Mujra for the beginner

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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 right.

The easy way to perform a mujra:

• Dress up in a fancy shalwar kameez, a churidar pajama, or a Punjabi lacha.
• Make arrangements either for olden tabla influenced music with a high dose of sitar strains, or a Punjabi bhangra style sound track if you plan on performing one of those newer mujras.
• Get in shape. Mujra requires energetic and flexible dance moves, which can only be possile if you’ve got a toned, flexible body.
• Another good pointer is to watch and learn the moves of the Kathak dance, as they can be effectively modified to suit a mujra.