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Uploaded by on Jun 25, 2008

An archival 80s clip of UK based Kathak dancer Nahid Siddiqui.

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  • Is she a Lucknow or Jaipur gharana exponent?

  • Actually neither as, at THIS point, she hadn't gone to the maestro Pt Birju Maharaj yet. This style she learned from her Pakistani guru, Gulam Maharaj.

    Nick

  • I see. It must be hard to go back and forth between Pakistan and India since these two countries are at times very close to getting at eachother throats.

  • She used to live in the UK/London in the 1980s so maybe she started with Pandit-ji some time then. I would presume it's much easier going from the UK to India than Pakistan as you mentioned.

    Nick

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  • @Desi4evah because back then the relations between India and Pakistan were CONSIDERABLY more sour than they were today. Zia Ul Haque's efforts towards "Islamization" of Pakistan were in DIRECT conflict with India's effort to make a Hindu-centric Secular state. As sometimes noticed today, a Pakistani wouldn't have been welcome to perform in India and be supported because of the "dushman mulk" sentiment. She would've been deported back to Pakistan where she'd be killed...back then.

  • She said in some old interview that the Pakistani govt. was against this form of art and so she was hindered because of the internal policies governing performing arts.

    Why didn't she make her way to India then? What's the point of compromising on talent this way?

  • Oh wow where can I find her she needs to teach me these moves!! I wish Iraqi woman had a similar dance to this

  • i have no words...im seppchless...im joining her classes in lahore....

  • @Zitagirl: I don't know whether I can be any judge of it but it seems to me Fasih Ur Rehman, Sandip Mallick and Shambhavi Vaze are also excellent dancers.

  • OMG!!!! SHE Z MY FAVR8 KATHAK DANCER!!!!

  • mind blowing......amazing performer.....

  • That was beautiful. She has an amazing amount of control.

  • i want to be like her but i cant.

  • Flawless.

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