| Dance India Dance | |
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 Latest promotional poster for Season 7 | |
| Also known as | DID |
| Genre | Reality |
| Created by | Ashish Golwalkar, Ranjeet Thakur, Bimal Unnikrishnan |
| Written by | Ravikesh Vatsa, Gunjan Joshi (Season 5) |
| Presented by | |
| Judges | (head judge 2009-2018)
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| Opening theme | "India, Dance India Dance" |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 209 |
| Production | |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 60–65 minutes |
| Production companies | Essel Vision Productions Frames Production |
| Original release | |
| Network | Zee TV |
| Release | 30 January 2009 – present |
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Dance India Dance (also called by the acronym DID; tagline: Dance Ka Asli ID D.I.D.) is an Indian Hindi-language 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 (until season 6). Season 7 premiered with a different concept. This show is a remake of Bengali show Dance Bangla Dance which premiered on 2007. After 3 successful seasons of Dance Bangla Dance, Zee TV remade this show for all-over Indian participants.
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.[1]
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 - CJ. 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.[2]
- ^ "Dance India Dance Season 3 15th April *Akshay Kumar* | Dance India Dance". Danceindiadance.in. 14 April 2012. Archived from the original on 18 April 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-18.
- ^ Smitha (16 April 2012). "Akshay Kumar gifts Rs 1 lakh to Dance India Dance Season 3 finalists". Entertainment.oneindia.in. Archived from the original on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2012.