Dance Bangla Dance

Dance Bangla Dance
Also known as	DBD
Genre	Reality
Directed by	Raj Chakraborty Subhankar Chattopadhyay Avijit Sen
Country of origin	India
Original language	Bengali
No. of seasons	13
Production
Producer	Zee Bangla
Production company	Zee Bangla Productions
Original release
Network	Zee Bangla
Release	2007 (2007) – present

Dance Bangla Dance is a Bengali reality show program, which airs in Zee Bangla. It was later remade in Hindi as Dance India Dance . It first started on 6 April 2007, following Dance India Dance by Mithun Chakraborty, who had been the show's host from the beginning. ^[1]

This show has made national record in 2012 by Limca Book of Records for making 100 non-stop episodes in the sixth season. ^[2]

According to a news article published in Anandabazar Patrika , Ananda Plus on 6 December 2013, the 2014 season would not be judged by Chakraborty. ^[3] In December 2013, it was announced on fellow Zee Bangla show Dadagiri that Dev would be a judge on it in season 8. ^[4] Other past judges have included Swastika Mukherjee and Ananya Chatterjee.

Seasons

Season No.	Season	Host	Judges	Winners
1	Dance Bangla Dance 2007 [5]	Mir	Mithun Chakraborty (MahaGuru)	Subhaneeta
2	Dance Bangla Dance Junior 2007-08	Aritra Dutta Banik, Tathoi Deb		Adrit
3	Dance Bangla Dance Dhoom Dhamaka 2008	Aritra Dutta Banik, Ritwika		Rubel Das - Akash Sharma
4	Dance Bangla Dance Challengers 2008-2009	Aritra Dutta Banik and others
5	Dance Bangla Dance 2009 [6]	Bittu and others		Suparna
6	Dance Bangla Dance Junior 2010-11 [7] (Longest running season) (approx. 10 months)	Oindrila Saha	Mithun Chakraborty (MG), June Malia, Arpita Pal, Jisshu Sengupta, Rachna Banerjee, Soham Chakraborty	All finalists were declared as winner for avoiding negative impact of reality shows on children
7	Dance Bangla Dance Junior 2012-13 [8]	Dipanwita Kundu, Ghantu	Mithun Chakraborty (MG), Swastika Mukherjee, Ananya Chatterjee
8	Dance Bangla Dance 2014 [9] (Normal participant + Celebrity)	Vicky	Dev (Main), Nusrat Jahan, Yogesh Patkar, Madhuboni Chatterjee, Malabika Sen	Ricky Tewary, Tathoi Deb
9	Dance Bangla Dance Junior 2016 [10]	Raktim, Raktima	Jisshu Sengupta, Srabanti Chatterjee, Ankush Hazra	All finalists were declared as winner for avoiding negative impact of reality shows on children
10	Dance Bangla Dance Junior 2018	Bilas, Shayree
11	Dance Bangla Dance 2021	Ankush Hazra, Vikram Chatterjee	Govinda, Jeet, Subhashree Ganguly	Arnab - Sukanya
12	Dance Bangla Dance 2023	Ankush Hazra	Mithun Chakraborty (MahaGuru), Mouni Roy, Subhashree Ganguly, Srabanti Chatterjee, Puja Banerjee	Elder: Disha Younger: Snehashrita-Suman-Rajanya Champion of the Champions: Snehashrita-Rajanya
13	Dance Bangla Dance 2025	Humpty Phugla	Mithun Chakraborty (MahaGuru), Koushani Mukherjee, Jishu Sengupta, Ankush Hazra, Subhashree Ganguly

Hosts and Grand Masters

The show was actually first hosted by Mir. Then, it had various child hosts since its beginning. In its Season 8 and Season 11 the show is hosted by seniors. In Season 11, actor Vikram Chatterjee and Ankush Hazra co hosted the show. ^[11]

In its season 12 Mithun Chakraborty again returned as Mahaguru aka Grand Master. ^{[12] [13] [14] [15]}

In its season 13 Mithun Chakraborty

References

1. "SONG AND DANCE". The Telegraph (Kolkata) . 1 February 2009. Archived from the original on 4 February 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
2. "'Dance Bangla Dance' of Zee Bangla creates history". www.esselnewsletter.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
3. "এমজি ঢিসুম". 'Anandabazar Patrika (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
4. "Dev to debut on small screen as Dance Bangla Dance judge?". The Times of India . 7 December 2013. Archived from the original on 10 December 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
5. "Mithun to jiggy on Zee Bangla". www.esselnewsletter.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
6. "Zee Bangla starts Dance Bangla Dance today". www.esselnewsletter.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
7. "Dance Bangla Dance is back!". www.esselnewsletter.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
8. "Zee Bangla presents Dance Bangla Dance Junior 2012". www.esselnewsletter.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
9. "Zee Bangla is back with the 8th Season of Dance Bangla Dance". www.esselnewsletter.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
10. "Zee Bangla presents 'Dance Bangla Dance Junior' - a platform for children to showcase their dancing prowess". www.esselnewsletter.com. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
11. "Dance Bangla Dance to premiere on May 22". The Times of India. 13 May 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
12. "Veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty to return to 'Dance Bangla Dance Season 12' as a judge" (in Bengali).
13. "Mithun Chakraborty In Dance Bangla Dance: ১০ বছর পর 'ডান্স বাংলা ডান্স'-এর মঞ্চে ফিরছেন 'মহাগুরু' মিঠুন, রাখছেন কোন চমক" (in Bengali).
14. "Dance Bangla Dance: বিচারকের আসনে প্রথমবার একসঙ্গে শুভশ্রী, শ্রাবন্তী, মৌনী, ১০ বছর পরে ছোটপর্দায় প্রত্যাবর্তন মিঠুনের" (in Bengali).
15. "Dance Bangla Dance Exclusive- Mithun Chakraborty: বড় চমক! 'ডান্স বাংলা ডান্স'-র মহাগুরু আসনে কামব্যাক মিঠুনের" (in Bengali).