In Bollywood, a movie is incomplete without people shaking, moving and grooving on songs. Especially, hear dance numbers are incomplete without background dancers doing their professional, acrobatic and hip twisting moves behind the main lead of the movie. The trend of having these background dancers behind the main character during a dance number is a quite an old one and it won't be wrong if we say that this has been there since the beginning of this entertainment industry in India. But in today's time, these background dancers have become a very important part of any movie.

Usually, these background dancers who are also known as fillers in the Bollywood Film industry are called as "Extras" in a movie and these are used to make any item number or dance number look more interesting and charismatic. But with time, this same segment has become a serious job for many people. In fact, dancing has emerged to be a serious job in the entertainment industry and there are huge demands of them.

These dancers share everything from stage, props, and costumes with your favorite stars like Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, SRK, Salman and many more and match step by step with them to make a song memorable for every viewer.

Even you'll be surprised to know that Bollywood star Shahid Kapoor is also one of the people who started his career as a background dancer and now he's among the highest paid actors of Bollywood. During those early days, he uses to train hard under his then dancing guru Shiamak Davar, which Ultimately helped his talent to groom better.

Now, it's such a big opportunity and industry in itself that even the TV industry has started making reality shows to promote and hunt for such talents from all across the country. Dance shows like India's Got Talent, Dance India Dance, and others are few TV platforms which promotes such talents.

Even though this is a very vast industry in itself now, you must be wondering how much do you think these artists earn monthly? Well, honestly this depends on the choreographer assigned for every movie because they are the ones who decide about what shall be done with a particular song and how much resources are required for that and according to that they further charge and distributes the amount accordingly.

But mostly, these artists manage to earn around Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 1 Lac per month, if they are working enough and efficiently. The amount is again no where close to what the main lead charges for a song.