Exclusive! Sidharth Malhotra extends financial support to 200 Bollywood dancers, transfers money directly into their accounts

Sidharth Malhotra has come to the aid of Bollywood dancers as he extended support to them with the help of his manager. Raj Surani, a former background dancer and now a coordinator for them, shared, “Sidharth Malhotra has extended help to 200 dancers from our team. After our video went viral he got to know and he reached out to us. His manager connected with us and we coordinated.He directly got the money transferred into our accounts.” Previously, choreographer Bosco Martis, Lizelle and Remo D'Souza had extended support to the dancers.

Raj revealed that they were set to shoot for Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt starrer ‘Brahmastra’ before the lockdown. He shared, “We were to shoot a song for ‘Brahmastra’ with a lot of dancers, so that loss is there as the song was never shot. I don’t know when it will be shot now and how it will be done because that song had a lot of dancers.” Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions, the producers of ‘Brahmastra’, have also extended aid to their team of dancers. There are a few other Bollywood actors too who are in the process of extending financial aid to their team of 800 background dancers.

Due to the lockdown, several dancers have left Mumbai and headed to their hometowns. “Dancers will probably be the last ones to get jobs because people may not shoot songs with many people. Probably four-five months more or till the vaccine comes, I don’t think there is any solution currently. Dancers are taking up alternate jobs too. Many of them have travelled to their hometowns. Our industry was closed from March 19, before the lockdown was announced. So we told them to go to their native place. People are going now too as it is difficult to survive here, pay rent,” concluded Raj.