Updated 3 July 2020 at 17:45 IST
Saroj Khan's death: Ananya Panday, Parineeti Chopra pay heartfelt tributes
Veteran choreographer Saroj Khan's death was a great blow to the entertainment industry. An accomplished dancer, the ace choreographer had trained many stars.
The demise of veteran choreographer Saroj Khan was a great blow to the entertainment industry. An accomplished dancer, the ace choreographer had trained many budding talents in the fraternity. Saroj Khan who breathed her last due to a cardiac arrest in Mumbai has been remembered by many stars from the industry. Several stars are mourning the huge loss while paying their tribute to her. Ananya Panday, Parineeti Chopra penned their heartfelt condolences on social media.
Ananya Panday & Parineeti Chopra mourn Saroj Khan's demise
Ananya Panday shared a throwback picture on her Instagram stories where she can be seen sitting down on knees while seeking blessings from Saroj Khan during one of her sessions. While captioning the post, Ananya wrote, ‘love you masterji.” Apart from this, the Student of the Year 2 actress shared another picture of the dancer where she can be seen smiling while posing for the . The Bollywood’s newbie captioned it with a broken heart emoticon.
Apart from Ananya, Parineeti Chopra also penned a note for the choreographer along with a monochrome picture of Saroj Khan. The actress praised Saroj’s dancing skills and wrote that when a person thinks of choreography, automatically the picture of the legendary choreographer gets imprinted in the minds of the people. The actress further wrote that Saroj Khan gave represents the true meaning of heroine in the Bollywood industry. At last, offered prayers to the family and called Saroj a “creator of legends, and a legend herself.”
Saroj Khan breathed her last at Mumbai's Guru Nanak Hospital in Bandra at around 2.30 am. The news was confirmed by her nephew Manish Jagwani, as per PTI inputs. She suffered from a cardiac arrest and her last rites were performed in Malad, Mumbai, at 7 am on Friday.
Bollywood actors have taken to their respective social media platforms and paid their last tributes to Saroj Khan. Celebrities like Akshay Kumar, Madhuri Dixit, Amitabh Bachchan, Kajol, Suniel Shetty, Dharmendra, Riteish Deshmukh, Taapsee Pannu, Jacqueline Fernandez, Sanjay Dutt, Sonam Kapoor among others mourned her loss.
Actors from the television fraternity, namely Mahira Sharma, Aly Goni, Arjun Bijlani, Munmun Dutta, Sayantani Ghosh, Surbhi Jyoti among others also paid their heartfelt tributes to Saroj Khan. Saroj Khan has choreographed more than 2000 songs in her stellar career. Her last memory remains Madhuri Dixit's song Tabaah Ho Gaye from the 2019 film, Kalank
Published By : Prachi Arya
Published On: 3 July 2020 at 17:45 IST