Olympic figure skating champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov decided to give a Bollywood spin to their performance at the 2016 European Figure Skating Championships in Slovakia. The judges and the audience clearly loved the results, with the pair earning the highest scores as well as thunderous applause and winning their fourth gold at the competition.
The Russian pair, dressed in Indian-inspired clothes, danced to the song “Nagada Sang Dhol” from the 2013 Sanjay Leela Bhansali film Goliyon ki Rasleela Ram-Leela starring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone. Volosozhar and Trankov are famous for being the first figure skaters to win two gold medals at the same Olympics in 2014.
Figure skating and Bollywood has proved to be a successful formula even earlier. in 2010, a video of American skating champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White performing to the song “Kajra re” from Bunty aur Babli had gone viral in India.
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