Dancers and sister-duo Shakti and Mukti Mohan discuss celebrating dance as first-time collaborators forward of their new actuality present, Zee Cafe’s ‘Dance With Me’
Even on a Zoom name, the camaraderie is unmissable: Shakti and Mukti Mohan, the dancer/actor/sister-duo, is actively searching for probabilities to poke enjoyable at one another. Whereas Shakti exudes a proper power (attribute of an older sibling within the presence of a youthful one), Mukti is all smiles. In truth, the latter is understood for her depraved skills to be eternally cheerful, says Shakti.
It’s this easy dynamic, sans filters, that they want to carry to Zee Cafe’s new actuality present Dance With Me, as co-hosts. An interactive present, Dance With Me will invite entries from viewers (within the type of movies) which can be reviewed by the Mohan sisters, who will even take the viewers via a ‘hook step’ each week. Former Dance India Dance episodes will even be featured. And, in between all of the reviewing and instructing, there can be a complete lot of “sisterly banter”, Shakti and Mukti guarantee amid laughs, from their Mumbai dwelling.
Being merchandise of Tv and actuality exhibits, each Shakti and Mukti usually are not unfamiliar with the medium or format. In truth, via the locked-down months, Mukti had give you her personal YouTube movies below the moniker Mukti Manch, whereas Shakti was busy with a video collection referred to as ‘Dance About It’ the place she mentioned life in lockdown and her trials to manage via dance, as a type of expression.
Dance With Me, is nonetheless, completely different.“Utilizing this platform to speak about skilled and new dancers, dance varieties and judges; is a large accountability however on the identical time a whole lot of enjoyable as a result of it has ‘us’ collectively,” says Mukti, for whom having Shakti onboard, proper beside her, is an expertise in itself — she has all the time regarded as much as her elder sister as an artiste.
“We would like the viewers to have fun all the things in and round dance, proper from costumes to props and expressions. and the way vital they’re to a dancer,” she says. The concept is to create a neighborhood of and for dancers. Collectively, they’d additionally based Nritya Tribe, a platform that explored the duo’s classical and people influences from childhood.
In its purest type
The relaxed format of Dance With Me works for the instances we’re in. “On account of the pandemic, I really feel that dancers have gotten the prospect to cease the race and introspect why they began dancing within the first place. Whenever you sit again and assume, you find yourself creating extra,” says Shakti. “Dance is in its purest state now; which can be one thing we need to have fun within the present.”
And, actuality exhibits present the platform: which, in line with Shakti, is all of the extra vital now, when artists throughout are experiencing a stoop. “They’ll draw from the power {that a} platform like this provides and create extra.”
Essentially the most distinguished criticism that actuality TV has needed to face is maybe that the celebrity or recognition obtained is short-lived. Shakti, nonetheless, feels that fame is one thing that can not be managed. “Fame comes, cash comes..it typically could not. However that’s not the fault of the platform, stage or the expertise.” Mukti quips in, “I really feel that we shouldn’t trouble concerning the issues which can be actually not in our management. An artiste is all the time requested ‘what, subsequent?’ However, proper now, it’s the time to introspect and rewind.”
Dance With Me can be aired each Sunday beginning October 25, at 10 pm on Zee Cafe and 10 am on Zee TV
