Bipasha Basu BellyDancing Dream | Bipasha Basu To Join Bellydancing Classes

Bipasha Basu BellyDancing Dream | Bipasha Basu To Join Bellydancing Classes

It's not for a film. Not this  time.  Starting  this week,  Bipasha Basu  is  taking a month   off to  fulfil  one   of her long-cherished dreams.

"This month-long holiday fell  into my lap  when the Lamhaa schedule  got postponed  by a month to April 20. I'm now using this time  to do what I always wanted to. I'm learning…bellydancing"

Bellydancing?  Is it for a movie? "No no it's something I wanted to learn  for a long time. I wanted  to indulge  in a dancing  skill  that  didn't require too much pressure on my knees which are not doing too well. So salsa and other dance  forms were  out."

So  is this for a  film. Or  for private performance with John Abraham?

"Neither," Bipasha chortles. "I'm  learning  belly dancing for  myself. I love dancing. I don't have really fantastic knees.And I did't want to  learn any dancing  that would put pressure on  my knees. Of course  I'd love to do belly dancing  on  screen too.And I'll incorporate  it into my  roles for sure."

Earlier this week  Bipasha  woke  up her business manager in  the middle of  the night to  look for a belly dancing  school. "The impulse just came on  me. She located  a proper institute which I'm enrolling  into."

Belly-dancing  is not all that Bipasha is  learning . "I'm also learning swimming and  driving  in this month-long unexpected  holiday. Swimming is something I  learnt a bit     for  Dhoom 2.  For Dhoom no swimming skills, only the  body was required. So I  pulled it off.  But I  really don't know swimming and I'm finally learning  it. For  Goa's sake."

Bipasha explains, "Goa  is  my favourite holiday spot  . When I  get into the water  in Goa I just float. Now I want to swim  in  the Goan waters.  Not just  for  fun. But because it's  a very good exercize. And swimming  brings so much grace to  your body language."

As  for   driving,  it's more of a  challenge  that  Bipasha has taken up to prove her boyfriend  John wrong.

"As  we talk I'm  in the fourth day  of my driving lessons. I can drive straight left and right. But I  can't reverse yet.  So now I can   look convincing when driving .In almost  all my films   I'm shown driving . But I've never actually know  how  to drive."

Learning  driving  is  Bipasha's way  of  self-empowerment. "I don't want to be dependent  on  others to drive me around. I  want  to   drive  myself   to the  gym . And  if there's a medical emergency  in  the  night I can  drive my  way to  the  hospital."

Bipasha's boyfriend thinks  women make terrible  drivers. "All these  years  John has been cribbing about women drivers. He fells they can't drive  well. I had warned him  he'd have to zip up the day I learnt  to drive. No more  cribbing about  women drivers."

Laughs Bipasha,  "When I tell  my friends  I'm learning so many things   in the  next one month  they  think I'm gone mad  .But I've this unexpected month off. And I want to  surprise myself."