I’ve only danced in bathroom till date

It was his first live performance and choreographer Shiamak Davar who’s IIFA’s resident dance aficionado didn’t matters make matters easy for Harman Baweja.

According to a source practicing his steps with Shiamak has been a lesson in “unlearning the learned”, as someone close to the actor put it.

Elaborating on the nimble-footed Baweja’s traumatic experience the source says, “Harman and Shiamak chose the slow and rhythmic Milo na milo for IIFA.

Harman of course had mastered Remo’s original steps and he suggested to Shiamik that they retain the original steps since audiences hadn’t seen much of Harman’s dancing skills anyway.

To Harman’s surprise delight and relief Shiamak agreed to retain Remo’s rhythms. The young actor couldn’t have hoped for better.”

For almost two weeks Harman practiced the original steps in front of Shiamak. Then the super-choreographer had a change of ‘mime’.

Shiamik decided that the number must be done entirely his way.

Says the source, “Suddenly Harman was told that the steps were being changed. After practicing for weeks, he was thrown completely off-course. Harman had no choice but to comply.

But it was quite a harrowing experience to first do the original steps from the film for stage under Shiamak’s guidance and then at the eleventh hour have them changed completely.”

Harman laughed off the ordeal nervously on the eve of his departure for Bangkok. “All this is part and parcel of showbiz. I’ve to get used to slogging and I’m not scared of hard work. I’m very very nervous.

So far the only live audience I’ve danced for me is me. I’ve danced only in front of the mirror in the bathroom. I’ve been dubbing all day and rehearsing all night.

And now I can only pray that my first stage performance goes well”

Interestingly Priyanka joined Harman at the end of his act. “But that’s only for a bit. I am solo most of the way, ‘ Harman asserts.

Will Aishwarya play a sex worker?

According to a source plans are afoot to bring Ash and the ethereal Meryl Streep together in an American production of Chaos.

Says a source, “They ran the concept with Meryl and Ash and they were game .They need to Americanize the theme because Chaos was a very French movie. But yes, in principle Ash is on for this film.”

Another international project that Aishwarya has given the nod to is Roland Joffe’s Singularity with Brendan Fraser.

Speaking on Singularity Ash says, “I’ve asked them for the final draft of the script. Now the time factor has to be worked out. The time they want is devoted to Mani Sir (Ratnam)’s project.

New dates have to be worked out. There’re so many projects that I want to do but because of the dates or a delay I can’t. There’re only that number of assignments I can take on. I’ve never done more work that I can do. I never can.”

In the meanwhile Aishwarya gets ready to shoot for Shankar’s Robot and Mani Ratnam’s film with Abhishek.

Informs the actress, “There has been a little delay in Shankar’s Robot because of his writer Sujata’s death. That has delayed Robot a bit. All kinds of rumours have been floated about the project.

The dates situation does get tighter for me because I was supposed to shoot Robot now and Mani Sir’s film a little later during the year. We just have to work under a tighter schedule now.”