Choreographer Karishma Chavan has spent 18 years in the film industry, having worked with Rekha in Kaisi Paheli (Parineeta) and Jacqueline Fernandez in Lat Lag Gayee (Race 2). She has also been a part of several dance reality shows, including Dance Plus.

She is also a body positivity advocate, and is fiercely confident in her skin and size. However, she was asked to lose weight when she first set out to ask for work as a backup dancer with various choregraphers in the city. She was rejected at auditions, and had to drop down to her ‘ideal’ size of 60 kilos before she got her break as a professional dancer.