MUMBAI: “I flew a long way to see how you party in India. I am sure you party hard,” boomed Beyonce Knowles before kicking off a powerful two-hour performance at the MMRDA grounds at the Bandra Kurla Complex on Saturday evening. Backed by an all-female band called Sugamama, Beyonce raised the temperature a notch higher with her hip-hop songs pepped up with cheerleaders swaying to the beats.
The bootylicious singer performed some of her best chartbusters like ‘ Crazy in Lov e’, ‘ Baby Boy’ and ‘ Beautiful Liar’ in front of a relatively thin crowd-the grounds were only half full. To make matters worse, the concert started almost an hour late, by which time the crowd was restless.
An ace performer, Beyonce set the stage on fire with her all-time greatest hit, ‘ Bootylicious’ which had the crowd gyrating and asking for more.
She turned on the heat by declaring, “I have a baby boy in India. I dream of him all the time”.
The crowd went hysterical once Beyonce did a hip dance a la Shakira.
While the men hardly needed any extra catalyst, the women in the crowd got all charged up following Beyonce’s call to all the gals. “Where are my Barbie girls, where are my sexy ladies?” That was enough to get the girls to join in.
The crowd had a sizeable sprinkling of foreigners besides celebrities like Aishwarya Rai, Loy Mendonca, Vishal Dadlani and RJ Malini. Beyonce’s female band kept the momentum going when she left the stage for a change.
After a break, Beyonce emerged in a pink-and-gold ghagra choli to sing a soulful ballad ‘I love you’ where she even cried.
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