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Dharmendra’s last film Ikkis released just a few days ago and the late actor’s fans are celebrating every moment that he spent on the silver screen in his last film. Recently, choreographer Vijay Ganguly spoke about choreographing the actor and applauded his hard work and enthusiasm and recalled an anecdote when Dharmendra was having a little difficulty standing up, but still managed to get up and perform a few dance steps at 3 am.
In a chat with Pinkvilla, Vijay recalled that they were shooting a qawwali sequence that was set during his character’s college reunion. “It was around 2:30-3 am. We told him that he has to dance just a little bit and he could do whatever he was comfortable with but he asked what the others were doing. We showed him that the other boys were doing a leg step while holding each other by their shoulders. He asked, ‘Why can I not do this?’”
“He got up and he did it. Eventually, we told him not to do it because if we have many retakes, it would be physically exhausting for him. And honestly, dancing at that point was not very important for his character but for him personally, his thought was that he has to give his 100 percent. He was also feeling like no one should think that he can’t do it so he showed that he could. We were like, ‘Wow, this is fantastic’,” he recalled.
Vijay further shared that Dharmendra then asked for the lyrics of the song and offered to memorise it if any lip-sync was required. “We told him, ‘No sir, you don’t need to’. But he was very eager to give his 100 percent,” he recalled.
Vijay is the son of filmmaker Anil Ganguly, who worked with Dharmendra in a 1991 film called Dushman Devta. He reminded the star of the same and was very touched by his response. “I told him that you once worked with my father. He said, ‘He was a very kind man’. That felt good,” he recalled.
Dharmendra passed away at 89 in November.
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