A recent viral video of 24-year-old flow artiste Eshna Kutty hula-hooping to AR Rahman’s Genda Phool in a sari has made her an instant social media star. She has received accolades far and wide, and has also hit the 100,000-followers mark on Instagram. Success, however, did not come overnight to Kutty. She has been practising and then teaching hooping for ten years now while trying to validate her performance as a profession. Kutty spoke to Scroll.in about her journey and her future plans. Excerpts from the interview:
What have the past few days been like for you?
I am grateful for all the attention that has come to me in the past few days, although I honestly don’t think I have been able to articulate myself very well. This has been a lot to process – had it been a gradual affair, it would have been sinking in a bit at a time. But, on the positive side, I am very…