Is Madhuri Dixit the เคเคฆเฅเคฏ เคฌเคพเคฐ เคฌเคพเคฒเคพ - the Original Bar Dancer?
This thought just crossed my mind. So thought of posting it to fellow DB mongers. The DB business has existed in some form or the other for centuries. The courtesans in the courts of kings, emperors or wealthy men were nothing but the same. So were the kothas that were patronized by the wealthy people of those days. Bollywood has shown bar girls in different forms. The kotha waali classical dancers like Rekha or Waheeda Rehmaan, the bold Helen with her cabaret moves, Sridevi etc have all depicted bar dancers or one of their old forms in some or the other movie.
However, i think the modern bar dancer owes her origin to Madhuri Dixit. The Thumkas and Jhatkas that Madhuri deployed were done earlier by Sridevi, Hema Malini, Helen etc. Madhuri's peers too were doing the same. The silver screen has seen been better dancers than Madhuri and certainly Madhuri barely passes muster in terms of beauty or sex appeal when compared to her contemporaries like Manisha Koirala , Juhi Chawla etc.
However, Madhuri brought in one thing into Bollywood dancing that did not exist before. The Adaa. The เคเคพเคคเคฟเคฒ เค
เคฆเคพ . Beyond the classical technique or Thumkas and Jhatkaas there were those "Kateel Adayein". Those eyes could kill from behind the silver screen. Her adaas had it all. Mischief, naughtiness, coyness, boldness. All in the right proportions. The stealthy glance that could set your loins on fire, the bold look that straight away challenged your dick. Her lithe body writhing on a dance sequence could leave us longing for a similar body writhing in our arms as we pumped into her with a testosterone-fueled frenzy.
I see several ordinary looking bar girls (who probably would not get a second look while walking on the street) that can kick up a testosterone storm on the floor with their moves. In between the songs, their eyes do the hunting. It is the Kateel Adaayein at work. And if these adaayein work on you, I think somewhere it was Madhuri that had programmed them deep into our psyche. Each time they work, the bar girl is sub-consciously doffing a hat to their goddess.
PS : I am not a bollywood fan nor a Madhuri fan. But this observation struck me during a mongering spree and hence decided to just get it out of my system.