Outdoor 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 subtle dance moves of the Awadh region, or Lucknow. Far from being steeped in artistic and intellectual tradition, this type of mujra is more improvisational in form.