Some people learn to dance But Remo D'souza Born to DanceRemo D'Souza was born on April 2, 1974 from Banglore Karnataka State in India to Gopi Nair and Madhaviyamma. His Real name is Ramesh Gopi. He has one Elder Brother Ganesh Gopi and three younger Sisters. He studied in Jamnagar,Gujarat. He did his 12th fromthere and during his HSC board exam he realized that he didn't had any interest in studies. He immediately left school and landed in Mumbai to struggle. He married Lizelle D'Souza and they have Two sons named Gabriel D'Souza , Dhruv D'Souza.
ABOUT HIS STRUGGLE
He did not had any guru ,he loved dance since his early childhood and used to perform during school functions and all that kind of occasions. But his craving to learn more about dancing is what brought him to Mumbai.It was only dance. Whatever He has learnt about dance until now is by his own. He hasn't taken any professional training. He learnt it by watching movies, music videos etc. He would rather say Michael Jackson is his guru as he used to copy his steps watching him dancing in his videos and then choreograph his own steps by adding something extra.After few days he opened a dance class by the name of Super Brats at Churni Road. along with three of his friends soon opened two more branches of the institute, one in Andheri and other in Borivali.Initially he had four students and gradually it increased. He got money in that way but there was a season of it, the rainy seasons were really bad. At one point he had literally no money; not even to give to the people with whom he was staying as paying guest. he lied to them that he had his classes and would come after two days. For those two days, he stayed at Bandra station without having food.It was in All India Dance Competition that his team came first and he got noticed. At that time,Ahmed Kha was working on Ram Gopal Varma's Rangeela and was on the look out for fresh faces. He auditioned him and he got selected. At the beginning he was rejected because of his dark complexion and unattractive features whereas Ahmed wanted chikna and gora gora ladka. But luckily Ahmed's assistant knew about his dancing skills and insisted him to take me in the film. So, he got selected again for Rangeela's first song, Ai re ai re.That time Ram Gopal Varma loved his character so much that he used to keep him in all his scenes. If you see the film you will notice that it opens with his close up with him sitting and having a bidi. That was his first big break as a dancer and having a close up and opening shot in 70mm screen in Hindi film is a very big thing which made his career. From there he started assisting Ahmed.After assisting Ahmed Khan for one year, he got the confidence to take on an independent project. But at the same time, he was worried as for that he would had to leave Ahmed and then if the project didn't click, he would be nowhere. It was Anubhav Sinha who gave him his first video. It was Sonu Nigam's album Deewana. Luckily the video was a big hit and later he worked on many more videos along with Anubhav and others. There was time when he was working on four music videos in one day. As far as film is concerned, he got his first break in Hansal Mehta's Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar, which unfortunately didn't do well at the box office. It was again Anubhav Sinha who gave him his film Tum Bin which proved to be a big hit.But the real breakthrough he got is from the film Kaante where he choreographed item number Ishq Samunda proved to be a major success. After 'Tum Bin' and 'Kaante' proving to be hits, he was on the seventh heaven actually.
Edited by anjali_mahajan - 9 years ago
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