Ganesh Acharya

About Ganesh Acharya

Ganesh Acharya is an Indian choreographer, film director and film actor active in India's Bollywood. He has choreographed for Bodyguard and Singham amongst others. He has also appeared in numerous music videos for films. He opened as a film actor with the 2013 dance film ABCD: Any Body Can Dance. He won the National Film Award for Best Choreography for his work on the song "Hawan Kund" from the 2013 movie Bhaag Milkha Bhaag and the "Gori tu lath mar" song from the 2017 movie Toilet: Ek Prem Katha. He was also nominated for the Best Choreographer Award for his song "Malhaari" from the 2015 film Bajirao Mastani at the 61st Filmfare Awards.

He started learning the art of dancing from his sister. He later assisted famous choreographer Kamalji, until he died. Ganesh started his own dance group at the age of 12, became a choreographer at 19 and worked in his first film, Anaam (1992) at 21In 2002, he was nominated in Screen Weekly Awards for best choreography for "Badi Mushkil", a song from Lajja (2001). In 2005, he was nominated for Technical awards in Zee Cine Awards as the best choreographer for the song "Aisa Jadoo Dala Re" from Khakhee (2004). In 2007 he won the Filmfare award for best choreography for the song "Beedi" from Omkara. Ganesh choreographed five big films in the year 2006, namely Rang De Basanti, Phir Hera Pheri, Golmaal, Omkara and Lage Raho Munna Bhai.

Ganesh decided to make a stand in film direction. His first film Swami (2007), which is also produced and written by him, stars Manoj Bajpai and Juhi Chawla. It does not have any song and dance. The film is about the journey of a man called Swamy (Bajpai) and his wife Radha (Juhi). In 2008, Ganesh Acharya made Money Hai To Honey Hai, a comedy involving a dead man, a will, much money and a way. In 2011, he played a villain in the Tamil film Rowthiram. The famous item song "Chikni Chameli" from the 2012 film Agneepath featuring Katrina Kaif was choreographed by Ganesh Acharya. Govinda is his favourite dancer, and among the heroines his favourite is Madhuri Dixit. He has choreographed Govinda in almost all his films. He often features in songs, like "Koi Jaye to le aaye" from Ghatak (1994) and "Khullam Khulla" in the movie Road (2002). He did a special appearance as Mr. Zar in the superhit Chinese film Operation Mekong. In 2018, he was conferred the National Award for Best Choreographer for the song "Gori Tu Lath Mar" from Toilet: Ek Prem Katha.

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Dehati Disco Title Track

This song was released on 5th May '22. The song, crafted by Divya Kumar, Ganesh Acharya, is a track from the "Dehati Disco" album

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