Mumbai: A mujra number in a bond-like spy thriller may seem to be a little out of place, but Kareena Kapoor had her own reasons to convince the makers of Agent Vinod for it. The actress apparently enjoys the dance form a lot, and more importantly wanted to pay tribute to Rekha, the queen of mujras.
Says Kareena, "Mujra has its own charm which comes from the music and the shayari. My favourite mujra is Rekha's Salaam-e-Ishq from Muqaddar Ka Sikander. I feel lucky that I got a chance to even try out something like that."
The actress sat up for nights watching all of Rekha's dance numbers. Says the source, "When Kareena decided to do the mujra there was no one she could think of but Rekha to watch and learn from. She used to sit and watch her songs from Umrao Jaan to understand the moves and expressions. She was keen that she shouldn't go wrong."
Saif Ali Khan who previously did not want to include an item number in this film just for the sake of it says, "Sriram Raghavan and I were sure that we did not want just another club number. The film has enough such sequences; so we wanted to make this song a little different and I think Kareena has managed to pull it off pretty well."
With her earlier Chammak Challo becoming a chartbuster, we wonder if this track too will climb up the music charts.
Archrival Priyanka Chopra might actually get to replicate those steps in real
Buzz is that the scales are currently tipped in favour of PC for doing the dance number in an upcoming film.
It is looking like mujra, that was once made famous in Bollywood films by the likes of Rekha and Madhuri Dixit, is all set to reoccupy its once glorious presence on the silver screen. And buzz is that Priyanka Chopra is being considered for a mujra number in Ekta Kapoor's next production, Shootout At Wadala.
The current apparent lack of training in classical dancing in no way deterred Ekta from coming up with the idea of "the most lavish Mujra ever filmed in a Hindi film".
While director Sanjay Gupta says that the last really graceful and convincing Mujra was by Madhuri Dixit in Devdas, he was not willing to confirm PC's act.
Instead, he says, "I'm not revealing our dancer's name. But yes, Priyanka among the current A-listers is an able dancer." Both Ekta and Sanjay want an actress who is well trained in classical dance to do the act. Sanjay points out, "We want to recreate the Kotha culture of 1979 in its minutest detail. We've given Pyar kiya to darna kya and Salaam-e-ishq."
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