{"id":324375,"date":"2020-07-03T03:46:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T03:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324375"},"modified":"2020-07-03T03:46:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T03:46:53","slug":"veteran-choreographer-saroj-khan-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/veteran-choreographer-saroj-khan-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran choreographer Saroj Khan passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324376 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/saroj-khan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/saroj-khan.jpg 476w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/saroj-khan-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/>Veteran Choreographer Saroj Khan, the name behind some of the most famous songs in Bollywood such as Ek Do Teen, Dola re Dola died of cardiac arrest in Mumbai on Friday morning. She was 71.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The three-time National Award winner was admitted to Guru Nanak Hospital on June 20 with breathing complaints. \u00a0She had tested negative for Covid-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Her last venture was with Madhuri Dixit for the song Tabaah Ho Gaye from filmmaker Karan Johar&#8217;s production Kalank in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Actors paid tributes for the ace choreographer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Actor Akshay Kumar said, \u201cWoke up to the sad news that legendary choreographer #SarojKhan ji is no more. She made dance look easy almost like anybody can dance, a huge loss for the industry. May her soul rest in peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRIP Saroji &#8230; I thank God I got a chance to be choreographed by you.. Prayers and Strength to the Family,\u201d Genelia Deshmukh tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Director Kunal Kohli remembered Khan as someone who stood up for people&#8217;s rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cShe stood up for the rights of people. Never bothered who was a star or not. She said her bit Unadulterated &amp; from the heart. Bought biryani on every song and fed the whole crew so lovingly. We gossiped. We worked. Thank you for the memories #masterji #SarojKhan love you always,\u201d Kohli tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c#SarojKhan my beloved Masterji. #RIPSarojKhan From Music Videos to films we had a long journey together. Now you\u2019ve left me &amp; gone. I will do &amp; make what we spoke about one day, my promise to you,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Choreographer Saroj Khan, the name behind some of the most famous songs in Bollywood such as Ek Do Teen, Dola re Dola died of cardiac arrest in Mumbai on Friday morning. She was 71. The three-time National Award winner was admitted to Guru Nanak Hospital on June 20 with breathing complaints. \u00a0She had tested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[71,5824],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324377,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324375\/revisions\/324377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}