City of STARS... with the Moonlight...

The GOLDEN MAN.

#89^th Oscars was a starry night…

For many years, I have followed a ritual of sorts: my OSCAR movie week begins after the event (ceremony) happens. I surely do have a busy week ahead (wink). This year however I made an exception with the musical LA LA LAND.

Priyanka Chopra convincingly said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, she’s glad that La La Land was received warmly in the U.S. To her, it has, in a way, paved the way for Hollywood enthusiasts to comprehend the narrative style of traditional Bollywood films. “Otherwise Bollywood is just considered a Zumba class around the world,” I agree.

Damien Chazelle, Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling (cute & hot: wink) and every member of the film have recreated magic. Set in contemporary Hollywood it is definitely Bollywood at heart with the larger than life locations/sets, and the most important element of Hindi cinema music and dance.

City of Stars!!!

My knowledge is limited, when it comes to JAZZ music and dance. Having said that my personal favourite piece is the Lovely Night Dance in the movie. The woman behind this classic performance is Samantha Jo “Mandy” Moore. Many confused her with the actress Mandy Moore at the Golden Globe last year. So let’s just say will the real Mandy Moore please stand up!!! (wink).

The real Mandy Moore...

Jazz, a conglomerate of a few dance styles viz: Tap dance, Swing, Lindy Hop and Jitterbug, is often regarded as an Umbrella.

The best part about Jazz is that it can be danced to different types of music, since it does not have a language of its own. Over the years Jazz dance has evolved with contemporary dance artists adding their own flavour to it, mainly isolations, slow and fast tempo, energy variations and more.

With LA LA LAND being the flavour of the season I am very keen to learn JAZZ dance soon. Hopefully we at TT (Taal pe Tanz) will bring to you a JAZZ video in the near future (fingers crossed)

Coming back to the Oscars, the epic mix up with the best picture award (Moonlight) at the ceremony did give us two amazing speeches at the Finale. Honest mistakes are always welcome (wink).

To sum it all up it was : City of STARS…with the Moonlight…