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What is Mujra ?
When the Mughals took control of India,
they had many of the original Hindu story tellers from Rajasthan region of
India, and they brought into the courts as entertainers, but stories from Hindu
mythology were not of interest to the Mughal rulers, So the Kathak dance became
infused with fast spinning, swift movements, and graceful hand gestures of Persian influence -
and that was the birth of dance called
Mujra.Mujra is a form of dance
originated by north Indian Tawaif (courtesans) during the Mughal era.
A common, but mistaken, opinion is that this dance took away the more
classical elements of the pure kathak dance to make it more appealing to the
audience of that time, and added sensuality fitting a courtesan's dance.
In fact, it has been convincingly demonstrated (by Margaret Edith Walker,
in: Kathak Dance - A Critical History, PhD dissertation, University of
Toronto, 2004) that there was no dance called Kathak until the 20th Century,
nor a community/caste called Kathak until the 19th. Moreover, the more
formalized elements of Kathak were added to the Tawaif dance form in order
to classicize it and appropriate it from its original practitioners within
the last century.
As far as Pakreel.com
definition the Mujra is Classic Kathak Art from India which is now taken a
new form in Pakistan specially on Punjabi Stage Drama to make viewers more
entertain. It's less artistic but still entertaining. However few artist are
giving it wrong concept and making it more like Erotic dance where the
purpose is the stimulation or arousal of erotic or sexual thoughts or
actions. The erotic dancer's clothing is often minimal, and may be gradually
decreased or eliminated altogether. Due to these few so called artist the
Mujra is creating very wrong concept into people's mind. We are so against
for such dance performance.
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from the Members which have no abuse, erotic, sexual action in it, in that
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