Body shaming: Geeta Kapur recalls being told, 'Moti bhains ho gayi ho'

Geeta Kapur:  Choreographer Geeta Kapur has said in the early days of her career she was body-shamed. She had just started as a judge in a dance reality show Dance India Dance. There were two other judges too with her on the panel- Remo D'Souza and Terence Lewis. She said she would often get mails from people who didn’t want to see there. They would ask her to quit ‘Moti bhains ho gayi hai’ (you are as fat as a buffalo), they would say.

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Judge on Dance India Dance

Geeta made her first TV appearance as a judge on Zee TV on DID in its first season in 2008. Terence and Remo were the other two judges while Mithun Chakrabarty was the grand master.

Narrating her story on Maniesh Paul’s podcast, Geeta said, “I would get such nasty comments through fan mails. One day, I was really upset and wondered what was even happening. Why is no one looking at my work? I am sitting in the middle of two men and trying to make my place but no one looking at that.”

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People made nasty comments

She added, "No one is seeing the hard work that I am doing. Why is everyone asking why do I belong here? People used to call me fat. 'You look like a buffalo'. Obviously, Terrence was a good-looking guy and Remo had a personality to look forward to and everybody was like ‘why are you here? Moti, bhains ho gayi ho (You are fat like a buffalo).’”

Geeta Kapur was a teenager when she started her journey in the film industry. She was part of choreographer-filmmaker Farah Khan’s dance troupe. Geeta also assisted Farah on films such as Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Dil Toh Pagal Hai, Mohabbatein, Kal Ho Na Ho, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, Om Shanti Om and Main Hoon Na.

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