Indian dance group ‘The Kings’ wins US reality show ‘World of Dance’: The Kings, a hip-hop dance crew from Mumbai, has found international glory with their victory on American reality television show “World of Dance”, taking home a cash prize of 1 million dollars. “The Kings are official ‘World of Dance’ royalty. Sending big love to our champions,” read a post from the official Twitter handle of “World Of Dance”.
The 14-member crew impressed judges including Jennifer Lopez, Ne-Yo and Derek Hough with their amazing performances and made its way into the hearts of the people. The Kings performed a high-octane sequence involving stunts in slow-motion. In fact, their finale performance was so stunning that the judges gave them a standing ovation and gave them 100 scores, thus ensuring their victory.
The 14-member Bolly-Hop squad, involving males aged 17-27, was consistently getting ace scores during its run on the show.
Among their competitors were Canadian contemporary dancer Briar Nolet, the sister duo of Ellie and Ava, VPeepz, a hip-hop group from the Philippines, and Unity LA, a 10-person squad from Southern California.
‘The Kings’ also known as ‘Kings United’ is a hip-hop dance troupe who won India’s Got Talent Season 3 in 2011, were second runners-up at the ‘World Hip Hop Championship’ in 2015 and has also appeared on Star Plus’ ‘Dance Champions’ as ‘Challengers’.
In 2009, Suresh Mukund along with Vernon Monteiro formed the hip hop dance group ‘Fictitious Dance Group’ which participated in various dance reality shows like ‘Boogie Woogie’, ‘India’s Got Talent’ among others. Varun Dhawan & Shraddha Kapoor starrer ‘ABCD 2’ was based on their life journey. After the film’s release, Suresh Mukund and Vernon parted ways causing split in the group. Dance group ‘The Kings’, also known as ‘Kings United’, was then founded by Suresh Mukund with new additions.
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Suresh recently took to social media to share the news with his fans and wrote, “Finally, we can say India is on Top in Dancing and history has been created which will be remembered and cherished forever! Tonight is the night which each and every Indian is going to remember for life and feel proud seeing the Indian Flag flying high with the perfect score for our stellar performance.
100 100 100!
It was the best experience of our life so far.
The journey of local dancers from the small gully of Vasai Nallasopara to the WORLD CHAMPIONS was really challenging filled with never-ending hard work and dedication.”
Last year, ‘World of Dance’ was left smitten by Shantanu Maheshwari’s team ‘Desi Hoppers’ performance. Whereas, this year ‘The Kings’ has now become the first ever Indian team to win ‘World of Dance’.
