Rock n’ roll(er skates)

Updated On: 12 December, 2023 06:27 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu

Choreographer Hegde breaks down how Suhana and Khushi trained for two months to pull off The Archies’ song that marries dancing and skating

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Suhana Khan, Khushi Kapoor and Aditi Saigal in The Archies

Pulling off a dance routine entirely on roller skates sounds like a challenge. But to choreographer Ganesh Hegde, it sounded like his long-time dream come true. When The Archies director Zoya Akhtar told him how she envisioned the song, Dhishoom dhishoom, he knew it was his one chance to marry dancing and skating together. “For this song, I had a specific reference. In Xanadu [1980], Gene Kelly did a brilliant skate routine. There aren’t many actors who are also dancers and can skate. Kelly did that with flair. Our films didn’t have the space for it until Zoya wrote the sequence,” he begins.

Ganesh Hegde