Mahesh: (Jhalak Dikhhla) Jaa!

'I thought he was a cricketer!'

Soniya Jaffer mistook Mahesh for cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar when she first took up the job of choreographing his act on Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. "I was completely unaware about who he was. When I heard the name I thought, 'Since he's Manjrekar, maybe he's a cricketer.' It's only when I joined the show did I realise that he's the man behind Kaante," says Soniya.

She admits that Mahesh has greatly improved as a dancer from his first performance on the show. She says, "None of the participants are professional dancers, but Mahesh had rhythm right from the start. It was obvious that he enjoyed dancing."

No stress

Reacting to the variation in scores that they've got on the show so far, Jaffer says, "You can never tell what's on their (the judges) minds. Sometimes you think your performance is up to the mark, but the judges may not agree. So we didn't stress out too much about the marks and concentrating on putting our best foot forward."

Now that they are out of the show, Soniya has plans to take a vacation. "I think I deserve a nice, long vacation. Once I get back, I'm looking at doing some interesting work in films."