Jani Master Loses National Award Amid Sexual Abuse Allegations

Choreographer Jani Master gets a big shock, National Award withdrawn, barred from attending the ceremony

Famous choreographer of South and Hindi films Sheikh Jani Basha aka Jani Master was going to receive the National Award in the ‘Best Choreography Category’ this year. But considering the seriousness of the sexual abuse allegations against the choreographer, his award has been withdrawn. Along with this, he has also been barred from attending the ceremony.

The troubles of Sheikh Jani Basha aka Jani Master, choreographer of the superhit song ‘Aai Nahi’ from Rajkumar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor’s film ‘Stree 2’, are not coming to an end. Jani Master has been in jail since September 19 on rape charges. Meanwhile, he has got another big shock. Jani Master’s National Award in the ‘Best Choreography Category’ for the song ‘Megham Karukkatha’ has been withdrawn.

National Award taken back

The National Film Award Cell of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued a statement announcing that Jani Master’s National Film Award has been suspended. Apart from this, the invitation given to Jani Master to attend the 70th National Film Awards to be held at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi has also been cancelled. This means that now neither Jani Master will get the National Award nor will he be able to attend this ceremony.

The suspension letter states that the invitation was sent to the choreographer even before the allegations against him surfaced. However, considering the seriousness of the allegations, the National Film Award for Best Choreography for 2022 to Jani Master for the film ‘Thiruchitrambalam’ is withheld till further orders.

What is the whole case?

Let us tell you that Telugu choreographer Jani Master aka Sheikh Jani Basha was accused of physical harassment by a 21-year-old girl. After registering a case under POCSO, the Special Operations Team (SOT) arrested him in Goa on 19 September.

According to the information, on 4 October, the court granted interim bail to Jani Master from 6 to 10 October, but the condition for bail was that the choreographer will surrender in the court by 10:30 am on 10 October. The choreographer was granted interim bail only to attend the National Film Awards ceremony on 8 October, because this time he was going to receive the National Award for Best Choreography for his song ‘Megham Karukkatha’ in the film Thiruchitrambalam, which has now been removed.

Jani Master has worked with these superstars

Talking about Jani Master’s work front, he has choreographed songs of many Hindi films along with South films. The superhit song ‘Aai Nahi’ from Rajkumar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor’s film ‘Stree 2’ has also been choreographed by Jani Master, which got immense love from the fans. Jani Master has also been the choreographer of big stars like superstar Thalapathy Vijay, Allu Arjun, Prabhas and Salman Khan. He has choreographed songs like ‘Srivalli’, ‘Seeti Maar’.