10 Famous Celebrities Who Were Background Dancers Prior To Stardom

5 Arshad Warsi

Also popular as Circuit, his character name from the Sanjay Dutt starrer films ‘Munna Bhai M.B.B.S’ (2003) and ‘Lage Raho Munna Bhai’ (2006), Arshad Warsi has today established himself as one of the most sought-after actors in the comic space. The actor has been part of many successful comedy films in his career so far. His past films in the genre are enjoyed by the audience even today and have seen hundred repeats on TV. As we all know that the Rajkumar Hirani directed ‘Munna Bhai’ series featured superstar Sanjay Dutt as the male lead, but had the franchise been the same if Arshad would not have played Circuit in it.

Not just the ‘Munna Bhai’ film franchise, Arshad has proved his great comic skills in Rohit Shetty’s immensely popular ‘Golmaal’ film series also. The film franchise has seen four instalments till date, with the last one, Golmaal Again’ (2017), earning over Rs. 200 crores at the box office. Whether or not you are an Arshad Warsi fan, you must have heard a lot of things about the actor. But do you know that the talented actor started his Bollywood career as a background dancer? Yes, Arshad was a choreographer and had appeared in a couple of films as a background dancer before taking a dive into films as an actor.

Arshad always had a deep interest in dance and hence he started choreographing in films. It was during one of these dance performances that Arshad met his wife Maria. Arshad was a part of Akbar Sami’s dance group as a choreographer. At the age of 21, he laid the foundation his own dance studio. He rose to fame after choreographing the title track of ‘Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja’ (1993), starring Sridevi and Anil Kapoor. Soon, his destiny brought him in front of the camera from behind it and the rest is history.

TRIVIA: Even before beginning his career as a choreographer and then actor, Arshad used to work as a salesman who sold cosmetics door to door.