Kratika Sengar dances up a storm to her favorite Bollywood superstar’s famous Koli number, ‘Hum Ko Aajkal Hai Intezaar Koi Aaye Leke Pyaar’ … Every Madhuri fan knows these famous opening lines of the gorgeous diva’s sensuous Koli number from the film,
Sailaab. Actor Kratika Sengar, who has been an ardent
Madhuri bhakt right since she was knee-high, is no exception to the rule and still remembers how she used to perform this number in front of the mirror as a starry-eyed teenager.
Little did she know that she’ll have the privilege of performing to this song on national television and express all her adulation for her favorite silver screen goddess just a few years down the line!
Yes, with Kratika’s character Aarti in
Punarvivaah going out on a vacation with screen hubby Yash (Gurmeet Chaudhry) to Mumbai, the couple is shown to be staying in a beachside villa where they bump into fishermen folk and our leading lady is coaxed into joining the
Koli ladies in their dance. When given a choice as to whether she’d like to dance to popular
Koli numbers like
Galyaat Saakhli Sonyachi or
Dolkar Dariyacha Raja, it was Kratika who put her foot down and told producer Shashi Mittal that she wanted to dance to Madhuri’s famous
Koli song.
Says Kratika, “It’s been a dream come true to perform to one of my top 5 Madhuri favorite numbers. There’s no one who can dance like her. She’s simply incomparable and truly magical when she dances. Her dance is fluid and graceful, her sensuality is moderated by an inherent innocence and her expressions elevate her dance to an art form. So, it is indeed brave on my part to even attempt to dance to a Madhuri song. But, all I can say is that I have danced with love in my heart for a woman I have idolized as I grew up!"