Top 10 Celebrities Who Were Background Dancers Earlier

Not everyone starts their career as they wanted to or not everyone pursues till the end what they started as professionally. Here are names of some such celebrities who started as background dancers early in their career and are pretty good at dancing.

1. Shahid Kapoor

The fact is known to everyone that he is a good dancer and a student of Shiamak Davar. He was spotted in a song of Taal movie, behind Aishwarya Rai and in Dil to Pagal hai as well. He is one of the best dancers amongst Bollywood actors.

2. Kajal Aggarwal

A well-known actress of the south, who has done films like Singham in Bollywood, has also danced behind Aishwarya in a song of Kyun ho gaya naa movie.

3. Sushant Singh Rajput

Apart from being a daily-soap star, he was also a dancer earlier. All of us know of his dancing talent after the reality shows he did like Zara nach ke dikha and Jalakh dikhhla jaa.

4. Varun Dhawan

He is an amalgamation of Govinda and Salman Khan and has a unique dance style like them. Even he was in the troupe of Shiamak Davar and his dancing skills are obviously seen in his films.

5. Daisy Shah

We have already seen the dance grooves of this gujju girl in Jai ho and her other films. Even she started as a background dancer and can be spotted behind Salman Khan in songs of Tere naam.

6. Dia Mirza

A year before she debuted in Bollywood, she started her career as a background dancer and was featured in a Tamil film. Later on, that Tamil song also got its Bollywood version in some film.

7. Geeta Kapoor

The well-known choreographer who was also called Geeta maa in Dance India Dance could be spotted in a song of Kuch kuch hota hai. Yes, the lady in the centre, singing the song is her! It is difficult to recognize her.

8. Marzi Pestonji

Yet another choreographer who rose to fame with Dance India Dance; he can be spotted in Dhoom again song which is the title trackk. He is just right behind Hrithik Roshan. He has also been trained under Shiamak Davar.

9. Vikrant Massey

The cutie pie of TV serials that has also done films like Dil Dhadakne Do, is trained as a ballet dancer and has also worked with Shaimak Davar. He has not yet been spotted in songs but he too, started off as dancer.

10. Lisa Haydon

The newly married, Indian model turned actress has undergone training in Bharatnatyam and has also been trained under Shaimak Davar for over five years. After seeing her dancing in the manali trance, it’s difficult to believe that she could be so good in classical too. Well, the majority of them have been trained under Shiamak Davar and he is the one who creates fine dancers. I know many of you will be rewatching some of the songs to spot the mentioned.