Until the vaccine comes, dancers have to be especially careful because we work in groups: Rajeev Surti

Mumbai: Choreographer Rajeev Surti began his Bollywood journey with the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Don in 2006 which completes 14 years of launch at the moment. The previous few months have been very tough for everybody owing to the pandemic. But the subsequent lockdown has had the worst impact on day by day wage staff. While many have misplaced their jobs, many have no certainty on the place their subsequent meal goes to come from.

 Amid all this, choreographer Rajeev Surti factors out that dancers and choreographers, too, come below the class of day by day wage staff and have been struggling for some time now. He says, “The situation has been very bad to be honest. Dancers and assistants in dance industry get daily wages. Their lifestyle expenses are also quite high as they have to always look good, exercise, and wear good clothes etc.

So, during lockdown, a lot of dancers went back to their home towns. But now, things are getting better slowly. Shooting has started but not in a full-fledged manner. We need to save good dancers because I don’t know how many of them will return for the job. Until the vaccine doesn’t come, they have to take lots of precautions because they are the ones who dance in a group and next to actors. They also have to remove their masks during the shots.”

Surti has choreographed dances for motion pictures comparable to Don (2006), Dabangg (2010), Raees (2017), and most just lately, Ginny Weds Sunny, amongst a number of others. He provides that whereas everyone seems to be slowly getting again to work, individuals want to be affected person. “Shooting is a group activity, and we all have to be very careful.

But if we take all the necessary precautions, the challenges are not too many,” he says. On his expertise of working with Yami Gautam and Vikrant Massey for Ginny Weds Sunny, Surti says, “It was an amazing experience. I worked with them for the first time, and they are both very professional and sorted.”