Some films take a roaring start with awesome initials and some grow on the audiences and get better known with word-of-mouth publicity. ‘Let’s Dance’ falls into the second category.

Continuing its streak of good reviews, the film has now received glowing comments from the popular US-based magazine, India West. In his review, film critic Rajiv Vijayakar calls ‘Let’s Dance’ “a crisper, far smaller but emotionally gripping and superior product to ‘Aaja Nachle’, which had a similar theme.”

Bollywood’s new dancing sensation Gayatri Patel made her debut in ‘Lets Dance’ last week, gaining widespread acclaim for her twinkle toes and polished performance.

The US-born-and-bred girl had been following Michael Jackson’s moonwalk since childhood and was shocked at his demise. “When someone called me at 4am this morning to tell me about it, for some time I just couldn’t understand what the person was talking about. It was unbelievable. It took me a while to gather myself and realise that the King of Pop was no more!”

When the gorgeous Malaika Arora graced the ‘Let’s Dance’ music release with her friend and the film’s co-star Aqib Afzaal at JW Marriott this week, she might not have expected much of the event. But after she saw the film’s heroine Gayatri Patel give a scintillating live dance performance, she was spellbound. When she came up on stage to release the music, Malaika was all praise for Gayatri and even went on to state, “she’s the dancing diva of GenX”.

The new dancing sensation, Gayatri Patel is very excited about her up coming film 'Lets Dance'. The actress in an exclusive chit-chat reveals her experience and expecation from the Bollywood industry. She also talks about her passion for dance and her struggle of entering this glamorous world.

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Though Gujaratis have dominated the business community and also a huge part of Bollywood trade in the past, we have hardly seen any Gujju heroines from the last few years. Most of our glam beauties like Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Aishwarya Rai and Bipasha Basu come from cosmopolitan backgrounds.

Now a true-blue Gujju girl Gayatri Patel is all set to make her mark in the upcoming dance extravaganza ‘Let’s Dance’. Born-and-bred in America, the girl has been ‘Miss India Georgia’ and also the first runner-up at ‘Miss India USA’.

Director: Aarif Sheikh

Producer: Dr Arvind Patel

Music: Vipin Mishra and Tarali Sharma

Cast: Gayatri Patel, Ajay Chaudhary, Aqib Afzaal, Sugandha Garg, Asif Basra, Abhaas Yadav, Nikuunj Padaya, Paras Arora and Anjan Srivastav.

Introducing the US-born-and-bred dancing sensation Gayatri Patel, ‘Let’s Dance’ (releasing June 19, 2009) has the debutante playing a simple but determined dance teacher, who on her path to fame, changes course, to motivate a group of underprivileged kids.

Since time immemorial, Bollywood has had icons known for their dance and styles. Be it Neetu Singh, Vaijayanti Mala, Padmini, Helen, Waheeda Rehman, Asha Parekh, Hema Malini, Madhuri Dixit, Karisma Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty or Urmila Matondkar, we’ve idolised their dance. But it’s been quite a few years now, the industry has seen a new dancing sensation.

The ongoing stand off between producers and multiplexes has claimed yet another victim. Advait Entertainment Pvt. Ltd’s maiden venture Lets Dance which was to be released in May 2009 has now been pushed ahead to a June end release. While the scheduled release dates of big Bollywood films have gone haywire, small medium budget films too are bearing the brunt and incurring losses because of the strike. Lets Dance introduces Aquib Afzal. He is the brother of Usman Afzal, Amrita Arora’s ex-boyfriend.