Lauren Gottlieb Goes Bollywood

March 22, 2017

Ever since we first saw the delightful Lauren Gottlieb on Season 3 of “So You Think You Can Dance,” we knew she was going places.

Did we imagine that one of those places would be India? Uh, maybe not. (Though, come to think of it, she was pretty great in that cute Bollywood number with Kent Boyd on “SYTYCD” Season 7.)

But we shouldn’t have underestimated this jet-setting star: Lauren’s new Bollywood film, ABCD (Any Body Can Dance), opens today worldwide. And she didn’t take the Bollywood challenge lightly. Apparently she studied Bharatnatyam and Kathak dance, as well as spoken Hindi, before filming began.

The 3D movie, which sounds like India’s answer to the Step Up series (yay!), follows various crews of dancers as they prepare for the Ganpati Dance Battle, “an annual festival that pits Mumbai’s best dance groups against each other.” What does that look like onscreen? Well, based on the official trailer, it appears to involve flames, head spins, feathers, fouettés, chili peppers, Lauren’s midriff, parkour, pointe shoes, lasers, clowns, a giant rainstorm, and at least some dialogue in English.

It looks, in other words, totally awesome.

Check it out!