Product Details

• Actors: Julia Casper
• Directors: Timm H Hogerzeil
• Format: Color, NTSC, Dolby
• Language: English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese, Dutch
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Lichtung Media Ltd.
• DVD Release Date: January 11, 2012
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000TPTCPK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,817 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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After Jane Fonda and Billy Blanks - Bollyrobics is now the big new trend.

Fitness with a high level of feeling great - it makes one happy

Bollyrobics and Cardio Striptease are the latest fitness trends.

Product Description

Bollyrobics - dance like bollywood stars enticing graceful sensuous! Dance moves from Bollywood s biggest hits are choreographed into a new kind of workout, combining coordination, strength and stamina with Asian sensuality. Energetic and seductive! Songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber s Bombay Dreams Chaiyya Chaiyya and the Bollywood film Kal Ho Naa Ho Maahi Ve provide the music to 3 dances. Each with an increasing level of difficulty and unique style which varies from playful and sensual to dynamic and powerful. All dances are introduced step- by-step, while a warm-up and cool-down shape the workout. You ll dance in barefeet, seductively moving your hands and hips. Whirl a silk veil to the rhythm, or drape it around you like a sari!

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54 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, easy to follow, great music & moves, though slow/non-music teaching portion, November 25, 2007

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Touch Remedy "TouchRemedy" (Nassau, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bollyrobics Dance Workout (DVD)

This DVD comes in several languages: English, Hindu, Spanish, French, Japanese & music only (same beat for all menu choices).
It has 3 different dances, Maahi Ve, Chaiyya Chaiyya. Each section is 30-35 min each w/a warm-up, step by step, the 3 min dance performance itself & a cool down. The warm-ups & cool downs are all the same for all 3 dances.

From their website:
Songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Bombay Dreams" and the Bollywood film "Kal Ho Naa Ho" (Indian Love Story -- Tomorrow May Never Come) featuring Shahrukh Khan provide the music to 3 dances, each with an increasing level of difficulty and unique style which varies from playful and sensual to dynamic and powerful.

The woman on the dvd, Julia Casper, is the one dancing. At the dance portion, it's just her 3x with computer graphics.
Warm-up - uses basic dancing you will use to get you into it before the step by step portion.
Step by step - shows you the moves, she does break it down, such as only showing the veil first, then the veil & feet & then finally adding the hands. She even does it at a slower pace for faster moves before going normal speed. Each move is done at least 4x if not many more times. She gives great body movement cues, not just counts in 8s.
Cool down - is nice, added head rolls like the warm up, but also adds some standing fwd bends, lunges to really stretch.
I enjoyed Julia's presence, the breakdown was easy to follow & I felt more aware of my body to move better. I don't like this style of dancing as much as Latin or belly dancing or even hip hop, but there were a few moves I thought were great. Julia's style actually encouraged me to get into it more then I would have.
I took off 1 star because of lack of music during the step by step which made it drag on & boring (music only option will come in handy if replay it at later date). Though practice repetition is great & needed for any dance instruction, with the slower down & breakdown, there did not need to be so much, especially on moves that would not get the heart rate up. If these were aerobic moves, that would be great as exercise, but most were easy & required little physical effort.
After completing the step by step once, I will only replay the dance portions only for aerobic workout. I would love for Julia & production to put out more dances of different styles with my suggestions in the future.

Their site is bollyrobics com & all 3 dances are on youtube in all the languages.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bollycize, October 10, 2007

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seishonagon (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bollyrobics Dance Workout (DVD)

This is one of my favorite exercize DVDS based on Bollywood/Bhangra moves--while the other similar routines out there (Sarina Jain, Hemalayaa, Honey Kalaria) all have something unique to contribute--this DVD is particularly good because the choreography is excellent & interesting and Julia Kaspar is just an amazing dancer. The 3 dances each start with a warm-up and end with a cool-down, are broken down into easy to follow segments, and are set to music that is actually dance-inspiring. The production quality is a little silly (or maybe just BASIC)--sort of Euro-90s but, that said, very fun. I would also note that this DVD is more oriented for someone interested in dance rather than pure aerobic fitness.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Ever!!!!, May 8, 2008

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Inamakah (Valley Center, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bollyrobics Dance Workout (DVD)

I bought this DVD together with another one by Heemalaya's and BY FAR THIS IS THE BEST! It has a great and easy routine, in several Languages (which I love since I can practice Hindi, and can see it with my friends either in English or Spanish. Although more languages are available). Julia Casper is a very good dancer and not just an aerobics freak (which was my impression of Heemalaya's DVD). Therefore the movements are very graceful.

It has 3 routines of great Bollywood songs and they all start with a warm-up, then she leads you little by little to all the beautiful steps... and she makes you sweat!!! (I barely sweat... until I did these routines). Then it is dancing time to Sharuk's music and finally the cool-down exercises. I LOVE THIS DVD. I hope they will produce more routines later on. ... and by the way, this DVD really has Bollywood music unlike the other one which pretends to... but has more a Westernized version of Bollywood.