Dance India Dance
Dance India Dance (also called by the acronym DID; tagline:"Dance Ka Asli ID D.I.D.") is an Indian dance competition reality television series that airs on Zee TV, created and produced by Essel Vision Productions. It premiered on 30 January 2009. Here the judges are called "Masters" and Mithun Chakraborty was called "Grand Master (till season 6)". Season 7 premiered with a different concept. The show features a format where dancers from a variety of styles enter open auditions held in Indian metropolitan cities to showcase their unique style and talents and, if allowed to move forward, are  then put through mega-audition rounds of auditions to test their ability to adapt to different styles. At the end of mega audition, the top 18 dancers are chosen as finalists who move on to compete in the competition's main phase where they will perform solo, duet and group dance numbers in a variety of styles in competition for the votes of the broadcast viewing audience which, combined with the input of a panel of judges, determine which dancers will advance to the next stage from week to week. The show features a variety of Indian cultural and international  dance styles ranging across a broad spectrum of classical, Contemporary, Bollywood, Hip-hop, Jazz, Kalaripayattu, Salsa, and Musical theatre styles, among others, with many sub-genres within these categories represented. Competitors attempt to master these styles in an attempt to survive successive weeks of elimination and win a cash prize and often other awards, as well as the title of "India's Best Dancer". The show is choreographed by Indian choreographers, such as Mudassar Khan, Marzi Pestonji, Tanuj Jaggi and Mini Pradhan. The show has won several television awards for "Most Popular Dance Reality Show". Format. Selection process. The selection  process can be further broken down into two distinct stages: the Open Auditions and the second phase referred to as the Mega Auditions. The Open Auditions take place in 5–6 major Indian cities and are typically open to anyone aged 15–30 at the time of their audition. The cities in which auditions are held vary from season to season but some, such as New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata have featured in almost every season. During this stage, dancers perform a brief routine (typically individually) before three masters. The masters will then make an on-the-spot decision as to whether  the dancer demonstrated enough ability. If the dancer impressed the masters with his/her dancing abilities, masters will award a Hat called "Taqdeer Ki Topi (Hat of Destiny)", moving them instantly one step forward in the competition. The second stage of the selection process, the Mega Auditions, is a several-day-long process in which the 100 hopefuls are tested for overall well-rounded dance, stamina, and their ability to perform under pressure. The dancers are put through a battery of rounds which test their ability to pick up various dance styles (typically some of the more well-represented genres  that will later be prominent in the competition phase, such as Hip hop, Bollywood, Jazz, Bharat Natyam, Kathak, Mohiniyattam, Odissi and Contemporary). At the end of this process, only the top 36 competitors will be chosen. The top 36 are then again asked to give solo performances, after which 18 are chosen in the final auditions. Then, those top 18 get divided into 3 teams which are named according to the 3 masters of the show such as, "Mudassar Ki Mandali", "Marzi Ke Mastane" and "Mini Ke Masterblasters". Each team containing 6 dancers then competes in the show, learning new  skills throughout the journey. Judges. Grand Master Mithun Chakraborty has been being the head judge of the series. When any contestant performs an extraordinary performance, Grand Master gives him/her a salute. It's called "Grand Salute" and it is the highest respect for any contestant here. Every season, 3 Indian choreographers (who are called Coaches) choreograph the contestants and judge them too with Grand Master. The first three seasons were judged by 3 regular judges Master Geeta Kapoor, Master Terence Lewis & Master Remo D'Souza with Grand Master. Then the judges were changed season by season from season 4. When  any contestant performs a perfect act, the judges give him/her a special speech which is as respect for the contestant. List of the judges: Season details. Season 1. First season was started on 30 January 2009. This season was hosted by Jay Bhanushali and Saumya Tandon. The grand finale was aired on 30 May 2009 and winner was Salman Yusuff Khan. Masters: Top 18 Contestants: "Remo Ke Rangeelay": "Terence Ki Toli": "Geeta Ki Gang": Finalists: Season 2. Second season was started on 18 December 2009. This season was also hosted by Jay Bhanushali and Saumya Tandon. The grand finale  was aired on 23 April 2010 and winner was Shakti Mohan. Masters: Top 21 Contestants: "Remo Ke Rangeelay": "Terence Ki Toli": "Geeta Ki Gang": Finalists: Season 3. Third season was started on 24 December 2011. This season was also hosted by Jay Bhanushali and Saumya Tandon. The grand finale was aired on 21 April 2012 and winner was Rajasmita Kar. Masters: Top 20 Contestants: "Remo Ke Rangeelay": "Terence Ki Toli": "Geeta Ki Gang": Finalists: Season 4. Fourth season was started on 26 October 2013. This season was hosted by Jay Bhanushali and Ishita Sharma. The grand finale was aired on  22 February 2014 and winner was Shyam Yadav from Mudassar ki Mandli. Masters: Top 11 Contestants: "Mudassar Ki Mandali": "Shruti Ke Shandar": "Feroz Ki Fauj": Finalists: Season 5. Fifth season was started on 27 June 2015. This season was hosted by Jay Bhanushali. The grand finale was aired on 10 October 2015 and winner was Proneeta Swargiary. Masters: Top 11 Contestants: "Mudassar Ki Mandali": "Punit Ke Panthers": "Gaiti Ke Gangsters": Finalists: Season 6. Sixth season is being aired from 4 November 2017. This season is being hosted by Amruta Khanvilkar and Sahil Khattar. Masters: Top Contestants: "Mudassar Ki Mandali": "Marzi  Ke Mastane": "Mini Ke Masterblasters": Top 5 Finalists: Sanket Gaonkar (from "Mini Ke Masterblasters") is the winner Sachin Sharma (from "Marzi Ke Mastane") is the first runner up Piyush Gurbhele (from "Mini Ke Masterblasters") is the second runner up Nainika Anasuru (from "Mini Ke Masterblasters") is the third runner up Shivam Wankhede (from "Mudassar Ki Mandali) is" fourth runner up Season 7. Season 7 - "Battle Of The Champions" being aired from 22 June 2019. This season is being hosted by Karan Wahi. Pranshu & Kuldeep (Lyrical) (2nd Runner-Up) Akshay Pal (Popping) (4th Runner-Up) Saakshi & Shambhavi (Freestyle) (Eliminated on 11  August 2019) Akash & Suraj (Freestyle) (Eliminated on 18 August 2018) Kings Squad (Hip-Hop) (Eliminated on 1 September 2019) Mansi Dhruv (Bollywood) (Eliminated on 22 September 2019) Mukul Gain (Contemporary) (3rd Runner-Up) Nrutya Naivedya (Odissi) (Eliminated on 7 July 2019) Pop & Flex (Popping) (Eliminated on 14 July 2019) M.D. Hasan (B-Boying) (Eliminated on 28 July 2019) Richika Sinha (Contemporary) (Eliminated on 8 September 2019) Unreal Crew (Tuttmation - Tutting and Animation) (Winner) Malka Praveen (Hip-Hop and Freestyle) (Eliminated on 21 July 2019) Hardik Rawat (Contemporary and Hip-Hop) (Withdrew Due to Injury on 28 July 2019) N-House  Crew (Freestyle) (Eliminated on 22 September 2019) I Am Hip-Hop (Hip-Hop) (Runner-Up) Ramya & Bhaskar (Freestyle) (Eliminated on 7 July 2019) Loyala Dream Team (Hip-Hop and Urban Choreography) (Eliminated on 14 July 2019) Anil & Tejas (Freestyle) (Eliminated on 21 July 2019) The Soul Queens (Bollywood and Hip-Hop) (Eliminated on 25 August 2019) Spin-offs. Section::::"Li'l Masters". The first season of "DID L'il Masters" was judged by Farah Khan and Sandip Soparrkar. The four skippers and their teams were: Dharmesh ke Dhinchak, Jai ke Jhatang-Fatang, Vrushali ke Dhum-Dhadake and Amrita ke Aflatoon. Jeetumoni Kalita from  Dharmesh ke Dhinchak was declared winner of the first season of "Dance India Dance L'il Masters". Atul Banmoria was the 1st runner-up and Vaishnavi Patil was the 2nd runner-up, Sonik Chauhan from Delhi got the best performer award from Finalist and Tiyash Saha (Wild Card Entry) from Kolkata (Neerav ke Ninjas) got the 5th position and most entertaining participant of the Season, Ritika and Pallavi got 6th position. "DID L'il Masters 2" was judged by Master Geeta and Master Marzi. The four skippers and their teams were Prince ke Paltan, Raghav ke Rockstars, Kruti ke Krackers and Neerav  ke Ninjas. 5 contestants, Jeet, Om, Faisal, Rohan and Saumya entered the grand finale. Faisal Khan, from Prince ke Paltan, was declared as the winner of the second season. Om Chetry, Rohan Parkale and Saumya Rai came second, third and fourth respectively. The third season began broadcasting on 1 March 2014. Geeta Kapoor, Ahmad Khan, and Mudassar Khan were judges, along with Sanam Johar, Raghav Crockroaz Juyal/ Omkar Shinde, Rahul Shetty and Paul Marshal Cardoz and Swarali Karulkar, as skippers. The teams were Raghav/Omkar ke Rockstar, Sanam ke Superheroes, Rahul and Paul ke Rapchik Punters and Swarali ke Sparklers . Teriya Magar from Nepal was declared the winner, and Anushka Chetry became the 1st runner-up. Sadhwin Shetty was the 2nd runner-up. Hardik Ruparel was declared the 3rd runner-up DID Li'l Masters returned with its 4th season after 4 years. It began broadcasting on 3 March 2018. Marzi Pestonji, Chitrangnda Singh and Siddharth Anand are the judges along with Vaishnavi Patil, Jitumoni Kalita, Tanay Malhara and Bir Radha Sherpa as the skippers. The teams are Vaishnavi Ke Veer, Jitumoni ke Janbaaz, Tanay ke Tigers and Bir ke Baahubali. Jiya Thakur from Vaishnavi ke Veer wins the title. Urva  Bhavsar from Jitumoni ke Janbaaz is the first runner up followed by Tamman Gamnu from Bir ke Baahubali. The season was hosted by Jay Bhanushali and Vighnesh Pande. DID Li'l Masters returned with its 5th season. It began broadcasting on 12 March 2022 with Remo D'Souza, Sonali Bendre and Mouni Roy as the judges with Jay Bhanushali as the host. The skippers for the season are Paul Marshal, Vartika Jha and Vaibhav Ghuge. "Dance India Dance L'il Masters North America Edition" - Auditions were conducted in April 2014 with over 10,000 contestants auditioning from all across the US, Canada and Europe . Out of them 10 contestants were chosen and were flown to Mumbai, India to compete in the finals. The winner was Akhil and the second winner was Avantika Vandanapu. Section::::"Doubles". The shows consisted of 12 finalist couples. The Grand Finale was scheduled for filming 7 April 2011 at the Andheri Sports Complex for broadcast on 9 April 2011. Amit and Falon were voted the winners of the season. Section::::"Super Moms". Mithu Chowdhury from Kolkata was declared the winner of "Dance India Dance Super Moms" 2013 Season, and Cecille Rodrigues from Goa was the 1st runner-up, and Shraddha Shah Raj  from Surat was the 2nd runner-up. The second season started in March 2015. Harpreet Khatri who hails from Mumbai was announced the winner of "Dance India Dance Super Moms Season 2" in 2015. Season 2 was anchored by popular TV actor Karan Wahi. Season 2 was judged by Geeta Kapoor, Govinda, and Terence Lewis. Did super moms season 3 audion start 2022 Special shows. Section::::"Dance Ke Superstars". "Dance Ke Superstars" featured contestants from the first two seasons to compete against each other. The show was judged by choreographers Remo D'Souza and Shiamak Davar, and featured a guest judge every  week. Team Jalwa, the Season 2 DID contestants, won the series. Section::::"Dance Ke Superkids". "Dance ke Superkids- Battle of the Baaps!" featured contestants from the first two seasons of "DID L'iL Masters". It was judged by Geeta Kapoor, Farah Khan and Marzi Pestonji and hosted by Jay Bhanushali and Shreya Acharya. Team Yahoo, also known as "DID L'il Masters Season 2", was led by Captain Raghav Juyal and choreographers: Kruti Mahesh and Prince Gupta. They won the competition with Faisal Khan, Soumya Rai, Rohan Parkale, Om Chetri, Jeet Das, Shalini Moitra and Tanay Malhara dancing their way to victory. Team  Wakao, also known as "DID L'il Masters Season 1", was led by Captain Dharmesh Yelande and choreographers: Mayuresh Vadkar and Vrushali Chavan; with dancing contestants: Jeetumoni Kalita, Vatsal Vithlani, Ruturaj Mahalim, Vaishnavi Patil, Atul Banmoria, Anurag Sarmah and Khyati Patel. The team fell just short of victory but thoroughly celebrated their time on the show all the same. Section::::"Dance Ka Tashan". "DID Dance Ka Tashan" featured contestants from "Dance India Dance Super Moms" competing against contestants from "Dance India Dance L'il Masters 2". The show aired in November 2013 and was judged by choreographer Ahmed Khan and Geeta Kapoor and  hosted by TV actor Rithvik Dhanjani and India's Best Dramebaaz, Nihar. The show was won by Team Todu, the "DID L'il Masters Season 2" contestants, Faisal, Soumya, Rohan, Om, Shalini, Deep, Tanay, Jeet and Shreya.