{"id":7898,"date":"2020-07-03T03:20:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T03:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=7898"},"modified":"2020-07-03T03:20:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T03:20:46","slug":"choreographer-saroj-khan-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2020\/07\/03\/choreographer-saroj-khan-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Choreographer Saroj Khan passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bollywood\nchoreographer Saroj Khan passed away in Mumbai on Friday. The three time\nNational Award winner choreographed nearly 2000 songs.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan passed\naway in Mumbai on Friday following a cardiac arrest. She was 71.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saroj\u2019s daughter Sukaina Khan confirmed the\nnews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saroj Khan was born as Nirmala Nagpal. She\njoined the Indian film industry as a child artiste, playing the younger Shyama\nin Nazarana. She eventually became a background dancer in 1950s films like\nBimal Roy\u2019s Madhumati under the guidance of dance director B. Sohanlal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khan later became an assistant\nchoreographer and her first break as an independent choreographer came with\nGeeta Mera Naam (1974). She tasted fame with the song \u201cHawa Hawai\u201d from Mr.\nIndia (1987). Her collaboration with Sridevi<\/a> on\nother projects like Chandni and Nagina further boosted her profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was, however, her collaboration with Madhuri Dixit<\/a> that transformed the\ncareers of both the artistes, beginning with \u201cEk Do Teen\u201d (Tezaab), and\nfollowing it up with dance numbers \u201cTamma Tamma Loge\u201d (Thanedaar), \u201cHum Ko Aaj\nKal Hai Intezaar\u201d (Sailaab) and \u201cDhak Dhak Karne Laga\u201d (Beta).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saroj Khan\u2019s other popular films include\nDarr, Baazigar, Mohra, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Pardes, Soldier, Taal,\nVeer-Zaara, Don, Saawariya, Lagaan, Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Manikarnika among\nmore. She got to reunite with Madhuri in Gulaab Gang (2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a career spanning four decades, Khan\nchoreographed nearly 2000 songs. The legendary artiste was a recipient of three\nNational Awards for films Devdas, Jab We Met and Sringaram (Tamil). She won\nFilmfare Awards for movies like Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Guru, Khalnayak and\nChaalbaaz. Her last film was Kalank (2019), where she choreographed \u201cTabaah Ho\nGaye\u201d, picturised on Madhuri.\n\nSaroj Khan also tried her\nhands at screenwriting, and turned writer for movies like Khiladi, Hum Hain\nBemisaal, Veeru Dada, Chhote Sarkar, Dil Tera Diwana, Hote Hote Pyar Ho Gaya,\nBenaam and Khanjar. Her appearance on the small screen included being the judge\non reality dance shows like Nach Baliye, Ustaadon Ka Ustaad, Boogie Woogie and\nJhalak Dikhhla Jaa.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan passed away in Mumbai on Friday. The three time National Award winner choreographed nearly 2000 songs. Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan passed away in Mumbai on Friday following a cardiac arrest. She was 71. Saroj\u2019s daughter Sukaina Khan confirmed the news. Saroj Khan was born as Nirmala Nagpal. She joined the Indian …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[13362,82,11055,2830,12789,13373,13360,12968,13361,13364,13369,4048,13370,4702,13363,13372,13365,13368,13335,5646,13366,13371,13292],"class_list":["post-7898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-india-news","tag-baazigar","tag-bollywood","tag-bollywood-celebrity","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-style","tag-choreographer-saroj-khan-passes-away","tag-choreogrpaher","tag-dance","tag-darr","tag-dilwale-dulhania-le-jayenge","tag-don","tag-hollywood","tag-lagaan","tag-manikarnika","tag-mohra","tag-national-award-winner","tag-pardes","tag-saawariya","tag-saroj-khan","tag-soldier","tag-taal","tag-tanu-weds-manu-returns","tag-veer-zaara"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7900,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions\/7900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}