# Dance Jodi Dance

Dance Jodi Dance (transl. Dance Pair Dance) is a Indian Tamil-language dance competition reality television show broadcast on Zee Tamil and from the year 2016 and also available to watch on digital platform ZEE5. This show was being judge by actress Sneha for all the seasons. The show was one of the most successful dance reality show which premiered on 17 September 2016.
As of COVID-19 pandemic, this show was comes to the end with 3 seasons and hence started with the fresh reboot version as Dance Jodi Dance Reloaded. Thus the show follows this title in upcoming seasons from the first.

## Seasons overview

| Season | Season | Episodes | Original Broadcast | Original Broadcast | Winner | 1st Runner up |
| Season | Season | Episodes | First Aired | Last Aired | Winner | 1st Runner up |
| | 1 | 40 | 2 May 2021 (2021-5-2) | 21 September 2021 (2021-9-21) | Meesha & Jeevan | Yuthan & Nancy |
| | 2 | 51 | 2 December 2017 (2017-12-2) | 26 May 2018 (2018-5-26) | Ruth & Rinish Raj | Krishnamoorthy & Raveena Daha |
| | 3 | 41 | 16 November 2019 (2019-11-16) | 29 March 2020 (2020-3-29) | The grand finale didn't take place due to COVID-19 | The grand finale didn't take place due to COVID-19 |

## Season 1

Season 1 was premiered on 17 September 2016. The Show is hosted by Deepak Dinkar while Actress Sneha, Gautami and Accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer Sudha Chandran are the judges of the show.
The Grand finale event was held at Nehru stadium chennai on 27 January 2017. The winners are listed below
* Title Winners of Dance Jodi Dance 1:0 : Meesha and Jeevan
* 1st Runner-up : Yuthan and Nancy
* 2nd Runner-up : Raaghav and Reshma
* 3rd Runner-up : Priyanka and Arun
* Finalist : Myna Nandhini and Yogesh

### Contestants

A Tamil celebrities, mostly TV actors are paired with new dancers handpicked through auditions will go head to head in their quest to be best performers.
| # | Contestants | Celebrity partner |
| 1 | Arun Jackson | Sai Priyanka Ruth |
| 2 | Reshma Muralidharan | Raaghav |
| 3 | Naveen | Anuya Bhagvath |
| 4 | VJ Kathir | Abhirami Venkatachalam Swetha (from episode 7) |
| 5 | Yogesh | Myna Nandhini |
| 6 | Jeevan | Misha Ghoshal |
| 7 | Arivalagan | V. J. Chitra |
| 8 | Nash | Sandra Amy |
| 9 | Vikas | Sanjana Singh |
| 10 | Ashwini | Madhan Pandian |
| 11 | Archana | Siddarth Kumar |
| 12 | Nancy | Yuthan Balaji |

## Season 2

The second season aired on every Saturday and Sunday at 20:00 from 2 December 2017 to 26 May 2018 and ended with 49 Episodes. Actress Sneha has officially once again been appointed as the judge with new judge Gautami and Priyamani. Deepak Dinkar as the hosts. The season title winner is Ruth and Rinish Raj.
* Title Winners of Dance Jodi Dance 2:0 : Ruth & Rinish Raj (₹5,00,000)
* 1st Runner-up : Krishnamoorthy & Raveena Daha (₹3,30,000)
* 2nd Runner-up : Deva & Deeshika (₹2,25,000)
* 3rd Runner-up : Kaali & Meghna Vincent

### Contestants

A total of twelve celebrities, mostly TV actors, are paired with dancers handpicked through auditions and will go head to head in their quest to be best performers.
| # | Contestants | Celebrity partner |
| 1 | Pavithra | Puvi Arasu |
| 2 | Kaali | Meghna Vincent |
| 3 | Jerome | Reshma Muralidharan |
| 4 | Keerthana | Shyam |
| 5 | Avinash | Meghna |
| 6 | Ruth | Renish |
| 7 | Krishnamoorthy | Raveena Daha |
| 8 | (HipHop) Karthik | Abhinaya Shree |
| 9 | Deva | Ramya Deeshika (replaced Ramya) |
| 10 | Jessie | Vinoth Kishan |
| 11 | Karthik | Lassiya |
| 12 | Renisha | Karthick Ashokan |

## Season 3

The third season aired on every Saturday and Sunday at 18:30 from 2 December 2017 and which has been halted due to COVID-19 pandemic situation on 29 March 2020 with 41 episodes. Sneha, Priya Raman, Pooja and Namitha as the judges, Deepak Dinkar, Pearle Maaney and Anjana Rangan as the hosts.

### Contestants

| # | Contestants | Celebrity partner |
| 1 | Santhosh Arockiraj | Ragasya |
| 2 | Sathish Kumar | Tejashree |
| 3 | Vinu | Koli Ramya |
| 4 | Venkat | Nachathira |
| 4 | Mohan | Iraa Agarwal |
| 6 | Sharath | Anandhi |
| 7 | Sujith Kumar | Gayatri Rema |
| 8 | Nayana Joshan | Vinoth Kishan |
| 9 | Pavithra | Wong |
| 10 | Deepika | Vivek Rajgopal |
| 11 | Preetha Suresh | Venkatesh |
| 12 | Anitha | Shivaji |
| 13 | Arunima Sudhakar | Kishore DS |

## Spin-off
### Dance Jodi Dance Reloaded

Dance Jodi Dance was ended with Season 3 and started with the reboot / Spin-off version as DJD Reloaded which was premiered on 30 July 2022. The show was hosted by RJ Vijay while Actress Sneha, Sangeetha and Choreographer Baba Bhaskar are the judges of the show.
* Title Winners of Dance Jodi Dance Reloaded : Vaishnavi & Avinash (₹5,00,000)
* 1st Runner-up : Dominic & Preetha (₹3,00,000)
* 2nd Runner-up : Kenny & Niharika (₹2,00,000)

### Contestants

| # | Contestants | Celebrity partner |
| 1 | Dominic | Preetha Suresh |
| 2 | Janmoni Doley | Anand Pandi |
| 3 | Akila | Britto Mano |
| 4 | Vaishnavi | Puvi Arasu / Avinash |
| 5 | Pasupathi | Rhema Ashok |
| 6 | Saravana | Sree Nidhi |
| 7 | Nagaraj | Pranika Dhakshu / Akshitha |
| 8 | Sahana | Yokesh |
| 9 | Saravana Muthu | VJ Sangeetha/ Dheeshika |
| 10 | Kenny | Saai Gayathri / Niharika |
| 11 | Namrytha | Sugi Vijay |
| 12 | Manikandan | Vaishali Thaniga |

## COVID-19 outbreak in India

Dance Jodi Dance 3.0, the third season of the show was premiered on 16 November 2019, which has been halted due to COVID-19 pandemic situation on 29 March 2020 with 41 episodes. Later the channel decided to launch the third season again with the revamp as Dance Jodi Dance Reloaded with different contestants on 2022.