So You Think You Can Dance is an Indian Hindi competitive dance television series, which went on air on 24 April 2016 and is broadcast on &TV. The series is produced by Deepak Dhar, then CEO of Endemol Shine India. It is aired every Saturday and Sunday night. The show is an officially licensed version of the So You Think You Can Dance franchise, based on the original American production created by Dick Clark Productions. The auditions of the show commenced in the second half of February 2016. The show is being hosted by Rithvik Dhanjani and Mouni Roy, with a jury of Madhuri Dixit, Terence Lewis, and Bosco Martis.
| So You Think You Can Dance | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Competitive dance |
| Created by | Deepak Dhar |
| Based on | So You Think You Can Dance |
| Directed by | Bittu |
| Starring | See below |
| Judges | Madhuri Dixit Bosco Martis Terence Lewis |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Deepak Dhar |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company | Endemol India |
| Original release | |
| Network | &TV |
| Release | 24 April – 17 July 2016 |
The competitors can perform dances in any of several permitted dance styles—such as Indian and Western dance forms—before a common group of judges.[1][2]
Contestants
editTeam Street
edit| Name | Age | Current Residence |
|---|---|---|
| Alisha Behura | 17 | Bhilai |
| Kanchi Shah | 24 | Mumbai |
| Jueili Vaidya | 23 | Mumbai |
| Purvi Purohit | 20 | Gandhinagar, Gujarat. |
| Aryan Patra | 16 | Ranchi |
| Sahil Khan | 23 | Indore |
| Roza Rana | 21 | Rourkela |
| Prakash B.K | 26 | Mumbai |
| Tushar Shetty | 20 | Nalasopara |
| Vinay Khandelwal | 26 | New Delhi |
Team Stage
edit| Name | Age | Current Residence |
|---|---|---|
| Ryan Martyr | 22 | New Delhi |
| Sanjana Bamrara | 16 | Chandigarh |
| Sneha Singh | 24 | Mumbai |
| Rishi Sharma | 24 | Haryana |
| Tarun Nihalani | 20 | Nashik |
| Deepak | 28 | Haryana |
| Kalpita Kachroo | 18 | New Delhi |
| Rohit Behal | 24 | Mumbai |
| Krishna Mehta | 19 | Mumbai |
| Aishwarya Radhakrishnan | 23 | Mumbai |
Elimination Table
editThis section may be confusing or unclear to readers. In particular, there seem to be four contestants who placed in the bottom 3. (June 2017) |
Color Keys
- Winner
- Runner-up
- Finalist
- Safe
- Bottom 3
- Eliminated
| Contestant | Finals | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |
| Alisha Behura | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | WINNER |
| Aryan Patra | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Runner-up |
| Kalpita Kachroo | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | FINALIST | |
| Tarun Nihalani | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | FINALIST | |
| Roza Rana | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Elim | ||
| Ryan Martyr | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Elim | ||
| Aishwarya Radhakrishnan | Safe | Btm 3 | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Elim | |||
| Tushar Shetty | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Elim | |||
| Sneha Signh | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Elim | ||||
| Kanchi Shah | Safe | Btm 3 | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Elim | ||||
| Prakash B.K | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Elim | ||||||
| Rishi Sharma | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Elim | ||||||
| Vinaya Khandelwal | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Elim | |||||||
| Rohit Behal | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Elim | |||||||
| Sahil Khan | Safe | Btm 3 | Safe | Elim | ||||||||
| Deepak | Safe | Safe | Safe | Elim | ||||||||
| Krishna Mehta | Safe | Btm 3 | Elim | |||||||||
| Juelli Vaidya | Safe | Safe | Elim | |||||||||
| Sanjana Bamrara | Safe | Elim | ||||||||||
| Purvi Purohit | Safe | Elim | ||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Wow! Varun Dhawan, Hrithik Roshan to co-judge So You Think You Can Dance?". India Today. 18 February 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
- ^ "Varun Dhawan, Hrithik Roshan to judge So You Think You Can Dance?". Hindustan Times. 18 February 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
External links
edit- Official website Archived 31 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine
- So You Think You Can Dance India Audition Dates Archived 22 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine