songs Sridevi performs as Pallavi, the older woman Virendra Pratap Singh (Anil Kapoor) falls for. Simple, subtle, a reinterpretation of a traditional Rajasthani folk song, its magic. This isn't the big jhatak-matak number that Sridevi was most oft famed for. Oh what a song! What a film! What a performance! Five-time Filmfare winner, Lamhe was the most surprising flop from the Yash Raj banner, that walked away with the most astonishing acclaim. Irreverent but without being profane, Sri, as always, gets it right. Note her comic timing and getting the gist of her predecessors in two-second shots. The choreography isn't perfect but watch Sridevi in her cheeky, unadulterated best as she mimics yesteryear actresses. Whittling down the list to just ten song/dance sequences is hard (with over 100 films and roughly six songs in each, that's a lengthy cinematic CV) but here's what it, roughly, boils down to: Like her Tamilian predecessors Vyjanthimala, Hema Malini, Rekha, it was the unspoken yet acknowledged rule that to rule B’wood, acting chops and scintillating beauty wasn't enough you had to dance like a dream.Īnd even in the garish technicolour dream sequences of the ‘80s, Sridevi shone through. Sridevi was a Jack(y) of all trades, no step beyond her reach, no expression beyond her faculty. Seduce on screen in monochrome chiffon saris? Done, and how! Do a navasara-nritya under the shadow of the Natraj? No problem. You wanted her to break-dance and ape Michael Jackson? Done.
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She could do any number with ease, be it classical, modern or a western number. But they were left unperturbed as the opportunity to work with Sri was compensation. Sridevi's sizzling act on screen was often partnered with non-dancers like Rajesh Khanna, Sunny Deol, Anil Kapoor and the like, much to the chagrin of choreographers. The audience couldn't wait to get to the part where Sridevi let loose on screen with her magical moves in films that often had little else. What she did have was natural rhythm and a treasure-trove of myriad expressions. Sridevi had an innate, untutored talent for dance, she never studied the art unlike her South Indian contemporaries like Meenakshi Sheshadiri, Jaya Prada, Bhanupriya, Radha or famed film rival and Kathak-exponent Madhuri Dixit.
#Riva riva song dance video movie#
Her dances are a highlight of many a movie that are otherwise unwatchable, particularly in the drivel of the ‘80s. Long before the term 'item number' hit the Hindi film vernacular and film-zines, southern sensation Sridevi was uplifting the cinematic experience with her dose of glamour, grace and dancing style in Mumbai's movie musicals.