'America's Got Talent' Winners From Mumbai Face Tough Times Due To Pandemic : Goats and Soda In February, the group of young, acrobatic dancers took the top prize. But the pandemic has put their dreams on hold — and had a disastrous impact on family life.
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V Unbeatable is a Mumbai-based acrobatic dance troupe whose members range in age from 12 to 28 and come from the city's slums. wrote about them after they won America's Got Talent: The Champions this February. They'd hoped the win would help improve the financial situation of their families and open doors to new opportunities. But the pandemic was declared just weeks after their triumphant return home. So what are they doing now?
America's Got Talent: The Champions'
The dancers were basking in the glory of their spectacular victory when India went under a strict coronavirus lockdown in late March. Daily rehearsals — where all two dozen would gather to practice acrobatic moves together — were suspended. The shows where they were scheduled to perform were canceled, so their source of income dried up. They couldn't even celebrate properly, says the group's 28-year-old choreographer Swapnil Bhoir.
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India is recording around 80, 000 fresh COVID-19 infections daily — the highest single-day tally in the world. Its total caseload of about 4 million cases is the third highest in the world behind the U.S. and Brazil.
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Mumbai, India's financial capital and the dancers' hometown, has been hit particularly hard. The virus spread quickly through the city's slums, where physical distancing is next to impossible and sanitation is scarce. Mumbai has reported nearly 150, 000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than 7000 deaths as of 2 September.
Most of the dancers and their families have been confined to their cramped, mostly one-room homes in the slums of northern Mumbai. No one from the team has tested positive yet, says Bhoir.
The nationwide lockdown has now been partially eased but large gatherings are still banned and the dancers are not able to practice the human pyramids and group gymnastics that had wowed fans around the world. Suburban trains in Mumbai are also only running for essential workers so the dancers can't travel for rehearsals.
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Bhoir has spent the last few months fielding anxious calls from his younger teammates. They keep asking me, when will things go back to normal? When can we start dancing again? says Bhoir.
To keep them engaged, Bhoir and other senior members of the team have been giving the dancers weekly quizzes about the history of hip-hop. Some of them have been making and uploading short dance videos on social media. It keeps them busy, says Bhoir, and hopefully away from negative thoughts.
View this post on Instagram Wicked-future ...... This was my third video guys please show some your love and support. . . . Choreography by :- @dukiofficial_ @r3doneofficial Performer :- me . . . #hiphop #choreography #future #followforfollowback #likeforlikes #goviral A post shared by :alien:ARJUN VATAR:footprints: (@arjun_v.unbeatable) on Jun 20, 2020 at 7:46am PDT
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Meanwhile, there's plenty of reason for the dancers to worry. When India went under lockdown and shut down its economy, tens of millions of people lost their jobs. Poor day laborers — including many of the dancers' parents — were hit the hardest.
My father is a tailor and my mother sells snacks outside the railway station but because of the lockdown both of them have lost their jobs, 17-year-old dancer Nikhil Patlekar says in a video posted by the group in May. My family's situation is very bad.
My nights are sleepless, I cry. I'm scared that all our hard work over the years might go down the drain, the group's 28-year-old co-founder Om Prakash Chauhan says in the video.
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One of the dancers, 18-year-old Suraj Soni, is selling vegetables on the streets of Mumbai to make ends meet. Others have moved back to their villages with their families.
V Unbeatable is no stranger to adversity. In 2015, one of their co-founders, Vikas Gupta, suffered a fatal accident while practicing a stunt. The dancers were devastated but refused to give up. They pay homage to Gupta whenever they perform. Their costumes have Vikas written on the back.
You may win or achieve something great but that doesn't mean your life is set, says Bhoir. Sometimes you have to start from zero again, and we're prepared to do that.America's Got Talent: The Champions is a reality television series. It serves as a spin-off/All-Star season, featuring high-placing contestants of the previous thirteen seasons of and other Got Talent competitions around the world. The show premiered on January 7, 2019 and concluded on February 18, 2019. [1]
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Filming took place at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on September 27 and 30, October 3, 5, 10, 14, and 17, 2018. [2]
There were five Preliminary episodes total. Each episode contained 10 acts, with two going through. The two acts that went through would consist of one Golden Buzzer act, as well as one act that “ Superfans” from all fifty states voted to put through.
The 10 acts that progressed through the preliminaries, along with two previously eliminated Wild Card acts, performed for the title of America's Got Talent Champion.
America's Got Talent: The Champions' Contestants
Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • Season 4 • Season 5 • Season 6 • Season 7 • Season 8 • Season 9 • Season 10 • Season 11 • Season 12 • Season 13 • Season 14 • Season 15 • Season 16 • Season 17 • Season 18
Bianca Ryan • Terry Fator • Neal E. Boyd • Kevin Skinner • Michael Grimm • Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. • Olate Dogs • Kenichi Ebina • Mat Franco • Paul Zerdin • Grace VanderWaal • Darci Lynne • Shin Lim • Kodi Lee • V.Unbeatable • Brandon Leake • Dustin Tavella • Alfredo Silva's Cage Riders • Mayyas • Aidan Bryant
All That / The Millers • Cas Haley • Eli Mattson • Barbara Padilla • Jackie Evancho • Silhouettes • Tom Cotter • Taylor Williamson • Emily West • Drew Lynch • The Clairvoyants • Angelica Hale • Zurcaroh • Darci Lynne • Detroit Youth Choir • Duo Transcend • Broken Roots • Aidan Bryant • Aaron Wheelz • Kristy Sellars • Avery Dixon
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Howie Mandel (5-present) • Simon Cowell (11-present) • Heidi Klum (8-Champions 1, Champions 2-present) • Sofia Vergara (15-present) • Nikki Bella (Extreme) • Travis Pastrana (Extreme)
Brandy Norwood (1) • Piers Morgan (1-6) • David Hasselhoff (1-4) • Sharon Osbourne (2-7) • Howard Stern (7-10) • Mel B (8-Champions 1) • Gabrielle Union (14) • Julianne Hough (14) • Alesha Dixon (Champions 2)
Neil Patrick Harris • Michael Bublé • Marlon Wayans • Piers Morgan • Ne-Yo • Reba McEntire • George Lopez • Louis Tomlinson • Chris Hardwick • DJ Khaled • Laverne Cox • Seal • Ken Jeong • Olivia Munn • Martina McBride • Brad Paisley • Dwyane Wade • Ellie Kemper • Jay Leno • Sean Hayes • Queen Latifah • Eric Stonestreet • Kelly Clarkson • Kenan Thompson
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