It had
little to do with dancing, but it was a show all right. Jhalak Dikhhla
Jaa 5, which glamorously kick-started last weekend, drew in the support
of Bollywood for its fancied dance competition among television
celebrities; but even then, the superstar judges stole the show with
their bizarre points system.
Take a bow Madhuri Dixit Nene, Karan Johar and Remo D’Souza, and explain to us, please, whatever happened to your oath to be strict judges this year? Did it fly out of the window in your desire to be lenient, in your haste to award brownie points to contestants with two left feet and poor circulation in them? Or is this what is meant by the genre of factual entertainment and reality on television?
And while explanations are being given, will those enthusiastic and effervescent hosts Manish Paul and Ragini Khanna also tell us how Madhuri Dixit happens to be Bollywood’s only dancing diva? Perhaps, the duo are too young to remember Jaya Prada, and before her Hema Malini, and even before her, Vyjantimala Bali.
But coming back to the scoring, the three judges handsomely and generously notched up 9 points each for Sri Lankan all-rounder Sanath Jayasuriya. Somebody with a lot of imagination threw the cricketing great into the fray, and while he was as agile on the dance floor as might have been Mike Tyson (the resemblance was there all right), Jayasuriya provided wholesome fun with his inspired dancing. But there was no way he could have been given 27 points, not after better contestants scored lower.
Judge Remo defended the judges’ panel by saying, “I would say that the biggest thing for us is that Jayasuriya accepted the show. I am a huge fan of his and I salute his sprit of dancing in front of the entire world. I accept that his performance was not up to the mark, but he tried and did his steps properly. Out of respect and for his willingness to dance, he got those marks. In future, I will be stricter and concentrate on the choreography. This was the first episode, the first dance of his life, so we gave Jayasuriya the benefit of doubt.”
Meiyang Chang, the winner of last season’s Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, believes that all good dancers are shown the exit door. He said, “Isha Sharvani is a very good dancer, I hope she survives as good dancers are evicted soon. This is not because of any game plan, but the show is about non dancers who come there and learn. This year the contestants look good and with choreographers who have been there for years, I am sure they will put up a good show. I feel Darsheel is very confident and will give a tough time to the other contestants.”
Krushna Abhishek, another former contestant of the reality dance show, said that the channels don’t play fair. He explained, “Once I said Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa is a rigid show when I was a contestant. The channel said that rating is based on popularity. But after a career of five years, I thought I was popular enough to go ahead on the show. I still believe in every reality show there is the hand of the channel, they try and promote their artist, but Sony never backed me.” Commenting on Jayasuriya’s performance, Krushna said, “Maybe initially the judges are being lenient as they were in the case of Shekhar Suman in the fourth season. I feel in Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa a contestant should survive on his popularity for the first eight episodes and then from the ninth, they should show their real performance.”
Let’s see what survives this season, popularity or performance!
Take a bow Madhuri Dixit Nene, Karan Johar and Remo D’Souza, and explain to us, please, whatever happened to your oath to be strict judges this year? Did it fly out of the window in your desire to be lenient, in your haste to award brownie points to contestants with two left feet and poor circulation in them? Or is this what is meant by the genre of factual entertainment and reality on television?
And while explanations are being given, will those enthusiastic and effervescent hosts Manish Paul and Ragini Khanna also tell us how Madhuri Dixit happens to be Bollywood’s only dancing diva? Perhaps, the duo are too young to remember Jaya Prada, and before her Hema Malini, and even before her, Vyjantimala Bali.
But coming back to the scoring, the three judges handsomely and generously notched up 9 points each for Sri Lankan all-rounder Sanath Jayasuriya. Somebody with a lot of imagination threw the cricketing great into the fray, and while he was as agile on the dance floor as might have been Mike Tyson (the resemblance was there all right), Jayasuriya provided wholesome fun with his inspired dancing. But there was no way he could have been given 27 points, not after better contestants scored lower.
Judge Remo defended the judges’ panel by saying, “I would say that the biggest thing for us is that Jayasuriya accepted the show. I am a huge fan of his and I salute his sprit of dancing in front of the entire world. I accept that his performance was not up to the mark, but he tried and did his steps properly. Out of respect and for his willingness to dance, he got those marks. In future, I will be stricter and concentrate on the choreography. This was the first episode, the first dance of his life, so we gave Jayasuriya the benefit of doubt.”
Meiyang Chang, the winner of last season’s Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, believes that all good dancers are shown the exit door. He said, “Isha Sharvani is a very good dancer, I hope she survives as good dancers are evicted soon. This is not because of any game plan, but the show is about non dancers who come there and learn. This year the contestants look good and with choreographers who have been there for years, I am sure they will put up a good show. I feel Darsheel is very confident and will give a tough time to the other contestants.”
Krushna Abhishek, another former contestant of the reality dance show, said that the channels don’t play fair. He explained, “Once I said Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa is a rigid show when I was a contestant. The channel said that rating is based on popularity. But after a career of five years, I thought I was popular enough to go ahead on the show. I still believe in every reality show there is the hand of the channel, they try and promote their artist, but Sony never backed me.” Commenting on Jayasuriya’s performance, Krushna said, “Maybe initially the judges are being lenient as they were in the case of Shekhar Suman in the fourth season. I feel in Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa a contestant should survive on his popularity for the first eight episodes and then from the ninth, they should show their real performance.”
Let’s see what survives this season, popularity or performance!
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