Dancing to a new tune

Dibyajyoti Chaudhuri Dancing to a new tune Mrinalini Tyagi and Asha Negi had a lot to learn in the last one week.
Currently seen as Purvi (Asha Negi) and Teju (played by Mrinalini Tyagi) on a popular soap, the two recently found themselves in quite a fix. With Gudi Padwa around the corner, the producers of the show had written in a lavni sequence for the two of them to dance to! Being completely unacquainted with the traditional Maharashtrian dance style, both girls found themselves in a fix as neither had ever tried their hands at a lavni before.And just as the duo was about to throw their hands up in despair, in steppedAnkita Lokhande with a suggestion that saved the day.
Given that the two young ladies were about to shake a leg to the popular track 'apsara aali' from the popular Marathi film Natrang, she suggested that Asha and Mrinalini watch the original track from the film over and over again so as to better grasp the nuances, the expressions, the body language and the posturing required in the dance form. "Being born and brought up in Dehradun, lavni is a dance that I had never thought I would try in my life so you can imagine how daunting the task looked to me at first" said Asha. "Usually one has a few days to prepare and get the steps right; but with the shoot being planned with just a day's notice, we were left with no choice but to make most of the little time we had between our takes. When Ankita suggested that I watch the original track for my reference, I immediately put a video of the song on my phone and watched it over and over again.
Lavni is all about being impish and coquettish. And you need to be very quick-footed with your moves. It would have been a shame had I not done justice to it because such a chance wouldn't have come my way again. I think we finally nailed it on the day of the shoot."