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Farah Khan: “I think the whole song & dance thing is dwindling”

Top Bollywood choreographer Farah Khan has expressed concerns over the decline of song and dance culture in the industry.

“I think the whole song and dance thing is dwindling unless you are making a dance film. I don’t think it is there. The song culture is going away. Songs are played in the background,” Khan told PTI in a recent interview.

Khan added, “Good in a way that the taste of people are changing and bad in the sense that our calling card as an industry was that we used to do song and dance numbers. And that is how we stayed ahead of Hollywood.”

Bollywood’s latest shift towards song remakes is not something the ‘Happy New Year’ (2014) director is keen on either. In response to a question about this recent trend, she stated “That is even worst. I think every song that they have recreated is worse than original. I don’t mind if they become better than the original, it is not as good as the original. And in every song there is a rap.”

The lack of interesting opportunities is the reason Khan has decided to focus on other projects. “Why do you think I have stopped choreographing? I don’t want to do same thing (in dance). Until and unless we do something new and radical in terms of musical then it is okay. I also get bored while watching such songs.”

Khan is currently promoting her upcoming Star Plus singing reality show ‘Lip Sing Battle’, which will include celebrity pairs Karan Johar-Parineeti Chopra, Farhan Akhtar-Arjun Kapoor, Shaan-Vishal Dadlani and Nakuul Mehta-Surbhi Chandna, amongst others.

By Sahar Junejo