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Wide tilt up from dancer's feet to Bollywood dance students practicing2. Medium of three students dancing3. Close of female student dancing4. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Siriwan Wangvilai, Bollywood...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eBangkok, Thailand - 14 June 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide tilt up from dancer's feet to Bollywood dance students practicing\u003cbr/\u003e2. Medium of three students dancing\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close of female student dancing\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Siriwan Wangvilai, Bollywood Dance Student: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We don't know what each Indian song means, so the master will explain the meaning every time. He tells us this sentence means so and so. Dancing is not just dancing, but we get a feeling of the dance too and we can put emotion into it. And it helps to burn fat too, so dancing helps to get your body in shape.\" \u003cbr/\u003e5. Close tilt up from Bollywood dance teacher's feet to him leading students\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of Bollywood dance teacher leading class\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nareen Nyathi, Bollywood Dance Instructor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Basically, they love Indian culture, so they see many Bollywood movies, and they love to listen to Bollywood music all the time. And when they come here, when they listen to Bollywood songs, they may not understand the language, but they understand the language of music. It's really good.\" \u003cbr/\u003e8. Pan from statue of Indian god Shiva to exterior of fitness club building\u003cbr/\u003e9. Tilt up on Shiva statue\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close of Shiva statue's face\u003cbr/\u003e11. Tilt up on Bollywood dance students dancing\u003cbr/\u003e12. Pan students dancing\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close of woman dancing\u003cbr/\u003e14. Tilt up from woman's feet to her dancing\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Rujapa Chiddrattantham, Bollywood Dance Student: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The reason I like Bollywood dancing is first because of movies. I've seen many Indian movies. I also like the way they dance, the way they use body language. I like it a lot. Their way of dancing is strange and looks like fun. It doesn't matter if the song is slow or fast, we are able to, like for slow songs, we are able to dance fast steps. Even when the music is slow, we can dance with very quick movements.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Pan from Bollywood dance teacher to students practicing dance steps\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of dance students practicing routine\u003cbr/\u003e18. Woman's feet as she dances\u003cbr/\u003e19. Side shot of dancers including one man practicing\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Anu Promkun, Tour Guide and Bollywood Dancer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"When I was younger, I used to like watching Indian movies. And I like Indian songs, because the songs are very different and more difficult to understand than Thai songs. If anyone wants to listen, they have to go all the way to Pahurat, so I registered and think that it works the body, at almost every body part, because in Indian dancing required you to use many positions.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide side shot of dancers practicing\u003cbr/\u003e23. Medium of female dancer with others in background and tilt down to woman's feet as she dances\u003cbr/\u003e24. Dancers moving then holding still in dance pose\u003cbr/\u003e25. Close of woman's hips with gold belt around her waist as she dances\u003cbr/\u003e26. Pan across dancers\u003cbr/\u003e27. Close of woman dancing\u003cbr/\u003e28. Wide of students dancing\u003cbr/\u003e29. Close of woman dancing\u003cbr/\u003eIn Bangkok Bollywood dancing is taking off big style. \u003cbr/\u003eThe fast-paced moves are attracting fans of the music and the Indian movie culture, plus there's a bonus: the dancing can help you to lose weight.\u003cbr/\u003eThailand may be thousands of kilometres from India, but Bollywood cinema is making an impact here. \u003cbr/\u003eThere are legions of Indian film fans in the Thai capital.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd now hundreds of Thais are training to master the rhythmic, alluring, and acrobatic art of Bollywood dancing.\u003cbr/\u003eMany Thais don't understand all of the Hindi lyrics, but that doesn't stop them from dancing like professionals.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We don't know what each Indian song means, so the master will explain the meaning every time,\" says Siriwan Wangvilai, who took up Bollywood dancing just a year and half ago. \"He tells us this sentence means so and so. Dancing is not just dancing, but we get a feeling of the dance too and we can put emotion into it. And it helps to burn fat too, so dancing helps to get your body in shape.\" \u003cbr/\u003eBollywood dance instructor Nareen Nyathi grew up in the Indian city of Hyderabad. \u003cbr/\u003eFour years ago he began teaching Bollywood dance classes in Bangkok. \u003cbr/\u003eHe now leads three or four classes a week, and he has as many as 500 Thai students. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Basically, they love Indian culture, so they see many Bollywood movies, and they love to listen to Bollywood music all the time,\" says Nareen. \"And when they come here, when they listen to Bollywood songs, they may not understand the language, but they understand the language of music. It's really good. And they get involved automatically in that and they go with us. When we teach, they go with us like anything. If anybody sees them, they will feel they are the Indians.\" \u003cbr/\u003eAs many as 85,000 Indians live in Thailand. \u003cbr/\u003eMost are Sikh and live in Bangkok's historic Indian district known as Pahurat. \u003cbr/\u003eBut most Bollywood dance students are ethnic Thais who've fallen in love with Indian cinema.\u003cbr/\u003eIndia has become the largest film producing nation in the world. \u003cbr/\u003eThe availability of elephants, lush jungle, exotic beaches, professional crews, and relatively low production costs, has brought many Bollywood film sets to Thailand in recent years. \u003cbr/\u003eIn 2003, 31 Indian films were shot in Thailand. \u003cbr/\u003eThe number rose to 104 in 2009, according to Film Journal International. \u003cbr/\u003eIn 2009, Thailand was given the top locations award at the Locations World Exhibition and Conference held in Mumbai. \u003cbr/\u003eThailand hosted Bollywood's annual film awards, known as the International Indian Film Academy awards in 2008. The gala event was held at Bangkok's posh Siam Paragon Theater, and was a hit with thousands of Bollywood film fans in Thailand. \u003cbr/\u003eRujapa Chiddrattantham has trained in Bollywood dance for over two years and says she it helped her lose more than 10 kilogrammes (1 stone 8 pounds).\u003cbr/\u003e\"The reason I like Bollywood dancing is first because of movies,\" says Rujapa. \"I've seen many Indian movies. I also like the way they dance, the way they use body language. I like it a lot. Their way of dancing is strange and looks like fun. It doesn't matter if the song is slow or fast, we are able to, like for slow songs, we are able to dance fast steps. Even when the music is slow, we can dance with very quick movements.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe dance classes are an hour-long and the workouts are intense. \u003cbr/\u003eTheir teacher says Bollywood dance is excellent aerobic exercise, but it also stimulates the mind, because dancing involves a lot of mind-body coordination. \u003cbr/\u003eMost of the students are women, but there are some very enthusiastic and talented men in the classes. \u003cbr/\u003e\"When I was younger, I used to like watching Indian movies,\" says tour guide Anu Promkun, who has been Bollywood dancing for four years. \"And I like Indian songs, because the songs are very different and more difficult to understand than Thai songs,\" says Anu. \"If anyone wants to listen, they have to go all the way to Pahurat , so I registered and think that it works the body, at almost every body part, because in Indian dancing required you to use many positions.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAs Indian cinema grows, the chances are more classes 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