Veteran actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan, on Monday, mourned the demise of Kathak maestro Birju Maharaj. On Instagram, he shared a picture with the legend.
Alongside the image, he penned a heartfelt note, in which he called himself `Ekalavya` who was learning from afar from guru Birju Maharaj before finally getting a chance to be choreographed by him in the film.
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“We`ve lost a peerless dancer like Pandit Birju Maharaj. For several years, I learned from him, from a distance, as Ekalavya did.. then I got to learn from him in person for the film Vishwaroopam. `Without you insight, I`m not who I am,” Kamal Haasan wrote .
Pandit Birju Maharaj, a descendant of the Maharaj family of Kathak dancers, breathed his last on Monday. He had choreographed the dance moves for the Kathak song `Unnai Kanatha` in Kamal Haasan`s `Vishwaroopam`, and had bagged the National Award for Best Choreographer for the same.
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