Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (season 7)

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa
Season 7
Presented by	Manish Paul Drashti Dhami Ranvir Shorey
Judges	Remo D'Souza Madhuri Dixit Karan Johar
No. of contestants	16
Winner	Ashish Sharma
Runner-up	Karan Tacker
No. of episodes	31
Release
Original network	Colors TV
Original release	7 June (2014-06-07) – 20 September 2014 (2014-09-20)
Season chronology
← Previous Season 6 Next → Season 8

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 is the seventh season of the dance reality show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa . It premiered on 7 June 2014 on Colors. The series was hosted by Ranvir Shorey ^[1] and Drashti Dhami ^[2] but later got replaced by Manish Paul. ^[3] Madhuri Dixit, Karan Johar and Remo D'Souza were the three judges. ^[4] The finale took place on 20 September 2014 and was won by Ashish Sharma and Shampa Gopikrishna.

Cast

Celebrity	Notability	Professional partner	Result
Andy Kumar	VJ and Bigg Boss star	Bhavini Mishra	Eliminated 1st on 15 June 2014 [5]
Purab Kohli	Bollywood actor	Mohena Singh	Eliminated 2nd on 22 June 2014 [6] [7]
Kritika Kamra	Actress	Savio Barnes	Eliminated 3rd on 29 June 2014 [8]
Sukhwinder Singh	Singer	Bhawna Khanduja	Eliminated 4th on 6 July 2014
Sreesanth Nair	Cricketer	Sneha Kapoor	Eliminated 5th on 12 July 2014
Kainaat Arora	Grand Masti actress	Cornel Rodrigues	Not Selected on 13 July 2014
Rahul Vaidya	Singer	Syscilia D'Souza	Not Selected on 13 July 2014
Sana Khan	Actress & Bigg Boss 6 star	Shashank Dogra	Not Selected on 13 July 2014
Akriti Kakar	Singer	Javed Sanadi	Withdrew on 13 July 2014
Puja Banerjee	Actress	Rajit Dev	Eliminated 6th on 27 July 2014 [9]
Kushal Punjabi	Actor and model	Mohena Singh	Eliminated 7th on 2 August 2014 [10] [11] [12]
Malishka Mendonsa	RJ	Diwakar Nayal	Eliminated 8th on 9 August 2014 [13]
Kiku Sharda	Comedian	Kruti Mahesh	Eliminated 9th on 16 August 2014 [14] [15]
Tara Jean Popowich	So You Think You Can Dance star and dancer	Jack Samuel	Eliminated 10th on 23 August 2014
Sophie Choudry	Actress, VJ and singer	Deepak Singh	Eliminated 11th on 30 August 2014 [16]
Akshat Singh	India's Got Talent star	Vaishnavi Patil	Eliminated 12th on 13 September 2014
Mouni Roy	Actress	Punit Pathak	Fourth place on 20 September 2014 [17]
Shakti Mohan	Dancer	Tushar Kalia	Third place on 20 September 2014
Karan Tacker	Actor and model	Elena Samodanova (later Bhawna Khanduja)	Runners-up on 20 September 2014 [18]
Ashish Sharma	Rangrasiya actor	Shampa Gopikrishna	Winners on 20 September 2014 [19] [20]

Scoring chart

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (season 7)- Weekly Scores

Couple	Pl.	Week
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	6+7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	13+14	15	16
																			Night 1	Night 2	1+2
Ashish		27	35	36	30†	26	27	25	52	24	27	25	27	27+29=56	29+30=59	27+30=57	116	—	27	9	36 [lower-alpha 1]
Karan		21	32	40†	27	30†	27	29	56	30†	27	30†	30†	27+30=57	27+27=54	28+30=58	112		29	10	39 [lower-alpha 2]
Shakti		29†	40†	40†	30†	30†	30†	30†	60†	30†	29	30†	30†	30+30=60	30+30=60	00+00=00	60 [lower-alpha 3]		27	8	36 [lower-alpha 4]
Mouni		27	31	30	36 [lower-alpha 3]	22	30†	30†	60†	38	30†	27	30†	24+27=51	27+27=54	27+30=57	111		27 [lower-alpha 5]
Akshat		28	40†	40†	30†	30†	30†	30†	60†	27	29	30†	25‡ [lower-alpha 3]	30+30=60 [lower-alpha 3]	27+30=57	30+30=60	117 [lower-alpha 6]
Sophie		25 [lower-alpha 3]	36	34	27	27	30†	30†	60†	26	30†	27	24	24+27=51 [lower-alpha 6]
Tara							27	30†	57	30†	30†	27 [lower-alpha 3]	30† [lower-alpha 6]
Kiku		27	27	34	27	25	21‡	21‡	42‡	26 [lower-alpha 3]	27 [lower-alpha 3]	24 [lower-alpha 6]
Malishka							23	24	47	23	26 [lower-alpha 6]
Kushal							25	27	52 [lower-alpha 3]	29 [lower-alpha 6]
Puja		22	27 [lower-alpha 3]	34 [lower-alpha 3]	26	22 [lower-alpha 3]	25	23	48 [lower-alpha 6]
Sreesanth		27	32	28	27	27 [lower-alpha 6]
Sukhwinder		18‡	26	31	21 [lower-alpha 6]
Kritika		22	30	29 [lower-alpha 6]
Purab		24	33 [lower-alpha 6]
Andy		20 [lower-alpha 6]

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12		Week 13			Week 14		Week 15		Week 16
Performer of the Week	None	Akshat	Mouni	Ashish	None	Sophie	None		Karan	Mouni	Shakti	Akshat		Ashish			Akshat	Mouni	None
Ashish	27	35	36	30	26	27	25	24	27	25	27	27	29	Sana S	29	30	27	30	—	—	27	9	Winner
Karan	21	32	40	27	30	27	29	30	27	30	30	27	30	Krystle	27	27	28	30	—	—	29	10	1st runner-up
Shakti	29	40	40	30	30	30	30	30	29	30	30	30	30	Mukti	30	30	—	—	—	—	27	8	2nd runner-up
Mouni	27	31	30	36	22	40	40	38	30	37	30	24	27	Faisal	27	27	27	30	—	—	27	—	3rd runner-up
Akshat	28	40	40	30	30	30	30	27	29	30	25	30	30	Ali	27	30	30	30	—	Eliminated
Sophie	25	36	34	27	27	30	30	26	30	27	24	24	27	Elli	—	Eliminated
Tara	NOT IN COMPETITION					27	30	30	30	27	30	27	Eliminated
Kiku	27	27	34	27	25	21	21	26	27	24	—	Eliminated
Malishka	NOT IN COMPETITION					23	24	23	26	22	Eliminated
Kushal	NOT IN COMPETITION					25	27	29	26	Eliminated
Puja	22	27	34	26	22	25	23	25	Eliminated
Akriti	NOT IN COMPETITION					—	Quit
Kainaat	NOT IN COMPETITION					—	Not Selected
Rahul	NOT IN COMPETITION					—	Not Selected
Sana K	NOT IN COMPETITION					—	Not Selected
Sreesanth	27	32	28	27	27	20	Eliminated
Sukhwinder	18	26	31	21	22	Eliminated
Kritika	22	30	29	25	Eliminated
Purab	24	33	30	Eliminated
Andy	20	27	Eliminated
Bottom 2	None	Andy Sophie	Puja Purab	Kritika Puja	Mouni Sukhwinder	Puja Sreesanth	None	Kushal Puja	Kiku Kushal	Kiku Malishka	Kiku Tara	Akshat Tara		Akshat Sohpie			None		Akshat Shakti		Ashish Karan Mouni Shakti
Quit	None					Akriti	None
Eliminated	No Elimination	Andy	Purab	Kritika	Sukhwinder	Sreesanth	No Elimination	Puja	Kushal	Malishka	Kiku	Tara		Sophie			No Elimination		Akshat		Mouni	Shakti
																					Karan	Ashish

notes

1. This couple finished in first place.
2. This couple finished in second place.
3. This couple was in the bottom two, but was not eliminated.
4. This couple finished in third place.
5. This couple finished in fourth place.
6. This couple was eliminated.

Dance chart

The couples performed the following each week:

  Highest scoring dance

  Lowest scoring dance

  Non-scoring dance

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (season 7) - Dance chart

Couple	Weeks
	1	2	3	4	5	6		7	8	9	10	11			12		13		14			15		16
Ashish & Shampa	Hip-hop	Samba	Bollywood, Freestyle & Thang Ta	Drunk Jazz	Freestyle	Bollywood		Stomping & Hip-hop Freestyle	Paso Doble	Semi Classical	Physical Theatre & Mime	Freestyle		Bollywood & Freestyle	Yakshaganan	Disco & Freestyle	Tango	Contemporary	Hip-hop & Krumping	Hip-hop & Freestyle	Freestyle [lower-alpha 1]	Freestyle [lower-alpha 1]	Freestyle [lower-alpha 1]	Parkour & Freestyle	Freestyle relay
Karan & Elena	Freestyle	Cha-Cha & Hustle	Bollywood	Ballroom Freestyle	Paso Doble	Hip-hop		Bollywood	Stomping & Krumping	Bollywood & Freestyle	Freestyle	Contemporary & Freestyle		Bollywood & Freestyle	Contemporary & Freestyle	Freestyle	Hip-hop & Bhangra	Freestyle	Hip-hop & Freestyle	Jazz & Freestyle		Freestyle [lower-alpha 1]	Kalari & Chau [lower-alpha 1]	Paso Doble & Freestyle
Shakti & Tushar	Ballet	Tango & Mambo Tricks	Contemporary & Chau	Modern Jazz	Latin Freestyle	Contemporary		Freestyle	Classical & Classical	Bollywood & Freestyle	Lyrical Hip-hop	Lyrical		Broadway Jazz	Freestyle	Contact Improvisation	Tandav	Cabaret	— [lower-alpha 1]			Freestyle [lower-alpha 1]	Afro & Acrobacia [lower-alpha 1]	Contemporary & Krumping
Mouni & Punit	Freestyle	Rumba & Coban Bolero	Contorted Tandav	Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle		Freestyle	Classical & Robotics	Bollywood & Freestyle	Freestyle	Afro		Broadway Jazz	Paso Doble	Contemporary	Freestyle	Jazz	Semi Classical	Robotics & Bollywood	Freestyle [lower-alpha 1]	Freestyle [lower-alpha 1]	Contemporary [lower-alpha 1]	Indian Folk
Akshat & Vaishnavi	Bollywood	Paso Doble	Bollywood	Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle		Robotics	Freestyle	Semi Classical	Contemporary & Freestyle	Semi Classical		Bollywood & Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle	Animation	Hip-hop & Freestyle		Freestyle [lower-alpha 1]	Freestyle [lower-alpha 2]
Sophie & Deepak	Freestyle	Bollywood	Bollywood, Freestyle & Paso Doble	Samba & Freestyle	Aerial & Freestyle	Freestyle		Bollywood	Jive & Freestyle	Contemporary & Freestyle	Acrobacia & Freestyle	Lyrical		Broadway Jazz	Freestyle	Hip-hop	Freestyle [lower-alpha 3]
Tara & Jack						Freestyle [lower-alpha 1]	Contemporary	Jazz	Hip-hop & House	Hip-hop and Contemporary	Bollywood	Urban Hip-hop [lower-alpha 1]	Paso Doble	Bollywood & Freestyle	Contemporary & Freestyle
Kiku & Kruti	Electro	Flamenco & Bomba	Lavani	Bollywood & Freestyle	Robotics	Freestyle		Freestyle	Hip-hop	Popping & Locking	Tandav & Krumping	Lyrical Hip-hop [lower-alpha 3]
Malishka & Diwakar						Bollywood [lower-alpha 1]	Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle	Semi Classical	Samba & Freestyle
Kushal & Mohena						Hip-hop [lower-alpha 1]	Freestyle	Freestyle	Afro	Street Jazz
Puja & Rajit	Freestyle	Cha-Cha & Tofo Tofo	Tollywood	Freestyle	Semi Classical	Freestyle		Bollywood & Freestyle	Freestyle
Kainaat & Cornel						Salsa [lower-alpha 1]
Rahul & Syscilia						Bollywood [lower-alpha 1]
Sana & Shashank						Bollywood [lower-alpha 1]
Akriti & Javed						— [lower-alpha 4]
Sreesanth & Sneha	Hip-hop	Lindy Hop & Chamberlian	Bollywood & Rajasthani Folk	Hip-hop & Freestyle	Freestyle	Freestyle
Sukhwinder & Bhawna	Freestyle	Rumba & Contact Improvisation	Bollywood & Bhangra	Hip-hop & Freestyle	Freestyle
Kritika & Savio	Freestyle	Jive & Jitterbug	Bollywood & Garba	Cha Cha & Freestyle
Purab & Mohena	Freestyle	Salsa & Lambada	Bollywood
Andy & Bhavini	Contemporary	Zouk & Reggaeton

Note

1. No scores were given for this dance.
2. No scores were given for Akshat this dance as he was originally eliminated but on public demand he was brought back for a last performance.
3. No scores were given for this dance as contestant was eliminated.
4. No scores were given for this dance as the contestant quit the series before performing.

Themes

The celebrities and professional partners danced one of these routines for each corresponding week:

• Grand Opening Week: Introduction
• Week 1 : International Judge Week
• Week 2 : Made in India
• Week 3 : Judges Demand
• Week 4 : Jhalak Talkes
• Week 5 : Wild Card Entries & Prop Week
• Week 6 : I Love
• Week 7 : DJ Mix & Indian Cinema
• Week 8 : Kurukshetra & Team Challenge
• Week 9 : Backstage Dancer week
• Week 10 : Independence Day week
• Week 11 : Dialogues
• Week 12 : Teen Ka Tadka & Public’s Demand
• Week 13 : Special Group Theme
• Week 14 : Semi Finals & Ganesh Hegde Special
• Week 15 : Super Finale

Week 5 was themed 'Prop week', and each of the participating celebrities dedicated their performances as follow.

• Puja & Rajit - Picture frame
• Ashish & Shampa - Stretchy Jacket
• Karan & Elena - Bucket
• Mouni & Punit - Golden Shoes
• Kiku & Kruti - Glass
• Akshat & Vaishanavi - Glasses
• Shakti & Tushar - Stretchy Material
• Sophie & Deepak - Sticks
• Malishka & Diwakar - Square Box
• Kushal & Mohena - Heart
• Tara & Jack - Feather

1st Episode of Week 5 themed 'Wild Card' Special selected 4 new contestant to current participating celebrities.

• Note - Singer Akriti Kakkar had to quit the show as she was to enter the wild card race due to an accident. ^{[21] [22]}

Couple	Dance Form	Dance Song
Tara & Jack	Contemporary	Gulaabi
Rahul & Syscilia	Bollywood	Chingam Chabake
Kushal & Mohena	Freestyle	Thug Le
Kainaat & Cornel	Freestyle	Darling
Malishka & Diwakar	Freestyle	Dhinka Chika

Out of the 5 new Wild Card Entrance the couples which joined the current celebrities in the race of 'Jhalak' were

• Malishka & Diwakar
• Kushal & Mohena
• Tara & Jack

  Selected Dance

  Rejected Dance

Week 8 themed 'Kurukshetra is where the judges chooses their teams within the participants and the one with more scores wins.

Category	Remo's Team	Karan's Team	Madhuri's Team
Remaining Participants	Kushal & Mohena, Tara & Jack, Kiku & Kruti	Karan & Elena, Shakti & Tushar, Mouni & Punit	Akshat & Vaishnavi, Ashish & Shampa, Malishka & Diwakar

Weak 10 themed 'Team Challenge' had two performances from the participants, where one was a team performance. Team leader was selected from the previous week's highest scorers. Team participants, dancing style and songs were finalised by these leaders.

Category	Akshat's Team	Mouni's Team
Team Leader	Akshat & Vaishnavi	Mouni & Punit
Remaining Participants	Tara & Jack, Ashish & Shampa, Karan & Bhavna	Shakti & Tushar, Sophie & Deepak, Kiku & Kruti
Dance Form	Bollywood & Freestyle	Broadway Jazz
Dance Song	Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji, All Is Well	Do You Wanna Partner & Chammak Challo
Marks	29	30

• Mouni's team won the team challenge with getting 30 marks.

Green numbers indicates the highest score.

Week 13 was themed 'Teen Ka Tadka' special episode wherein every contestant will get a new celebrity contestant to dance with. Sana and Tushar who were paired with Mumaith Khan could not perform in the episode since they got eliminated in that week.

• Ashish & Shampa with Sana Saeed
• Shakti & Tushar with Mukti Mohan
• Karan & Bhavna with Krystle D'Souza
• Mouni & Punit with Faisal Khan
• Sophie & Deepak with Elli Avram
• Akshat & Vaishnavi with Ali Asgar

Guest appearances

Week(s)	Episode(s)	Guest(s)	Note(s)
1	Ep01	Krystle D'Souza , Sidharth Shukla , Toral Rasputra, Mrunal Jain, Tina Datta & Sanaya Irani	To support the contestants
		Varun Dhawan & Alia Bhatt	To promote Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
		Sudesh Lehri	Guest
	Ep02	Akshay Kumar & Sonakshi Sinha	To promote Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty
2	Ep03	Sunny Leone	To promote MTV Splitsvilla
		Saif Ali Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh & Sajid Khan	To promote Humshakals
	Ep04	Salman Yusuff Khan & Lauren Gottlieb	Guest
		Siddharth Malhotra, Shraddha Kapoor & Prachi Desai	To promote Ek Villain
3	Ep05	Shakti Arora & Radhika Madan	To promote their show Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi' [23]
	Ep06	Ali Asgar & Upasana Singh	From Comedy Nights with Kapil to support Palak
4	Ep07	Preetika Rao & Harshad Arora	From Beintehaa as guest [24]
		Armaan Jain, Deeksha Seth	To promote Lekar Hum Deewana Dil
	Ep08	Dipika Kakar & Toral Rasputra	Came as guest from Sasural Simar Ka , Balika Vadhu [25]
5	Ep09	Vidya Balan	To promote Bobby Jasoos
7	Ep12	Salman Khan & Jacqueline Fernandez	To promote Kick
8	Ep15-16	Rani Mukerji	To promote Mardaani
		Sachin–Jigar	Guest
9	Ep17	Akshay Kumar	To promote Entertainment
	Ep18	Kareena Kapoor Khan	To promote Singham Returns
10	Ep20	Sasha Tacker and Archana Taide	To support Karan Tacker and Ashish Sharma
11	Ep21	Emraan Hashmi, Humaima Malik	To promote Raja Natwarlal
	Ep22	Gurmeet Choudhary & Lauren Gottlieb	Guest Appearance
		Sunil Grover	From Comedy Nights with Kapil
12	Ep23	Priyanka Chopra	To promote Mary Kom
	Ep24	Shahid Kapoor & Shraddha Kapoor	To promote Haider
13	Ep25	Elli Avram, Faisal Khan, Krystle D'Souza, Ali Asgar, Sana Saeed & Mukti Mohan	For Teen Ka Tadka week [26]
	Ep26	Aditya Roy Kapoor & Parineeti Chopra	To promote Daawat-e-Ishq
14	Ep27	Fawad Khan & Sonam Kapoor	To promote Khoobsurat
15	Ep29-30	Arjun Kapoor & Deepika Padukone	To promote Finding Fanny
		Ganesh Hegde	Guest Judge
16	Ep31	Anil Kapoor & Bharti Singh	Guest in Finale
		Shaan & Mika Singh	To promote their film Balwinder Singh Famous Ho Gaya [27]
		Neeti Mohan & Mukti Mohan	To support Shakti Mohan
		Salman Yusuff Khan & Lauren Gottlieb	Special Performance

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External links

• Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 at Colors TV