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Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 starts with its grand premiere tonight @ 9 PM. Guests on the show: Actors/Stars – Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt (promotion of Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania) – will groove on Saturday Saturday song from their movie.
The sneak peek shows the judges and the contestants dancing on the red carpet. Krystle D Souza, Siddharth Shukla, and Anandi (Balika Vadhu) are also attending the grand premiere. Siddharth is seen to have some dance moves (on Ab Tum Hi song from Aashiqui 2) with Drashti as well. Remo and Siddharth grooves and dances on the Besharam movie title song
Hosts: Actors – Ranvir Shorey and Drashti Dhami
Judges: Madhuri Dixit Nene, Karan Johar, and Remo D’Souza.
Some of the performers for the grand premiere are Karan Tacker, Andy, Ashish, Sophie, Purab, Kritika Kamra, and Guests – Lauren and Salman Y. Khan will also be dancing tonight. Palak will dance with Varun and Alia, and also enact comedy scenes with them. Varun cracks joke on Palak and says that his Dulhania is somebody else and Palak in turn cries. He welcomes Alia on a Band Baja Baraat tune, and then Palak and Alia compete in some dance moves. Varun and Alia dances on the Ishq Wala love song from SOTY on a hanging bed (prop) and Saturday Saturday song from their upcoming movie – Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania. Sudesh Lahiri from Sony TV’s Comedy circus comes on the stage and entertains the participants and the judges and even cracks a joke on Remo’s movie ABCD and connects with our english language.
Jhalak’s other contestants and their dance – Sukhwinder singh (Chaiya chaiya song), Mouni Roy (Mar Jaaye Yaan.. Tera Bin..Tera Lamhe..Idhar Udhar Mil Rahe hain..song in a serene setting) and even Mouni even cries after the dance. Sophie dances on the song with her choreographer Deepak on Tere Mere Beech Main song. Puja dances on the song (Tujhe Chaha Betahasha..), Mouni and Puja will dance together on the song – Bade Bade Aankhen Hain. Stay tuned to Jhalak On Colors every Saturday and Sunday @ 9 PM.
Two developments on the show
* Jhalak Ball: Whichever contestant receives this ball will be protected from elimination.
* Dancing shoes: The mystery about it will be disclosed tonight.
Next Week Developments: 14 and 15th June 2014
* A new international judge will join Madhuri, Karan, and Remo. The new judge is Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Maksim’s Twitter page.
* Maxim was born on 17th January, 1980, and is a Ukrainian Latin Ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor.
– One of the professional dancers on the American television series ‘Dancing with the Stars'(Season-2)
– He made it to the final round five times. Read more on his Wikipedia page
Contestants on Jhalak 7 (Dazzling 13) and their Choreographers.
Mouni Roy – Indian actress and Dancer
Current works: Role of Goddess Sati in Life Ok’s Devon Ke Dev…Mahadev.
Trained Kathak Dancer
* Choreographer: Punit Pathak. His Twitter page.
Shakti Mohan – Contemporary Indian dancer and Actor. Winner of Zee TV’s Dance India Dance’s season 2.
Current works: Playing the role of Kria Ghai in Channel V’s Dil Dosti Dance.
Sister of Neeti Mohan (Singer) and Mukti Mohan (Contemporary dancer, Jhalak Season 6 wild-card entry participant who also worked in Comedy Circus along with Kapil Sharma)
* Tushar Kalia, His Twitter page.
Puja Banerjee – Indian Television actress and Model. Puja recently joined Twitter, her Twitter page.
Current works: Portraying the role of Goddess Parvati in Life Ok’s Devon Ke Dev – Mahadev.
* Rajit Dev, Twitter page
Kritika Kamra – Indian television actress.
She was popular because of her roles of Dr. Nidhi Verma/Mathur in Sony TV’s Kuch Toh Log Kahenge
* Savio Barnes, Savio’s Twitter page
Kiku Sharda (Palak) – Indian comedian, film and television actor.
Current works: Role of Palak and Laccha on Comedy Nights With Kapil; role of Constable Mulayam Singh Gulgule in Sab TV’s F.I.R TV series; and the role of Akbar in an Indian Historical comedy series – Akbar Birbal on Big Magic channel.
Kiku was also a participant on Nach Baliye 6 in 2013 with his wife – Priyanka Sharda
* Kruti Mahesh
Sophie Choudhry – British film actress and singer, VJ, Television presenter
* Deepak Singh
Purab Kohli – Indian model, VJ and television and film actor.
Recently seen in two Bollywood movies – role of Shekhar in Shaadi Ke Side Effects and the main lead role of Bakka in the movie Jal, both of them released in 2014. Purab’s Twitter page
* Mohena Kumari, Her Twitter page.
Sukhwinder Singh – Singer, composer, Actor. Sukhwinder is from Amritsar, Punjab, India.
* Bhavna
Andy – VJ and participant of Big Boss Season 7 on Colors
* Bhavini
Karan Tacker – Actor and Host of Bindass show Halla Bol
* Elena Samodanova, Elena’s Twitter page
Sreesanth – Former Indian Cricketer
* Sneha Kapoor
Ashish Sharma – Actor and Model
Current works: Playing the lead role of Rudra in Rangrasiya.
* Shampa, Her Twitter page
Akshat Singh – 7 year old Kid who Participated in India’s Got Talent Season 5.
Current works: role of Dhamaka in Comedy Nights With Kapil and usually supports Laccha or Palak (Kiku Sharda) in the comedy.
* Vaishnavi
Some Performance Highlights:
Theme – Never Seen Before
* Karan and Ashish dances on Jashn-E-Ishq song from the movie Gunday
* Sukhwinder Singh: Jai Ho song
* Sophie Choudhry: Hungama Ho Gaya song
* Akshat Singh: Dhinka Chika song
* Palak : Paisa Pekh Tamasha Dekh.. Pinky Hain Paisa walo ki
* Sreesanth: Tapori dance
* Shakti Mohan: Modern + Aerial dance
* Ashish speaks about being elated to participate in the competition while Karan speaks about being very lucky to be at Jhalak 7. Later, he dances on the dance form – ‘New School Hip Hop’ (Jhalak War) with Hologram act (with his choreographer Shampa) which was never seen before. Paro (Sanaya Irani) came to support and wish Ashish. Karan speaks that Best concept in the entire Jhalak series until now.
* Sukhwinder Singh (with his choreographer Bhavna) dances on a Chaiya Chaiya song (from the movie Dil Se). Sukh ji sings Gulabi Aankhen Teri Dekh kar song for Alia.
* Mouni and her choreographer Puneet dances with dance form Free Style on Tere Lamhe..Marjayiyaan..Bin Tere Marjayiyaan Re song with lake ambience and outdoor setting. She performed the dance outdoor on the lake on a boat (outside Jhalak set) and took only one take to execute the dance.
* Karan Tacker dances on freestyle form at the Jhalak House (which is used for rehearsals) and on Tera Dhayaan Kidhar Hain from Main Tera Hero movie.
* Puja dances with Rajit on the song Tujhe Chahu Behtasha Zahnaseeb…with a moonlight background and prop as hanging bed, and even stretched her flexible body and legs over Rajit with finesse and ease.
* Madhuri discloses about her dance with three choreographers – Puneet, Tushar, and Deepak.
Images credit: Colors TV Website and Twitter page of Colors TV
Jhalak 1st and 2nd Grand Premiere Night – Full Episode Video Link:
http://colors.in.com/in/jhalak-dikhhla-jaa/videos/episodes/#nav
Jhalak’s Grand Premiere (7th June 2014) playlist:
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Maksim’s (new judge) introduction next week and is seen dancing with Madhuri and Mouni
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Saturday Saturday song from the movie Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania (sung by Indeep Bakshi, Punjabi singer and actor)
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