An Indian actress and a dancer Smilie Suri say that she can teach Emraan Hashmi and Mohit Suri pole dance. She believes that trials and tribulations have the ability to make all of us realize our inner strengths. As there is a quote that when going gets tough, the tough get going.
Her life dealt a heavy blow when her marriage with the dancer Vineet Bangera hit a rocky patch. She was suffering from some health issues like PCOD and thyroid. However, rather than accepting her defeat she stood up and regained her grip on life with a pole dance and she is a working as a full-fledged pole dance form.
Smilie says that she was also battling depression when she saw pole dance and the pole dance has brought me a lot of emotional stability. She does not feel any need for anyone to back her up anymore. There were days when she used to cry herself to sleep, but now all of that takes a wipe away my blues. After learning she is very much confident and independent.
She says that her pole dance began by chance. One day her aerial dance class got canceled and then she got to know about the pole dance. She says that pole dance made her sexy and empowered and now she is not much concern about her weight. She liked pole dancing so much that she decided to make it as a profession. She has gone under a seven-week training in Singapore, on pole, chair, and static pole dance. Her that seven-week experience changed her completely and it was like finding a parallel universe. Before that, she was mostly surrounded by the boys like her brother Mohit Suri and Emraan Hashmi. But therein Singapore all her classmates were girls and she found sisterhood, feminine energy and became a girl again.
She believes that pole dance is a kind of a dance which is always looked down upon as it is associated with the strippers. She says that Bollywood and Hollywood are responsible for stereotyping it. This dance involves a lot of balancing, hand, and headstand and it was done by the strippers, but it has become a sport now. The need of the hour is to practice it like a sport and get fit. In her classes, she teaches Bolly pole as every girl likes dancing on Bollywood numbers. This idea came to her from her sister-in-law Udita Goswami. She insisted that she should teach her a pole dance to a Bollywood number.
Moreover, she said initially even her family was averse to her learning it in the beginning. Her family thought she has gone cuckoo, but eventually, they came around. Her brother Mohit Suri and Emraan Hashmi told her to promote fitness through it and not pursue it as a dance. In Singapore, she ran short of money and was starving but she did not eat for a couple of days as she was saving money to buy a competition grade pole. Mohit sent her some money and Emraan also supported her emotionally whenever she had a breakdown after eight-hour-long-training sessions. Now, she is playing to start a pole for men. She will probably start with her brothers Mohit, Emraan, Kunal Deshmukh and Aditya Dutt.