India, May 29 -- Over the last few days, the Indian classical dance fraternity has voiced outrage over actor Ananya Panday's dance in the movie, Chand Mera Dil. Panday has drawn the ire of the Bharatanatyam world for performing a melange of hip-hop, popping (a street dance form involving stiff, jerky movements) and what is alleged to be Bharatanatyam. Several well-known practitioners of the dance form, apart from ordinary social media users, have aired their criticism of the treatment meted out to the classical dance. A viral meme goes, "Bharatanatyam was founded in 200 BCE and ended with Ananya Panday in 2026." Panday's dance has been disparagingly termed "nepo-natyam", invoking the perception that nepotism has allowed mediocrity to be r...