Popular hoop dancer Eshna Kutty's latest video has gone viral on social media. In the clip, she is dancing to Dilli 6's Genda Phool. The mind-blowing dance routine is creating quite a buzz online, because - first, it looks quite challenging; and second, Kutty is performing with a hula hoop, wearing a saree with sneakers.?
Eshna is 23 years old and posted the video on her Instagram account from where it quickly made its way to Twitter with the hashtag #SareeFlow. Soon, the video blew up and people started sharing it across platforms. It was then retweeted by Kutty's mother, journalist Chitra Narayanan.?
"Woke up to several people Whatsapping me this video! Meet my daughter who has sparked off a #sareeflow trend," Chitra Narayanan wrote while sharing the clip.?
After being shared on the micro-blogging website, the clip has been viewed more than 7.5 lakh times and has almost 27,000 likes with 5,000 retweets. People took to the comments section to express how impressed they were with Eshna's performance.?
With over 40,000 followers on Instagram, Eshna is quite the star and often motivates people to share their videos of hoop dancing in sarees using the hashtag #SareeFlow.?
'This post is primarily to share with you why I put out #sareeflow as a hashtag', she wrote.
She added, 'It had been on my mind for months, and the intention was not to create the most sensual saree videos, but to feel so comfortable and happy wearing it without the pressure of being a delicate lady.?There's so much diversity in our cultures and even in our sarees that I hoped this trend would add a very unique twist to a global art form'.