‘Dance India Dance’ on Zee TV with Mithun Chakraborty
Posted on February 1, 2009
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Mithun Chakraborty at the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata
The king of disco is back, this time on television. Bollywood’s original disco king Mithun Chakraborty, after judging a dance reality show on a Bengali channel ‘Dance Bangla Dance’, is set to judge a show on Zee TV. The National Award winning actor, who became a dancing sensation in the 1980s with hits like Disco Dancer, will now be judging every step and move of participants on the new show Dance India Dance. Dance India Dance has 18 participants and three judges — choreographers Geeta Kapur, Remo D’Souza and Terrence Lewis. Jay Bhanushali and radio jockey Tarana Raja are the hosts.
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Sabse bade dancing star ki khoj’ is what Zee TV is cashing on in the form of the new reality show, Dance India Dance. The show aims to unearth the best musical talent in India and speaks about a common man and great dancing. Mithun Da will serve as the grand master in this show. The show will have raw talents of age group 15 to 25 from all over India. Once chosen, the contestants will be trained by professional Bollywood choreographers. Thereafter the participants’ will compete against each other. Some of the dances that will be taught to contestants’ will be Ballet, Acrobat, Shadow dancing, & Mid-air dancing.
Zee is known for creating platforms for Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. The show is on air from 30th January, 2009, every Friday-Saturday at 09.30 p.m. and the show is produced by UTV Software Communications. Remo D’Souza has choreographed for films like Rangeela, 36 China Town, Dhoom etc and was even part of the dance troupe for the title song of Rangeela. Geeta Kapoor has choreographed for films like Saathiya, Heyy Baby, Om Shanti Om and the recently released Dostana. Terence Lewis, the internationally trained choreographer specializes in Indian folk and contemporary dance forms, and he has been part of films like Lagaan, Jhankaar Beats.
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dance india dance is an excellent program with experienced and fascinating contestants.it is really an interesting show which shows the talent of people in india……..me and my family love to watch this blasting show…….
I like Dance ind Dance i m the big fan of this show.
MITHUN IS GREAT DANCER.
I love mitun as one of the best actor I have in bollywood; I walk like him, speek like him and bekind like him……he is the best.
ay like mithun chakraborty
ay dream see you .mithun you are good people in this world
i am the big fan of mithun chakraborty. and he is doing a good platform for those who hv never expect or hv never dreamed abt a renowned or a big star.