Despite having completed 100 films in just five years, choreographer Radhika’s dream hasn’t been realised yet. “I’m waiting for an opportunity to choreograph the opening song of a top hero,” she says. Radhika has assisted several leading choreographers in Tamil cinema, but she cherishes her experience with “Tarun master” the most. “I will always be grateful to him for teaching me the basics and reminding me that there’s no substitute for hard work.”
Radhika found the going tough during the beginning of her career, on account of being dark-skinned. “I struggled to find work,” she says. But that changed when she was chosen for Mysskin’s Mugamoodi . “Mysskin spotted my talent, and I thank actor Jiiva too for doing his best to do justice to the song, ‘Vaayamoodi Summa Iru Da’. When the actors have the right attitude, it always makes the job easy for the choreographer,” says Radhika, whose favourite routine in cinema is Helen’s dance in ‘Yeh Mera Dil’ ( Don ).
Her chief grouse with Tamil cinema is how female choreographers are used only for item numbers and melodies. “But once I get my opportunity to do an opening number, I’ll show that we are good enough too,” she says.
