Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa

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 BBC Worldwide Productions in India.

The show's format is taken from the Strictly Come Dancing show on BBC One in UK, which has been a huge success in over 30 countries like America, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy, where it is known as Dancing with the Stars. However, the Indian version has been extensively remodelled to appeal to the country's viewers.^[1]

The dances are typically more exuberant than on its sister programmes around the world, owing to India's unique Bollywood traditions. Also because of the strong Bollywood approach, India is the only country to not have live music with an in-house band. The show is also pre-recorded, unlike the UK's Strictly Come Dancing and other spin-offs.^[1] All the ballroom and Latin dances are performed as Bollywood-themed showdances (US: freestyles) rather than with strict 'syllabus' ballroom or Latin technique.

The first season of the show started on September 8, 2006 and ended November 4, 2006.

• Archana Puran Singh
• Parmeet Sethi

• Farah Khan
• Sanjay Leela Bhansali
• Shilpa Shetty

• Pooja Bedi (former actress & Talk show host) and Hanif - Eliminated in Round 1
• Rati Agnihotri (former actress) and Feroz - Eliminated in Round 2
• Sanjeev Kapoor (Professional Chef & Cookery show Host) and Nicole - Eliminated in Round 3
• Akashdeep Saighal (TV Actor) and Bindi - Eliminated in Round 4
• Ajay Jadeja (former cricketer) and Rhea - Eliminated in Round 5
• 2nd Runner Up: Mahesh Manjrekar (film actor & director) and Sonia
• Runner Up: Shweta Salve (TV Actress) and (Loungines)
• Winner: Mona Singh (TV Actress and host) and Toby

The second season of the show started on September 28, 2007 and ended December 15, 2007.

• Mona Singh(The winner of Jhalak Dikhla Jaa Season 1)
• Rohit Roy

• Urmila Matondkar
• Jeetendra
• Shiamak Davar

• Aadesh Shrivastava (Music Director) and (Tina Sachdev) - Eliminated in Round 2
• Tapur Chatterjee (Model) and (Feroz) - Eliminated in Round 3
• Mini Mathur (MTV VJ) and (Hemu) - Eliminated in Round 4
• Cyrus Broacha (MTV VJ & Comedian) and (Rozita Rajput) - Eliminated in Round 5
• Sudha Chandran (handicapped classical dancer, films and TV Actress) and (Uma Shankar) - Eliminated in Round 6
• Mika Singh(Singer) and (Tanushree) - Eliminated in Round 8
• Ronit Roy(Soapstar) and (Nicole Alvares) - Eliminated in Round 9
• Sonali Kulkarni (Film Actress) and (Toby Fernandes) - Eliminated in Round 10
• Mir Ranjan Negi (Former hockey player & coach) and (Marischa Fernandes) - Eliminated in Round 11
• 2nd Runner Up: Jay Bhanushali (TV Actor) and (Bindi Khare)
• Runner Up: Sandhya Mridul (Films & TV actress) and (Javed Sanadi)
• Winner: Prachi Desai (TV actress) and (Deepak Singh) (were eliminated in 1st round but made a comeback with wildcard)

The third season started on February 27, 2009 and ended on May 31, 2009.

• Shweta Tiwari
• Rohit Roy
• Shiv Pandit (Ex-host)

• Saroj Khan
• Vaibhavi Merchant
• Juhi Chawla

• Bhagyashree (former actress) and Toby Fernandes- Eliminated in Round 1
• Ugesh Sarkar (Magician and Street Performer) and Tina Sachedva- Eliminated in Round 2
• Anand Raj Anand (Music director & Singer) and Rozita Rajput- Eliminated in Round 3
• Mohinder Amarnath (Former Cricketer) and Lilian Mendes- Eliminated in Round 4
• Ram Kapoor (TV actor) and Marischa Fernandes- Eliminated in Round 5
• Monica Bedi (Defamed Film actress) and Javed Sanadi- Eliminated in Round 6
• Shilpa Shukla (Film & Theatre Actress) and Nishant Bhatt- Eliminated in Round 7
• Parul Chauhan (TV Actress) and Deepak Singh- Eliminated in Round 8
• Hard Kaur (Singer & India's 1st female HipHop artist) and Savio - Eliminated in Round 9
• 2nd Runner Up: Karan Singh Grover (TV Actor) and Nicole Alvares
• Runner Up: Gauhar Khan (B4U VJ & Model) and Himanshu (Was first out but then got in by wildcard)
• Winner: Baichung Bhutia (Captain Of Indian Football Team) and Sonia Zaffer

The public voting for the Semi-finals had resulted in duo Karan Singh Grover and Nicole Alvares, the lowest scorer of the round, being sent into the Finale and Gauhar Khan and Hard Kaur for the face off. After a unanimous decision in favour of Gauhar Khan, Hard Kaur was set to leave the show after her performance, prepared for the finale. Her performance made the judges display their resentment over the biased voting of the public in the form of a 'strike' till Hard Kaur is brought back. The judges returned the very next episode with Hard Kaur's elimination being inevitable.

The fourth season of the show premiered on December 12, 2010 on Sony Entertainment Television.

Meiyang Chаng/Marischa Fernandes

Sushant Singh Rajput/Shampa Sonthalia| |- Yana Gupta/Salman Khan

• Mona Singh
• Sumeet Raghavan

• Madhuri Dixit
• Remo D'souza
• Malaika Arora Khan

Red numbers indicate the lowest score for each week.

Green numbers indicate the highest score for each week.

  indicates the couple (or couples) eliminated the next week.

DNP indicates that the contestant did not perform that week and therefore they were not scored

WC indicates the wild card entry.

  indicates the winning couple

  indicates the runner ups

• Week 1: contestants performed on styles like Jazz, Samba and Jive. The top scorers were Shekhar and Priti who scored 27⁄30 and the lowest were Akhil and Sneha, Anushka and Puneet and Chang and Marischa who scored 18⁄30
• Week 2: The contestants performed this time on dance styles like Cha-Cha, Tango and Salsa. Sushant and Shampa received the first 30⁄30 for their stuning salsa. The lowest scorers were Renuka and Jai scoring 19⁄30. Anushka Manchanda was eliminated and hence could not perform.
• Week 3: The contestants were asked to perform on Indian folk styles. The top scorers were Sushant and Shampa, Yana and Salman and Ragini and Neerav who received 30⁄30 and the lowest scorers were Akhil and Sneha, and Mahi and Savio who scored 21⁄30. Renuka and Jai were eliminated and hence could not perform.
• Week 4: The contestants were asked to perform with another celebrity that is in a trio. The guest participants were Rashmi Desai, Aishwarya Sakhuja, Jai Soni, Vidya Malvade, Vikrant Massey, Saloni Daini, Sarita Joshi and Neha Marda. The top scorers were Sushant and Shampa, and Yana and Salman both receiving a 30⁄30 whereas the lowest were Krishna and Robin receiving a 20⁄30. Akhil and Sneha were eliminated and hence could not perform.
• Week 5: The contestants were asked to perform on street dance styles like Locking and Popping, Crumping, Hip-Hop, Lyrical Hip-Hop, Stomping etc. After 4 performances each the contestants were asked to perform a group dance which would give them a chance to increase their scores making the total out of 40. The first day group dance style was Disco whereas for the second day it was Jive. Model Yana Gupta's partner Salman suffered from an injury in the leg and therefore their style was changed from Crumping to Hip-Hop. The top scores were Chang and Marischa who had received a 29⁄30 for their dance and they also performed a jive which made their total a 39⁄40. The lowest scorers were Daya and Vrushali and Yana and Salman who both received a 27⁄40. Krushna and Robin were eliminated and hence did not perform.
• Week 6: The Contestants were asked to give a tribute to Madhuri Dixit by performing Bollywood style on her songs. Many actors and Directors shared their thoughts with Madhuri.This week too, the contestants had to perform a group dance ater all the performances of the day were over but this the total was out of 30 instead of 10 making their total out of 60. The top scorers were Chang and Marischa and Sushant and Shampa who first received a 30⁄30 and then received a 25⁄30 making their total a 55⁄60. The lowest scorers were Daya and Vrushali who scored a 39⁄60
• Week 7: The eliminated contestants had their last chance to comeback in the contest and be the wild card entry. All the 6 contestants had performed and were given a rank out of six instead of a score. Akhil and Sneha ranked 6th, Renuka and Jai ranked 5th, Anushka and Puneet ranked 4th, Krushna and Robin ranked 3rd, Ankita and Nishant raked 2nd, Yana and Salman ranked 1st. The judges were only suppose to select one wild card entry but however the judges decided to put the top 2 ranked teams as wild card entries. As a result Yana and Salman, Ankita and Nishant were selected to come in the next round.
• Week 8: This week the contestants performed on the challenge given by Malika Arora Khan. The highest scorers were Chang and Marischa with 40⁄40 and Sushant and Shampa with 40⁄40 whereas the lowest scorers, Shekhar and Priti received a 15⁄40, the lowest score in the history of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. Ragini and Neerav and Daya and Vrushali were in the bottom 2 and had to perform in a dance-off. All the three judges voted for Ragini and thus, Daya and Vrushali were eliminated.
• Week 9:The Contestants this time had to do 2 performances instead of one. The highest scorers were Sushant and Shampa with 57⁄60and the lowest were Mahi and Savio with 43⁄60. Ankita and Shekhar had to participate in the dance off. Madhuri and Remo voted for Ankita and Malaika voted for Shekhar. Shekhar and his partner Preeti were eliminated.
• Week 10:This time too, the contestants had to do 2 performances. The highest were Sushant and shampa scoring a 59⁄60 whereas the lowest were Mahi and Savio again with a 41⁄60. This time in the bottom 2 were Yana and Ragini. All three judges voted for Yana. As a result, Ragini and Neerav were eliminated.
• Week 11:Again the contestants had to do 2 performances. Sushant Singh Rajput and his partner Shampa did not perform as Sushant suffered from back injury. The top scorers were Chang and Marischa with a 57⁄60whereas the lowest scorers were Mahi and Savio scoring a 49⁄60. In the bottom two were Yana and Ankita. All three judges voted for Yana and hence Ankita was eliminated
• Week 12: This week the bottom two were Sushant and Shampa and Yana and Salman. However, the judges felt that none of them should be eliminated and used their special power to keep both the contestants in. The top scorers were Sushant and Shampa with a 58⁄60 and the lowest were Mahi and Savio with a 47⁄60.
• Week 13: Mahi and Savio were eliminated and therefore the top tre were Sushnat and Shampa, Yana and Salman and Chang and Marischa. On the Tuesday night finale the results were announced as Meiyang Chang as the winner each winning Twenty-Five Lakh Ruppes. Sushant and Yana were the runner ups. Sushant and Shampa won the Ujala Consistent Performer Award of Five Lakh Rupees.

• Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 4 Official website