“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
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“Solo dance was complete by one. Now because everybody is bored, feeling bored by one dancer only they are taking 10,20 people.”
About the trend in Bollywood films which he felt was to keep the interest of the public though group choreography in "Movement in Stills: The Dance and Life of Kumudini Lakhia", page=178
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