Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa

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For the Himesh Reshammiya song, see Jhalak Dikhlaja.

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa

Genre	Dance, Factual Entertainment, Reality
Created by	Synergy Communications
Country of origin	India
No. of seasons	2
Broadcast
Original channel	Sony Entertainment Television India
Picture format	480i (SDTV),
Original run	September 7, 2007 – December 15, 2007
External links
Official website

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is an Indian version of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and ABC's Dancing with the Stars.

1 Concept
2 See also
3 External links

[edit] Concept

Sony Entertainment Television brings “Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa” with new celebrities and well known faces to perform with professional dance partners on a highly competitive stage. The show is produced by Synergy(makers of Kaun Banega Crorepati), BBC worldwide and Theatre Red for SET in India.

The show whose format is taken from the “Strictly Come Dancing” of BBC, has been a huge success across 27 countries like Britain, America, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy.

It also loosely based on Dancing with the Stars, and was started by Sony to compete against STAR One's already popular Nach Baliye.

“It’s a ‘Bollywoodisation’ of salsa, jazz and cha cha for the contest,” says dance consultant for the Sony reality show and choreographer Sandip Soparrkar whose task is to ensure that the international dance forms appeal to the Indian viewer.

The first season of the show that started on September 7, 2006 was hosted by real life husband wife duo Archana Puran Singh and Parmeet Sethi.

The second season of the show that started on September 28, 2007 and ended December 15th, 2007. The show was hosted by Mona Singh(JDJ Season 1 Winner) and Rohit Roy [Source: www.setindia.com].This time there was 12 participants.

Female participants of Season 2 were introduced in results of Semi-finals of Indian Idol 3 on September 8, 2007 by Mona Singh (JDJ Season 1 Winner)

[edit] Winners

Winner for Season 1 - Mona Singh of 'Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin' Fame.
Winner for Season 2 - Prachi Desai of 'Kasamh Se Fame.

[edit] Judges - Season 2

Urmila Matondkar
Shiamak Davar
Jeetendra

[edit] Participants - Season 2

Sudha Chandran - Choreographer - Uma Shankar (Eliminated in Round 6 - Nov 3, 2007)
(Ramola Sikand of Kahin Kissi Roz, Rajeshwari Devi in 'Solah Singarr', K Street Pali Hill fame, she is an acclaimed classical Dancer)

Prachi Desai - Choreographer - Deepak Singh (Eliminated in Round 7 - Nov 10, 2007) (Back through Wild Card entry on Nov 23, 2007, and won the competition on December 15th 2007)
(Bani/ Durga of Kasamm Se fame)

Sandhya Mridul -Choreographer - Javed Sanadi
(Koshish - Ek Aasha Fame, Movies: Saathiya, Page 3, Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd.)

Sonali Kulkarni - Choreographer - Toby (Eliminated in Round 10 - Dec 1, 2007)
(a very fine actress - Mission Kashmir, Balle Balle! Amritsar to L.A, Dil Chahata Hai Fame)

Tapur Chatterjee - Choreographer - Feroz (Eliminated in Round 3 - Oct 13, 2007)
(Model)

Mir Ranjan Negi - Choreographer - Marisha(Eliminated in Round 11 - Dec 8, 2007)
(Hockey Player, Coach, Chak De India)

Aadesh Srivastav - Choreographer - Tina (Eliminated in Round 2 - Oct 6, 2007)
(Music Director)

Mini Mathur - Choreographer - Hemu (Eliminated in Round 4 - Oct 20, 2007)
(VJ and Indian Idol 1, 2, 3 host)

Cyrus Broacha - Choreographer - Rozita Rajput (Eliminated in Round 5 - Oct 27, 2007)
(VJ)

Ronit Roy - Choreographer - Nicole Alvaris (Eliminated in Round 9 - Nov 24, 2007)
(Mihir of KSBKBT, Mr Bajaj of Kasauti Zindagi ki, Aprajit Deb - Kasamm Se)

Jay Bhanushali - Choreographer - Bindi Khare
(of 'Kayamath' fame)

Mika Singh - Choreographer - Tanushree (Eliminated in Round 8 - Nov 16, 2007)
(Singer, Daler Mehendi's brother)

[edit] Score Cards - Season 2

**Legend**
Female	Male	wildcard	eliminated

Place	Contestant	Result
Scores:		Sept 28	Oct 5	Oct 12	Oct 19	Oct 26	Nov 2	Nov 9	Nov 16	Nov 23 R1	Nov 23 R2	Nov 30 R1	Nov 30 R2	Dec 7 R1	Dec 7 R2	Dec 14 R1	Dec 14 R2	Dec 14 R3	Finale
01	Prachi Desai	19	23	25	28	27	23	28	Wildcard	24	30	27	30	27	30	28	29	28	Winner
02	Sandhya Mridul	23	23	23	25	28	30	30	30	26	30	30	30	30	30	26	30	30	Runner up
03	Jay Bhanushali	18	24	22	25	25	26	24	26	27	30	27	30	27	29	24	29	25	2nd Runner Up
04	Mir Ranjan Negi	23	24	21	24	23	30	30	24	21	21	22	27	(24) Elim	(28) Elim
05	Sonali Kulkarni	20	23	17	24	26	20	28	27	30	24	(23) Elim	(30) Elim
06	Ronit Roy	23	25	21	28	25	25	30	29	(27) Elim	(26) Elim
07	Mika Singh	16	21	14	22	23	22	24	(21) Elim
08	Sudha Chandran	23	26	24	28	28	(23)Elim
09	Cyrus Brocha	18	21	20	26	(19) Elim
10	Mini Mathur	19	21	18	(25) Elim
11	Tapur Chatterjee	15	24	(21) Elim
12	Aadesh Srivastava	16	(21)Elim

[edit] Judges - Season 1

Farah Khan
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Shilpa Shetty

[edit] Participants - Season 1

Winner: Mona Singh of 'Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin' Fame - Choreographer - Toby
Runner Up: Shweta Salve - Choreographer - Loungines Fernandez
2nd Runner Up: Mahesh Manjrekar - Choreographer - Sonia Jaffer

Other Participants:

Pooja Bedi - Choreographer - Hanif Hilal (Eliminated in Round 1)
Rati Agnihotri - Choreographer - Feroz Khan (Eliminated in Round 2)
Sanjeev Kapoor - Choreographer - Nicole Alvaris (Eliminated in Round 3)
Akashdeep Sehgal - Choreographer - Bindi Khare (Eliminated in Round 4)
Ajay Jadeja - Choreographer - Rhea Krishnatraye (Eliminated in Round 5)

[edit] Controversies

1. Buzz is actress Mallika Sherawat has refused to be a judge in the second season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. It is said, the actress was offered Rs 2 crore to judge the talent hunt show for 13 episodes, but she was forced to turn down the offer as she couldn't adjust her dates for 13 episodes according to the channel’s requirements.So they revised the amount and offered her Rs 1.5 crore for 6 episodes. However, Mallika didn't budge from her stand. She was completely against doing a show where she couldn't be able to make it to the final round. Mallika was said to have told the channel, “It won't be fair to the contestants if I leave the show midway. And why should I cheat my audiences for money?”