Choreographers on kids who take the dancing foot forward Every step of little participants of television dance contests is not guaranteed to delight,not at least everyone. It happens many times.a kid takes the stage and begins to sway to a song like Ae Ganpat,daaru le ke aa na and I stop it right away. I tell the child to come back with a piece befitting his age, says Jaaved Jaffrey,in Lucknow on Monday,to promote Chak Doom Doom Season 2 on Colors,in which he shares the panel of judges with choreographer Terence Lewis and actress Mallika Sherawat to select a dancing star from the younger lot. A big issue is made out of peer pressure under which kids performs in TV shows and as much as I oppose it,I wonder why the same people dont make a protest as loud against child labour and juvenile crime, said Jaafri,the father of two teen-aged kids,who are more into football and other activities than into dance,music,or acting. Jaafri has judged in another dance show Boogie Woogie and acted in a number of films,the forthcoming projects being Seasons Greetings,Loot,Double Dhamaal and a home production,about which I cant say much right now. An Indo-Pak documentary InshaAllah Football co-produced by him has running into trouble because of some references to Armymen,but I dont know exactly what will be its fate. Choreographer Terence Lewis,who accompanied Jaafri on the promotion tour was more in favour of dancers starting young. I startled my family when I announced that I wanted to make a career in dancing, says the Microbiology and Hotel Management graduate,who has been choreographing for a long time in films,including Lagaan and this weeks release Issi Life Mein. Times have changed and people look at a career in dance with more regard than they did earlier. If a child has the talent,his parents must support him or her completely, he suggests. Mallika Sherawat selected those from among the contestants who would be going to be Mumbai for the subsequent rounds of the show that will be hosted by Pravesh Rana,who is upbeat about his new innings after Emotional Atyachar.
