Vrushali Chavan is an Indian dancer, choreographer, actor and dance director. She is best known for her role in the 2013 dance film ABCD: Any Body Can Dance, directed by Indian choreographer Remo D’Souza. In the film, Vrushali Chavan plays the cameo role of Vrushali. She is famous for her choreography in Bollywood movies. She has choreographed for famous Bollywood actors including Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Ajay Devgn, etc.
Vrushali teaches dance to the cast of the film Happy New Year
Wiki/Biography
Vrushali was born on Sunday, January 15, 1984, in Mumbai (38 years old; as of 2022). Her zodiac sign is Capricorn. She studied at Sheth MA High School in Andheri, Mumbai. She was a very studious child at school, and her parents enrolled her in a dance class to allow her to participate in extracurricular activities. They changed her school because it was far away and there was no time for dance classes. She learned various dance forms from Nalanda Nrityakala Mahavidyalaya in Mumbai. She completed her high school education from St. Blaise High School in Andheri, Mumbai, which is close to her home. Her parents were very supportive of her dance career. She went on to pursue a bachelor’s degree in fine arts at Mumbai Metropolitan College for five years.
Vrushali performs Bharatnatyam dance in front of parents for the first time
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′3”
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Vrushali belongs to a Marathi family in Mumbai.
Parents and siblings
Her father’s name is Pandurang Chavan, a pyrotechnicist, and her mother’s name is Madhuri Chavan. She has a younger brother named Prasen Chavan.
Vrushali with her parents and grandmother
Vrushali and her brother Prasen
Profession
dancer
Vrushali says she didn’t choose dance, but dance chose her. When the auditions for “Dance India Dance” began, her brother Prasen filled out an online audition form for her and insisted that she audition and perform any song. In 2009, Vrushali auditioned for the first season of the dance television show Dance India Dance (DID) and was eventually selected and became part of Terence Lewis’ team. She became famous for her participation in the show.
Vrushali performs on the Dance of India stage
choreographer
After becoming a contestant on the television show Dance India Dance, she had the opportunity to choreograph dance performances in many reality dance shows. She started her career as a choreographer in 2010 on Dance India Dance: Li’l Masters. Indian filmmaker and choreographer Farah Khan serves as a judge on the show and invited Vrushali to be her assistant after watching her performance. Working with famous Bollywood choreographer Geeta Kapoor. The first song she arranged as an assistant was “Fevicol Se” from the 2012 movie “Dabangg 2”. In 2010, she worked in the fourth season of the reality dance show “Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa” and worked as a choreographer for actor Dayanand Shetty. In 2015, she directed the eighth season of “Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa” with actor Ashish Chaudhary. She is known for her choreography in many popular Bollywood films including “Chennai Express” (2013), “Happy New Year” (2014), “Bajirao Mastani” (2015), etc.
Vrushali serves as choreographer in Dance India Dance Li’l Champs
actor
She made her acting debut in the Bollywood film “ABCD: Any Body Can Dance”, which featured many dancers/contestants from DID along with Indian choreographers Prabhu Deva and Ganesh Acharya. She played the role of Preeti Piyush Prasad Pandey in the 2011 Indian comedy sitcom “Best of Luck Nikki”. In 2018, she starred alongside Ishtiyak Khan in the short drama Prem Gajra Ani Chilli Chicken, directed by Sharad Malhotra; she played the role of Ishtiyak The role of Indu, the wife of Ishtiyak Khan.
Vrushali on the poster of the 2018 short film Prem Gajra Ani Chilli Chicken
In 2019, she starred in the short film “Pablo”, playing the mother of a 7-year-old boy. She played the supporting role of Veena Shankar in the 2021 Marathi suspense thriller web series Anuradha.
Facts/Trivia
- Vrushali was only five years old when she took a dance class to learn Bharatanatyam. She did not learn Bharataniam until she was in seventh grade.
- In an interview, she shared that the biggest turning point in her life was participating in Dance India Dance. She never thought she would pursue dance as a career.
- About a year before auditioning for “Dance India Dance,” she participated in an Indian television dance show called “Boogie Woogie,” but was not selected.
- She got an opportunity to judge regional reality shows Nachale Bindhani and Khallas Dance Ekach Chance.
- She has choreographed songs in some Marathi films like 31 Divas, Wada, Cheater, Ti Sadhya Kay Karte, Autograph, Shikari and Shutter.
- At the Jio Filmfare Awards 2018 (Marathi), Vrushali Chavan was nominated for the Best Choreography Award for the song “Parikatha” from the Marathi film “Ti Saddhya Kay Karte”.
- She frequently conducts theatre, acting and dance workshops.
Vrushali Chavan’s Instagram post about promoting dance workshops
- In 2020, she had an Instagram live chat called ‘Gupshup With Vee’ with many actors, life coaches and dancers including Sharad Kelkar, Himanshu Ashok Malhotra, Amruta Khanvilkar, Terence Lewis, Uma Rele and many more.
- She said in an interview that she would open her own dance academy because many people were asking her when she would start taking dance classes during the epidemic.
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Source: HIS Education