Isha's true love

After the debacle that was Kisna, the long-forgotten link-up with Zaheer Khan was all that Isha Sharvani was in the limelight for.
In the process, the initial images of her that floored the audience ��� of her seemingly impossible dance moves ��� faded from popular memory. But the lady���s a classical dancer first and foremost, with dancer Daksha Seth for a mother.
Has Bollywood has contributed to a forgetting of classical dance traditions?
I don���t think it���s any one thing, like dance. I think we as a society are getting too caught up in the West and not paying enough attention to our own heritage. We���ve become very materialistic as a society and Bollywood just reflects that.
As a classically trained dancer in Bollywood, does it irk you when you���re asked to dance in the usual filmi way?
See, I am a dancer. You give me anything to dance to and I���ll love it. For instance, Baawri (the song) with Hrithik Roshan, from my latest movie, is a lovely Rajasthani number. We actually shot in a circus tent, surrounded by artistes from India and abroad. Zoya (Akhtar, the director) wanted it to be very Indian, but at the same time very contemporary, so that fit very well into the way I think as well.
Your style of dance is a particularly taxing one. How do you maintain that level of stamina and precision?
Well, my training routine is pretty intense, as our style of dance requires a lot of discipline. My troupe and I use a mixture of pan-Indian martial and classical forms ��� kalaripayattu, yoga, Kathak and chhau - among others. And I don���t mean doing it for six months... You learn it for 10-15 years, so that they become almost a part of your body, and then you create something new out of it. We rehearse nine hours a day, five days a week. I���m passionate about my art because it makes me feel like I���m part of something bigger than myself. I���d like to use this lifetime to not only dance, but to preserve, restore and document our heritage of dance, which is fading.
And what are your plans for the future?
My new dance show with my mother���s troupe is opening in April. I���ve been working on my part for a year and I actually perform only for five minutes, so it���s been pretty intense. I would like to do more films but because of the amount of time that I devote to dance, I think I would like to be a little more choosy with the scripts. But I���d like to dance, I want to perform, I���d like to entertain audiences, I���d like to connect with audiences and especially my generation, because we���re the ones who���re going to make a difference.
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