OSO hardly required direction: Saroj Khan

Suruchi Mazumdar
Posted online: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 0000 hours IST

Saroj Khan spares some time to give us a taste of her candour and dwells on her equation with Madhuri.

Bollywood's master choreographer isn't known to be particularly sugary and kind to stars while making them dance to her tunes; and even worse to probing journalists. (I once had a brush of her temper over telephone.) So I try to be as well mannered as possible when I meet Saroj Khan at Matunga's Riverdale Studios where she is shooting for her forthcoming show Nachle Ve With Saroj Khan. In the new show, Khan shares her dancing skills with ordinary viewers. "I don't have to tolerate star tantrums. That's one good point of a show like this," says Khan, offering us a taste of her candour. The shoot of a particular episode is over. And even as Khan carefully watches her dance moves on the monitor, she instructs the technicians to light up the sprawling and classical dance floor and strikes a pose on our request for a photo-shoot, ignoring a sprained foot. Recently, her most favourite pupil Madhuri Dixit (whom she fondly calls MD) made a comeback with Yash Raj Films' Aaja Nachle, for which the hip services of Vaibhavi Merchant were employed. Khan ended up defending her rift with Dixit and Yash Chopra. Even as I raise the tattle du jour, Khan chooses to clear the smoke. "My style has become deeply ingrained in Madhuri's dance and body movements. No wonder Aaja's choreography reminded people of me. You can't blame Vaibhavi," she says. As we chat, her disinterest in new age Hindi cinema and current crop of heroines becomes apparent. Khan states the good days of Bollywood choreography is over with the end of the dancing queen's era. "MD is my child. Like always, she phoned me when she returned to India and I asked her whether she has put on weight. She spoke to me again few days before she left," she says. "Same goes for my equation with Yashji. I know he will ask me to choreograph whenever he directs a movie." Among the new generation heroines, Khan's only favourite is Vidya Balan. "I'd love to train her. I have seen traces of Madhuri in her," she says. However, for her debut film as director, Sati, Khan had zeroed on Priyanka Chopra. "The film is shelved at present. The subject is controversial," says Khan. "The film would have had three heroines. None of the lead roles were good enough for Madhuri." The time for my interview is long over. But Khan is in a mood to talk—she has placed her injured foot on a footstool and made herself comfortable. "I can't give any credit to Farah Khan for direction. Om Shanti Om hardly required any directorial skills," she says. "It's an out-and-out Shah Rukh Khan show."

Oops, she did it again.

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saroj said what i felt about oso

OMG I hope this doesnt become like Amir vs Amitab argument..Farah will surely reply back.. lol

thanks for sharing..

Maybe but its easier said than done. Why doesnt she just put SRK (if he's willing after her comment) in a film (w/o a director) and see if it'll be a hit.

Yeah sure he has made many hits but not all (which is almost impossible anyway) and that shows tht throwing him in a movie isn't just enough.

ya saroj khan is r8>> nothin 4 FArah 2 take credit>>>

oh god............oso has become controversy's favorite child 😆

I wonder why industry people think that its their birth-right to make comments on srk n his films!😕

Well I agree with her. Remove SRK out of OSO and nothing's left.

So it's mean SRK is the gr888888888888888 KING KHAN 👏

This lady sounds all arrogant and pompous. Does she mean to say no matter who choreographs Madhuri Dixit, we'll be reminded of her? What was the need to comment about OSO That's the start of a new war!

Saroj Khan and Farah Khan always shared bad vibes. It is professional rivalry because many of Saroj loyalists started choosing Farah over her. With ANL Vaibhavi came into the picture which irked Saroj Khan more. She had mentioned 'Kajrare' as a bad choreography.

"I can't give any credit to Farah Khan for direction. Om Shanti Om hardly required any directorial skills," she says. "It's an out-and-out Shah Rukh Khan show."

😆😆 So Ms.Khan means that if SRK just stood there alone then the movie would have been a hit. Farah wrote the story and put all the funny elements but no credit to her. Deepika's fabulous acting and beauty in first half, Arjun's evil act..nothing matters. Hilarious!

It is like saying take Rakesh Roshan out of Kaho Na Pyar Hai and you would get Na tum jaano na hum 😆😆 because the jodi was same and story was similar and only difference was Roshan's direction which most of the times are hits.