Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (Dancing with the Stars) is a celebrity dance reality show in which celebrity have to perform dance with their professional dancing partners. The show has been completed 8 seasons and right now 9th season is running on colors tv. This is the biggest celebrity dance reality show in India. The format of the show is inspired from BBC show Strictly come dancing. Following are the winners, judges, host, contestants list of all the previous seasons:
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 1 (2006)
The first season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa was premiered in 2006. The show was aired on Sony Entertainment Television. The judges of the show were Sanjay Leela Bhansali (popular director & producer of Bollywood), Farah Khan (most famous choreographer in bollywood) and Shilpa Shetty (Bollywood Actress). The show was hosted by Archana Puran Singh and Parmeet Sethi.
The winner name of the season one was Mona Singh, she started her career from the serial “Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin”
Following is the name list of contestants and their partners who participated in Season 1:
- Ajay Jadeja and Rhea
- Mahesh Manjrekar and Sonia
- Deepak kumarand Neha
- Akashdeep Saigal and Bindi
- Sanjeev Kapoor and Nicole
- Shweta Salve and Loungines
- Rati Agnihotri and Feroz
- Pooja Bedi and Hanif Hilal
- Mona Singh and Toby
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 2 (2007)
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, the most popular dance reality show, season 2 was premiered on 7th September 2007. The show was aired on sony entertainment tv channel. The judges of the show were Jeetendra (Bollywood actor), Urmila Matondkar (Bollywood actress) and Shiamak Davar (dancer & choreographer).
The jhalak competition was won by Prachi Desai in season 2, she was eliminated in the show but backed with the wild card entry and won the game. She started her career as a tv actress from the zee tv show Kasam se.
Following were the participated contestants and their partner’s name:
- Aadesh Shrivastava and Tina
- Cyrus Broacha and Rozita
- Jay Bhanushali and Bindi
- Prachi Desai and Deepak
- Sandhya Mridul and Javed
- Mika Singh and Tanushree
- Mir Ranjan Negi and Marischa
- Sonali Kulkarni and Toby
- Ronit Roy and Nicole
- Mini Mathur and Hemu
- Sudha Chandran and Uma Shankar
- Tapur Chatterjee and Feroz
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 3 (2009)
The celebrity dancing show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa season 3 was premiered on 27th feb 2009 and the grand finale was on 31st may 2009. The show was aired on sony entertainment television india. This Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa series was hosted by the popular TV actress Shweta Tiwari and Rohit Roy. The judges of the show were Saroj Khan (choreographer), Vaibhavi Merchant (choreographer) and Juhi Chawla (Bollywood Actress)
The winner of the show was Baichung Bhutia, he defeated karan singh grover and gauhar khan in the finale and won the title.
Here is the name list of participated contestant and their dance partners:
- Baichung Bhutia and Sonia (1st)
- Gauhar Khan and Himanshu (2nd)
- Karan Singh Grover and Nicole (3rd)
- Hard Kaur and Savior
- Bhagyashree and Toby
- Mohinder Amarnath and Lilian
- Shilpa Shukla and Nishant
- Ugesh Sarkar and Tina
- Monica Bedi and Javed
- Ram Kapoor and Marischa
- Parul Chauhan and Deepak
- Anand Raj Anand and Rozita
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 4 (2010)
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa “Dancing With The Stars” fourth season was premiered on 12th December 2010 and the finale was played on 8th march 2011. This series was hosted by first season winner mona singh with here co-host sumeet raghavan. The show was judged by Madhuri Dixit (Bollywood dancing queen), Remo D’souza (choreographer) and Malaika Arora Khan (Bollywood item girl, actress)
The show was won by Meiyang Chаng with her dancer partner Marischa Fernandes. Meiyang chang defeated sushant singh rajput and yana gupta in the grand finale.
Following is the list of participated jhalak contestants and their partners in season 4:
- Meiyang Chang and Marischa
- Anushka Manchanda and Puneet
- Ankita Lokhande and Nishant
- Sushant Singh Rajput and Shampa
- Yana Gupta and Salman
- Krushna Abhishek and Robin
- Mahhi Vij and Savio
- Ragini Khanna and Neerav
- Renuka Shahane and Jai
- Shekhar Suman and Priti
- Dayanand Shetty and Vrushali
- Akhil Kumar and Sneha
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 5 (2012)
The Indian dancing show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa season five was premiered on 16th June 2012 and its grand finale was aired on 30th September 2012. The show was run 16 weeks on colors TV. The show was judged by Madhuri Dixit, Karan Johar and Remo D’Souza . This time show was hosted by Manish Paul an anchor and Ragini Khanna a TV actress.
The winner of the season 5 was Gurmeet Choudhary (TV actress), while the runner up was Rashmi Desai Sandhu.
Below was the name list of contestants and their partners who participated in this series:
- Gurmeet Choudhary and Shampa
- Archana Vijaya and Sanam
- Rashmi Desai and Deepak
- Isha Sharvani and Salman
- Bharti Singh and Savio
- Karan Wahi and Mohena
- Shibani Dandekar and Punit
- Giaa Manek and Nishant
- Darsheel Safary and Avneet
- Pratyusha Banerjee and Deepak
- Rithvik Dhanjani and Sneha
- Jayati Bhatia and Diwakar
- Ravi Kishan and Kunjan
- Sanath Jayasuriya and Suchitra
- Sushil Kumar and Alisha Singh
- Talat Aziz and Ankita
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 6 (2013)
The season 6 was started on 1st June 2013 on Colors TV. There were three judges in the panel names were Madhuri Dixit, Remo D’Souza and Karan Johar. This time the show was hosted by two popular anchor manish paul and comedian kapil Sharma.
The finale was taken on 14th September 2013 and the show was won by Drashti Dhami while Lauren Gottlieb was the runner up.
Following are the celebrities name with their partners who participated in season 6:
- Drashti & Salman
- Lauren & Punit
- Sonali & Sumant
- Shaan & Marisha
- Mukti & Shashank
- Sana & Tushar
- Sidharth & Mohena
- Karanvir & Sneha
- Karan & Sharmishtha
- Mantra & Ankita
- Aarti & Cornel
- Shweta & Sushant
- Ekta & Tushar
- Meghna & Savio
- Srikant & Amrita
- Suresh & Suchitra
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 7 (2014)
This season was premiered on 7th June 2014, it was judged by Karan Johar, Madhuri Dixit, and Remo D’Souza. The show was hosted by Ranvir shorey and the last season winner drashti dhami but later they both were replaced by Manish Paul.
The show was won by Ashish Sharma while the Karan tacker was the runner up.
Following were the participants of season 7:
- Ashish Sharma and Shampa
- Karan Tacker and Bhawna
- Shakti Mohan and Tushar
- Mouni Roy and Punit
- Akshat Singh and Vaishnavi
- Sophie Choudry and Deepak
- Tara-Jean Popowich and Jack
- Kiku Sharda and Kruti
- Malishka Mendonsa and Diwakar
- Kushal Punjabi and Mohena
- Puja Banerjee and Rajit
- Sreesanth and Sneha
- Sukhwinder Singh and Bhawna
- Kritika Kamra and Savio
- Purab Kohli and Mohena
- VJ Andy and Bhavini
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa season 8 (2015)
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa season 8th was premiered on 11th July 2015, the show was aired on Colors TV and hosted by Manish Paul. The judges of the show were Karan Johar, Shahid Kapoor, Ganesh Hegde and Lauren Gottlieb.
The finale of the show was on 10th October 2015, the show was won by 17 years old boy Faisal Khan with her partner Vaishnavi Patil.
There were 16 contestants who participated in the previous season 8 jhalak dikhhla jaa reloaded. Below are their names:
- Faisal Khan, Winner
- Sanaya Irani, (2nd position)
- Shamita Shetty, (3rd position)
- Deepika Samson
- Ashish Chaudhary
- Mohit Malik
- Anita Hassanandani
- Neha Marda
- Raftaar
- Roopal Tyagi
- Scarlett Wilson
- Subhreet Kaur Ghumman
- Vivian Dsena
- Irfan Pathan
- Kavita Kaushik
- Radhika Madan
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 9 (2016-17)
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Season 9 was aired on 30th July 2016 on colors channel. There were four judges in the panel Karan Johar, Jacqueline Fernandez, Ganesh Hegde and Farah Khan. The show was again hosted by Manish Paul. The winner of the show was wild card entry girl “Teriya Magar”
Following are the participating contestant’s names of Jhalak Dikhhla jaa 2016:
- Salman Yusuff Khan and Aishwarya Radhakrishnan
- Shantanu Maheshwari and Alisha Singh
- Karishma Tanna and Rajit Dev
- Shakti Arora and Suchitra Sawant
- Nora Fatehi and Cornel Rodrigues
- Surveen Chawla and Sanam Johar
- Arjun Bijlani and Bhawna Khanduja
- Helly Shah and Jai Kumar Nair
- Sidhant Gupta and Pranalini Atul/Sneha/Afiya
- Chef Harpal Singh Sokhi and Bhavna Purohit
- Priyanka Shah and Poonam Shah
- Gaurav Gera and Diwakar Nayal
- Gracy Goswami and Sachin (WildCard Entry)
- Swasti Nitya and Preetjot Singh (WildCard Entry)
- Teriya Magar and Aryan Patra (WildCard Entry)
- Siddharth Nigam and Vaishnavi Patil (WildCard Entry)
- Spandan Chaturvedi and Hardik (WildCard Entry)
JHALAK DIKHHLA JAA SEASON 1 (2016)
do correct the above detail you have mention in your blog. it was 2006 not 2016..
Thanks Arjun, I made the changes.