Shiamak Davar's tryst with dance began quite accidentally when his girlfriend bought him tickets to a dance show. His dancing moves did not go unnoticed by the people there. Encouraged by feedback, he decided to enter a dance competition. He won.

Shiamak then attended some dance workshops and got himself trained. Very soon, he started teaching others and from 11 students, the master choreographer now has almost 80,000 under his wing!

He has indeed come a long way -- from performing in a programme (Body Soul to Soul) on Doordarshan Network to owning his very own dance institute (Shiamak Davar Institute for the Performing Arts) -- the dance master now has 13 classes all over India, three in Canada and one in Australia.

Most of his dance moves are seen on the big screen courtesy the famous actors and actresses he has choreographed for. Some of the big names in Bollywood -- Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Hrithik Roshan -- have all learnt their dance steps from the master at some point of their careers.

In a telephonic chat with the dance master (he was in Vancouver for the opening his new dance academy), Patcy N got him to list some of the best dances he has choreographed so far.

In the picture: Shiamak Davar shakes a leg with Shilpa Shetty at IIFA. He says, "Shilpa loved the thoomka that I taught her. She wanted me to join her on stage for five minutes, which, I refused. But she persisted, so I relented. I joined her as she was wrapping up her performance."

Also read: The stunning Shilpa Shetty

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