Ganesh Hegde is a renowned choreographer who has dabbled with bollywood on occasion throughout the years. Ganesh has choreographed two songs - Va Va Voom and Dishoom Dishoom - for Zoya Akhtar's period musical The Archies, his lone release this year. Ganesh discusses experimenting with dance genres in The Archies, working with Shah Rukh Khan and his daughter, promising star Suhana Khan, and why he doesn't choreograph in movies very frequently in an exclusive interview.

How challenged did you feel when Zoya approached you for The Archies?
Even for Luck By Chance, Zoya wanted to collaborate with me, but it didn't work out. I'm delighted she decided to come back to me for The Archies. With my tracks, I want to accomplish something unique. I aim to make a song appear fantastic when I acquire it. I've been doing many diverse types of dance since I began my career as a dancer in 1991, from Broadway to hip-hop to break-dancing to indian classical and folk. That came in useful when it came time to create the rock and roll tunes for The Archies. Back in the 1980s, Jim Carrey performed a skate song solo. When I saw it, I wondered when we'd be able to accomplish anything like this.

How tough was it shooting the skating song, Dishoom Dishoom?
The Archies is a 1960s-set film. It has a unique culture and taste. As a result, the music had to be appropriate for the era of filmmaking. Zoya had this notion that I should do a skate song. The difficulty is that you need skaters who have been doing it since they were children. Because you must have years of experience. But we had these seven youngsters who were making their first film. Skating was only one of the many abilities they learned from the movie. Zoya showed me Reels from skaters all around India, including pune and Bengaluru. However, their skating techniques were so unlike that getting them to sync would have been difficult.

In both the songs, the choreography is so fast and demanding. But these guys look like a breeze. How did you achieve that ease?
The wonderful thing about rookies is that they're incredibly energetic and hardworking. I could schedule a lot of rehearsals with them ahead of time. The choreography for Va Va Voom had to be circular since Zoya intended it to be inside a set that looked like a two-tiered cake. We also shot at night. people were exhausted at the moment, so we had to maintain everyone's enthusiasm up at the same time, even in the long shots. We couldn't film these songs using standard cameras. So our staff devised novel cameras to record the dance, such as a cycle Doddy and a rickshaw Doddy.
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05/12/2023 08:03 AM