Aruna Irani Recalls Her Childhood Friendship & Bobby (1973) Shoot Days With The Legendary Saroj Khan

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In an exclusive interview with senior most journalist Bharathi S Pradhan for Lehren, the evergreen Aruna Irani talks about her childhood friendship & unbreakable bond with Hindi Film Industry's top choreographer & dancer Saroj Khan. Aruna recalls how she once recommended Saroj's name to Sagar Sahab (Ashok Kumar's assistant) & Subhash Ghai for choreographing songs in their movies and also reveals an unheard tale from the sets of Raj Kapoor's Bobby (1973) movie in turn calling her friend Saroj Khan the greatest of all time. #arunairani #sarojkhan #bobby #rajkapoor #subhashghai #arunairaniinterview #sarojkhandance #podcast

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00:00How did you get to sleep in the night shooting?

00:06We were going to sleep in the night shooting.

00:08We were going to sleep in the night shooting.

00:11We were going to sleep in the night shooting.

00:14We were going to sleep in the trolley.

00:16Let's go, Saroj.

00:19I saw a song before,

00:21and the whole song was made in one breath.

00:24How big it was.

00:25It was about 7 or 8 minutes.

00:27Wow.

00:28You can see Saroj.

00:30It was very good.

00:31They took everything.

00:33Then I said,

00:34I don't see.

00:35The dance is good.

00:37But it has no sense of camera placing.

00:40You have a very special relationship with Saroj Khan.

00:47Yes, Saroj Khan.

00:50I remember that when Saroj went to sleep,

00:54I called you.

00:56And you told me about a story.

00:58Yes.

00:59About how…

01:00And then how…

01:01I think she was there on Bobby's set.

01:04And then she came…

01:05Hannah?

01:06Oh, she was a great dancer.

01:07And then you introduced her to Subhash Ghai.

01:10I know.

01:11Yes.

01:12Tell me about that.

01:13You know that.

01:14Few people know.

01:15I and Saroj.

01:16Saroj and I know one of the other people.

01:19When we worked in junior school,

01:23we would pick a car.

01:26We would pick me from Grand Road.

01:28We would pick Saroj to Verli.

01:30We would pick Saroj.

01:31Saroj was a child.

01:32We were a child.

01:33I was a child.

01:34They were like,

01:35I was not a child.

01:36No, he was only a child.

01:37I'm not a child.

01:38I'm a child.

01:40And it's a child.

01:41I have not be a child.

01:42You are here.

01:43I have never mind.

01:44I have never mind.

01:45I have to sleep in a child.

01:46And be verbatim.

01:47We was all alone.

01:48That was a child.

01:49I am just a child.

01:50We're in the car.

01:51He was sent to the other side.

01:54Then he was asleep in the trolley.

01:57We were seen at this time.

02:02My hurt, her hurt.

02:05It was a very good thing.

02:08You became friends.

02:10We became friends.

02:12Then we started dancing.

02:14She was an assistant.

02:16She was a very nice dance.

02:19He said, Haruna, do you want to recommend my name?

02:22So I had a Sagar, Ashok Kumar's secretary.

02:30He made a film.

02:32So I contacted him.

02:34So I told him that you can see Saroj.

02:39He took everything he did.

02:41Then I told him, Aruna, give it.

02:44He makes the dance better.

02:46But he has no sense of camera.

02:48I told him, Sagar, you have given him a chance.

02:52Where will it happen?

02:54It will not happen.

02:56Then I recommended him to Subhash Ji.

03:01I told him, Subhash Ji, he tells me.

03:04He doesn't have any understanding of the camera.

03:07I am doing the camera.

03:10I said, this is a very good thing.

03:13But normally, he leaves the camera place to dance director.

03:17And then he did.

03:19And his songs were super-ed.

03:21And Saroj was super-ed.

03:23And what happened between you?

03:27I said something happened in Bobby's time, Saroj and you.

03:31Nothing happened, nothing happened.

03:34Nothing happened, never happened.

03:36Something happened to me.

03:39Actually, that song was Phasa.

03:41Yes, Phasa.

03:43That song was Phasa.

03:44She was an assistant in that song.

03:49Oh, okay.

03:51So, Anlal Ji's assistant, we tell them how to do it, 4 beats, 4 beats, 4 beats, 6 beats.

04:00So, she showed me and did it.

04:03I used to do it.

04:05But when she was dancing, with expression, with everything,

04:10I didn't feel like I was standing up and I'm sorry, I won't be able to do it.

04:16I felt so much love.

04:19And she was very loving.

04:21She also had a special impression that she was dancing in the same time.

04:25Both of them.

04:26I was very loving.

04:28She was so happy to dance.

04:31She was very proud of her standing.

04:34She was standing up after 2-4-5 retake.

04:37I was like, I am finished.

04:40And then somebody had come and Rajsab wanted her to dance or something.

04:47She was very proud of her.

04:49She was very proud of her.

04:50She was very proud of her.

04:52So Raj ji said,

04:54Let's go, Saroj,

04:56I have seen a song before.

04:58And she was playing all a song in a sense.

05:01How big it was.

05:02She was so big for 7 or 8 minutes.

05:04Wow.

05:05With so many changes.

05:08But when distributors came to the set,

05:13then Sarosh Khan had to do the producer.

05:18See, what are we doing?

05:22They do everything.

05:24So they also said,

05:25I told them,

05:26Oh, my God, my God, my God, my God.

05:29Because she was loving her.

05:31That's true.

05:32God bless her soul, man.

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