I was very excited because that was finally the real thing, not a movie.
The show turned out to be very nice.
The singer was ok but not great, because I was comparing the great Bollywood movie singers with these local women and men.
Same goes for the show. Bollywood makes it like a dream. This was a real dance, but still, real. Not a dream.
Of course, in the movies they just show what they want. If the dancer makes a mistake, they cut and try again.
Here, it was real, and I could see the tension in their faces.
I could also see the happiness of doing it.
And they never cut it.
So, I learnt that the real world is not nice as the movies world, but to find a hint of the real spirit of India, you better go in that room, rather than in a movie theatre.
(And, by the way, a few weeks later I was in Bollywood working on a movie, but I will tell you later about this…)
iengSavanah Vietnamese restaurant in Vientiane, Laos.
have spent October and November 2006 in India.