A beautiful bala... Madhubala... is coming to increase the heartbeat. So, sir, get ready to welcome the queen of beauty!' Along with this announcement of a drunken voice, many girls are seen in the bright lights of the stage. Slim clothes on the body with thick make-up. Rekha Rani, who has worked in the dance line for almost three decades, says- 'Nobody asks a girl wearing a salwar-suit. The less clothes, the more money.’
A few days ago, on the occasion of Mahashivratri, dancers were called in Baran, Rajasthan. These girls dancing on obscene songs were molested in Chhabra town. The ruckus on this matter was not even pacified that only then another similar incident came to the fore on Holi. In fact, during the Holi festival in Pratapgarh district, Haryanvi and Russian women dancers were called and danced on obscene songs for hours. These incidents are not a few. In the eastern part of the country, the tradition of obscene dancing and singing at weddings is old. The life of these wedding dancers is not less than hell. Underneath a thick layer of dark lipstick and redness-powder lie dark stories of pain.
Dainik Bhaskar tried to scrape away this pain so that this part of the life of the dancers could come in front of 'civilized' people like us. Rekha Rani of Rohtas district of Bihar helps us in this. Rekha, who was a wedding dancer for 30 years, now sings at weddings because the age of dancing has passed. She says that the demand of the woman whose youth has come to an end is over. She is thrown out of the dance group, even if she dies of hunger.
Rekha Rani of Rohtas district of Bihar has been a wedding dancer, but instead of dancing in weddings, she only sings, because after getting old, she is no longer in demand as a dancer.
Rekha Rani of Rohtas district of Bihar has been a wedding dancer, but instead of dancing in weddings, she only sings, because after getting old, she is no longer in demand as a dancer.
Let's read the story of Rekha, in her own words...
It would be eighty years when my mother Bijli Rani became known in Bihar. Just like the name was trembling in his body. Dance in such a way that even the flash of lightning fades away. Mother used to live in Patna, would also go to Delhi on invitation. I was studying Played like other kids and dreamed of becoming a doctor-teacher, but I was different from other kids because my mother was a dancer. As the bulges started appearing on the body, the eyes of the people around started changing. Those whom uncle and maternal uncle used to speak, they started seeing me like a woman. I got scared and stuck to my mother, but could not tell.
Gradually I left studies and I also started dancing. When I came in this line, then many locks went on opening one after the other. There is no respect for the girl who dances flamboyantly on the stage. Anyone can touch it, anyone can hold it anywhere and can force it on whomever one wants. If the girl refuses, then either her work is taken away, or her life.
A similar incident happened in Bhojpur last December. The processions demanded of the girls who came to dance at the wedding to spend the night. She refused and started returning. She was on the way when a speeding car came from behind and the people sitting in it started firing daily. Two girls were also injured. He is still in the hospital. All the money that was there has been spent. If she returns, she will hardly get any work with limp legs or a wounded face. Two years ago, a dancer named Chandni died in this firing. Now there is no one to even ask his family.
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