By Subhash K Jha

Mera Pehla-Pehla Pyar star Ruslaan Mumtaz is getting up very early in the morning to do some serious B –Boing for his next film.

In case you think it's something naughty and unmentionable here's the dope.

B Boing is a combination of martial arts and various dance forms like hip-hop breadance. It also requires the practitioner to be proficient at free-style gymnastics. In brief...much grief.

B Boing requires rigorous and continuous training for at least six months.

And Ruslaan, habituated to late nights and late mornings is falling off with exhaustion. "My B Boing trainer is Deepak Kumar.

It's truly exhausting, but finally very rewarding. I'm learning all the intricacies of the art, twirling on my kneecaps on the floor and getting up in a flash, using one finger to rotate on the floor, gyrating hands-free...it's very challenging. But also very very tiring.

I find myself sleeping off most of of my free hours. But it's worth it because I am required to be skilled in B -Boing for my new film Jaane Kahan Se Ayee Hai."

Isn't this writer Milap Jhaveri's film where Ayesha Takia plays an alien? "That's right, " Ruslaan reveals. "And I play this guy who's skilled at B-Boing. Threrefore all the special training."

Ever since Ruslaan began waking up early morning to train, his life has changed completely. "I've no time or wish to go out with friends or party, or to even catch a movie. I've been practising the skill for a month.

And I need to be at it for at least six full months before I can even look convincing in the film. I wonder if I'll survive! But I'm enjoying it. Milap and I have become buddies. I was there for his engagement last week.

We want to make Jaane Kahan Se Aayee Hai very different for me in terms of looks and personality from my first two films. In Mera Pehla Pehla Pyar and Tere Sang I've a very soft romantic image. But in Jaane Kahan Se Ayee Hai I'm working on a new sinewy look."

Though it's now catching on as latest passing fancy B- Boing is not entirely new to the film industry. Rakhi Sawant is adept at it.

Grins Ruslaan "That's right. Boy, she can really twirl and rotate on the floor! Though I wouldn't like to try to match steps with her.For my role in Milap's film I've to dance not to compete with Rakhi but to impress Ayesha. I hope I succeed."

Incidentally Ruslaan's next release Tere Sang is all about teenage pregnancy. "I'm paired with a new girl Sheena Shahabadi in Tere Sang. Ayesha is going to be my first established heroine. I'm scared. I'm a total newcomer in front of her."