Nach Baliye (transl. Dance Partner) is an Indian Hindi-language celebrity dance reality television series that airs on Star Plus. It is loosely based on Dancing With The Stars.

Production

Concept

The show is a competition where 10 television celebrity couples compete against each other. Contestants dance to a different tune, different theme and different styles every week and their performance are evaluated and scored by the judges. Each week one couple is eliminated based on public voting and their scores.

In Season 9, the contestant ratings were changed to be on a scale from 1 to 100.

Reception

In 2012, when season 5 premiered the show did very well throughout the season. The grand premiere has gained 4.1 TRP.

Series

Season 1

Nach Baliye 1 is the first season of the dance reality show, Nach Baliye.

It started on 17 October 2005 and ended on 19 December 2005 with Sachin Pilgaonkar and Supriya Pilgaonkar as the winners. The judges were Saroj Khan, Malaika Arora Khan and Farhan Akhtar with Sangeeta Ghosh and Shabbir Ahluwalia serving as the hosts. The series was produced by SOL Productions.

Contestants

• Sachin Pilgaonkar and Supriya Pilgaonkar, winners
• Manish Goel and Poonam Narula, runners-up
• Varun Badola and Rajeshwari Sachdev, 3rd position
• Rajev Paul and Delnaaz Irani, 4th position
• Parmeet Sethi and Archana Puran Singh, 5th position
• Apurva Agnihotri and Shilpa Saklani, 6th position
• Amit Sadh and Neeru Bajwa, 7th position
• Shakti Anand and Sai Deodhar, 8th position
• Mihir Mishra and Manini Mishra, 9th position
• Rohit Roy and Manasi Joshi Roy, 10th position

Season 2

Nach Baliye 2 is the second season of the dance reality show, Nach Baliye.

It started on 25 September 2006 and ended on 18 December 2006 with Hussain Kuwajerwala and Tina Kuwajerwala as the winners. Saroj Khan, Malaika Arora Khan and Kunal Kohli were the judges. Sangeeta Ghosh and Shabbir Ahluwalia hosted the season. SOL Productions produced the second season as well.

Contestants

• Hussain Kuwajerwala and Tina Kuwajerwala, winners
• Yash Tonk and Gauri Tonk, runners-up
• Bakhtiyar Irani and Tannaz Irani, 3rd position
• Hiten Tejwani and Gauri Pradhan, 4th position
• Manav Gohil and Shweta Kawatra, 5th position
• Raja Chaudhary and Shweta Tiwari, 6th position
• Arjun Punj and Gurdeep Kohli, 7th position
• Sharad Kelkar and Keerti Kelkar, 8th position
• Gaurav Chopra and Narayani Shastri, 9th position
• Rasik Dave and Ketki Dave, 10th position

Season 3

Nach Baliye 3 is the third season of the dance reality show, Nach Baliye.

It started on 21 September 2007 and ended on 22 December 2007 with Sanjeeda Sheikh and Aamir Ali as the winners. The judges were Vaibhavi Merchant, Isha Koppikar and David Dhawan. The winners of the second season, Hussain Kuwajerwala and Tina Kuwajerwala, hosted the show. It was produced by Diamond Pictures and moved from Star One to Star Plus. It was created by Anil Jha who was also the Showrunner for Season 3,4, and later 9.

Contestants

• Aamir Ali and Sanjeeda Shaikh, winners
• Abhishek Avasthi and Rakhi Sawant, runners-up
• Krushna Abhishek and Kashmera Shah, 3rd position
• Karan Patel and Amita Chandekar, 4th position
• Indraneil Sengupta and Barkha Sengupta, 5th position
• Alexx O'Nell and Sweta Keswani, 6th position
• Hanif Hilal and Pooja Bedi, 7th position
• Karan Grover and Kavita Kaushik, 8th position
• Vikas Sethi and Amita Sethi, 9th position
• Shakti Kapoor and Shivangi Kapoor, 10th position; quit
• Kiran Janjani and Ritu Janjani, 11th position

Season 4

Nach Baliye 4 is the fourth season of the dance reality show, Nach Baliye.

It started on 17 October 2008 and ended on 1 February 2009 with Shalin Bhanot and Dalljiet Kaur as the winners.

Sanjeeda Sheikh and Aamir Ali were the initial hosts but Sara Khan and Ali Merchant hosted in Week 5 and Hiten Tejwani and Gauri Pradhan Tejwani hosted in Week 8.

Farah Khan, Karisma Kapoor, and Arjun Rampal were the judges.

Contestants

• Shalin Bhanot and Dalljiet Kaur, winners
• Naman Shaw and Megha Gupta, runners-up
• Kapil Nirmal and Anjali Abrol, semi-finalists
• Yash Tonk and Gauri Tonk, wildcards; semi-finalists
• Vineet Raina and Tanushree Kaushal, eliminated
• Amit Gupta and Reshmi Ghosh, eliminated
• Karanvir Bohra and Teejay Sidhu, quit
• Mohit Malik and Addite Shirwaikar, eliminated
• Sudeep Sahir and Anantika Sahir, eliminated
• Mazher Sayed and Mouli Ganguly, eliminated
• Jaspal Bhatti and Savita Bhatti, eliminated
• Jatin Shah and Priya Bathija, eliminated
• Abhijeet Sawant and Shilpa Sawant, eliminated
• Chetan Hansraj and Lavinia Pereira, wildcards; eliminated

Season 5

Nach Baliye 5 is the fifth season of the dance reality show - Nach Baliye.

It started on 29 December 2012 and ended on 23 March 2013 with Mahhi Vij and Jay Bhanushali as the winners.

Karan Wahi and Gautam Rode hosted the season. The judges were Shilpa Shetty, Sajid Khan and Terrence Lewis.

Contestants

• Jay Bhanushali and Mahhi Vij, winners
• Ravi Dubey and Sargun Mehta, first runners-up
• Arvind Kumar and Neelu Vaghela, second runners-up
• Jaisheel Dhami and Suhasi Dhami, third runners-up
• Karan Mehra and Nisha Rawal, eliminated on 16 March 2013
• Kunwar Amar and Charlie Chauhan, eliminated on 9 March 2013
• Parag Tyagi and Shefali Jariwala, eliminated on 2 March 2013
• Rahul Mahajan and Dimpy Ganguli, eliminated on 23 February 2013
• Kushal Tandon and Elena Boeva, eliminated on 3 February 2013
• Ankush Mohla and Smita Bansal, eliminated on 27 January 2013
• Keshav Arora and Deepshikha Nagpal, eliminated on 13 January 2013

Guests

• Drashti Dhami

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 V/s 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.

Season 6

Nach Baliye 6 is the sixth season of the dance reality show, Nach Baliye.

It premiered on 9 November 2013 on Star Plus. Shilpa Shetty, Sajid Khan and Terrence Lewis were the judges and Gautam Rode and Karan Wahi hosted the season.

Rithvik Dhanjani and Asha Negi were declared as the winners of Nach Baliye Season 6 on 1 February 2014. Gurmeet Choudhary and Debina Bonnerjee were declared the runners-up.Sara Khan did a cameo dance performance in the 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'."

Contestants

• Rithvik Dhanjani and Asha Negi, winners on 1 February 2014
• Gurmeet Choudhary and Debina Bonnerjee, first runners-up on 1 February 2014
• Ripudaman Handa and Shivangi Verma, second runners-up on 1 February 2014
• Vinod Thakur and Raksha Thakur, third runners-up on 1 February 2014
• Kiku Sharda and Priyanka Sharda (5th position), eliminated on 25 January 2014
• Raqesh Bapat and Ridhi Dogra (6th position), eliminated
• Ankur Ghai and Kanika Maheshwari (7th position), quit on 11 January 2014
• Omar Herror and Bruna Abdullah (8th position), eliminated on 8 December 2013; re-entered as wild card entrants, eliminated on 4 January 2014
• Paras Chhabra and Sara Khan (9th position), eliminated on 22 December 2013
• Raju Srivastav and Shikha Srivastav (9th position), eliminated on 15 December 2013
• Yash Sinha and Amrapali Gupta (10th position), eliminated on 1 December 2013
• Sanjeev Seth and Lata Sabharwal (11th position), eliminated on 24 November 2013

Guests

• Hina Khan
• Barun Sobti
• Deepika Singh
• Rucha Hasabnis
• Vishal Singh
• Ishita Dutta
• Mouni Roy
• Mahek Chahal
• Dharmesh Yelande
• Sayantani Ghosh
• Rashami Desai

Scoring chart

In this season, the scores per judge are out of 10 with the highest possible score of 30.

Red number indicates the lowest score.

Green number indicates the highest score.

  indicates the couple eliminated that week.

  indicates the returning couple that finished in the bottom three.

  indicates the returning couple that finished in the bottom two.

  indicates the winning couple.

  indicates the runner-up couple.

  indicates the third-place couple.

Season 7

Nach Baliye 7 is the seventh season of the dance reality show, Nach Baliye.

It premiered on 26 April 2015 on Star Plus. The series was produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under their banner Balaji Telefilms. The series aired from Monday to Saturday nights and on Sunday evenings. The season ended on 19 July 2015.

It was hosted by Rithvik Dhanjani and 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 in a special episode.

Contestants

Scoring chart

In this season, the scores per judge are out of 10 with the highest possible score of 30.

Red number indicates the lowest score.

Green number indicates the highest score.

  Eliminated

  Bottom three

  Bottom two

  Winning couple

  Runner-up couple

  Second runner-up couple

Season 8

Nach Baliye 8 is the eighth season of the dance reality show, Nach Baliye.

It premiered on 2 April 2017 on Star Plus. The show was produced by BBC Worldwide. Sonakshi Sinha, Terence Lewis and Mohit Suri were the judges. Karan Tacker and Upasana Singh were the hosts for the show. Vivek Dahiya and Divyanka Tripathi were declared as the winners.

Contestants

Guests

• Salman Khan and Sohail Khan
• Ranbir Kapoor
• Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor
• Arjun Kapoor and Anil Kapoor
• Sridevi
• Hrithik Roshan
• Diljit Dosanjh
• Sonam Bajwa
• Parineeti Chopra
• Remo D'souza
• Karan Patel

Scoring chart

Red number Lowest score

Green number Highest score

  Eliminated

  Bottom two

  Winning couple

  Runner-up couple

  Second runner-up

• The scores per judge were out of 10 with the highest possible score of 30.
• The elimination was based on public votes plus the score given by judges in the previous week.

Notes

Season 9

Nach Baliye 9 is the ninth season of the dance reality show, Nach Baliye.

It premiered on 19 July 2019. Produced by Salman Khan, it was judged by Raveena Tandon & Ahmed Khan and hosted by Manish Paul & Waluscha De Sousa.

Vighnesh Pande and his puppet character 'Anna' appeared as a comic relief for episodes featuring South Indian Megastar Prabhas and another with the Bollywood celebrity Sanjay Dutt.

The season was won by Prince Narula and Yuvika Chaudhary on 3 November 2019.

Contestants

Scoring chart

  Current Couple

  Former Couple

Red number Lowest score

Green number Highest score

  Eliminated

  Bottom Two

  Winners

  Runner-ups

  Second runner-ups

  Hi5

  Unwell

• The scores per judge were out of 100. Then the average score is calculated from the scores of both judges.
• The elimination was based on public votes and the score given by judges.
• In Week 2, Rohit and Anita did not perform as Rohit was down with Jaundice so the doctor had advised rest to him. Ahmed and Raveena saved them and they advanced to the next week without nomination.
• In Week 7, Faisal & Muskaan had to quit the show as Faisal got injured.
• In Week 9, Pooja & Sandeep had to quit the show as Pooja got injured.
• In Week 11, The couples had to perform solo. Ridhima, Prince, Anuj, Shraddha and Vishal got a High 5, however both the partners had to score 50/50 to receive a High 5.
• In week 12, every couple has to perform twice. In the first round they are getting marks out of 90. And the second round is battle between two couple. Whoever wins will get 10 marks & other get zero.
• In Quarter Finale (Week 13) also, the couples had to perform twice. In first round, they performed with different dance groups and got marks out of 100. The couples who received a High 5 were RoNita, NiShaan and ShAlam. In second round, they performed their usual performances (Theme-Retro )and got marks out of 100.The average of both the rounds was taken as their final score.
• In Semi Finale (Week 14) also, the couples had to perform twice.

References

External links

• Nach Baliye on Hotstar