 What was that? That lady's gonna think she's sent some old guy over the edge. She's gonna be worried all day. I made this call to this guy and he sent him over the edge. I love doing that to telemarketers that call up. I can guarantee you she's already forgotten about you. Mess with telemarketers! You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or more juicy content. Thanks a bunch. Subscribe to the like button. I always listen to what they have to say though, because I was once a telemarketer, so it's a very difficult job. And if it's something, I had somebody call me from the fire department saying they were doing a fundraiser. I'm not gonna mess around with them. But my favorite, my favorite is this. Hi, I'm calling about the home financing stuff we talked about earlier. Number one, you suck. Number two, we didn't talk earlier. Are you lying? Piece of crap. I don't answer the phone. That's true. Don't call Corbin. Today we have the, I think the third part of the Prabhu Deva. Another? How many parts are there? Fuck, I don't know. Wow! But this is with Michael Jackson's fall, Prabhu Deva's dream got crushed. Don't know what that means. My bet is his dream was to collaborate with Michael. What do they mean by Michael Jackson's fall? Either his literal death or the controversy that surrounded him. This will be interesting. Rick doesn't have any strong opinions about any of this. None whatsoever. You slept with him, huh? As a child. I have slept with Michael Jackson as a kid. Damn proud of it. Not a joke. Here we go. Please click here on your screen. One day I watched the thriller. But that day changed. You and me both. Who is this guy? Something very unique style. Was that his introduction to Michael Jackson? It was a different kind of dancing style only. I mean it's very possible. Like that dance it has to be. No touching. Kajal! I did so much of dancing days there but finally Kajal is the winner. Because I made something else. Tracking milestones of an incredible journey. Standing 30 years. Remind music sheets. Hi friends. In this episode how about a twist in the tale. It's there for you all. So do watch the episode till the end. Okay. And capture the moment of the day. Alright. AVM. The iconic production house. That launched mega stars like Sivaji Ganesan and Kamal Hassan. Decided to make Minsara Kanawul. For its 50th anniversary celebration. Loosely based on 1965 American musical Sound of Music. Oh wow. The film had music as its USB. So Rehman became an obvious choice for Minsara Kanawul. It's Kajal's debut film in Tamil. The film required Prabhu Deva not only to act and dance. But also choreograph. Until then Prabhu had avoided choreographing his own songs. You see choreographing is a different word. Acting is different word. Why to take both? Some people are there to do. Why to them to like that? Then you had to choreograph your own songs. And you listen to the song. What was your reaction? For Minsara Kanawul. Yes. The director of the movie had a vision for each song. Of course moment comes to me. What dancing? Some visual comes to me. I follow that only. Whenever I listen to the song immediately visual comes. When director told this has to be like this. Like this like this. So I put my visual into that. In those times in that picture only I am acting little bit better. Little bit more maturity. I was 24, 23, 24 something like that. But your choreography and your dance was so different. All career goes to the director. But you must have decided the dance style, its treatment and setup. Director had a vision. As you told it was a different kind of dancing style only. Thanks to the director only. Because that song only again. He recorded the song in that way. Like that dance it has to be. No touching. Without touching we must dance like that. So I improvised it. Luckily I got to know what he wants. I understood what he wants and we did it. It both gelled. The choreographer and the director was gelling very well. And of course cameraman was tremendous as well. And Rajals. Ice. That's another thing I picked up. In addition to the head nod I do that all the time now. Ice made the song something else. Kajo, the icon. What does national award mean to an artist? What did it mean to you? It's a mixture. So when I got the first national award immediately I called my Guru. Two Guru's. One is Dharamraj Master. One is Lakshmi Nagar. One is fire. One is ice. Dharamraj Master is a very angry person. Very means you have to see it to believe it. Very angry if he doesn't put sleep power red and red. He is very angry person but very lovable person. He is like that power. Like a fire only. So I called him master I got national award. He told don't take it to the head. Do the other one. That's the first thing I said. In a good way he is telling don't take it to his head. You did your work. They gave it. Don't be in that. Go for next. Achive next. Next he is telling. Then I called the other master. Would it be Lakshmi Nagar Master? He is like ice. Like I said oh very good. He must have again worked more hard. See the difference between. So that was of course when they told I was happy only. Normal human being. Very happy. But from that time I became okay. I got dead. He is so beautiful. Prabhu Deva earned name and fame. For dances that were essentially western in style. But right from his childhood he trained in Bharat Natya. Considered to be amongst the oldest classical dance forms of India. I was learning Bharat Natya from my Guru. Dharma Raj Master. My Bharat Natya helped me like anything in my life. For the timing. For the discipline. Not only Bharat Natya helped me for the dancing. For the punctuality, discipline, hard work. Everything helped me. Because my Guru Ji. When I was training Bharat Natya. How in the Kung Fu films they will train the people. They jack each other. Like that they used to train us. He used to make me under that RMND and sit for a while like that only. Sit only. And he used to talk. And he used to have TV and TV and all. I used to tell him, Master Ji, you forgot me. You sit directly. Those things helped me. And he used to come on time. Five o'clock means he will be there five. See those things. Punctuality, hard work, everything. Discipline. Everything helped me. Of course for my life. Even for the choreographing. I have done many more choreographing. Without knowing my Bharat Natya touch will be there. But nobody knows it. And timing everything. Besides training in Bharat Natya. Something else too influenced Prabhu. Thriller. A studio album by Michael Jackson. Released in 1982. It topped charts across the globe. And also changed Prabhu forever. Those days there is no deck. The deck comes. He used to rent it out and watch the film. Watch it. So like that one day I watched the thriller. I got that day changed. Who is this guy? Something very unique style. I have never seen somebody who is dancing like that. I believe. All the world. In that I am also one. So next day I used to grab that my mind was going on. When I used to Bharat Natya I put Michael Jackson. My guru used to do that. Not much about Michael Jackson. Stupid fellow. Whoever it is do this. I used to do this. Parallel I was in my mind or in my body. Michael Jackson dance was going on. Practicing in my mind only with that. How did you practice? In your room or beaches? Where? It is what I am doing in my mind. Whenever in front of I used to practice. But those days you know the facilities are certain. The music also where to get the music. There was no cassette you want to get the thriller. I don't know what is the name also that I am thriller. Somebody named my water. Later later we came to know. So we don't. Very rarely if some people goes to buy tape recorder. VHS tape ok. That will be for one day only. Then we have to give back. I am telling the cassette recorder. I don't know which song where to get it. So I was without sound really. Whatever I see I saw I was practicing. That's it. First November 1996. Michael Jackson visited India for his concert. History World Tour. It also meant an opportunity for Prabhudeva to meet his idol. Bharatsha sir only took me there. So they told only three people or four people has to come. So Bharatsha told sir told you come. And he didn't take his summers. Asha mostly met up. Me that's it. And Bharatsha. When I met him he asked me. Then photographers also taken. But taken by their photographer. Because our photographer nobody is allowed. Then each people will take one photographer. So they were telling me we will take. And we will give it to you. But never it came. See it was like a dream. It was like a dream. Ultimate for dancers. So when he was there near by me. He was like. You know I can still feel that glint in your eye. As you speak of Mr. Michael Jackson. I am a great fan of him. Because it's not only the dance movement of Michael Jackson. It's something that power. Attraction. Something is there. Some magic was there. It's not about the dancing or singing. Something is there. That's the thing. There is only one chaplain. One burusly. One Michael Jackson. That's it. That's it. 1999. A.R. Rehman and Prabhu were part of MJ and Friends. Two stadium concerts by Michael Jackson. To raise funds for children in Kosovo and Africa. You. Not alone. I am here with you. Prabhu Deva's dream. To perform with Michael Jackson was about to come true. But there was a slip between the cup and the leg. Me and Raju were performing at Bharatunatyam. We were with Saurangh madam. We were performing at Bharatunatyam. And also all the big people were there. Normally in those days we would see in the M.T.V. How the stage show happened. Only it's full head. Full for it. It was there. We performed. We were here. He was performing here. Final performance was us. Michael Jackson's performance. Then last performance was us. He was supposed to come in our act also. So when Michael Jackson was performing he had a small injury. I can see what happened. That's some lift I think. He was supposed to come in the lift. Suddenly he got jerked out. Oh crap. Finally after finishing they took him out. Then he performed. That's it. Wow. Did you see that? Nope. You didn't watch that live? Nope. Coming back to Menshara Kandavu. Mr. Rahman's compositions are always a challenge for singers. How challenging are they for choreographers? You know they don't get even the complete song. They just get some kind of a shooting mix. So choreographing and dancing to those tunes. What kind of challenges did you face? I used to give only Pallavi, only BGM. Even I, when I choregraph also I want a full song. 100% a song. Even if you're putting tic-tac-ting-tang also I wanted it. Because everything has to be shown in there. Of course. I like to take everything from there. Because normally I used to tell my other choreographers also. So how are you different? Music they are totally giving that. Yes. We have to follow him. That's it. They don't give him the whole song? Follow the music and we'll do that. That's why. If you do tic-tac-ting also, catch the tic-tac-ting. For some reason he's giving some tic-tang and all. Like that. Like that, when we used to do the song and again sir is to mix it like that. I used to feel like little bit. I have not given 100%. Because some music has missed. I have missed it looks like that. Of course. Like that. That was the challenge. And also the sound level is international. The quality was of Raghavan sir's sound is international. How to go to international? We are a local people. How much we can go only we can go. That much brain only we have. He's an international standard. We are that much tried our best. That's what I can do. I think whether we are made just if you must tell it. Because you have given the song like that. The sounding and the amazing song. Mr. Rahman keeps adding elements to a song till the time the film gets released. Can you give me any example where you felt that if you had got the complete final song. Your choreography would also have been different. Better he didn't give me that much. Because this song only is this much. If we have given that much water to him. Better he gave this much only. Better. Good. K Sarasara. Composed by Rehman. Choreographed and performed by Prabhu Deva and Mahadev Dixit. With untold stories behind that iconic song from Pukhar. In our next episode Prabhu Deva will continue. Stay with us. Wow. I mean I guess if you have Prabhu. It's not only the dance moment of Michael Dixit. It's something that our attraction. Something is there. Some magic was there. It's not about the dancing or singing. Something is there. That's the thing. There is only one chaplain. One burusli. One Michael Dixit. Do you agree that this indeed was the moment of the day? Sure. Is your choice different? Whatever your mind says. Why not? In the section below we will be waiting. The moment of the day was the fact that he choreographs incomplete songs. Which is insanity. I'm not a choreographer but that just sounds insane. That's like, I mean I guess it happens in auditions. So like people give you a scene from a film. They don't give you the full film usually. Or TV show obviously. But you're expected to do it. But then obviously this is like, they hired him for this. To do the film. And they can only give him part. It's as absurd to me as telling somebody who's choreographing ballet. So here is 5 minutes of the 20 minute piece we're going to be doing. I'm sorry? Here's 5 minutes of the piece. And we're doing 20 minutes of dance. Yeah. Absolutely insanity. So did he say they performed, him and A.R. performed? Still? But they were supposed to perform with Michael. Correct. They performed and Michael was supposed to join them at the end but Michael got hurt. That would have been iconic. That sucks. Poor guy. That sucks. Also, who are you having follow up Michael Jackson? Well that's why he was going to be with them. That's why Michael was going to be doing it. It was the finale. The headliner. It was the finale with Michael there. After his performance to the American audience I believe. Did you see the 30th special, the 30 years of entertainment Michael Jackson special that was done literally I think the day before 9-11? In fact, Michael was supposed to be in the towers that day. Michael was supposed to be in the World Trade Center on 9-11 and overslept. Wow. But the 30th anniversary is him and his brothers. Then he has a ton of special guests. Usher comes out, Brittany Spears comes out. It's a big, big production with a lot of people that come out. Slash comes out from Guns N' Roses. So I think this is what that was supposed to be like on an international level. And of course Michael was supposed to be on stage with them and clearly. That would have been iconic. That would have been the guy running the lift that drops and hurts Michael Jackson. He's probably fired. Yeah, I didn't know that occurred. I didn't know that happened. How does that even happen? The amount of safety precautions that go, especially when you're carrying precious cargo like Michael Jackson. Seriously. That's insane. Seriously. Anyways, another great episode. Obviously go check out and subscribe to O2 India. Yeah. They always, every single one of these. And apparently they have another one that's coming out. Maybe they have even one after that. I have no idea. But all of these have been really, really insightful and wonderful. It's treasure. Yeah. Anyways, let us know what other videos we can connect to down below.