Stars ka Tadka - Priyanka Chopra
Tadka trivia
Priyanka Chopra aka Piggy Chops as she is fondly called in the Indian Film Industry is one of the most professional and down-to-earth persons in the industry. She is one of the most sough after A-listers of Bollywood and a complete director’s actor. On the sets of Harry Baweja’s Love Story 2050, which marks the debut of her real life love interest Harman Baweja, she had to dye her hair red, and after doing so the chemicals had done such a bad effect on her hair that she had to lose her charming mane! Priyanka’s hair was dyed twice for the movie, red for her futuristic look and then black again, because after her trials with the wigs left her unsatisfied with her look, she took the risk of losing her beautiful hair, which is considered as an asset by all the Indian actresses. It must be added that she is looking smashing in the movie, and we wish her a hairy recovery as well as all the succes for her movie Love Story 2050.
Stars ka tadka - Aishwarya Rai and Saroj Khan
Tadka trivia
Saroj Khan, while making her millions of fans dance across the world through her now famous show ‘Nachle Ve with Saroj Khan‘ on NDTV Imagine, tells interesting tales about the stars (yet another reason to watch her show).
Saroj Khan recounted how Aishwarya Rai, while shooting for the Filmfare Best Choreography Award winning song ‘Barso re megha‘ from Guru (2007), had met with an accident. While filming a scene, Ash was supposed to cycle her way through a bridge, during heavy rains and wind storms, and a gushing stream beneath. Her skirt got entangled in the rear wheel, and she fortunately fell on the bridge, otherwise she could just have been washed away! Aishwarya had suffered bruises on her hand, and Saroj Khan recounted how she gave a perfect shot after getting first-aid, while also mentioning that, had there been any other actress, she would have announced pack-up, but not Ash!
The scene where Aishwarya is seen diving into the pond, was completed only when Saroj Khan made her swim the entire length of the pond. Saroj Khan also praised her for dancing atop a large rock, amidst the thunderstorm. She told that Mani Ratnam got apprehensive about shooting that particular scene as the height was way too much risky, made far more dangerous with the blowing wind and heavy rain. But when Aishwarya learnt that her director was forcibly keeping himself from a beautiful sequence, she stubbornly climbed atop with the help of a crane and gave a beautiful shot yet again, while the whole crew was biting nails with tension, almost waiting for her to slip and fall off! Aishwarya Rai has been Saroj Khan’s favourite dancer, since working with her in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999).
Stars ka Tadka - Shreya Ghoshal
Tadka trivia
Shreya Ghoshal was chosen as the voice of Aishwarya Rai’s character Parvati aka Paro, in the movie Devdas, by director Sanjay Leela Bhansali. When Bhansali first heard her on television, she was taking part in a music contest and it is said that the ace director was in the bathroom at that time. He didn’t have to listen to her much before taking the decision. Shreya’s voice immediately became a sensation, and she was bombarded with offers galore. Her versatility was proved in the very year 2002 itself, when apart from delivering superhits from the classically bent Devdas album, she also gave the Indian Film Industry, one of it’s most sensual songs, ‘Jaadu hai nasha hai’ from the movie Jism. The rest, as they say, is history!
Stars ka tadka - Saroj Khan
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.)”
Stars ka Tadka - Aishwarya Rai
Tadka trivia
Aishwarya Rai was a bright school kid who wanted to pursue a dream of becoming a doctor one day. But after dissections and the associated paraphernalia of the medical field gave her the jitters, she opted for architecture instead and later stated that it was one thing to like a subject, but entirely another to pursue it as a career. Soon she was reigning the globe as Miss World 1994, and there has been no looking back since!
