Simu Liuthe star of Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings, has succumbed to the charms of Punjabi dance kind bangra. Indian-origin Canadian singer Hitesh Sharma, higher often known as Tesher, shared a video of himself and Liu performing bhangra steps on stage throughout the Juno Awards ceremony. Juno Awards are music awards given out to have a good time Canadian musical artists.
Tesher captioned the video, “Me and @simuliu introduced bhangra to the MCU child!!! Shoutout to the @thejunoawards awards for letting me carry out and showcase south asian tradition on the most important music stage in Canada. I’m nonetheless shook!!! additionally NEW MUSIC NEXT MONTH BABYYYY. Choreographed by Divya Jethwani @adaywithdivya.”
You can see the video for your self beneath.
Liu debuted in MCU in final yr’s Shang-Chi, a movie directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and co-written by Cretton, Dave Callaham and Andrew Lanham. Shang-Chi is the primary Asian-American superhero in MCU.
Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings additionally starred Awkwafina, Meng’er Zhang, Fala Chen, Florian Munteanu, Benedict Wong, Michelle Yeoh, Ben Kingsley, and Tony Leung.
In a dialog with indianexpress.com, Simu had spoken about taking part in the superhero and placing on the outfit for the primary time. He mentioned, “I knew how uncommon it was to have an Asian particular person placing on a superhero outfit, there actually hasn’t been that many. I actually loved placing on the swimsuit additionally as a result of it was model new. It was not like based mostly on something within the comics. I feel it symbolizes our new origin story and that we have been capable of mainly refresh this 50-year, just a little outdated character. I’m actually, actually excited for the world to see it.”
The movie obtained principally optimistic opinions with a 91 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Indian Express movie critic Ektaa Malik wrote in her assessment, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was supposed to be the Asian Black Panther, and open the gates to Asian pride and denote a new form of storytelling, for its people and the region. The film could’ve been a real game changer, especially in 2021, in the aftermath of the Covid Pandemic, when hate crime against Asians is at an all-time high. Sadly, it only scratches the surface and adopts peripheral nodes to acknowledge Asian culture and thought.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
