Malaika Arora shot to fame with her superhit dance number Chaiyya Chaiyya with Shah Rukh Khan in Mani Ratnam's 1998 film Dil Se. After all these years, Malaika revealed a shocking incident about the filming of the song. She was bleeding around the waist while dancing, she recounted.
"I fell several times while shooting for Chaiyya Chaiyya. I would sway right and left owing to the strong wind, and to avoid that, the team tied me with the train with a rope through my ghaghra. This was meant to help me balance and (stay in) sync with the train's motion. Unfortunately, when I removed the rope, I discovered I had cuts along my waistline. I was bleeding, and everyone was worried," she said, recalling the shooting for the iconic number on a reality dance show.
Composed by AR Rahman and written by Gulzar, Chaiyya Chaiyya made Malaika a dancing star in Bollywood. She would go on perform numerous other blockbuster dances - from Maahi Ve in Kaante to Munni Badnaam Hui in Dabangg and the recent Hello Hello in Pataakha.
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