"Handicap is in one's mind. You are not a handicap if you can work and earn. I think handicapped are those who despite being able bodied, do nothing in their lives," she says.

Ms Rawal, the only child of a senior retired government official, had a paralytic attack on her lower limbs, when she suffered from brain fever at the age of three. She advice to use calipers, but it misfired and instead affected her upper limbs, which could not take its load. Today, her back bone is almost 40 per cent damaged. But Ms Rawal was not the one to be resigned to her fate instead she decided to take the world head-on.

Today, despite being confined to her wheelchair, she has earned recognition as a top choreographer with over 900 stage shows during the last two and a half years.

"Punjab Academy's Sandeep Handa gave me my first break. He considers me his sister and asked me to do the show where almost 48 top filmstars were going to be present," she says. Ms Rawal rubs shoulders with film stars and top singers of the country, who trust her to make their shows successful with her troupe of dangers. The list includes singers like Richa Sharma, Jassi, Mikka, Abhijit, Jaspinder Narula and Daler Mehndi, and film stars like Govinda and Mamata Kulkarni.

"I decided to do something that a handicapped person was not supposed to do at all - become a dance choreographer," she says. She created her own troupe and started teaching them how to dance. Although she cannot demonstrate dance steps, with the help of her innovative method - she has named dance steps as wings, kem che, sky catch, head clap, side clap, etc - she manages to convey her instructions. She has an assistant who helps her sometimes in demonstrating her steps. "I listen to songs at night, maybe four at a time, she says and then decipher them on paper with symbols like wings, clap etc. Ms Rawal claims that her troupe is the only one in the metropolis which has different steps for Hindi, English, Punjabi, Rajasthani and Arabic songs. Does she get work due to the sympathy factor? "Definitely sympathy is there, but no one would return to you if they do not give their money's worth. They come back and recommend me because of my professional abilities," she asserts.

With Delhi emerging a choice for Bollywood filmmakers during the last couple of years, her troupe is now in demand among Hindi filmmakers. However, she says that she has not yet made up her mind on whether she would choreograph some dance numbers in a Hindi movie as well, saying, "I like to take life as it comes".

What she likes to do in her spare time is sitting on the steps of Shoppers Stop and munching something or eat momos in Dilli Haat. Her first TV serial, Zara Sambhal Ke made under her own banner, is under consideration of the government-owned Doordarshan, while she is busy working on some others. Being successful in life, Ms Rawal gets marriage offers by dozens, but she is adamant that she would not marry, although she admits she has many boy friends and loves to go to disco with them. "I don't need to get married as I don't like being confined. I earn enough not to bother about the financial security that marriages offer." A firm believer in God and the follower of Sai Baba of Shirdi, she feels that God has been kind and she is blessed because of her parents.

Being a dreamer, Ms Rawal has one more dream - to inspire the handicapped to overcome their physical disabilities, as she strongly feels disability can be overcome with sheer determination to succeed in life.