Spunky Monica Dogra's New Music Video
Here's a behind the scenes look at the sizzling Monica Dogra's new number.
Monica Dogra is all set to launch her first solo music video next week. In the wait until the release on September 9, here's a behind the scenes look at her new song, ¡®Rise Up and Run¡¯.
A song that shows a mirror to how we live our lives and the impact we have on our fellow beings and earth bodies. With props and costumes using thrones, flowers and crowns, the video portrays a fantastical imagery that encourages the human race to ¡®Rise Up and Run¡¯ and to believe in and own the power of one¡¯s self. The video features three key dancers styled to appear as other-worldly, almost super human goddesses, the kind we see in ancient scriptures. Long flowing fabric represents a cosmic umbilical cord as they dance in an almost dead landscape. The three dancers beseech us to arrest the path of today¡¯s real digitized world and think of how we want to impact our tomorrow.
Tight shots of the dancers with cracked paint on their skin, heaving chests, ribcages expanding and slow motion shots of hands grabbing the earth bring alive a contemporary and theatrical idiom and with it, the message of the song.
¡°Rise Up and Run is an ode from a pack of warrior others who come face to face with the self, on a race towards Eden,¡± said an excited Monica Dogra when asked about her thoughts on the treatment of her song. ¡°To date, I've never been more artistically fulfilled, more cleansed, more elevated, by any of my artistic endeavors.
The team involved in the creation of this project, was carefully curated, and became one super-human body of artistic expression - remove one element, and the whole conglomerate would have crumbled.¡±
Monica¡¯s solo project has been in the making for three years and has been produced by national and international producers such as Gaurav Raina of Midival Punditz and Prashant Mistry of Engine Earz Experiment.
The video was directed by Manoj Jadhav while the costumes and design were done by Indrakshi Ria Pattanaik. The choreography was done by Nilaya Sabnis and the video featured both herself and talented dancer, Reshma Gajjar.
