The making of Nora Fatehi: Canada to India

Brut India

She made a career out of the one thing she was forbidden from doing. Today, she is one of the most popular dancers in India. Who is she?  : Anas Bukhash أنس بوخش

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00:00I'm cool in this song, this song, this, this song

00:04I'm cool in this song, this song

00:08Bhar gaya hai jo hum se saare

00:30I'm cool in this song, this song, this song

00:39I always had this identity crisis

00:42like I didn't know what I am, who I am

00:44but I knew one thing, I like to dance

00:48I like to act, I like to go on stage

00:50I like to perform, I like to make people laugh

00:53this much I knew

00:54I didn't care what language the music was in

00:56I didn't care what style of dance it was

01:00I'm cool in this song, this song, this song

01:03I'm cool in this song, this song, this song

01:07I'm cool in this song, this song, this song

01:11I'm cool in this song, this song, this song

01:15I'm cool in this song, this song, this song

01:19I'm cool in this song, this song, this song

01:23I'm cool in this song, this song, this song

01:27I'm cool in this song, this song, this song

01:34I'm cool in this song, this song, this song

01:40I'm cool in this song, this song, this song

01:46I was so overexcited that I didn't think

01:49about what is required to go to India

01:53Visa

01:55Visa, visa, the actual requirement

01:57Language, network, contacts, everything.

02:07I was thinking that I was going to get picked up by a limousine with like a butler

02:11and they're going to take me to this suite and I was going to live a nice life in a hotel

02:16and I'm going to go to my auditions via the limousine.

02:19It's going to be nice. It's going to be like high-level lifestyle because I'm going to Bollywood, you know.

02:24It was nothing like that.

02:26I had the biggest shock of my life, the biggest laugh in the face.

02:38And they would call me specifically and say, the lines are in Hindi, can you do it?

02:42I say, yeah, I'll try my best.

02:44And I would do them and they would laugh in front of me.

02:48During the take, they would start laughing together, high-fiving each other.

02:53Did you hear how funny she sounds?

04:23Yeah.

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