He dared to drew line with smoke and was smitten by unlimited charm of Bollywood while doing so. He outsourced his music to Indians and that mirrored huge success. Yes, Drew Smith would not have imagined when he outsourced Smoke and Mirrors to I can Dance 2 that it would bring laurels not only from people of his own land but from people across seven oceans. And Ironically I can Dance 2 did not imagine that they were on the cusp of making Next Kolaveri di. What you call matchless geography between India and Canada was actually turned out to be a perfect match of Indian Dance and Western music.
Perhaps why the video clicked was, out of box thinking and an exquisite mix of each and every frame that were meticulously shot.I mean what would you think when you get chance to make a Bollywood video for a Western song? Just an Indian dance would not do. Neither would sheer costume nor would mushy love story like DDLJ. The onus was to burst a Big cracker in small packet and I can Dance 2 cracked it with panache. There were obviously umpteen ideas storming in small teacup and after a lot of “This” and “That” the foundation was setup. It was in a small hamlet just a few kilometers near the suburbs of Bangalore. The broken paintings on the village hut were repainted, the lights were setup into a marvelous tapestry, the dancers warmed up for the shoot and the Cameraperson fixed his lenses. One, Two, Three were the counts and everyone worked in flawless harmony that made Smoke and Mirrors a masterpiece. For what I thought of just a bland dance in the beginning came out like flying colors of Indian culture. The bolywood dance were there, the colors of holi, the Yakshangana dancers and our patent hero and heroine just like in our own DDLJ and finally the entire song was wrapped under hues of Indian rich culture flavoured with Bolywood dance.
Within a few hours when Smoke and Mirrors was uploaded on you tube, the traffic to this site incredibly jammed and the counter read on this portal pointed a whooping 60,000+ in few hours. The number of hits now, which is near 2 lakhs is a testimony that how much people loved the video. When Ananth and Asha were basking in the glory success then did not realize that it’s just the beginning and soon it would be viral in all the leading newspapers of India and New York and they would be interviewed by all the local channels of the tinsel town of Karnataka. This achievement is undoubtedly a golden feather in their already feather-full cap.
