REMO CREDITS DANCE REALITY SHOWS FOR CHANGING ‘DANCE SCENE’ IN INDIA

Though dance remains choreographer-director

Remo D’Souza’s (above) first love, he says that direction has taken a front seat now. Remo, who has helmed films such as FALTU (2011), ABCD (2013) and A Flying Jatt (2016), feels being a director and choreographer for a film is an added advantage as everything is in your control. “When I started off as a choreographer, I had to do songs, which I may have wanted to do differently but directors had their own inputs to give. But now, I take liberty to decide my own dance steps as well.”

Happy with the idea of playing this dual part, he adds, “I will never leave choreography and will keep doing songs too. Of course, it’s not that five years down the line I only want to see myself directing films. I am trying my best to get good songs to choreograph also.”

About the standard of dance in Bollywood films, Remo says the level has gone up and reached a different level altogether. “The actors have started to dance and even the actresses these days rehearse rigorously, which wasn’t the case earlier. I would give the credit to all the dance-based reality shows because that’s how dance changed in Hindi films.”