The festive season has begun with the recent arrival of Ganpati Bappa across the nation. Even the Covid pandemic couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm and excitement of people.
Even our B-town celebrities are there on this list of followers and everyone has their own way of ringing in the festive season. Actor-dancer Lauren Gottlieb might not be an Indian by birth but she has become a part of the country and an Indian at heart, ever since she stepped foot in the country for work. So, it was obvious that she would also kick off this festive season in her own style.
Lauren Gottlieb is presently not in the country as she is in Los Angeles, but she didn’t let that affect her festive spirit as she collaborated with the NRI social media star Ruhee Dosani along with America’s Got Talent 16 contestant Justin Corbo, from the dance group Shuffolution, international dance instructor Jake Kodish and Colombian dancer Marlon Davila Avalos. The group danced to Ajay Gogavale’s Malhar Wari with full enthusiasm and excitement, dressed in the traditional Indian kurtas.
Not only that, even though the dancer couldn’t welcome Bappa home in LA, she celebrated Bappa with her friends with a first-time shuffle dance on her first ever song that she did in Bollywood. Co-incidentally, the song ‘Saada Dil Vi Tu’, her first song in Bollywood, was about Bappa only, so it was natural for her to celebrate him this way in her style. Along with the energetic performance, she said, “Ganpati Bappa Morya 🙏🏽🤩🤩🤩 May Lord Ganesha bless you all with love, success, and always give you many reasons to be happy!!! 💖 Had so much fun putting this together with @ruheedosani and seeing my friends in LA dance to my first ever Bollywood song.”
Speaking about the whole experience of bringing in the Indian festive season on foreign land, Lauren Gottlieb says, “Since it’s the festival season in India, me and Ruhee were sure that we had to do something to welcome this celebratory period. So, all of us got together to create this dance piece as our way of doing that and it shows the beautiful mixing of culture as one of the dancers is from Canada, while one is from Colombia and the other from the US. I just wish I could have been in India to celebrate the festivals but Ruhee and I choreographed the whole piece together to show our excitement and enthusiasm for the festive season. Ruhee’s mother actually sent the kurtas from India, that we wore for the video. I have to say that Ruhee is becoming a better dancer with each passing day. It was an amazing experience to collaborate with her and we have some more surprises in store for the audience that we will come out with soon.”
What better way could have been there to get into the festive spirit than a spirited dance performance, and we couldn’t just stop ourselves to get into the festive groove after seeing this video.
