Legendary choreographer Saroj Khan took her last breath on Friday morning. Known as the beloved Masterji, she has worked on over 2,000 Bollywood songs in her four-decade long career. She has made almost every celebrity dance to her tunes.
Recently, in an interview with Spotboye, Mallika Sherawat expressed her feelings about working with Saroj Khan. She said, “A great legend has left us today. Saroj ji was India’s most loved, popular and exemplary choreographer. The world knows Bollywood dancing for the Adas, nakhras, thumkas and Saroj ji was the one who ensured all this was amalgamated so gracefully in any song she choreographed.”
The legendary choreographer migrated to India from Pakistan after partition. She entered the film industry as a child actor, at the age of three. She was born as Nirmala and later on, she converted to Islam, learnt dance while working under film choreographer B Sohanlal. She also worked as a background dancer before she made it big.
Saroj Khan’s last work was with Madhuri Dixit in Kalank (2019).
