# India's Best Dancer (Hindi TV series) season 2

India's Best Dancer 2 also known as India's Best Dancer: Best Ka Next Avatar is the second season of the Indian reality TV series India's Best Dancer. It premiered on 16 October 2021 on Sony Entertainment Television. This season hosted by Manish Paul. The Grand Finale was aired on 9 January 2022 and winner was Saumya Kamble, who later appeared as a choreographer in India's Best Dancer (Season 3) along with Raktim Thakuria and Saumya Kamble and Raktim Thakuria appeared as a choreographer in India's Best Dancer (Season 4) also.

## Concept

India's Best Dancer will showcase the people of some of the best dancing talent, who with their solo performances, will compete to win the show. In the Grand Premiere, the judges announced the Top 12 contestants who will have a respective mentor in the journey ahead. Week-on-week these 12 contestants will have to impress the judges and audience alike to move closer to winning the most coveted title of India's Best Dancer.

## Top 12 contestants

India's Best Dancer Top 12 :
| Contestants | City | Style | Choreographers | Status | Place |
| Saumya Kamble | Pune | Belly Dance | Vartika Jha | Winner 9 January 2022 | 1st |
| Gourav Sarwan | Jaipur | Popping | Rupesh Soni | 1st Runner-up 9 January 2022 | 2nd |
| Roza Rana | Rourkela | Freestyle | Sanam Johar | 2nd Runner-up 9 January 2022 | 3rd |
| Raktim Thakuria | Guwahati | Hip-Hop, Lyrical | Aryan Patra | 3rd Runner-up 9 January 2022 | 4th |
| Zamroodh | Kerala | Bollywood | Sonali Kar | 4th Runner-up 9 January 2022 | 5th |
| Akash Tambedkar | Mumbai | Hip-Hop | Tushar Shetty | Eliminated 1 January 2022 | 6th |
| Dibbay Das | Silchar, Assam | Contemporary | Pankaj Thapa | Eliminated 1 January 2022 | 6th |
| Sanket Gaonkar | Karnataka | Contemporary | Anuradha Iyengar | Eliminated 1 January 2022 | 6th |
| Kanchi Shah | Mumbai | Animation | Paul Marshal | Eliminated 12 December 2021 | 9th |
| Apeksha Sukheja | Ahmedabad | Classical | Sadhwi Majumdar | Eliminated 12 December 2021 | 9th |
| Milind Bhatt | Lucknow | Lyrical | Chandani Srivastava | Eliminated 5 December 2021 | 11th |
| Muskan Singh | Bhopal | Kathak, Tutting | Bhawna Khanduja/ Kumar Sharma | Eliminated 28 November 2021 | 12th |

## Score chart

| Artists | Artists | Auditions Rounds | Auditions Rounds | Auditions Rounds | Grand Premiere | Race to Top 8 | Race to Top 8 | Race to Top 8 | Race to Top 8 | Race to Top 8 | Race to Finale | Race to Finale | Race to Finale | Race to Finale | Grand Finale | Grand Finale |
| Artists | Artists | Auditions | Auditions | Mega Auditions (Top 12) | Grand Premiere | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 9 |
| Contestants | Choreographer | 16–17 October | 23–24 October | 30–31 October | 6–7 November | 13–14 November | 20–21 November | 27–28 November | 4–5 December | 11–12 December | 18–19 December | 25–26 December | 1 January | 2 January | 8–9 January | 8–9 January |
| Total Score | Total Score | Total Score | Total Score | Total Score | No Points | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 60 | 60 | 30 | No Points | No Points | No Points |
| Saumya | Vartika | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | No Points | 30 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 60 | 60 | 30 | Finalists | Winner | Winner |
| Gourav | Rupesh | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | No Points | 30 | 30 | 24 | 30 | 28 | 60 | 60 | 30 | Finalists | 1st Runner-up | 1st Runner-up |
| Roza | Sanam | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | No Points | 29 | 30 | 29 | 30 | 24 | 55 | 57 | 30 | Finalists | 2nd Runner-up | 2nd Runner-up |
| Raktim | Aryan | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | No Points | 28 | 30 | 30 | 29 | 27 | 58 | 59 | 25 | Finalists | 3rd Runner-up | 3rd Runner-up |
| Zamroodh | Sonali | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | No Points | 29 | 30 | 27 | 30 | 30 | 53 | 60 | 30 | Finalists | 4th Runner up | 4th Runner up |
| Akash | Tushar | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | No Points | 25 | 30 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 52 | 54 | 30 | Eliminated (1 January) | Eliminated (1 January) | Eliminated (1 January) |
| Dibbay | Pankaj | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | No Points | 30 | 26 | 27 | 29 | 27 | 57 | 56 | NP | Eliminated (1 January) | Eliminated (1 January) | Eliminated (1 January) |
| Sanket | Anuradha | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | No Points | 25 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 54 | NP | NP | Eliminated (1 January) | Eliminated (1 January) | Eliminated (1 January) |
| Kanchi | Paul | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | No Points | 30 | 29 | 26 | 30 | 24 | Eliminated (12 December) | Eliminated (12 December) | Eliminated (12 December) | Eliminated (12 December) | Eliminated (12 December) | Eliminated (12 December) |
| Apeksha | Sadhwi | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | No Points | 30 | 30 | 27 | 27 | 24 | Eliminated (12 December) | Eliminated (12 December) | Eliminated (12 December) | Eliminated (12 December) | Eliminated (12 December) | Eliminated (12 December) |
| Milind | Chandni | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | No Points | 29 | 28 | 24 | 25 | Eliminated (5 December) | Eliminated (5 December) | Eliminated (5 December) | Eliminated (5 December) | Eliminated (5 December) | Eliminated (5 December) | Eliminated (5 December) |
| Muskan | Bhawna/ Kumar | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | Advanced to top 12 | No Points | 24 | 23 | 27 | Eliminated (28 November) | Eliminated (28 November) | Eliminated (28 November) | Eliminated (28 November) | Eliminated (28 November) | Eliminated (28 November) | Eliminated (28 November) | Eliminated (28 November) |
| Notes | Notes | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| BTM | BTM | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | Muskan | Muskan | Gourav Milind | Milind Apeksha Akash | Apeksha Kanchi Roza | Akash Zamroodh Sanket | Akash Dibbay Sanket | Raktim Dibbay Sanket | Raktim Dibbay Sanket | None | None |
| Eliminated | Eliminated | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | Muskan | Milind | Apeksha | No Elimination | No Elimination | Akash | Akash | Roza | Saumya |
| Eliminated | Eliminated | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | Muskan | Milind | Kanchi | No Elimination | No Elimination | Dibbay | Dibbay | Zamroodh | Saumya |
| Eliminated | Eliminated | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | No Elimination | Muskan | Milind | Kanchi | No Elimination | No Elimination | Sanket | Sanket | Raktim | Gaurav |
Color key
    indicates the contestant was eliminated.
    indicates the contestants in bottom.
    indicates the contestants got the full score.
    indicates the contestants did not perform.
    indicates the winner of the season.
    indicates the runner-up of the season.
    indicates the contestant quit the show.
    indicates the finalists of the season.