The three time award winner Saroj Khan passed away today, i.e. on July 3, 2020 due to cardiac arrest. She was not keeping well for some time. On June 20, she complained of breathing which is why she was admitted to Guru Nanak Hospital in Bandra. The mandatory COVID-19 tests were done, the results were negative. She is survived by her husband B. Sohanlal, son Hamid Khan and daughters Hina Khan and Sukyna Khan.
In her whole career, she has worked on various Bollywood songs. A video of her, where she talked about being a child actor and then turning into a legendary choreographer surfaced online.
In this video, she talks about her journey from Pakistan to India and how she got a chance to be a child actor. Saroj Khan says, “My name is Saroj Khan and I choreograph songs in film industry and also on stage. I have experience of you can call it 67 years because I started my career at the age of 3. I won’t say that my family belongs to any music or are there any artists in my family, they were only business people and my parents were in Pakistan. We stayed there, they were very rich people but as it happens in life, tragedy that took place in 1947- it was a partition and my parents came to India as refugees. Whatever they had with them was only gold, money and clothes, but that also, like a filmy story, the bags got changed, somebody took our bags and left dirty clothes in the other bag. But that tragedy struck twice. They landed in Bombay, I wasn’t born, I was born in Mumbai-1948.”
Check out the video here.