Sonu Sood and Rahul Shetty to ship ration kits to background dancers of Bollywood – Instances of India

Bollywood’s background dancers have lastly began getting assist from their colleagues. After Akshay Kumar pledged a donation of 1 month’s price of ration to the dancers’ households, choreographer Rahul Shetty and actor Sonu Sood have now come ahead to assist them. Each of them too have donated ration kits to the members of the Cine Dancers Association.

Zahid Shaikh, of the CDA, when contacted, confirmed the identical, including, “Rahul Shetty has despatched ration kits to our members. We’re actually comfortable that Sonu Sood sir has come ahead to assist dancers who’ve been out of labor since final March”. When prodded if dancers acquired work after the primary unlock within the nation, Shaikh revealed, “Solely about 35 per cent of the members acquired work as a result of, as , we dancers work in crowds and the federal government pandemic SOPs prevented our members from getting work. Simply earlier than the second lockdown, there was a requirement for ‘Brahmastra‘ however then they requested us to cut back the variety of dancers from 200 to 20 and even that’s on maintain now”.

The CDA has about 800 members. However with no work, fairly a couple of of them at the moment are working in courier service, promoting greens, working as safety guards or have joined telemarketing companies.