Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20149 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-09-09
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Special Features
English
Region 2

Synopsis
Riding the crest of the year 2002's craze for everything Bollywood comes this disc which offers a fitness regime based upon the dance routines of the Indian musicals.

Customer Reviews

Don't waste your money!
Honey Kalaria has to be the most nauseating presenter ever; were I a mentally impaired two year old I'd still have felt patronised and insulted by her banal drivelling as she talks people through the moves. Which would be fine if she actually talked you through the moves, but she doesn't... the dance routines are dull and uninspired, the direction minimal, and the interest in actually giving people a good workout none existent. Absolute mind numbing waste of money!

Excellent choreograhpy
I really enjoyed this DVD. Honey Kalaria is a really pleasant and motivating presenter. She demonstrates a variety of hand, head, arm, shoulders, hip, leg and foot movements and does this really well. There is plenty of repetition so you can pick the moves up fairly quickly. The dance routine does get complicated towards the end of the dvd but you certainly can't complain about the lack of aerobic exercise in it! This is HUGE fun and looks simply beautiful when put together. The only downside was that the music was very repetitive - a little more musical variety would have made this DVD even more fun!

Fab idea, try-again execution
When you're used to the routine behind pliometrics, weight-lifting, cardio, and all the other fitness DVD standards, you can't help getting excited about a DVD that promises a little something different, and Honey Kalaria's DVD certainly does deliver on that. Ms Kalaria takes her viewers through two twenty-minute aerobic workouts that incorporate elements from Bollywood dance.

And perhaps that's one of the problems I have with this DVD. You just don't get enough instruction about how to do the routine in a way that ensures that you won't get hurt. As one example, you're encouraged to to a Siva-hop, i.e. hop tip-toed on one foot with your leg bent while moving your arms. Where thoughts of potential injury are concerned in this move alone, the mind reels in a number of different directions: How to protect the bent knee with all that weight on it, what to do to stabilize the ankle, how to ensure that your back is as stable as it can be, how to do those arm movements while maintaining equilibrium. Ms Kalaria's instruction on such points isn't even minimal. And since the workout does entail more than the standard regime of squats and lunges, cues of this type, as well as advance warning on how to move one's body into these - for the majority of her audience - unusual poses are more important than ever, and unfortunately largely lacking.

Another big problem with the DVD is that the musical cues aren't quite in sync with the movements in the exercise routine. One constantly has the feeling of being anywhere from 1/64 to 1/8 of a note ahead of or behind Ms Kalaria herself, yet another distraction from what is in fact a potentially very enjoyable two-part workout for the low- and high-impact audience.

I propose that Ms Kalaria make another DVD, incorporate more cues on body awareness and positioning, choose better music, and watch the profits roll in.