Thankfully after starting to smoke during the filming of Kismet Connection, due to his breakup with Bebo, Shahid Kapur aka Sha-K has decided to kick the habit for good! Realizing how harmful it was for him and the negative message it was sending out to all his fans, especailly the young ones, he promised to quit … and quit he has.

Sha-K has been gearing up for his next film with Ken Ghosh and training very diligently with close friend and trainer Abbas Ali. Ali had been getting worried about Sha-K’s demeanor and the damaging effects that the smoking was having on him.

Now that he has been off the cancer sticks for several days, things will get better for him in terms of feeling better and being able to concentrate on his training and shooting. It’s ironic that he has quit just as Kismet Connection is getting ready to be released. All the best to Sha-K in this venture.

The man who has taken the responsibility of taking Sha-K’s career to the next level is good friend and first director in Ishq Vishq, Ken Ghosh, who is all set to make Bollywood’s most expensive dance film till date called Yahoo.

However, the steps will not be choreographed by any of Bollywood’s usual chorographers. Rather, it will be none other than Marty Kedulka (Justin Timberlake’s choreographer) and Brian Friedman (Britney Spears’ chorographer) who will be flying down sometime in May to choreograph the special dance steps for the film.

“This is going to be Bollywood’s first genuine dance movie,” says co-producer Ram Mirchandani. Kedulka was approached by Ghosh in LA and is thrilled at the prospect of doing a Bollywood’s dance movie.

“This is my fastest script so far. I completed it within 5 months and narrated it to Shahid when he was shooting in Toronto. From there I went to LA and hooked up with Marty Kedulka and Brian Friedman. This movie will take dance to the next level and who can be a better actor than Shahid Kapoor. He has really evolved as an actor,” says Ghosh.

Shahid too, is excited about dancing to the ace Hollywood chorographers’ steps. “It’s going to be a challenge, but I’m ready to accept it. I’m glad at the early stage of my career I’m getting something like this. I’m told it is going to be Bollywood’s first dance movie and dance is my USP,” says a delighted Sha-K.

It is rumored that Jiah Khan will be the lead actress opposite Sha-K in Yahoo.

Already an amazing dancer, as we have seen from his films, Shahid Kapur still feels there is room for improvement. So he has been adding protein into his regular vegetarian diet and working out more at the gym.

With quite a chiseled physique, Kapur feels that working out with fitness trainer Abbas Ali will help him build stronger shoulders, abdomen and thigh muscles. All this for his next role as a dancer in Ken Ghosh’s new venture.

Making his limbs stronger will help the actor when he has to perform quick and strenuous dance movements.

Kapur has joined the same league of dancers as Hrithik Roshan. Shiamak Davar commented on this point, “ with Shahid now honing his skills further, he may emerge as the undisputed best.”

Shahid Kapur is on a high these days. After the super successful Vivah and Jab We Met, he has established himself as Bollywood’s newest lover-boy. So what is Sha-K up to now that he has his new found status?

For starters, he has just given his nod for a lavish love story for which Yash Raj Films has approached him, saying that he fell in love with the script itself. The film will be directed by either Aditya Chopra or his close associate Anurag Singh when it goes on the floor in March 2008.

Other filmmakers too are getting in line to have him sign their projects on the dotted line. Not rushing into anything and taking the proper steps in deliberation, he is trying to make sure he chooses the right scripts and is signing up for them.

It also appears that rules are meant to be broken concerning Sha-K. Not in a bad way, but if we remember it wasn’t too long ago when he said he would only do one film at a time. Well my friends…such is not the case any longer. Sha-K is not only readying himself for the YRF project, but also Ken Ghosh’s film, where, we might add, he will be sporting long hair, and his father, actor Pankaj Kapur’s directorial venture.

So now we can finally say with much confidence that Sha-K has arrived and has made his way into Bollywood’s big league. The rest of the big boys like the four Khans (SRK, Aamir, Salman and Saif) just might need to keep a close eye on this one.

What: Premiere of Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal
Where: PVR, Juhu, Mumbai
When: November 22, 2007
Celebrities Present: John Abraham, Bipasha Basu, Arshad Warsi, Vivek Agnihotri, Ronnie Screwvala, Suniel Shetty, Ken Ghosh, Anand Raj Anand, Pritam, Urvashi Sharma, Shekhar Suman, Soni Rajdan, Pallavi Joshi, Yukta Mookhey, Manav and Shweta Kohli, Narayani Shastri, Sagarika Ghatge and others