We were booking theatre tickets on the net for our evening out on my birthday...when my cousin realized that Miss Bollywood was already playing in UK. When she came to know that it was going to be in London for only one day – 12th Dec and tickets were sold out…she was heartbroken…
It was playing at Royal Albert Hall...one of the best halls in London with a seating capacity of 5000 and an additional standing capacity of 200...There were no sitting seats available but Sheena was ready to go standing in the Gallery… I was not very keen...after all its wasn’t SRK…it was ONLY Shilpa Shetty…but one look at her face and I was like …fine…get tickets for standing (at 20 pounds a ticket)!!!
The first thing that came to my mind at that point was…man…Shilpa is big here in UK…she is as big as AB or SRK in India… 5000 seats all sold out and we were not the only ones booking the standing tickets … we were no 57 and 58…
Luckily when we reached there we found that there were a few cancellations and we upgraded our tickets to a box…
The people here feel that she went through a lot of anguish and humiliation during Big Brother…something I think we in India could not relate to… But I think she needs to stop cashing in on that and move on…There are knowing jokes about her Big Brother incarceration (“I’ve learnt that life can’t all be Goody Goody”), as well as platitudes about extending the hand of friendship across cultural frontiers.
Though I did enjoy the joke about her lip-locking encounter with Richard Gere…
It wasn’t exceptionally brilliant but quite entertaining …especially for people who enjoy Bollywood numbers … as we get to see some full-blown fantasy dance sequences from the recent movies…
The story line was quite Bolloywoodish…but the dance troupe was full of energy...
There is a lot of Bollywood style slap stick humour from wheeler-dealer duo Mansukh bhai and Hasmukh bhai. They are brilliant as they try to sell foo foo fans or agra ka ghagras to the high-profile businessman Nick Madhavis or try to convince the mayor that he should hire them to help him win his next elections with their political campaign… the vote for mayor bit was toooooooo funny…
The show opened with the dance troupe doing 2 Bollywood nos – Dhoom Machale Dhoom had me tapping my feet and wanting to get up and dance…
Thereafter we saw many jhatka matka dance sequences from Shilpa and the troupe. The other lady of the show – the vamp by Bollywood standards - Riya is an excellent dancer. I personally thought that she was far better than Shilpa but somehow Shilpa got all the claps and hoots…
You should have heard the audience when Shilpa made her first appearance with the popular Bollywood numbers - Silsila hai Chahat ka and Dola re …
The face off between Riya and Shilpa was quite good – with Shilpa showing off her Tandava style dancing skills.
The dance sequence in the dark where they refrain from any Bollywood songs but just use some background music and the dancers use florescent masks and strips of cloth in their hands was beautiful…
You think of a good Bollywood no and it was there – from Kajra Re to Beedi. The last 20 mins was pure Bollywood songs one after the other and had the audience clapping along and enjoying themselves thoroughly…
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