- Bollywood is a, it's a dance form.

So dancing, music is universal.

(Indian music) - I'm Bhakti, Bhakti Salian and that's -- - I am Rahul Salian, I am better half of Bhakti Salian.

- Yes.

- And I'm also part of the AFS Bollytainment.

That's the dance academy and dance production that we have actually started here in Amarillo.

And we've been doing that for past eight years.

- We had like a limousine, Hummer kind of a life where we come out of the airport, and we have limousine.

Like celebrity life.

- I started Bollywood in 1995.

There was a movie called "Rangeela," which actually changed the whole concept of dancing, because the movie was choreographed by a 20-year-old young college-going guy who happens to be my best friend, his name was Ahmed Khan.

So, we made a team and we started and then the whole Bollywood trend changed after that.

People started looking out for backup dancers, because they saw fresh faces, good looking girls, guys dressed up well and the dances were changed, it was more advanced, so I started my career from there and I've been assisting one of most top choreographers Farah Khan in the Bollywood film industry, I assisted her for four years, yeah.

- I started my career as a dance teacher.

I was not like him in movies at first.

My kids won competitions, two competitions, that's how I became famous in Mumbai.

And my sister auditioned for his show.

They were having a show, they needed two girls, so it was her and then she said, can you please join in?

I said, okay, they need one more girl, I went and I, he never auditioned me, on his team, never auditioned me and he said, okay, you're in.

Since then I just, I was a part of his dance team, dance troupe and since then it was 2002 when I met him for the first time.

- When we started shows, we couldn't get along, we used to fight a lot, yeah.

- I don't know, I just couldn't stand him at first, I still cannot stand him sometimes.

(laughing) But it's a funny story, I mean we have, we met three times before we met in person, introduced and all, so it was-- and in the same industry you keep bumping into each other and then finally we realized, oh my gosh, we're in love.

- [Narrator] What was it about her that finally made you stop fighting with her?

(laughing) - I think -- - I want to know.

- The reason, I think, the most important reason was, I think she was really caring, yeah.

And she was always, she used to always care about my food habits, oh, you've eaten or not, because I was a choreographer who never used to-- I was very picky about eating.

So she used, she was the one who used to always get food for me at the rehearsal hall and made sure that I ate.

And, small things like that, yeah.

It always, yeah, so at the back of my mind, I was like, no, I think I'm in love with this girl, yeah.

- I had no reason to get mad at him, but it's just -- he was the only annoying person I could see in the group, yes.

- [Rahul] We're complete opposite, but the attraction was still there.

- [Bhakti] Yes.

- [Narrator] Well, what was it about him?

- Well, he was very nice and he was-- oh, out of words.

(laughing) He's very respectful and it just touched my heart, the way he would talk to me, and he was very bad in eating, he would not eat.

Everybody else would sit down and eat and he would not eat.

And then I realized that I'm just constantly focusing on Rahul.

There is so many people in the group and why am I just either fighting with him or caring about him, looking at him.

And the way he choreographed, it was really amazing.

When we came here I was pregnant with my little one and I just, I was just watching one of the Bollywood shows that they had here, annual Indian Community show.

- We didn't know actually, what was in store in Amarillo for us, but when we saw that, we were really happy, because that's what our passion is, Bollywood, all about Bo--, because we've been in the industry for almost more than a decade.

- After I delivered her I started telling the Indian association that we have been choreographers for several movies and we just wanna show you all what we can do.

Since then, every annual show they have booked us.

Bollywood produces more than 1,000 movies a year and every movie has five to six songs.

A movie cannot be complete without a song.

- Without songs.

- And most of the songs are dance numbers.

- Yeah, most important parts Bollywood is not restricted to only the Indian community.

- [Bhakti] Exactly.

- It's a -- it doesn't have kind of the setup religion or anything, so it's like, it's a universal thing.

So, we thought, this is a good way of spreading Bollywood, the dance form and as well as spreading the culture.

- Yes, it's like getting everybody closer through dancing.

It's like we are united by something.

- Yeah.

- Like we're united by love, you know, we are also united by music, we are united by dance.

We just wanted to get more people involved so we can feel that, it's like you know we are doing something to entertain Amarillo.

(Indian music) (mellow music)