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Who did what, where, when – Hetal Joshi M.

Ms. Hetal never had partners or financiers for anything!

All folk indian, unless otherwise mentioned as other folk.

1. Bollywood Program idea was Ms. Hetal’s first admin intern – Ms. Swati – Irving / Srinija’s mother. Thus bollywood registration were initiated in 2010-2013 during the establishment of company which attracted Mirchi Dance Academy’s owner;Ms. Hetal senior too.
   • She took registrations without confirming with Ms. Hetal and ofcourse, had that power to do so for Ms. Hetal.
   • Dare to earn this power from Ms. Hetal.
2. Tollywood program idea was by Ms. Hetal’s own Aahana who wanted a seperate batch of Telugu Dances and the first was Allu Arjun series which attracted several awards in bollyhop for 5 to 8 years and up.
3. Grace Creations Fusion Company was because of Ms. Hetal’s own kids in tap, jazz, ballet, hiphop, gymnastics and Ms. Hetal’s own kids birth-date friends who wanted to use it to do fusions other than desi fusions (which they got bored of because everybody was into ordinary fusions of desi types). None of them were in any indian dance programs for anything! It was never about indian fusions. It was just bollywood and all these.
   • Indian Fusions however continued as we had deepthi, mansi and all.
   • Inevitable that one cannot do those indian fusions being an indian.
   • It’s been there from 70s-80s. Nothing new about those but yeah, advance dancer do those, for fun of it.
4. Progressive workshops existed before company’s establishment itself and via Ms. hetal only. As Ms. Hetal was part time and did mostly workshops and season classes.
5. Grace And Grooves first logo and a comprehensive advertisement material was made by american digital media company, referrel through christian missionary in Highland Village, Texas. Business located in Southlake, Texas.
6. Grace Creations first logo initiatives was make of a pakistani artist in Pakistan through fiverr referrel.
7. Kalari, Mixed Martial Arts were added because Ms. Hetal own son wanted some masculine demonstrations other than just same old bollywood.
   • Ms. Hetal did show him around and did not like anybody. Ms. Hetal is trained in combat and Kalari.
   • He later did enjoy dhoom series under Ms. Hetal, mansi’s work, santhosh’s choreo, bhangra and all the other dances. Graduated internationally and some of the most beautiful series in his list of performances, awards & several nominations.
8. Prior to 2000, Production labels and Grace And Grooves Group logo was made by Mumbai artist in DFW, Texas. (name – Am*** Dha***)
9. Advertisement materials in certain formats and pixel sizes were designed for the new logo and production labels by college student, UTD, DFW, Texas, in an emergency to submit for some publication.
10. 2025 – The current logo, social media entire infra, is made by Ms. Hetal herself.
11. Regular Flyers are made by media company in Mumbai, India from 2015.
12. Hiphop was started in Irving by Ms. Hetal’s kids’ own classmates as their kids were of same age and trusted Ms. Hetal.
    • Mexicans, half desis and italians – Mustang Recreation Center, Irving.
    • All graduated.
13. Grace And Grooves first marketing package was by american media company in Addison, Texas and that includes name cards and brochures.
    • Company is made by american blonde mom who had lost her job because of family planning.
14. First catalog of wholesale http://www.graceandgrooves.com was made by Delhi artist, India who himself runs a wholesale company.
15. Grace And Grooves retail was idea of own Elites parents for their groups (when proposed for shows as Ms. Hetal allows them to bring their friends and families to create their groups under Ms. Hetal and Ms Hetal instructs them other than regular programs) for buying or renting costumes from company at an economical rate so that they can support company as well.
    • Elites proudly posed for its launch as well in 2016-2017-2018-2019 as Ms. Hetal received sponsors.
    • Elites had these as among their first payouts.
    • Ashna’s mom has been constant push on Ms. Hetal to launch her fashion brand. #haha
    • Ms. Hetal told her to wait as Ms. Hetal needed her own website to any of that. Website http://www.hetaln.com was initiated in 2017.
    • This attracted other costume companies.
    • 2025 Site is completed in full w/some backlinks pending and a few pics.
16. Grace And Grooves biggest gig was at Church (dance+food gig) and each payout of 4000$.
17. Grace And Grooves first leadership was at DFW Hindu Temple for 30 people’s fashion show where Ms. Hetal donated costumes and several dance work hours for youth programs. The first!
18. Grace And Grooves most attractive awards in Indian folk fusion was the preparation of a religious place temple ceremony through Karya Siddhu Hanuman Temple on their own composition “Yamuna that par” composed by their own guru.
    • This attracted several temples, spiritual societies and we had hattrick wins in each indian folk or cultural competitions.
    • Till date, its the most loved composition and asked by several producers.
19. Combo classes were announced by Ms. Hetal as well as some of the students wanted to do 2 genres.
20. Grace and Grooves biggest wins and most asked – Nimbooda, Bahubali Series, Dhoom, Folk – Ghoomar, Zaverchand Meghani Gujarat Folk Series, Narsinh Mehta Series, Lavani Series and Bhangra Series.
21. Most Wins in Bharatnatyam – Margam – Thillana, Jatiswaram,
    • Bho Shamboo – Creatives.
    • Annamarcharya Keerthana – LIVE telecast on TV.
    • Recent wins because of lot of newbies – Pushpanjali & Annamarcharya, every few years we do get this.
    • Regional Awards directly endorsed from in person & online, both –
      • Maharashtra, won all – Lavani.
      • Gujarat, won all, Hello Gujarat Award. Zaverchand Meghani & Narsinh Mehta Series.
      • Punjab won twice, nominated thrice, Bhangra and Gidda.
      • Rajasthan – nominated twice, Ghoomar
22. Won 1st 3 Indian Folk awards in competitions for 25+ folk dances in DFW, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Bangalore, Delhi, Jaipur, Indore, Mehsana, Baroda, Surat, Mumbai.
    • 21 Indian Folk awards won by Nirja Setty herself in person – Solo dancer and group – Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Dallas Fortworth, Austin. Online – Delhi, Mumbai, Baroda, Surat, Jaipur, Indore, Ahmedabad, Michigan, Kansas.
23. Won Highest Indian Folk Awards in Garba, Raas, Fusion Folk, Lavani, Ghoomar, Bhangra, and a couple in Chirmi.
24. Grace And Grooves one of the biggest gig was Microsoft, IBM and few others, this was delivered by Ms. Hetal herself and one of them by Mansi’s own work that was approved by Ms. Hetal.
25. Highest wins in Indian Folk Solo – Hetal Nagaraj, Nirja Setty, Samarth Setty
26. Highest wins in Bollywood Solo – Hetal Nagaraj, Nirja Setty, Samarth Setty, Mansi
    • Aayan, Audrey, Ashna,
27. Highest wins in Margam Bharatanatyam Solo – Hetal Nagaraj, Nirja Setty, Samarth Setty.
28. Highest wins in Creative Bharatanatyam Solo – Hetal Nagaraj, Nirja Setty, Deepthi nominated twice.
29. Highest wins Group – Indian Folk, Bollywood, – Nirja Setty, Samarth Setty, Mansi, Ashna.
30. Highest wins in Semi Classical or Fusions Solo or Group – Hetal Nagaraj, Nirja Setty, Samarth Setty, Setty Siblings, Mansi, Ashna.
31. Highest wins in Nepali Folk – ***** S****** – Texas, California.
32. Highest wins in Mixed Martial Arts, Kalaripayattu and nominations – Samarth Setty, Aahana
33. First Grads in Entire USA & Canada of that level in Mixed Martial Arts, Kalaripayattu, as of 2020 February – Samarth Setty, Aahana. (just before lockdown).
34. Highest wins in Urban Hiphop, Indian Hiphop, Hiphop Fusions – Nirja Setty, Samarth Setty, Aayan, Audrey.
35. Youngest Model for company’s catalog series during the launch of E Commerce brand http://www.graceandgrooves.com – Yugan, Age 5.
36. Youngest Graduates Bollywood, Hiphop, Some Folk / summer workshops before age of 12 –
    • Samarth Setty,
    • Audrey, Aayan (Started early as young as 4 or did not stop or took all programs including summer workshops – whole year)
37. Adults Semi Classical Nominations and Awards (16+, 18+, open age categories) – Hetal Nagaraj, Puja Natesan, Deepthi, Sindhu, Mansi (her own kathak and some creatives from Hetal Nagaraj). Ms. Hetal is 40 hour trained in professional Kathak.
38. First Kid to ever win the accelerated program rubrics at the age of 7 in Bollywood and Bharatanatyam – Audrey. Younger than Nirja Setty(Nirja had won that age of 8).
39. Student of the year was initiative by votes of all parents 1,2,3rd line of Elites. Proposed by Ms. Hetal.
40. Winner of straight 10 years of Folk, Bharatanatyam & Bollywood – Nirja Setty.
41. Winner of straight 6+ years of Folk, Semi Classical, Bharatanatyam Margam and Creatives – Samarth Setty
42. Winner of several hattrick wins in Bollywood, Folk & Fusion Categories – Ashna, Nirja, Samarth, Mansi, Aayan, Audrey.
43. Youngest Bharatanatyam winner in competition Age 4.5 – Uma Shah. Mooshika Vahana
    • Audrey in Shloka (Mooshika Vahana, Advance version) Age 6.
    • Ms. Hetal broke her own record of 1st Bharatanatyam win other than Nirja that was Age 8, Pushpanjali.
44. Dhamaal Events Success of biggest attendance per batch – Nattavangam, Thalam workshop by Ms. Neetu Kalakshetra in 2020-2021-2022 pandemic, the only one with 12 to 16 participants.
    • Ms hetal’s own students. Online.
    • Ms. Hetal herself teaches too, it’s taught in every class.
45. Youngest Student ever published, locally and internationally – Aahana for Kalaripayattu and Mixed Martial Arts Fusions. Age 11. Younger than Nirja Setty & Samarth Setty #YES
46. Maximum publications, awards, news – Hetal Nagaraj herself.
47. Youngest Folk winner in competition 3.5/4 years years old – Diya/Lavani – Irving – Ms. Hetal broke her own record of 1st Folk win other than Nirja that was age 4.5 years.
48. Youngest Bollywood winner, Aayan – age 5.5 Hritik Roshan & SRK series medley. Ms. Hetal broke her own record for Samarth Setty’s first Bollywood win at age of 7.
49. Highest Modeling gigs (own and external, $$$) – Hetal Nagaraj, Nirja Setty, Samarth Setty, Aashna, Riya, Yugan.
50. Youngest Bharatanatyam Margam Graduate – Age 12, Samarth Setty (w/full thalam, theory and some nattavangam), Nirja Setty Age 16 (w/full thalam, theory and some nattavangam) – started early in life and completed without any breaks of summer or holidays.
51. Youngest Commercial Dance Solo Appearance for Sponsored Program – Ay***. Age 6. Bhoomi Trivedi. Bharatanatyam.
52. Youngest Commercial Modeling – Nirja Setty – Disney, Orlando. 8 months.
53. First paid gig Modeling – Nirja Setty – Gerber – product launch at local stores. 3 years.
54. Youngest Boy Modeling and Dance 1 min Talent Showcase – Samarth Setty – 3.5/4 years 2 rounds – private school talent show.
55. Youngest Guest Appearance – Smriti – Bollywood – 2.5 years – IANT Grace Creations first year performances 2013-2014-2015. Dil to Pagal Hai Series.
56. Youngest Folk Graduate by age 10 – Srinija Burra, Siri Bylappa, Nirja Setty, Samarth Setty – in 6+ folk dances.
57. Highest & Biggest number of contributions – $$$ & the wins- Nirja Setty, Samarth Setty. List is maintained of contributions Check this.
58. Grace And Grooves longest workshops, lecture demonstrations with costumes and costume sale was at American Mensa USA. 3 days, back to back plus thesis students material by Ms. Hetal herself.
59. Grace And Grooves was initially in folk dances and dramas only, predominantly.
60. Grace Effects was proposed as a brand seperate activities by Ms. A*** K*** LISD photography club in 2012-2013-2014 which was then later extended by Ms. Nirja Setty & Samarth Setty. Several Elites continued to do that.
61. Highest Wins in Photography as well – Nirja Setty – LISD and Ms. Hetal, both
62. School programs were first initiated in montessori school by Ms. Hetal’s son’s teacher for their own montessori. That’s where all supplement programs had began.
63. Maximum self led initiatives under Ms. Hetal’s directives – Mansi, Deepthi, Jinal Shah, Swati, The Settys, Taylor, Marchawn.
    • Anna – Ballet and Broadway for G2.
    • Ms Hetal own students (Shreshta Siblings) attended Ms. Anna’s classes as well under the directives of Ms. Hetal.
64. Gear, Gadget technicians for maintanence – Hetal Nagaraj, Nagaraj, Digvijay Singh (until 2023) Samarth/occassionally.
65. G2 signboard for the suite/studio was designed by desi digital designer. – micropix;rough sketch was made by hetal herself to show what hetal wanted.
66. G2 signboard was made as per regulations (and as per the designer micropix) of city by mexican signage designer & installer – Juan.
67. G2 was extention of Grace Creations for Gigs and commercial projects as Elites needed MORE than just the educational dances 🙂 It was launched several years prior to its brand establishment to create a stable need for the entire line of services.
68. First icloud structure was proposed by Ms. Hetal herself and her own husband who is IT architect.
69. Blog proposal was from Ms. Jaimini Vyas in 2013-2014 who was Ms. Hetal’s first seo as well and thesis students of American Mensa. the blog was initiated as well by Ms. Jaimini 2014-2019.
70. From 2018 onwards, Digvijay and Jinal took over entire blog and social media updates because of their speciality in social media under the directives of Ms. Hetal so that company can gain transparency and trust of every single activity as well as individual to avoid unnecessary confusions among individuals. #YES
71. Reels were proposed by Mansi during very first reality competition (as a company) in 2015 -2016 – as we had in-person reality competition submission that required online reel hashtags as contestant number and youtube links.
    • And we did those as well, while some were fresh show performances.
    • but then back then, we did not have students who could come for more than 1-2 hour and students were too naive to showcase much.
    • Mothers instead decided to stick to productions, recitals and shows as it was discussed and voted in parents so that they can use it for educational purposes.
    • reels cannot be used and thus was problem!
    • So the plan was on hold for reels and Ms. Hetal will think of better ways to do that.
72. Brand Initiatives – dance – during establishment years under Ms. Hetal (from ground zero up, first website to first advertisements and first enrollments and such other new company work), fully financed by Ms. Hetal as well, No partners and not collabs –
    • Swati – Grace And Grooves, Parents program.
    • Jinal Shah’s own brand Reachh Mediaa (launched by Hetal Nagaraj in 2004).
    • Hetal’s own brand – G2 brand was first created then they were hired to give it a proper brand name.
      • hired through job site – Taylor,
      • Extended to Marchawn for brand initiatives as passive of Ms. Hetal
      • Grace And Grooves is G1.
73. Highest number of total Dhamaal Events progressive workshops under Ms. Hetal Nagaraj – in person in DFW, Texas – Anish Rangrej.
    • Own Students never had to take these as navaratri raas garba as Ms. Hetal teaches festival folk and its a part of curriculam (and thats usually done by summer) but Anish did Guest Faculty Choreography to teach 1 advance high speed routine for 1 paragraph (Youtube – Grace And Grooves, Ghar More Pardesiya) for our mom’s group in Plano in song – Ghar More Pardesiya, a Fusion Folk Semi Classical.
    • External Students and Public was invited to participate in his Navaratri Raas Garba Dodhiya workshops by level other than Guest Faculty Gig that company offered him.
74. Highest number of total online workshops (progressive from 2020) – Manojbhai Bagga & Mansi/Hybrid.
    • Own Ms. Hetal’s Students and a few to fill up the batch, by audition.
75. Reality Competitions was Mansi’s initiatives and students/Elites loved it, participated as well and won it.
76. Reachh Mediaa was launched by Ms.Hetal herself as she needed PR and then Ms. Hetal bought it from Ms. Jinal.
77. First sponsorship was proposed by Ms. Shruti in 2011-2012 for a college national competition.
78. Culture shows and participation packages for culture programs were proposed by teams of Nruthyakala Folk Dance and Kalasri Classical; Ms. Hetal’s own seniors around the time of acquisition.
79. Company’s first stock register was made by Prushti and Nirja to keep a track of inventory for costumes and props in 2017.
80. During g2, company had grown to more than 50+ gears/gadgets for some or other activities and several spouses were ready to collaborate for several services within g2 and under Ms. Hetal directly.
    • So Ms. Hetal asked Marchawn to create company’s automated stock register(online system) and gear log sheet, along with re-organization of commercial database so that our crews can use company’s gears and gadgets (without followup with eachother )or via direct permission based on calendar, as easy access to taking gigs directly for company.
    • G2 was that passive for Ms. Hetal.
81. Renewal sheets and such other logs were first made by Ms. Taylor under Ms. hetal’s directives to keep track of renewals and all the subscriptions as G2 was Ms. Hetal’s passive and Ms. Taylor was to run it. Ms. Taylor was hired by Ms. Hetal. Check this.
82. Fundraisers, Competitions, News, PR are own school, college life that Ms. Hetal continued till date.
83. Company logins within laptops were made by Nagaraj, Ms. Hetal’s husband – on an idea by Mansi as Mansi would use main desktop for company’s activities. This was because parents too used that desktop/laptop for various signups and it was creating confusions with Mansi’s work being deleted by some or other parent accidently as most folder names would be similar for submissions.
    • Since we did not have that many, at that time, Ms. Hetal did not feel the need of it though.
84. G2 website first content was made by Ms. Taylor which was then redirected by Ms. Hetal. Site was published and made by Ms. Prushti.
85. Company’s first external service provider for video and photography was Bombay Photography/Aftab as company had began that year Reachh Mediaa Programs and needed additional head shot photographers & videographers. This was in 2013-2014 academic year just before 2015-2016, 1st official recital – Dance of Gods.
86. Ms. Hetal own external service provider for head shots & modeling gigs for various submission was Stephen Powell – 2014-2015-2016. His pictures are admired till date!
    • Surprisingly, his camera was a decade old.
    • The famous pink sari picture and the website picture that every media chooses. #YES
87. All or most websites are custom made by Ms. Prushti, Lu Nguyen, Ms. Anitha under the directives of Ms. Hetal.
88. G2 logo as in multiple options that may match the brand was made by Ms. Taylor after approvals from Ms Hetal and that includes bunch of names for G2.
89. Grace And Grooves name was sudden announcement in 2010-2011 (out of blue) when suddenly Ms. Hetal was asked about company details and Ms. Hetal did not know what to say. The name was never planned either.
    • Company was registered right after because they needed Ein number for the next round as it was heading to publication and such other monetary gains.
    • It was other way round.
90. Dhamaal Events USA was Ms. hetal own collab that she bought the whole share of.
    • ALL artists below this program were/are offered company’s aka Ms. Hetal’s own students and advertisements as per contracts based on either booking fees or %.
    • It was always the other way round. Ms. Hetal never advertises anybody for anything.
91. Ms. Hetal own bio was not complete until 2018. It was when Jinal took over the content management under the directives of Ms. Hetal and Ms. Hetal got it nicely penned everything as Ms. Hetal needed it for PR submission wherein specific details were required.
    • based on our database and timeline was thus created.
    • Until then, Ms. Hetal bio was basic without years and without teachers’ name too 🙂 and without much details !
92. Private Packages were Ms. Hetal own ideas because we could not combine external temporary students like that in existing annual year batches that do productions and recitals.
93. It was Ms. Deepthi that was first offered administrative (non parent) 40 hour work visa because of her stable delivery of work assigned which added value to database of company’s Texas All Star Program.
    • The one who initiated administrative non dance programs as she was on her way to family and could not commit much!
    • Prior to that, Ms. Hetal had Ms. Swati but Ms. Swati was 2-3 days, a week for 4 hours only (and was mostly in back office under parents’ program).
94. In 2021, Company went through induced fraud by property management company as well. Grace And Grooves and ms. Hetal lost millions of $ of commercial projects for which ms. hetal had worked for months to get them.
    • G2 was delayed because of property management company’s negligence on permits of building itself (not own suite permits).
    • There was no accountability by the company.
    • None of which was communicated. External biggest fraud to company.
95. 2022 – Highest and biggest in person fraud to company, monetary theft, NJHS project delays, jammed systems and online infrastructure deliberately, refused to follow company work & refused to take compliance trainings, pissed off clients, highest refunds, mad customers, wasted everybody’s time and efforts, failed projects that Ms. Hetal had to redo all the projects just to keep the funds intact, tried to claim to do marchawn’s and taylor work and got caught, created confusions and mess, blunders;turned out she deliberately did that. – S****** K****.
96. 2022 – Somebody tried to use our online systems and steal money via zelle and Ms. hetal saved company through recorded conversations. Company’s policies saved company for any obligations. This led to parents portal freeze & online payment freeze for a month.
    • Somehow the above fraud individual S***** knew about Ms. Hetal’s attedance to 972 979 2559.
97. Company runs on Ms. Hetal exclusively and if today company exists is because of Ms. Hetal. Because S***** would have ruined Elites and their families. Ms. Hetal’s transparency and IT security saved everybody!
98. By 2024 September, Company crossed 1 petabyte and few other terabytes extending reaches to higher technological advances in icloud, external storage systems and parental security.
    • Ms. Hetal had to clear all the mess caused by fraud in company which took more than 2 years.
    • First 4-5 months went by just to trace all the activities, fees, money transactions and trace the whereabouts of all mess that was deliberately done (one account is not recovered till date).
    • From 2024-2025 – right after the systems were up and running, in 2025, Ms. Hetal had to upgrade it all with Ai automations reinforcing security so that those issues do not occur.
99. 2024, Despite all this mess, Hetal’s company Grace and Grooves stands tall with an on-paper valuation of $50 million;earned through its unmatched transparency and innovative model that has opened doors like none before. It’s not just a business; it’s a movement redefining industry norms.
    • It is providing lifeline and earnings to several aspiring artists as well as those who are willing to learn!
    • This evaluations does not include the latest system upgrade & all the other updates.
100. More Later!

Wondering if Ms. Hetal does not welcome ideas. Oh you have no idea how nicely Ms. Hetal welcomes it!

Dare to question Ms. Hetal’s leadership as well ?

By the time you know, there is whole infrastructure on it. Being an independent company, sometimes it takes time and sometimes patience because parents approvals are needed.

Every show features elites or program graduates of Ms. Hetal’s own specialities on Hetal Joshi M – USA/America, so we would be surprised if anyone else is added as a contributor or for anything.

Ms. Hetal can also highlight those who proposed completely new ideas that never existed in entire initiatives of any program because “seperately doing that” would be exhaustive.

It worked well too as they had patience and common sense to wait until the right time and scenario. To value time for students who come once a week, 1-2hours only is a skill. Direction is always better than speed.

Dare to say that Ms. Hetal competes with anybody ? Ms. Hetal competes with herself. Ms. Hetal breaks her own records.

No Elite or Graduate of Hetal Nagaraj will ever be jealous of anybody in million years. We as teams dare you all on that.

All or Kids above are in Top universities or have just graduated in their masters programs as well. Mental well being of every kid below Hetal Nagaraj is excellent as they learn to value time and their efforts of every hour. They learn life skills that prepares them well in life.

Diversity at its best, nominated several times.

Dare to say anybody else did anything ?