When Ganesh was 10, his father, a dancer, died, which plunged his family into a financial crisis and forced Ganesh to give up his studies. He then started learning the art of dancing from his sister. He later assisted famous choreographer Kamal, until he died.
Ganesh started his own dance group at the age of 12, became a choreographer at 19 and worked in his first film, Anaam (1992) at 21.
Ganesh choreographed five big films in the year 2006 namely Rang De Basanti, Phir Hera Pheri, Golmaal, Omkara and Lage Raho Munnabhai.
Following this Ganesh decided to make a stand in film direction. His first film Swami(2007), which is also produced and written by him, stars Manoj Bajpai and Juhi Chawlaand to a surprise this new film does not have any song and dance. The film is about the journey of a man called Swamy (Bajpai) and his wife Radha (Juhi).
In 2008, Ganesh Acharya tried to make a comedy (with his favourite actors Govinda and Manoj Bajpai) Money Hai To Honey Hai, a comedy involving a dead man, a will, lots of money and a way. In 2011 he also acted as a villain in a Tamil film rowthiram with jeeva in lead [2]
In 2002, he was nominated in Screen Weekly Awards for best choreography for Badi Mushkil song from Lajja (2001). In 2005, he was nominated for Technical awards in ZeeCine Awards as the best choreographer for the song Aisa Jadoo Dala Re from Khakhee (2004). In 2007 he won Film fare award for best choreography for the song Beedi from Omkara (film) (2006).
Govinda is his favorite dancer and from the heroines his favorite is Madhuri Dixit. He has choreographed Govinda in almost all his films. He often features in songs, like "Koi Jaye to le aaye" from Ghatak (1994) and "Khullam Khulla" in the movie Road (2002).[3]
Ganesh acted in a 2011 Tamil movie called Rowthiram.
[edit]Awards
He has won an Award for Technical Excellence for the movie Omkara (film) and a filmfare award for the same movie. He was also nominated for the Screen Weekly Award & Zee Cine Award.[4]
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