Honey Kalaria's Bollywood Workout
by Steve Kemsley
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Actor: Honey KalariaDirector: Steve Kemsley
Producer: Steve Kemsley
Editor: Dennis Morgan
Producer: Nikki Gillespie
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 76 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Platinum Disc
DVD Reviews of Honey Kalaria's Bollywood Workout
DVD Review: Fab idea, try-again execution
Summary: 2 Stars
When you're used to the routine behind pliometrics, weight-lifting, cardio, and all the other fitness DVD standards, you can't help getting excited about a DVD that promises a little something different, and Honey Kalaria's DVD certainly does deliver on that. Ms Kalaria takes her viewers through two twenty-minute aerobic workouts that incorporate elements from Bollywood dance.
And perhaps that's one of the problems I have with this DVD. You just don't get enough instruction about how to do the routine in a way that ensures that you won't get hurt. As one example, you're encouraged to to a Siva-hop, i.e. hop tip-toed on one foot with your leg bent while moving your arms. Where thoughts of potential injury are concerned in this move alone, the mind reels in a number of different directions: How to protect the bent knee with all that weight on it, what to do to stabilize the ankle, how to ensure that your back is as stable as it can be, how to do those arm movements while maintaining equilibrium. Ms Kalaria's instruction on such points isn't even minimal. And since the workout does entail more than the standard regime of squats and lunges, cues of this type, as well as advance warning on how to move one's body into these - for the majority of her audience - unusual poses are more important than ever, and unfortunately largely lacking.
Another big problem with the DVD is that the musical cues aren't quite in sync with the movements in the exercise routine. One constantly has the feeling of being anywhere from 1/64 to 1/8 of a note ahead of or behind Ms Kalaria herself, yet another distraction from what is in fact a potentially very enjoyable two-part workout for the low- and high-impact audience.
I propose that Ms Kalaria make another DVD, incorporate more cues on body awareness and positioning, choose better music, and watch the profits roll in.
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