New Delhi: Earlier this year, a video of Terence Lewis and Nora Fatehi from the set of ‘India's Best Dancer’ caused a stir online. Their performance went viral, and the viewers were shocked by what they witnessed, leading them to bombard the choreographer. Terence was accused of improperly touching Nora in the video, and online users responded by criticising the choreographer. Both of them supposedly had to deal with a lot of internet harassment.
However, Terrence claims that the allegations against him are false and that he has no idea what happened.
During his appearance on Maniesh Paul's podcast, Terence elaborated on the incident, “It was a simple situation. Shatrughan Sinha and his wife had come. Geeta Kapoor felt that we had to do full namaskar to greet them. That week, Malaika Arora had COVID, and Nora stepped into her shoes. I said okay, fine. We did namaskar as respect, but suddenly, Geeta felt that it was not enough and wanted us to do more. So we followed her directions. I don’t even remember if my hand touched her (Nora), I don’t know even if it is really touching.”
The choreographer said, “On a fair note, two weeks before, Nora had come on the show and asked me to dance with her… Why would I want to do something like this, when there are four cameras around? ‘This is too cheap, you can’t do this’, I got abused, in my DMs.”
He also added, “I've already danced with her in close proximity, and when you’re in the middle of it, you are not thinking in that zone. We are so focused, you cannot be in two worlds, and you need a lot of guts to do something like this.”
Also on the podcast, Terence said that he wasn't sure whether the viral video was authentic or not since it seemed so real. He also called Nora after the video became viral.