Apart from Bollywood beauties, an American dancer is likely to be seen doing the Maharashtrian folk dance. I am not a trained dancer.I had to put in a lot of effort,” she said. It was always my dream to do a lavani song. “I was happy when this song was offered to me. Vidya practised hard for this song to perfect her steps for the dance form. I liked her song ‘Humko Aaj Kal' and I also admire Smita Patil's performance in ‘Bhoomika',” Vidya had said. “For the lavani song my inspiration is Madhuri. While doing this song, Vidya had looked up to noted actresses Madhuri Dixit and late Smita Patil for inspiration. I think only she could have done a song like ‘Chikni Chameli' and nobody else.” In Vidhu Vinod Chopra's home production, Vidya Balan danced to a lavani, her first such special number in ‘Ferrari Ki Sawaari'. Ace choreographer Ganesh Acharya, who had directed Katrina's moves in the song, says, “Katrina has given all the power and dedication that was needed. I worked very hard for this song,” Katrina had said. “It (‘Chikni Chameli') was very fast and it was not a style I was used to, but I took it as a challenge. British Indian actress Katrina, through her foot-thumping ‘Chikni Chameli' performance proved that she can also be a desi Marathi girl. After Madhuri Dixit's lavani performance, this dance form had more or less disappeared from Bollywood, only to make a comeback in Karan Johar's remake ‘Agneepath'. Lavani has been a hit with dancing divas like Helen, who gave an unforgettable performance in ‘Mungla' song in ‘Inkaar' (1977), Madhuri Dixit's ‘Humko Aajkal Hai' from ‘Sailaab' (1990), ‘Main Kolhapur Se Aayi Hoon' from ‘Anjaam' (1994). Directed by Sachin Kundalkar, ‘Aiyaa' is co-produced by Anurag Kashyap and Viacom 18 is slated to release in October end this year. Rani plays the role of a Marathi girl in the film and is paired opposite southern star Prithvi Raj. In her upcoming film ‘Aiyaa', the leading lady of the film-Rani Mukherjee does three item numbers in her dream and lavani is one of that.

As Katrina Kaif's ‘Chikni Chameli' and Vidya Balan's ‘Mala Jau De' dance numbers got rave reviews for their folk dance performances, Rani Mukherjee is the latest addition to this list. Mumbai, Jul 21 : After raunchy item numbers, Bollywood actresses seem to be enamoured with ‘lavani', a Maharashtrian folk dance and are leaving no stone unturned to emerge as the ‘lavani queen' of the B-town. Follow us on bollywood going gaga over lavani numbers

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