Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa
Intertitle of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (season 7)
Genre	Dance, entertainment
Created by	A BBC Production
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	9
Production company(s)	BBC Worldwide Productions India
Release
Original network	Sony Entertainment Television India (2006–2011) Colors (2012–present)
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Original release	7 September 2006 (2006-09-07) – present
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Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is a television reality show and the Indian version of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing.

Concept

In Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, celebrities perform various dances together with professional dance partners. The show's format is taken from the Strictly Come Dancing show on BBC One in the UK.^[1] The show is also pre-recorded, unlike Strictly Come Dancing and other spin-offs.^[1] Of the spin offs, the Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa is the only one that uses recorded tracks rather than live music with an in-house band.^[1]

Seasons overview

Season 1

The first season was judged by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Shilpa Shetty and Farah Khan. The season was hosted by Parmeet Sethi and Archana Puran Singh. The contestants were:

• Mona Singh and Toby – Winners
• Shweta Salve and Loungines – 2nd place
• Mahesh Manjrekar and Sonia – 3rd place
• Ajay Jadeja and Rhea – 4th place
• Akashdeep Saigal and Bindi – 5th place
• Sanjeev Kapoor and Nicole – 6th place
• Rati Agnihotri and Feroz – 7th place
• Pooja Bedi and Hanif Hilal – 8th place
• Deepak Kumar and Neha – 9th place

Season 2

The second season was judged by Jeetendra, Urmila Matondkar and Shiamak Davar. It was hosted by Mona Singh and Rohit Roy. The contestants were:

• Prachi Desai and Deepak – Winners
• Sandhya Mridul and Javed – 2nd place
• Jay Bhanushali and Bindi – 3rd place
• Mir Ranjan Negi and Marischa – 4th place
• Sonali Kulkarni and Toby – 5th place
• Ronit Roy and Nicole – 6th place
• Mika Singh and Tanushree – 7th place
• Sudha Chandran and Uma Shankar – 8th place
• Cyrus Broacha and Rozita – 9th place
• Mini Mathur and Hemu – 10th place
• Tapur Chatterjee and Feroz – 11th place
• Aadesh Shrivastava and Tina – 12th place

Season 3

The third season was judged by Saroj Khan, Juhi Chawla and Vaibhavi Merchant. It was hosted by Rohit Roy, Shweta Tiwari and Shiv Pandit. The contestants were:

• Baichung Bhutia and Sonia – Winners
• Gauhar Khan and Himanshu – 2nd place
• Karan Singh Grover and Nicole – 3rd place
• Hard Kaur and Savior – 4th place
• Parul Chauhan and Deepak – 5th place
• Shilpa Shukla and Nishant – 6th place
• Monica Bedi and Javed – 7th place
• Ram Kapoor and Marischa – 8th place
• Mohinder Amarnath and Lilian – 9th place
• Anand Raj Anand and Rozita – 10th place
• Ugesh Sarkar and Tina – 11th place
• Bhagyashree and Toby – 12th place

Season 4

The fourth season was judged by Madhuri Dixit, Remo D'souza and Malaika Arora Khan. It was hosted by Mona Singh and Sumeet Raghavan. The contestants were:

• Meiyang Chang and Marischa – Winners
• Sushant Singh Rajput and Shampa – 2nd place
• Yana Gupta and Salman – 3rd place
• Mahhi Vij and Savio – 4th place
• Ankita Lokhande and Nishant – 5th place
• Ragini Khanna and Neerav – 6th place
• Shekhar Suman and Priti – 7th place
• Dayanand Shetty and Vrushali – 8th place
• Krushna Abhishek and Robin – 9th place
• Akhil Kumar and Sneha – 10th place
• Renuka Shahane and Jai – 11th place
• Anushka Manchanda and Puneet – 12th place

Season 5

The fifth season was judged by Madhuri Dixit, Karan Johar and Remo D'souza. It was hosted by Manish Paul and Ragini Khanna. The contestants were:

• Gurmeet Choudhary and Shampa – Winners
• Rashmi Desai and Deepak – 2nd place
• Rithvik Dhanjani and Sneha – 3rd place
• Isha Sharvani and Salman – 4th place – quit
• Bharti Singh and Savio – 5th place – quit
• Karan Wahi and Mohena – 6th place
• Shibani Dandekar and Punit – 7th place
• Giaa Manek and Nishant – 8th place
• Darsheel Safary and Avneet – 9th place
• Pratyusha Banerjee and Deepak – 10th place
• Ravi Kishan and Kunjan – 11th place
• Jayati Bhatia and Diwakar – 12th place
• Sanath Jayasuriya and Suchitra – 13th place
• Archana Vijaya and Sanam – 14th place
• Sushil Kumar (KBC fame) and partner – 15th place
• Talat Aziz and Ankita – 16th place

Season 6

The sixth season was judged by Madhuri Dixit, Remo D'souza and Karan Johar. It was hosted by Manish Paul and Kapil Sharma. The contestants were:

• Drashti Dhami and Salman – Winners
• Lauren Gottlieb and Punit – 2nd place
• Sonali Majumdar and Sumanth – 3rd place
• Shaan and Marischa – 4th place
• Mukti Mohan and Shashank – 5th place
• Sana Saeed and Tushar – 6th place
• Siddharth Shukla and Sonia – 7th place
• Karanvir Bohra and Sneha – 8th place
• Karan Patel and Sharmishtha – 9th place
• Mantra and Ankita – 10th place
• Aarti Chhabria and Cornel – 11th place
• Shweta Tiwari and Savio – 12th place
• Ekta Kaul and Tushar – 13th place
• Meghna Malik and Savio – 14th place
• Krishnamachari Srikkanth and Amrita – 15th place
• Suresh Menon and Suchitra – 16th place

Season 7

The seventh season was judged by Karan Johar, Madhuri Dixit and Remo D'souza. It was hosted by Ranvir Shorey and Drashti Dhami who was later replaced by Manish Paul. Maksim Chmerkovskiy was a guest judge for two weeks. The contestants were:

• Ashish Sharma and Shampa – Winner
• Karan Tacker and Bhawna – 2nd place
• Shakti Mohan and Tushar – 3rd place
• Mouni Roy and Punit – 4th place
• Akshat Singh and Vaishnavi – 5th place
• Sophie Choudry and Deepak – 6th place
• Tara-Jean Popowich and Jack – 7th place
• Kiku Sharda and Kruti – 8th place
• Malishka Mendonsa and Diwakar – 9th place
• Kushal Punjabi and Mohena – 10th place
• Puja Banerjee and Rajit – 11th place
• S. Sreesanth and Sneha – 12th place
• Sukhwinder Singh and Bhawna – 13th place
• Kritika Kamra and Savio – 14th place
• Purab Kohli and Mohena – 15th place
• VJ Andy and Bhavini – 16th place

Season 8

The eighth season was judged by Karan Johar , Shahid Kapoor, Lauren Gottlieb, Ganesh Hegde and Malaika Arora Khan (replaced Karan Johar). It was hosted by Manish Paul. The contestants were:

• Faisal Khan and Vashnavi – Winner
• Sanaya Irani and Jai – 2nd place
• Shamita Shetty and Deepak – 3rd place
• Mohit Malik and Marischa – 4th place
• Anita Hassanandani and Sanam – 5th place – wildcard
• Neha Marda and Rajit Dev – 6th place – wildcard
• Roopal Tyagi – 7th place – wildcard
• Scarlett Wilson and Dheeraj – 8th place
• Raftaar and Senha – 9th place
• Vivian Dsena and Bhavana – 10th place
• Ashish Chaudhary and Shampa – 11th place
• Subhreet Kaur Ghumman and Diwakar – 12th place
• Irfan Pathan and Suchitra – 13th place – quit
• Radhika Madan – 14th place
• Kavita Kaushik and Sanam – 15th place
• Deepika Samson – 16th place

Season 9

The ninth season will start on 30 July 2016.^[3] Karan Johar, Jacqueline Fernandez and Ganesh Hegde will take over as the judges of this season. Manish Paul will be hosting the show yet again.

Contestants

• Priyanka Shah – eliminated 2nd
• Poonam Shah – eliminated 2nd
• Gaurav Gera – eliminated 1st
• Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi – eliminated 3rd
• Helly Shah – eliminated 5th
• Shakti Arora
• Arjun Bijlani - eliminated 6th
• Sidhant Gupta – eliminated 4th
• Surveen Chawla - eliminated 7th
• Karishma Tanna
• Nora Fatehi
• Shantanu Maheshwari
• Salman Yusuff Khan
• Saad Saleem

References

External links

• Official website