Shakti Mohan dances on Indian Raga’s version of Shape of You with sister Mukti Mohan, video viral [Watch]

Shakti and Mukti chose Indian Raga's Carnatic version of the Ed Sheeran's Shape of You, and their performance on the composition is pure brilliance.

By: Anumeha Saxena |
May 31, 2017 5:09 pm

Shakti Mohan and Mukti Mohan’s latest video is a take on the current trend of dancing fusions of Indian classical dance form and mixed with contemporary. Shakti Mohan posted a video on her Instagram account, dancing with her sister, Mukti Mohan and the video is already a hit as it has collected more than 40k likes in less than five hours.

Shakti and Mukti have chosen Indian Raga’s Carnatic version of the Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You, which went viral a few days back and their performance on the composition is just brilliant. Shakti Mohan, a trained Bharatnatyam dancer and contemporary dance form artist, won Dance India Dance, a talent show. She is quite active in the showbiz industry now and also, has been a judge on one of the popular dance shows. Shakti has a huge fan-following.

Her sister, Mukti is also a trained dancer, she also participated in Star Plus’ hit show, Zara Nach Ke Dikha 2, and was part of the winning team. It is always a treat to watch the two perform together.

In the video, both are performing a fusion of Indian classical dance form, Bharatnatyam with Contemporary and it is pure brilliance to watch these two dance.

Watch the video where these two are just killing it:

Loved performing this piece with my childhood dance partner @muktimohan Every time we practiced these steps got amazing memories from our Bharatnatyam class in school with Priya Mam. Mam we hope that you like it. We danced our hearts out :))))) Fusion of Bharatnatyam and Contemporary dance form performed by Mukti and Shakti Mohan on Shape of you – Carnatic Mix Big Thanks to Indian Raga for inspiring us to dance on this song. Loved this composition the second we heard it. Music credit: ‘Carnatic Mix of Shape Of You by IndianRaga (feat. Aditya Rao)’. youtube.com/indianragaproject Aditya Rao https://www.Facebook.com/adivocals https://www.instagram.com/adityara0/ Mahesh Raghvan https://www.facebook.com/followingmah… Vinod Krishnan https://facebook.com/vinodsmusic Sriram Emani (Exec Producer) https://www.facebook.com/emanisriram Fusion of Bharatnatyam and Contemporary dance form performed by Mukti and Shakti Mohan on Shape of you – Carnatic Mix Music credit: ‘Carnatic Mix of Shape Of You by IndianRaga (feat. Aditya Rao)’. youtube.com/indianragaproject Aditya Rao https://www.Facebook.com/adivocals https://www.instagram.com/adityara0/ Mahesh Raghvan https://www.facebook.com/followingmah… Vinod Krishnan https://facebook.com/vinodsmusic Sriram Emani (Exec Producer) https://www.facebook.com/emanisriram Video credit: Amar & Adi Thank you Alisha Singh for supervising our rehearsals. Special thanks to Uttam ji and family 🙂 @indianraga @teddysphotos

A post shared by Shakti Mohan (@mohanshakti) on May 30, 2017 at 10:47pm PDT

Mukti Mohan has posted two more versions of the video, which are equally brilliant. Watch them here:

The semi-second half ! My favorite part of the choreography @mohanshakti (Click on Bio to watch the full version)

A post shared by MUKTI MOHAN (@muktimohan) on May 31, 2017 at 12:55am PDT

Culmination of Our Fusion of Bharatnatyam and Contemporary dance form on Shape of you – Carnatic Mix Music credit: ‘Carnatic Mix of Shape Of You by IndianRaga (feat. Aditya Rao)’. youtube.com/indianragaproject Aditya Rao https://www.Facebook.com/adivocals https://www.instagram.com/adityara0/ Mahesh Raghvan https://www.facebook.com/followingmah… Vinod Krishnan https://facebook.com/vinodsmusic Sriram Emani (Exec Producer) https://www.facebook.com/emanisriram Video credit: Amar & Adi Thank you Alisha Singh for supervising our rehearsals. Special thanks to Uttam ji and family 🙂

A post shared by MUKTI MOHAN (@muktimohan) on May 31, 2017 at 12:57am PDT

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