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Many mujra enthusiasts are yearning to perform a successfully executed mujra dance. This most evasive of dance skills is actually an amalgam of Kathak, South Indian and Kashmiri dances. While you may not initially appear to be as graceful or enthralling as the legendary Rekha, there are still ways to get the mujra [...]
Here is a mujra from the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. This outdoor mujra, produced and distributed across Pakistan, is indicative of the Pashtun strain of the mujra dance. This is marked by difference dance movies and a conspicuous diversion from the West Punjabi type of Mujra.
Even more pronounced is the departure from the [...]
One of Bollywood’s most famous actresses, Rekha performs a mujra in this video from the movie Do Anjaane. “Whether somebody walks with me or not, whether I get a companion or not, I have to go somewhere far, where I get my love”.
Rekha gave a whole new dimension to the centuries old mujra dance. She [...]
Another mujra in a slightly different variation of the Punjabi vernacular. Saraiki, or Siraiki is the language of the southern / south-western Punjab region, centering on Multan. This particular mujra features a dancer performing to Saraiki music. Classic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ngKAPPT5wU
Well we’re talking about the Pakistani variety here. Is it the way the ladies shake their booties (figuratively speaking of course). or is it because it involves a significant sensual aspect, that can only be best portrayed by the sinuous grace of a Pakistan woman? Whatever the case, the fact remains that the Pakistani mujra [...]
The Mujras of Lahore are in a class of their own. Created first in medieval India under the patronage of the Mughals like Akbar the Great, the Mujras in Lahore have evolved into a whole new art form in recent years. In present day Pakistan, Mujras have come up not only in the notorious Heera [...]