The police officers from New Zealand wanted to celebrate Diwali too. Bollywood to the rescue. Obviously.
Jiving to popular tracks from Hindi films during Diwali celebrations in Christchurch, these Canterbury police officers showed that they can give professionals a run for their money.
The video above, uploaded by Chris Lynch, a popular radio talk-show host, shows the officers locked in an epic dance battle with professional dancers. The police officers may not have had the perfect moves, but they definitely owned the swagger.
It wasn’t just a one-off event, either. Last year, too, the officers danced to Salman Khan numbers (video below).
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