MUMBAI: Choreographer Geeta Kapur is a known name in the film industry but her popularity soared with the reality show Dance India dance. Her comments and warmth on the show is something else. But it didn’t start off so well for her. She remembers that she would get rude and ugly comments about how she looked and her body weight.
While talking to actor Maniesh Paul on his podcast she said, “I would get such nasty comments through fan mails. One day, I was really upset and wondered what was even happening. Why is no one looking at my work? I am sitting in the middle of two men and trying to make my place but no one looking at that. No one is seeing the hard work that I am doing. Why is everyone asking why do I belong here? People used to call me fat. 'You look like a buffalo'. Obviously, Terrence was a good-looking guy and Remo had a personality to look forward to and everybody was like ‘why are you here?”
On meeting filmmaker/choreographer Farah Khan, Geeta added, “I will never forget that because the show was so pivotal in my life. During the show, I met a fantastic and brilliant dancer called Farah Khan. That was the show where I met her for the first time. The choreographer who had choreographed us for the fashion show asked me if I would be a part of a dancing troupe since one of her girls fell sick. The dancer who was not well and I had replaced was Farah Ji. My journey as a dancer started off from there. She called me after that and thanked me for replacing her since she had fallen sick very badly. And then she told me that she has been watching me off late and will I dance with her in her troupe. I was the youngest dancer in her troupe and hence the maternal love had started off from there itself.”
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