Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa season 7 explained

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Network:	Colors TV

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 is the seventh season of the dance reality show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. It premiered on 7 June 2014 on Colors. The series was hosted by Ranvir Shorey^[1] and Drashti Dhami^[2] but later got replaced by Manish Paul.^[3] Madhuri Dixit, Karan Johar and Remo D'Souza were the three judges.^[4] The finale took place on 20 September 2014 and was won by Ashish Sharma and Shampa Gopikrishna.

Format

The couples dance each week while the judges score each performance out of ten. This time as there are four judges the scores will be up to forty.

With the judges scores and public votes added all together, judges them decide which two couples are in the bottom and will have to do a face off. One contestant gets eliminated each week.

Production

The series was announced in February 2014. The press conference and launch was held on 2 June 2014.^[5] The shooting of the series also stated from 3 June. Colors TV had released its promos in May 2014 introducing the celebrity contestants.^[6]

In May 2014, it was announced that Ranvir Shorey will be replacing Kapil Sharma as one of the presenters.^{[7] [8]} Drashti Dhami also was revealed to be hosting the show alongside Ranvir.^[9] In June 2014, Dhami quit the series as a presenter weeks after the show's launch and got replaced by Manish Paul.^{[10] [11] [12]}

Madhuri Dixit, Karan Johar and Remo D'Souza returned as the judges and announced their return in March 2014.^[13]

Cast

This series features thirteen celebrity contestants.^[14] In April 2014, it was announced that Purab Kohli, Karan Tacker and Andy Kumar are the first three confirmed contestants.^{[15] [16] [17]} Puja Banerjee, Mouni Roy and Shakti Mohan was later revealed as the other celebrities as well.^{[18] [19] [20]} The final line up was revealed in May.

In July 2014, seven new celebrities Sana Khan, Kushal Punjabi, Rahul Vaidya, Kainaat Arora, Akriti Kakar, Malishka Mendonsa and Tara Jean Popowich entered as wild card entries.^{[21] [22]} Only three including Kushal, Malishka and Tara went ahead in the competition.

Akriti withdrew herself from the completion due to injury so could not perform as a wild card.^[23]

Celebrity	Notability	Professional partner	Result
Andy Kumar	VJ and Bigg Boss 7 star	Bhavini Mishra	Eliminated 1st ^[24]
Purab Kohli	Bollywood actor	Mohena Singh	Eliminated 2nd ^[25]
Kritika Kamra	Actress	Savio Barnes	Eliminated 3rd ^[26]
Sukhwinder Singh	Singer	Bhawna Khanduja	Eliminated 4th ^[27]
Sreesanth Nair	Cricketer	Sneha Kapoor	Eliminated 5th ^[28]
Kainaat Arora	Grand Masti actress	Cornel Rodrigues	Not Selected ^[29]
Rahul Vaidya	Singer	Syscilia D'Souza	Not Selected
Sana Khan	Actress & Bigg Boss 6 star	Shashank Dogra	Not Selected
Akriti Kakar	Singer	Javed Sanadi	bgcolor=lightgreen	Withdrew
Puja Banerjee	Actress	Rajit Dev	Eliminated 6th
Kushal Punjabi	Actor and model	Mohena Singh	Eliminated 7th ^[30]
	RJ	Diwakar Nayal	Eliminated 8th ^[31]
Kiku Sharda	Comedian	Kruti Mahesh	Eliminated 9th ^[32]
	So You Think You Can Dance star and dancer	Jack Samuel	Eliminated 10th ^[33]
Sophie Choudry	Actress, VJ and singer	Deepak Singh	Eliminated 11th ^[34]
Akshat Singh	India's Got Talent star	Vaishnavi Patil	Eliminated 12th ^[35]
Mouni Roy	Actress	Punit Pathak	Fourth place ^[36]
Shakti Mohan	Dancer	Tushar Kalia	Third place ^[37]
Karan Tacker	Actor and model	Elena Samodanova (later Bhawna Khanduja)	Runners-up ^[38]
Ashish Sharma	Rangrasiya actor	Shampa Gopikrishna	Winners ^[39]

Scoring chart

Couple! rowspan="3"

	Week
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	6+7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	13+14	15	16
																	Night 1	Night 2	1+2
Ashish		27	35	36		26	27	25	52	24	27	25	27	27+29=56	29+30=59	27+30=57	116	—	27	9	36
Karan		21	32		27		27	29	56		27			27+30=57	27+27=54	28+30=58	112		29	10	39
Shakti											29			30+30=60	30+30=60	00+00=00	60		27	8	36
Mouni		27	31	30	36	22				38		27		24+27=51	27+27=54	27+30=57	111		27
Akshat		28								27	29			30+30=60	27+30=57	30+30=60	117
Sophie		25	36	34	27	27				26		27	24	24+27=51
Tara							27		57			27
Kiku		27	27	34	27	25				26	27	24
Malishka							23	24	47	23	26
Kushal							25	27	52	29
Puja		22	27	34	26	22	25	23	48
Sreesanth		27	32	28	27	27
Sukhwinder			26	31	21
Kritika		22	30	29
Purab		24	33
Andy		20

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12		Week 13			Week 14		Week 15		Week 16
	None	Akshat	Mouni	Ashish	None	Sophie	None		Karan	Mouni	Shakti	Akshat		Ashish			Akshat	Mouni	None
Ashish	27	35	36	30	26	27	25	24	27	25	27	27	29		29	30	27	30			27	9	Winner
Karan	21	32	40	27	30	27	29	30	27	30	30	27	30	Krystle	27	27	28	30			29	10
Shakti	29	40	40	30	30	30	30	30	29	30	30	30	30	Mukti	30	30					27	8
Mouni	27	31	30	36	22	40	40	38	30	37	30	24	27	Faisal	27	27	27	30			27
Akshat	28	40	40	30	30	30	30	27	29	30	25	30	30	Ali	27	30	30	30		Eliminated
Sophie	25	36	34	27	27	30	30	26	30	27	24	24	27	Elli		Eliminated
Tara	NOT IN COMPETITION					27	30	30	30	27	30	27	Eliminated
Kiku	27	27	34	27	25	21	21	26	27	24		Eliminated
Malishka	NOT IN COMPETITION					23	24	23	26	22	Eliminated
Kushal	NOT IN COMPETITION					25	27	29	26	Eliminated
Puja	22	27	34	26	22	25	23	25	Eliminated
Akriti	NOT IN COMPETITION						Quit
Kainaat	NOT IN COMPETITION						Not Selected
Rahul	NOT IN COMPETITION						Not Selected
	NOT IN COMPETITION						Not Selected
Sreesanth	27	32	28	27	27	20	Eliminated
Sukhwinder	18	26	31	21	22	Eliminated
Kritika	22	30	29	25	Eliminated
Purab	24	33	30	Eliminated
Andy	20	27	Eliminated
	Bottom 2		Andy Sophie	Puja Purab	Kritika Puja	Mouni Sukhwinder	Puja Sreesanth		Kushal Puja	Kiku Kushal	Kiku Malishka	Kiku Tara	Akshat Tara		Akshat Sohpie			Akshat Shakti	Ashish Karan Mouni Shakti
Quit	None					Akriti	None
Eliminated	No Elimination	Andy	Purab	Kritika	Sukhwinder	Sreesanth	No Elimination	Puja	Kushal	Malishka	Kiku	Tara		Sophie			No Elimination		Akshat		Mouni	Shakti
																					Karan	Ashish

notes

Dance chart

The couples performed the following each week:

Highest scoring dance

Lowest scoring dance

Non-scoring dance

Couple! colspan="25"

Weeks
1	2	3	4	5	6		7	8	9	10	11			12		13		14			15		16
Ashish & Shampa	Hip-hop	Samba	Bollywood, Freestyle & Thang Ta	Drunk Jazz	Freestyle	Bollywood		Stomping & Hip-hop Freestyle	Paso Doble	Semi Classical	Physical Theatre & Mime	Freestyle		Bollywood & Freestyle	Yakshaganan	Disco & Freestyle	Tango	Contemporary	Hip-hop & Krumping	Hip-hop & Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle	Parkour & Freestyle	Freestyle relay
Karan & Elena	Freestyle	Cha-Cha & Hustle	Bollywood	Ballroom Freestyle	Paso Doble	Hip-hop		Bollywood	Stomping & Krumping	Bollywood & Freestyle	Freestyle	Contemporary & Freestyle		Bollywood & Freestyle	Contemporary & Freestyle	Freestyle	Hip-hop & Bhangra	Freestyle	Hip-hop & Freestyle	Jazz & Freestyle		Freestyle	Kalari & Chau	Paso Doble & Freestyle
Shakti & Tushar	Ballet	Tango & Mambo Tricks	Contemporary & Chau	Modern Jazz	Latin Freestyle	Contemporary		Freestyle	Classical & Classical	Bollywood & Freestyle	Lyrical Hip-hop	Lyrical		Broadway Jazz	Freestyle	Contact Improvisation	Tandav	Cabaret	—			Freestyle	Afro & Acrobacia	Contemporary & Krumping
Mouni & Punit	Freestyle	Rumba & Coban Bolero	Contorted Tandav	Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle		Freestyle	Classical & Robotics	Bollywood & Freestyle	Freestyle	Afro		Broadway Jazz	Paso Doble	Contemporary	Freestyle	Jazz	Semi Classical	Robotics & Bollywood	Freestyle	Freestyle	Contemporary	Indian Folk
Akshat & Vaishnavi	Bollywood	Paso Doble	Bollywood	Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle		Robotics	Freestyle	Semi Classical	Contemporary & Freestyle	Semi Classical		Bollywood & Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle	Animation	Hip-hop & Freestyle		Freestyle	Freestyle
Sophie & Deepak	Freestyle	Bollywood	Bollywood, Freestyle & Paso Doble	Samba & Freestyle	Aerial & Freestyle	Freestyle		Bollywood	Jive & Freestyle	Contemporary & Freestyle	Acrobacia & Freestyle	Lyrical		Broadway Jazz	Freestyle	Hip-hop	Freestyle
Tara &<br />Jack						Freestyle	Contemporary	Jazz	Hip-hop & House	Hip-hop and Contemporary	Bollywood	Urban Hip-hop	Paso Doble	Bollywood & Freestyle	Contemporary & Freestyle
Kiku & Kruti	Electro	Flamenco & Bomba	Lavani	Bollywood & Freestyle	Robotics	Freestyle		Freestyle	Hip-hop	Popping & Locking	Tandav & Krumping	Lyrical Hip-hop
Malishka & Diwakar						Bollywood	Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle	Semi Classical	Samba & Freestyle
Kushal & Mohena						Hip-hop	Freestyle	Freestyle	Afro	Street Jazz
Puja &<br />Rajit	Freestyle	Cha-Cha & Tofo Tofo	Tollywood	Freestyle	Semi Classical	Freestyle		Bollywood & Freestyle	Freestyle
Kainaat & Cornel						Salsa
Rahul & Syscilia						Bollywood
Sana & Shashank						Bollywood
Akriti & Javed						—
Sreesanth & Sneha	Hip-hop	Lindy Hop & Chamberlian	Bollywood & Rajasthani Folk	Hip-hop & Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle
Sukhwinder & Bhawna	Freestyle	Rumba & Contact Improvisation	Bollywood & Bhangra	Hip-hop & Freestyle	Freestyle
Kritika & Savio	Freestyle	Jive & Jitterbug	Bollywood & Garba	Cha Cha & Freestyle
Purab & Mohena	Freestyle	Salsa & Lambada	Bollywood
Andy & Bhavini	Contemporary	Zouk & Reggaeton

Note

Themes

The celebrities and professional partners danced one of these routines for each corresponding week:

• Grand Opening Week: Introduction
• Week 1 : International Judge Week
• Week 2 : Made in India
• Week 3 : Judges Demand
• Week 4 : Jhalak Talkes
• Week 5 : Wild Card Entries & Prop Week
• Week 6 : I Love
• Week 7 : DJ Mix & Indian Cinema
• Week 8 : Kurukshetra & Team Challenge
• Week 9 : Backstage Dancer week
• Week 10 : Independence Day week
• Week 11 : Dialogues
• Week 12 : Teen Ka Tadka & Public’s Demand
• Week 13 : Special Group Theme
• Week 14 : Semi Finals & Ganesh Hegde Special
• Week 15 : Super Finale

Week 5 was themed 'Prop week', and each of the participating celebrities dedicated their performances as follow.

• Puja & Rajit - Picture frame
• Ashish & Shampa - Stretchy Jacket
• Karan & Elena - Bucket
• Mouni & Punit - Golden Shoes
• Kiku & Kruti - Glass
• Akshat & Vaishanavi - Glasses
• Shakti & Tushar - Stretchy Material
• Sophie & Deepak - Sticks
• Malishka & Diwakar - Square Box
• Kushal & Mohena - Heart
• Tara & Jack - Feather

1st Episode of Week 5 themed 'Wild Card' Special selected 4 new contestant to current participating celebrities.

• Note - Singer Akriti Kakkar had to quit the show as she was to enter the wild card race due to an accident.^{[40] [41]}

Couple	Dance Form	Dance Song
Tara & Jack	Contemporary	Gulaabi
Sana & Shashank	Bollywood	Radha
Rahul & Syscilia	Bollywood	Chingam Chabake
Kushal & Mohena	Freestyle	Thug Le
Kainaat & Cornel	Freestyle	Darling
Malishka & Diwakar	Freestyle	Dhinka Chika

Out of the 6 new Wild Card Entrance the couples which joined the current celebrities in the race of 'Jhalak' were

• Malishka & Diwakar
• Kushal & Mohena
• Tara & Jack

Selected Dance

Rejected Dance

Week 8 themed 'Kurukshetra is where the judges chooses their teams within the participants and the one with more scores wins.

Weak 10 themed 'Team Challenge' had two performances from the participants, where one was a team performance. Team leader was selected from the previous week's highest scorers. Team participants, dancing style and songs were finalised by these leaders.

Category	Akshat's Team	Mouni's Team
Team Leader	Akshat & Vaishnavi	Mouni & Punit
Remaining Participants	Tara & Jack, Ashish & Shampa, Karan & Bhavna	Shakti & Tushar, Sophie & Deepak, Kiku & Kruti
Dance Form	Bollywood & Freestyle	Broadway Jazz
Dance Song	Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji, All Is Well	Do You Wanna Partner & Chammak Challo
Marks	29	30

• Mouni's team won the team challenge with getting 30 marks.

Green numbers indicates the highest score.

Week 13 was themed 'Teen Ka Tadka' special episode wherein every contestant will get a new celebrity contestant to dance with. Sana and Tushar who were paired with Mumaith Khan could not perform in the episode since they got eliminated in that week.

• • Ashish & Shampa with Sana Saeed Shakti & Tushar with Mukti Mohan
  • Karan & Bhavna with Krystle D'Souza Mouni & Punit with Faisal Khan
  • Sophie & Deepak with Elli Avram Akshat & Vaishnavi with Ali Asgar

Guest appearances

Week(s)	Episode(s)	Guest(s)	Note(s)
1	Ep01	,, Toral Rasputra, Mrunal Jain, Tina Datta & Sanaya Irani	To support the contestants
		Varun Dhawan & Alia Bhatt	To promote Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
		Sudesh Lehri	Guest
	Ep02	Akshay Kumar & Sonakshi Sinha	To promote
2	Ep03		To promote MTV Splitsvilla
			To promote Humshakals
	Ep04	Salman Yusuff Khan & Lauren Gottlieb	Guest
			To promote Ek Villain
3	Ep05		To promote their show Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi'^[42]
	Ep06		From Comedy Nights with Kapil to support Palak
4	Ep07		From Beintehaa as guest^[43]
		Armaan Jain, Deeksha Seth	To promote Lekar Hum Deewana Dil
	Ep08	Dipika Kakar & Toral Rasputra	Came as guest from Sasural Simar Ka, Balika Vadhu^[44]
5	Ep09		To promote Bobby Jasoos
7	Ep12		To promote Kick
8	Ep15-16		To promote Mardaani
		Sachin–Jigar	Guest
9	Ep17	Akshay Kumar	To promote Entertainment
	Ep18		To promote Singham Returns
10	Ep20	Sasha Tacker and Archana Taide	To support Karan Tacker and Ashish Sharma
11	Ep21	Emraan Hashmi, Humaima Malik	To promote Raja Natwarlal
	Ep22	Gurmeet Choudhary & Lauren Gottlieb	Guest Appearance
			From Comedy Nights with Kapil
12	Ep23	Priyanka Chopra	To promote Mary Kom
	Ep24	Shahid Kapoor & Shraddha Kapoor	To promote Haider
13	Ep25	Elli Avram, Faisal Khan, Krystle D'Souza, Ali Asgar, Sana Saeed & Mukti Mohan	For Teen Ka Tadka week^[45]
	Ep26	Aditya Roy Kapoor & Parineeti Chopra	To promote Daawat-e-Ishq
14	Ep27	Fawad Khan & Sonam Kapoor	To promote Khoobsurat
15	Ep29-30	Arjun Kapoor & Deepika Padukone	To promote Finding Fanny
		Ganesh Hegde	Guest Judge
16	Ep31	Anil Kapoor & Bharti Singh	Guest in Finale
		Shaan & Mika Singh	To promote their film Balwinder Singh Famous Ho Gaya^[46]
		Neeti Mohan & Mukti Mohan	To support Shakti Mohan
		Salman Yusuff Khan & Lauren Gottlieb	Special Performance

External links

• Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 at Colors TV

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ranvir Shorey to co-host Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 7. IANS. news.biharprabha.com. 9 May 2014.
2. News: Drashti Dhami to host Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. 20 June 2022. Tanvi. Trivedi. 15 May 2014.
3. Web site: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7: Drashti Dhami sacked, Manish Paul to rpelace her. 21 June 2014 . 21 June 2014.
4. Web site: Catch never seen before action on Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7. 28 May 2014.
5. Web site: 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' Season 7: 13 Celebrity Contestants and their Choreographers Revealed [PHOTOS]]. 3 June 2014.
6. Web site: Jhalak Dikh Laja 7: Mouni Roy shoots for promo video. 23 May 2014.
7. Web site: Ranvir Shorey to host Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7. 10 May 2014.
8. Web site: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7: Former VJ Ranvir Shorey returns back to TV. 10 May 2014.
9. Web site: Drashti Dhami to co-host Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 with Ranvir Shorey?. 15 May 2014.
10. Web site: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7: Drashti Dhami quits the show. 22 June 2014.
11. Web site: Manish Paul replaces Drashti Dhami on Jhalak Dhikhhla Jaa. 20 June 2014.
12. Web site: No problem with Drashti after Jhalak reshuffle: Manish Paul. 26 June 2014.
13. Web site: Madhuri, Karan, Remo glam up for ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7’. 3 June 2014.
14. Web site: Presenting The 13 Contestants Of Jhalak Dikhla Jaa – Season 7. 20 May 2014.
15. Web site: Purab Kohli to participate in 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7'. 10 April 2014.
16. Web site: Karan Tacker in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. 18 April 2014.
17. Web site: VJ Andy, young Akshat to compete in 'Jhalak...'?. 22 April 2014.
18. Web site: Krystle Dsouza and Puja Banerjee in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7. 15 April 2014.
19. Web site: Kiku, Rajneesh Duggal, Mouni Roy to participate in 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7'?. 16 April 2014.
20. Web site: Shakti Mohan in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7. 16 April 2014.
21. News: Sana Khan, Akriti Kakkar to shake a leg in JDJ. 3 July 2014. Daily News and Analysis. 2 July 2014.
22. Web site: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7: Confirmed Wild Card Entrants. 9 July 2014.
23. Web site: 'Jhalak Dikhhlaa Jaa' Season 7: Singer Akriti Kakkar Quits Show due to Injury. 9 July 2014.
24. Web site: Never expected such a short innings on 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa': VJ Andy after eviction. indianexpress.com. 16 June 2014 . 17 June 2014.
25. Web site: I was shocked by my elimination from 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa': Purab Kohli. indianexpress.com. 23 June 2014 . 23 June 2014.
26. Web site: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa elimination was shocking for me: Kritika Kamra. 26 June 2014.
27. Web site: Sukhwinder Singh voted out of ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’. 7 July 2014.
28. Web site: Sreesanth Nair eliminated from Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7. 13 July 2014.
29. Web site: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7: Kainaat, Sana, Rahul eliminated. 9 July 2014.
30. Web site: Kushal Punjabi eliminated from Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. indiatoday.com. 2 August 2014.
31. Web site: RJ Malishka gets eliminated from Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, wants to host next season. 11 August 2014.
32. Web site: Kiku Sharda: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Journey was Fantastic. 20 August 2014.
33. Web site: Tara eliminated from Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7. 24 August 2014.
34. Web site: Sophie Choudry: 'Jhalak' Elimination Doesn't Make Sense to Me. 2 September 2014.
35. Web site: 'Making an impression is equal to winning Jhalak trophy' says Akshat Singh. 15 September 2014.
36. Web site: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa: VJ Andy, Karan Tacker, Mouni to battle it out. 1 June 2014.
37. Web site: Parineeti Chopra is a fan of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa contestant Shakti Mohan. 27 August 2014.
38. Web site: Karan Tacker on Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. 2 May 2014.
39. Web site: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 winner: Rangrasiya fame Ashish Sharma beats Karan Tacker, Mouni Roy and Shakti Mohan. 21 September 2014.
40. News: Singer Akriti Kakar in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. 13 January 2015. Times of India. TNN. 2 July 2014. Neha. Maheshwri.
41. News: Akriti Kakkar to shake a leg in JDJ. 3 July 2014. Daily News and Analysis. 2 July 2014.
42. Web site: Ishani And Rajiv Spread Aashiqui On Jhalak: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Ep-5, Seg 12.
43. Web site: Zain-Aaliya Dance With Their Favorites: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Ep-7, Seg 4.
44. Web site: In Pics: Toral Rasputra, Preetika Rao, Harshad Arora and Deepika Samson on Jhalak Dikhla Jaa-7.
45. News: Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7: Teen ka tadka special; Krystle, Bigg Boss fame Elli Avram and Daadi (Ali) to perform. timesofindia. 31 August 2014.
46. Web site: Shaan and Mika to appear on Jhalak Dikhhlaa Jaa Season 7 for finale! . Desitellybox. 19 September 2014 .