Bhavana Pani’s Musical Extravaganza

By Staff

Bhavana Pani
Bhavana Pani, the delicately boned face modeled for nearly 75 ads and her decision to act in films didn't come as a surprise. What came as a surprise was that unlike other models who just modeled and acted Bhavana has gone a step further and pursued her passion of dancing and has won international accolades and brought laurels home.

Bhavana Pani preferred to thumb down film offers to pursue her dancing passion She has a word of advise for all those aspiring to make it big in this profession. "Don't be disillusioned and depressed if you don't get a worthy opportunity here. There are other fields you can excel in which may be your passion!"

Bhavana Pani"s name is synonym with Dancing on international circuit she has done India proud She is the face of 'Bharati'-India"s biggest musical extravaganza on international stage! She is also ready with her third film Fast Forward A Fiolm by Anjum Rizvi.

Hundred Indian performers- actors, singers, dancers, martial artists, acrobats-all performing to packed houses of minimum audience of 6000-7000 people every night on, in some of the most prestigious international theatres of the world! 'Bharati' has completed over 300 shows in the last 3 years, touring all over Europe!

'Bharati' is a musical extravaganza, a delectable composite mix of the varied dances, music and folk traditions of India. Over the space of 90 minutes, the audience is guided through a brief but scintillating sampling of India's rich and breath-taking diversity. Though just a glimpse, the selections hint at the hidden treasures of this vast and enchanting land; its regional, linguistic, historical and philosophical diversity; its myriad peoples, life-styles and traditions.

It is considered to be the most successful Indian musical ever produced and has reportedly broken records of other similar hit musicals like Andrew Lloyd Webbers 'Bombay Dreams' and Shilpa Shetty's 'Miss Bollywood'. This is one of India"s biggest musicals, which collaborates the best of Indian and European talents.

This production is a collaboration of Sahara India Pariwar and Pasha Goshi Productions (PGP is the biggest and most reputed Israeli theatre production which has produced some of the all time hits like Fiddler on the roof, Evita, Joseph and the amazing technical Dream-Coat, Riverdance ballet etc) However, the international promotors of the show are Nous Productions (Paris, France), who also promote international sensations like- Madonna, Pussycat Dolls,Chris Brown etc. It has been written by Kamlesh Pandey(of Rang de Basanti fame) and costumes by Arjun Bhasin.Eminent bollywood choreographers like Raju Sundaram, Remo, Jojo Khan and Ganesh Acharya have choreographed the dances of the musical.The music has been composed by Sajjad Ali & Prakash Patel.

'Bharati' has completed over 300 shows in the last 3 years and has received the most over-whelming response from France, primarily Paris, where they performed on the most coveted stage of the theatre world -Le Palais Des Congres.

They have enthralled audience of minimum 5000 people every night for months together!! Sometimes in stadiums, the audience strength would exceed 8000.