Replacement news creates a fight between Farah Khan & Ganesh Hegde!

Farah Khan and Ganesh Hegde

Bollywood is such a vast place of happenings that most of the time we don’t even come to know who replaces whom in a particular film. Things keep changing here every second and any person can get replaced. The fight of who replaced whom is very old and still people are struggling between it.

The latest of this replacement fight was seen between two choreographers, Ganesh Hegde and Farah Khan. Ganesh is heard of spitting the venom of allegations over Farah saying that she is maligning his image in town and is spreading baseless rumors about him.

First it was reported that Ganesh was thrown out of a dance based reality show and Farah was brought in as his replacement. Then we got the news that Ganesh got her out of the film, “Ra.One”.  All these stories have led to a big fight between the two.

Ganesh says, "I have not replaced anyone. To replace someone, one has to be of the same caliber. I don't need assistants to do the choreographing for me. SRK and I have always worked together for things that needed an edge. It's easy to give kindergarten steps to lead actors and get away with it, citing the limitations of the actor”.

Farah hasn’t come up with any statement from her end so we can expect the fight to become deadly coz she too won’t gulp it all so easily!

Ganesh Hegde: Farah Khan is NOT the top choreographer

Mr.G ( Ganesh Hegde )

Ganesh had accused Farah of spreading negative stories about him being thrown out of a dance reality show, and Farah too had retorted in the media recommending a psychiatrist to Ganesh.

Ganesh feels that Farah has been misusing the power of press as she has many friends in the media. “I just want to say that please don’t run down people who are working hard. You may have the power of media but don’t misuse it. The fact is that somebody who dances well can choreograph a good song as well. Whereas somebody who depends upon their assistants and merely knows how to place the camera and do direction, that person cannot call herself the number one choreographer in the industry,” says Ganesh.

“Even stalwarts like Saroj Khan, Kamal Master, P L Raj, Prabhudeva..have never called themselves as the number one choreographer. Just by getting awards one doesn’t become number one,” he added. Ganesh is also hurt about the fact that Farah referred him as an ass in one of her interviews. “Farah said Kis gadhe ne kaha.. I would say that I am proud to be a donkey. I am also very hardworking and I pick up my own load unlike her who depends upon the assistants. I don’t make my assistants work and take all the credit. In that case Farah has no business to go on stage and accept awards,” asserted Ganesh.

RA.One’s Chammak Challo is choreographed by Ganesh.

Ganesh Hegde's dance moves in IPL 4

Ganesh Hegde

Bollywood's famous choreographer Ganesh Hegde, who has been associated with the last three IPL seasons, will be seen once again on the IPL front. He will show his dance moves onstage at the inaugural show of the opening day.

He tells us, "In the last IPL season, I had choreographed for the Kolkata Knight Riders IPL team. This season, I have been approached by the Pune Warriors IPL team to do the choreography for their theme song - "Sahara Pranam". And, I shall be performing on the opening day." What is more interesting is that the concept of cheerleaders in Pune Warrior IPL team has been recreated into an Indian form, and the cheer girls will be called 'Cheer Queens'. There will be three cheer queens on every podium and they will be performing traditional Indian dance forms with fusion of Bollywood latkas and jhatkas. It is indeed a very innovative idea and it is interesting to do something different for the first time." We agree with you, Ganesh.

Farah Khan has no business to accept award: Ganesh Hegde

The war of words between Farah Khan and Ganesh Hegde

Lot has been written about the choreographer Ganesh Hegde and choreographer turned director Farah Khan's war of words few months back. The war seems to have died down but Ganesh Hegde is still nursing the wound, particularly the scathing attack of Farah's sharp words.

For the uninitiated, the entire trigger point was the 'big news' about Ganesh 'replacing' Farah for choreographing songs in RaOne - Shah Rukh Khan's magnum opus which is to be released soon. Though the badshah earlier swore by Farah, their strained personal relationship during last couple of years meant that professionally too they had to distance themselves. On her part though Farah has maintained that she was never doing RaOne in the first place as she has moved to bigger things in life that is direction. Another dig that Ganesh had made on Farah was about her being just a token choreographer as now her assistants teach all the dance steps to the actors while she takes the back seat.

Ganesh Hegde at BIG Green Ganesha Campaign

Ganesh Hegde was snapped while performing a Lord Ganesha aarti,
as he joined the ‘Ramky BIG Green Ganesha Campaign’ in Mumbai

Now, if you are wondering why we addressed Ganesh Hegde as a multitalented artist, he is a singer, performer, video director and a Bollywood choreographer as well!

Speaking about the style statement made by him, though we would have loved his funky hairstyle and casual jacket on any other day, we expected him to wear something ethnic and more Indian on the occasion of Ganesh visarjan!

Now, here is some info about the campaign; the ‘Ramky BIG Green Ganesha Campaign’ aims at heralding a new phase in environment protection by pleading with the people to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi in an eco- friendly way. It’s the biggest green Ganesha campaign in the country spanning thirteen cities and is in its 4th year of celebrations.

Some Pics during his visit ....................

Ganesh Hegde lashes out at Farah Khan in Ra One

Mr.G on the sets of Ra One with SRK & Kareena Kapoor

Ganesh Hegde replaced Farah Khan in Shah Rukh Khan's RA.One. That was the story you heard earlier this month. Before this, rumours of Hegde being thrown out of a dance reality show on television made it to the headlines. Farah, of course, being the replacement judge on the show.

In fact Farah Khan is the only one who was the end replacement. Ganesh Hegde works for learning something & to show this world something new. He is not like Farah who enjoys commenting in the reality show , who herself cant dance due to her HEAVY WEIGHT category. Atleast Mr.G works for the betterment of Dance world. Farah is clearly jealous of Mr.G. If Farah is so proud of her dancing then she should prove it by dancing & not by commenting. 

Farah & I go to same psychiatrist: Ganesh

Ganesh Hegde(Left)
& Farah Khan (Right)

The 'give and take' between Farah Khan and Ganesh Hegde is not over yet.

While Hedge accused Farah of spreading negative stories about him being shunted out of a dance reality show and her being the first choice for Ra.One, Farah too retorted in the media recommending a psychiatrist to Hegde. This has fuelled the controversy and Hegde is again fuming over her statement.

With an open sarcasm Hegde says, "Yes, I see the same doctor that Farah visits and even he feels that she talks too much. There are people who let their work talk and then there are people who let their talk work.

Honestly, when have you seen a Farah Khan dance, please tell me that someone has seen her dance, anybody? I have done some good work in the recent past and have never spoken to anyone about making it public. Have never blown my own trumpet in 20 years, so why will I now?"

Revealing about his role if he were, at all, to participate in the reality show, Hegde says, "I was supposed to groom the contestants on various dance styles, direct four music videos for Hrithik, and being a music maker myself, give my inputs for the dance music which is done by Pritam.

In fact, without signing any contract I have had two sittings on the music with Pritam and Hrithik, who I immensely respect. If Farah was equipped to play these many roles or if she is contributing to any of these, then she has indeed replaced me and if not, then she should just sit back and let her talks do all the hard work.

And just for the records, I have never been to the sets of the reality show so how can there be problems on the sets because of me?"

Finally speaking about Farah, Hegde says, "Earlier in the year she came out with an article calling herself the preferred choice to choreograph an act to be performed by a leading actress on an awards night. She said I got the lucky break just because of the event managers.

I chose to keep quiet. Farah came in two days before the reality show launch and immediately set out an article claiming she elbowed me out of the show. How can you elbow someone out when you are a last minute replacement yourself? Farah has just bought a house in the building where I stay and sometimes, she passes by in the lobby.

We have always exchanged pleasantries and then out of the blue going to press saying that I have an attitude problem clearly shows who needs a doctor here. Farah is a good director, I like her sense of humour, but flexing the PR muscles and resorting to such negative publicity is an act of bullying, which no self respecting person will take lying down."

Deadly Combo of Poreotics & Ganesh Hegde in "Lets Party" Album

Poreotics, also known as Poreotix, is an American all-male dance crew from Westminster, California. The crew was formed in 2007 by "Dumbo" Nguyen and specializes in popping, choreography and robotics, hence the name Po-reo-tics. They have performed in numerous hip hop dance competitions, most notably coming in 1st place in the USA division of the 2009 and 2010 Hip-Hop Internationals and in other dance programs and competitions including the Vibe 15, FUSION X, Body Rock, and World Of Dance. On April 8, 2010, they were crowned the champions on the fifth season of America's Best Dance Crew.

Recently they were featured in the Indian Video with Ganesh Hegde made "Lets Party". The killer choreography of Ganesh Hegde & tutting of Poreotics made the video "WOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW"