Created by Anil Jha Country of origin India | Directed by Nitesh Choudhary | |
Genre DanceReality television Presented by Sangeeta Ghosh (2005-06)Shabbir Ahluwalia (2005-06)Hussain Kuwajerwala (2007)Tina Kuwajerwala (2007)Sanjeeda Sheikh (2008–09)Aamir Ali (2008–09)Karan Wahi (2012–14)Gautam Rode (2012–14)Karan Patel (2015–present)Rithvik Dhanjani (2015–present) Judges Farhan Akhtar (2005)Saroj Khan (2005–06)Malaika Arora Khan (2005–06)Kunal Kohli (2006)Isha Koppikar (2007)David Dhawan (2007)Vaibhavi Merchant (2007)Farah Khan (2008–09)Karishma Kapoor (2008–09)Arjun Rampal (2008–09)Shilpa Shetty Kundra (2012–14)Sajid Khan (2012–14)Terrence Lewis (2012–14)Preity Zinta (2015)Chetan Bhagat (2015)Marzi Pestonji (2015) |
Nach Baliye ('Nach' means Dance and 'Baliye' means partner or mate) is a dance, reality-television series on the Indian channel Star Plus. The show is a couples dancing contest. The first and second season aired on Star One and then shifted to Star Plus.
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Concept
The show is a competition wherein 10 television celebrity couples compete against each other. Contestants dance to a different tune, different theme and different styles every week and scores are given by the judges. Each week one couple is eliminated based on public voting and their scores.
Nach Baliye 1
The judges were Saroj Khan, Malaika Arora Khan and Farhan Akhtar with Sangeeta Ghosh and Shabbir Ahluwalia serving as the hosts.
The Contestants for Season 1 were:
Nach Baliye 2
Nach Bailye 2 started on 25 September 2006, and ended on 18 December 2006, with Tina and Hussain Kuwajerwala as winners. Saroj Khan, Malaika Arora Khan and Kunal Kohli were the judges. Sangeeta Ghosh and Shabbir Ahluwalia hosted the season.
The following were the Contestants of Season 2:
Nach Baliye 3
The judges were Vaibhavi Merchant, Isha Koppikar, David Dhawan. Hussain Kuwajerwala and Tina Kuwajerwala hosted the show, The show was moved from STAR One to STAR Plus and produced by Darien Amos of Tenn-Speed TV India.
The Contestants for Season 3 were:
Nach Baliye 4
Nach Bailye 4 started on 17 October 2008 in India and the United States. The broadcast of the series began on 3 January 2009 in the United Kingdom. It finished on 1 February 2009 in India, with Shaleen and Daljit as winners.
The hosts were initially Sanjeeda Sheikh and Aamir Ali. Celebrity hosts Sara Khan and Ali Merchant hosted on week 5. Hiten Tejwani and Gauri Pradhan Tejwani became the hosts on Week 8.
Farah Khan, Karisma Kapoor, and Arjun Rampal served as the judges.
The Contestants for Season 4 were,
Created by Anil Jha Star Plus
Nach Baliye 5
Nach Baliye 5 started in 2012 and ended in March 2013.
Karan Wahi and Gautam Rode hosted the program. For season 5, the judges were Shilpa Shetty, Sajid Khan and Terrence Lewis.
The following were the Contestants for Season 5:
Shilpa cancelled her shoot as her nine-month-old son was hospitalized.
Nach Baliye Shriman v/s Shrimati
Nach Baliye Shriman v/s Shrimati is an extension of the Nach Baliye series, and ran in April 2013. In Shriman vs Shrimati, the celebrity couples did not dance together but instead competed against each other. The series ended in a tie.
Gurmeet Choudhary was declared the Best Performer Of The Series.
Nach Baliye 6
The sixth season of Nach Baliye premiered on 9 November 2013 on Star Plus channel, airing on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Eleven celebrity couples competed in the series.
TV Actors Rithvik Dhanjani and Asha Negi were declared the Winning Couple of Nach Baliye Season 6 on 1 February 2014. Gurmeet Choudhary and Debina Bonnerjee were declared the runners up.
Sara Khan done Cameo Dance Performance in wild card special episode along with Paras Chhabra.
Writing for Rediff.com, Paloma Sharma gave the show 2.5 stars out of 5 in its first week, stating "perhaps the hosts and the judges could keep their clothes on and refrain from excessive flirting since Nach Baliye does happen to be a 'family show'."
Celebrity Jodi contestants were:
Nach Baliye 7
The seventh season premiered on 26 April 2015 on Star Plus. the series is produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under their banner Balaji Telefilms. The series airs from Monday to Saturday nights and on Sunday evenings. The show ended on 19 July 2015.
The show was hosted by Karan Patel. Marzi Pestonji, Preity Zinta and Chetan Bhagat were the judges.
Kunwar Amar, Karanvir Bohra, Mukti Mohan, Sargun Mehta and Salman Yusuf Khan also appeared for special episode.
The list of Contestants for Season 7 is as follows:
Nach Baliye 8
The eighth season of Nach Baliye is scheduled to air somewhere in March 2017 on Star Plus. Sonakshi Sinha has been confirmed to have replaced Preity Zinta on the judging panel. Terence Lewis and Mohit Suri will also be judging the show. Karan Tacker and Karan Patel will turn the host for the show while viewers were excited about Karan Wahi hosting the show but as he is busy with The Indian Idol now it is confirmed that Karan Patel and Karan Tacker will be hosting the show. Eleven Jodis have been finalized to take part in Nach:
Nach Baliye Season 8 Contestant List 2017.