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Dancing like a Hero

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Admit it. Sometimes in your younger days you had this dream of dancing like a hero, a film hero I mean. In case you lived your younger days in the 70s and 80s, it was actually easy dancing like a hero than it is now. These were the thoughts that passed through my mind when I watched a lovely song from the Telugu film 'Rajkumar'. Wonderful Suddha Saveri based tune of Illayaraja and nice lyrics by Atreya. Do see this song now and then you will understand what I meant by dancing like a hero was easy in those days. Don't worry if you don't understand the language. Just watch the dance 'steps'. (Did you complete watching the song? You need to do that so that what I am going to say now makes some sense to you.) Let us take this hypothetical situation. You are out with your spouse in a hill station like Ooty or Kodai and you find yourself in an isolated place with lot of greenery around, mountains at a distance and a milky white stream flowing next to you. It