Choreographer-turned-singer Ganesh Hegde was last year replaced by Bosco-Caesar for Rockstar tour, on Salman Khan's recommendation. This year it is director Lovely Singh who showed him the door most recently.
Hegde was supposed to choreograph Kareena Kapoor's item song in Kya Love Story Hai, called It's Rocking, but was later replaced
Cos he ‘gave me a lot of starry airs. He is a choreographer, but he wanted to change the whole thing.
I don't know whether he is into song composition or not, but he wanted
to make it a whole new song!He said he wanted to record the song his way, even though Pritam had already recorded it. When he made so many demands, I decided to replace him with Bosco-Caesar."says Singh.
Hegde says, "People who want Ganesh Hegde, must want Ganesh Hegde. I don't have a replacement in the industry. I do only three songs a year and one of them (Main hoon Don) gets selected at all the award functions.
I refuse 40 songs a year because I like to do quality work. When someone asks me to choreograph a song, it has to appeal to me."
"Kareena is a very dear friend so I didn't want her to do a mediocre song. I wanted to help Lovely as he told me it was a small film. The only thing I suggested was to take
the song to a different level. Lovely wanted hip-hop, while Pritam wanted the original.
I heard both versions and felt both lacked something special. I wanted something more to inspire me. The next thing I heard was that they had replaced me." says
Hegde.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 13:48 IST