Meet jodi no.2 of Nach Baliye Finalists

Meet jodi no.2 of Nach Baliye Finalists

by Subhash K Jha

Sachin & Supriya Pilgaonkar

Sachin: "We've tried our level-best. We're very nervous, but not for the audiences' vote. No point in worrying about something that isn't in our hands. We want to perform well tomorrow….Considering we aren't much of dancers we're truly amazed at how far we've got. I really enjoyed working with my wife.

On 21 December we complete 20 years of marriage. Other professionals get only a couple of hours with their wife, and an annual holiday to unwind. Through Nach Baliye we've been thrown together in unexpected ways. The show has helped us rediscover each other in the twentieth year of our marriage.

And if a 5-year old kid comes running to us shouting, 'Hi Sachin, Hi Supriya' we couldn't ask for more. …I'm a Marathi ,and I make Marathi films. Nach Baliye has spurred me to direct a new song-and-dance film Aami Saatpute featuring me and Supriya. I feel very happy when people say she's a better actress and dancer."

Supriya : "Right now we're nervous, yes. I never knew I could dance until Nach Baliye . I've started enjoying dancing. I had never done such formal dancing. Nach Baliye has changed my life…Look at the love we've received from everyone. It' a new beginning for me. I'm basically a housewife . I've taken up acting assignments as and when my family life has allowed me.

I can only work when I'm at peace. And now with my daughter grown up I've enjoyed the dancing immensely. If we win, I want to use the prize money to do something that we'll never forget. I want to do something that will haunt us forever, as Nach Baliye has haunted us…

We've practiced day and night, thought about steps all the time. If we hadn't worked so hard we wouldn't have reached so far. At first we did it to save face. Then it became a question of sustaining our success. The Nach Baliye journey has been very rewarding for us. All the songs that Sachin and I performed were sung by the lead pair in films.

I'm privileged to have sung them with my husband….like Chod do aanchal which is a song for our generation or Chale jaise hawa which is for today's generation …It was a dream to perform them. My husband has been very encouraging. We're trying our best to live up to audiences' expectations tomorrow. We'll try to give a clean performance for the finals. We've four songs to perform. And we're gathering our stamina together.

Our choreographers have always given us steps according to our age. Tomorrow too synchronization of movements would be our primary concern. That's the rhythm we've followed in twenty of our lives. During the last four months we've spent more time together than we did in twenty years of marriage. We're looking forward to the prize…prize aakhir prize hota hai, chahe 5 rupaiye ka ya 50 lakh ka.