Stars ka tadka - Saroj Khan
Posted by Simranjeet @ 6:59 pm March 21, 2008
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Tadka trivia
Nirmala Sadhu Khan, aka Saroj Khan, the dance master of the Indian Film Industry, is a known name today. But what isn’t known is her painful history. Her family was forced to leave Pakistan post partition. Her father changed her very name to shield her from their orthodox relatives. She was forced to work as a child; child artiste, group dancer, assistant dance master and finally dance master. Married off to a 43 year old father of 4, when she was just 13, Saroj Khan gave birth to her first child Raju Khan at age 14 in 1963. In 1965, she gave birth to a daughter who died within eight months of marriage. But Saroj Khan had to report to work the very next day. Her first husband refused to give his name to her children (she had a second daughter with him). She got her first break in 1974, but got recognition only in 1983. She thanks her second husband immensely, and lives with his first wife without any problem. There is much beyond the name Saroj Khan, which one might not know, but after dancing to life’s tunes for quite a while, she turned the tide around, and now makes the whole world dance. We are sure, even you must be saying to her now “Masterji!, Naachte rahiye, aur nachaate rahiye… (Keep dancing and keep making us dance too.)”
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i love her the way she dance and dress up very nice but very sad story any way god bless her.
i like her my 10 year watches her show all the time