<p>Apparently the flavour of Bollywood has stretched far and wide all the way to the Rio 2016 Olympics.</p>
<p>Mexico's synchronised swimming pair of Nuria Lidon Diosdado Garcia and Karem Faride Achach Ramirez blew audiences away with their scintillating performance to secure a berth for them in the finals at Rio 2016.</p>
<p>Watch the video below.</p>
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<p><img title="Mexico's Karem Faride Achach Ramirez and Mexico's Nuria Lidon Diosdado Garcia compete in the Duets Technical Routine preliminaries" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/aug/swimming1.jpg" alt="Mexico's Karem Faride Achach Ramirez and Mexico's Nuria Lidon Diosdado Garcia compete in the Duets Technical Routine preliminaries" /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><em>Mexico's Karem Faride Achach Ramirez and Mexico's Nuria Lidon Diosdado Garcia compete in the Duets Technical Routine preliminaries. (Pic/ AFP)</em></strong></span></p>
<p>And the duo did it by performing to a song called 'Aila re Aila' from none other than Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar's 2010 comic caper 'Khatta Meetha'.</p>
<p><img title="Mexico's Karem Faride Achach Ramirez and Mexico's Nuria Lidon Diosdado Garcia compete in the Duets Technical Routine preliminaries" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/aug/swimming2.jpg" alt="Mexico's Karem Faride Achach Ramirez and Mexico's Nuria Lidon Diosdado Garcia compete in the Duets Technical Routine preliminaries" /></p>
<p>They wowed the judges and the spectators as well with a lively and vibrant show in their routine which lasted about over 2 minutes.</p>
<p><img title="Mexico's Karem Faride Achach Ramirez and Mexico's Nuria Lidon Diosdado Garcia compete in the Duets Technical Routine preliminaries" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/aug/swimming3.jpg" alt="Mexico's Karem Faride Achach Ramirez and Mexico's Nuria Lidon Diosdado Garcia compete in the Duets Technical Routine preliminaries" /></p>
<p>Social media users too went bezerk and were amazed by the female duo's performance and took no time in talking about it online.</p>
<p>Here are some of the reactions on Twitter that followed.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mexico synchronised swimmers were performing on bollywood song - aila re! I have now seen it all. <br />Can happily retire from watching anymore!</p>
&mdash; shilpi tewari (@shilpitewari) <a href="https://twitter.com/shilpitewari/status/765211548302381056">August 15, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Synchronised swimmers from Mexico dancing on a Bollywood song! Now I've seen everything! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rio2016?src=hash">#Rio2016</a></p>
&mdash; Nishad Pai Vaidya (@nishad_45) <a href="https://twitter.com/nishad_45/status/765210932066783232">August 15, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Donald Trump just suggested we build a wall in between lanes 7 &amp; 8 to keep the Mexican swimmers out.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OverheardAtTheOlympicGames?src=hash">#OverheardAtTheOlympicGames</a></p>
&mdash; Kathy Smith (@thekathysmith) <a href="https://twitter.com/thekathysmith/status/763986917767557120">August 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Mexico's synchronised swimming pair of Nuria Diosdado and Karem Achach blew audiences away with their scintillating performance to secure a final berth; courtesy - a dance to a song from an Akshay Kumar film

Video: Mexican swimmers dance to Akshay Kumar's song at Rio 2016

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<p>Mexico's synchronised swimming pair of Nuria Diosdado and Karem Achach blew audiences away with their scintillating performance to secure a final berth; courtesy - a dance to a song from an Akshay Kumar film</p>

Video: Mexican swimmers dance to Akshay Kumar's song at Rio 2016

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