Haridwar danseuse making inroads in Bollywood

Sandeep Rawat

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Tribune News Service

Haridwar, December 31

Practicing and honing her dance skills for hours as well as training students on daily basis, city-based budding danseuse Dolly Bisht is slowly making inroads into Bollywood films.

Recently, Bisht worked as a trainee with acechoreographer Ganesh Acharya for an upcoming film, featuring actors Arshad Warsi and item girl Radhika, in Patiala.

Bisht, who has earlier worked as trainee assistant with Farah Khan in ‘Joker’ and the legendary Prabhu Deva in ‘Ramaiyaa Vastavaiya’, said she gets to learn a lot every time she works with such successful choreographers.

“Dance is a life-long learning process, with creativity being the essence of choreographing a song. One needs to be well versed in classical as well as western forms, such as hip hop, salsa and fusion, to choreograph a Hindi film song as the songs are situation based which need different or a mix of varied dance forms,” she said.

Quite impressed with the dancing skills, choreography and down to earth nature of choreographer-turned-director Prabhu Deva, Bist said the ace choreographer was always ready to help newcomers and gave them tips on the sidelines of the shooting, which was of immense help in developing them as a complete choreographers.

She has participated in many dance reality shows, such as Dance India Dance (Season 2010, 2011) and Boogey Woogey.

Bisht said such shows depend on voting pattern and TRPs, which many a time lead to talented participants getting hidden by more dramatic, TRP-drawing contestants.

“Participants, particularly those hailing from a small state like Uttarakhand, are on the back foot when compared to contestants from more bigger states, such as Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra or metro cities such as Mumbai and Delhi, who grab more votes and also have more exposure to hone their skills,” said Bist, who is also associated with social causes.

Her father, SB Bisht, and mother Bhajan Devi, hoped that in the near future, their daughter’s talent and hard work is recognised.

Payal, her elder sister, said since childhood, she was passionate about dancing, having won many awards in school and college days.

Recently, Dolly Bisht judged a state-level dance competition.

She has also been honoured by city legislator Madan Kaushik and various other social-cultural organisations for her achievements and for training poor children.