A 10-year-old deaf-mute little boy will be seen literally having his voice found after an appearance on a reality dancing TV show Super Dancer. He will be having a good time with the director Anurag Basu, the maker of the hit “Barfi!” based on the story of specially challenged people.
The cute kid Harsh Dhara from Jalgaon won the hearts of not only the judges — Anurag Basu, Shilpa Shetty and Geeta Kapur — of Sony’s dance reality show “Super Dancer” during the audition rounds but he managed to impress the viewers also.
A Mumbai publication reports that it was a “Barfi!” moment for Basu during the mega-auditions and he was completely smitten to see the youngster Harsh when he performed to his film’s “Itti Si Hasi,” song and the director actually go emotional to see the performance.
After the emotional appearance of Harsh, he was eliminated soon after; but the emotional filmmaker told Dhara that he would like him to meet his “Barfi!” hero someday. On Oct. 23, the boy got to meet Ranbir Kapoor actually in his vanity van and RK actually praised him a lot.
Dhara is a deaf mute, and, though his run on the show was short, but the channel decided to sponsor his treatment. The boy has been given a hearing aid so now he can hear almost 70 percent. And, in an episode to be aired this weekend (Oct. 29-30), viewers will see Dhara speak onstage for the first time which will be making everybody very emotional.
The boy’s first attempts to speak were just muffled sounds, on seeing this both Geeta Kapoor and Shila Shetty just broken down in tears. His dance teacher, Gaurav Nathani, recalled how the boy had come to him with desire to learn dancing with his elder sister.
“I decided to take up the challenge of teaching Harsh, and, since he couldn’t hear, I communicated with him through gestures. Now, he can hear quite well but will have to undergo speech therapy before he can respond to sounds properly. It’s a happy moment for us,” he told the media regarding the issue.
