Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (season 7)

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa
Season 7
Presented by Manish Paul
Drashti Dhami
Ranvir Shorey
Judges Remo D'Souza
Madhuri Dixit
Karan Johar
No. of contestants 16
Winner Ashish Sharma
Runner-up Karan Tacker
Country of origin India
No. of episodes 31
Release
Original network Colors TV
Original release 7 June –
20 September 2014
Season chronology

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 is the seventh season of the dance reality show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. It premiered on 7 June 2014 on Colors. The series was hosted by Ranvir Shorey and Drashti Dhami but later got replaced by Manish Paul. Madhuri Dixit, Karan Johar and Remo D'Souza were the three judges. The finale took place on 20 September 2014 and was won by Ashish Sharma and Shampa Gopikrishna.

Contestants

Score chart

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16
Performer of
the Week 		None Akshat Mouni Ashish None Sophie None Karan Mouni Shakti Akshat Ashish Akshat Mouni None
Ashish 27 35 36 30 26 27 25 24 27 25 27 27 29 Sana S 29 30 27 30 — — 27 9 Winner
Karan 21 32 40 27 30 27 29 30 27 30 30 27 30 Krystle 27 27 28 30 — — 29 10 1st runner-up
Shakti 29 40 40 30 30 30 30 30 29 30 30 30 30 Mukti 30 30 — — — — 27 8 2nd runner-up
Mouni 27 31 30 36 22 40 40 38 30 37 30 24 27 Faisal 27 27 27 30 — — 27 — 3rd runner-up
Akshat 28 40 40 30 30 30 30 27 29 30 25 30 30 Ali 27 30 30 30 — Eliminated
Sophie 25 36 34 27 27 30 30 26 30 27 24 24 27 Elli — Eliminated
Tara NOT IN COMPETITION 27 30 30 30 27 30 27 Eliminated
Kiku 27 27 34 27 25 21 21 26 27 24 — Eliminated
Malishka NOT IN COMPETITION 23 24 23 26 22 Eliminated
Kushal NOT IN COMPETITION 25 27 29 26 Eliminated
Puja 22 27 34 26 22 25 23 25 Eliminated
Akriti NOT IN COMPETITION — Quit
Kainaat NOT IN COMPETITION — Not Selected
Rahul NOT IN COMPETITION — Not Selected
Sana K NOT IN COMPETITION — Not Selected
Sreesanth 27 32 28 27 27 20 Eliminated
Sukhwinder 18 26 31 21 22 Eliminated
Kritika 22 30 29 25 Eliminated
Purab 24 33 30 Eliminated
Andy 20 27 Eliminated
Bottom 2 None Andy
Sophie 		Puja
Purab 		Kritika
Puja 		Mouni
Sukhwinder 		Puja
Sreesanth 		None Kushal
Puja 		Kiku
Kushal 		Kiku
Malishka 		Kiku
Tara 		Akshat
Tara 		Akshat
Sohpie 		None Akshat
Shakti 		Ashish
Karan
Mouni
Shakti
Quit None Akriti None
Eliminated No
Elimination 		Andy Purab Kritika Sukhwinder Sreesanth No
Elimination 		Puja Kushal Malishka Kiku Tara Sophie No
Elimination 		Akshat Mouni Shakti
Karan Ashish
  • In week 12, Sophie did not get any scores as she was in the face-off round before she got eliminated
  • In week 10, Kiku did not get any scores as she was in the face-off round before she got eliminated
  • Due to the health condition and Shakti being hospitalized, the duo Shakti and Tushar were unable to perform in week 13. Hence, no marks were given to them that week.
green numbers indicates the highest score.
red numbers indicates the lowest score.
  indicates the winning couple.
  indicates the runner-up couple.
  indicates the second runner-up couple
  indicates the fourth-place couple
  indicates the couple eliminated that week.
  indicates the returning couple that finished in the bottom three.
n/a indicates the couple did not get any scores

Guest appearances

Week(s) Episode(s) Guest(s) Note(s)
1 Ep01 Krystle D'Souza, Sidharth Shukla, Toral Rasputra, Mrunal Jain, Tina Datta & Sanaya Irani To support the contestants
Varun Dhawan & Alia Bhatt To promote Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
Sudesh Lehri Guest
Ep02 Akshay Kumar & Sonakshi Sinha To promote Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty
2 Ep03 Sunny Leone To promote MTV Splitsvilla
Saif Ali Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh & Sajid Khan To promote Humshakals
Ep04 Salman Yusuff Khan & Lauren Gottlieb Guest
Siddharth Malhotra, Shraddha Kapoor & Prachi Desai To promote Ek Villain
3 Ep05 Shakti Arora & Radhika Madan To promote their show Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi'
Ep06 Ali Asgar & Upasana Singh From Comedy Nights with Kapil to support Palak
4 Ep07 Preetika Rao & Harshad Arora From Beintehaa as guest
Armaan Jain, Deeksha Seth To promote Lekar Hum Deewana Dil
Ep08 Dipika Kakar & Toral Rasputra Came as guest from Sasural Simar Ka, Balika Vadhu
5 Ep09 Vidya Balan To promote Bobby Jasoos
7 Ep12 Salman Khan & Jacqueline Fernandez To promote Kick
8 Ep15-16 Rani Mukerji To promote Mardaani
Sachin–Jigar Guest
9 Ep17 Akshay Kumar To promote Entertainment
Ep18 Kareena Kapoor Khan To promote Singham Returns
10 Ep20 Sasha Tacker and Archana Taide To support Karan Tacker and Ashish Sharma
11 Ep21 Emraan Hashmi, Humaima Malik To promote Raja Natwarlal
Ep22 Gurmeet Choudhary & Lauren Gottlieb Guest Appearance
Sunil Grover From Comedy Nights with Kapil
12 Ep23 Priyanka Chopra To promote Mary Kom
Ep24 Shahid Kapoor & Shraddha Kapoor To promote Haider
13 Ep25 Elli Avram, Faisal Khan, Krystle D'Souza, Ali Asgar, Sana Saeed & Mukti Mohan For Teen Ka Tadka week
Ep26 Aditya Roy Kapoor & Parineeti Chopra To promote Daawat-e-Ishq
14 Ep27 Fawad Khan & Sonam Kapoor To promote Khoobsurat
15 Ep29-30 Arjun Kapoor & Deepika Padukone To promote Finding Fanny
Ganesh Hegde Guest Judge
16 Ep31 Anil Kapoor & Bharti Singh Guest in Finale
Shaan & Mika Singh To promote their film Balwinder Singh Famous Ho Gaya
Neeti Mohan & Mukti Mohan To support Shakti Mohan
Salman Yusuff Khan & Lauren Gottlieb Special Performance

Themes

The celebrities and professional partners danced one of these routines for each corresponding week:

  • Grand Opening Week: Introduction
  • Week 1 : International Judge Week
  • Week 2 : Made in India
  • Week 3 : Judges Demand
  • Week 4 : Jhalak Talkes
  • Week 5 : Wild Card Entries & Prop Week
  • Week 6 : I Love
  • Week 7 : DJ Mix & Indian Cinema
  • Week 8 : Kurukshetra & Team Challenge
  • Week 9 : Backstage Dancer week
  • Week 10 : Independence Day week
  • Week 11 : Dialogues
  • Week 12 : Teen Ka Tadka & Public’s Demand
  • Week 13 : Special Group Theme
  • Week 14 : Semi Finals & Ganesh Hegde Special
  • Week 15 : Super Finale

Week 5 was themed 'Prop week', and each of the participating celebrities dedicated their performances as follow.

  • Puja & Rajit - Picture frame
  • Ashish & Shampa - Stretchy Jacket
  • Karan & Elena - Bucket
  • Mouni & Punit - Golden Shoes
  • Kiku & Kruti - Glass
  • Akshat & Vaishanavi - Glasses
  • Shakti & Tushar - Stretchy Material
  • Sophie & Deepak - Sticks
  • Malishka & Diwakar - Square Box
  • Kushal & Mohena - Heart
  • Tara & Jack - Feather

1st Episode of Week 5 themed 'Wild Card' Special selected 4 new contestant to current participating celebrities.

  • Note - Singer Akriti Kakkar had to quit the show as she was to enter the wild card race due to an accident.
Couple Dance Form Dance Song
Tara & Jack Contemporary Gulaabi
Rahul & Syscilia Bollywood Chingam Chabake
Kushal & Mohena Freestyle Thug Le
Kainaat & Cornel Freestyle Darling
Malishka & Diwakar Freestyle Dhinka Chika

Out of the 5 new Wild Card Entrance the couples which joined the current celebrities in the race of 'Jhalak' were

  • Malishka & Diwakar
  • Kushal & Mohena
  • Tara & Jack
  Selected Dance
  Rejected Dance

Week 8 themed 'Kurukshetra is where the judges chooses their teams within the participants and the one with more scores wins.

Category Remo's Team Karan's Team Madhuri's Team
Remaining Participants Kushal & Mohena, Tara & Jack, Kiku & Kruti Karan & Elena, Shakti & Tushar, Mouni & Punit Akshat & Vaishnavi, Ashish & Shampa, Malishka & Diwakar

Weak 10 themed 'Team Challenge' had two performances from the participants, where one was a team performance. Team leader was selected from the previous week's highest scorers. Team participants, dancing style and songs were finalised by these leaders.

Category Akshat's Team Mouni's Team
Team Leader Akshat & Vaishnavi Mouni & Punit
Remaining Participants Tara & Jack, Ashish & Shampa, Karan & Bhavna Shakti & Tushar, Sophie & Deepak, Kiku & Kruti
Dance Form Bollywood & Freestyle Broadway Jazz
Dance Song Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji, All Is Well Do You Wanna Partner & Chammak Challo
Marks 29 30
  • Mouni's team won the team challenge with getting 30 marks.
Green numbers indicates the highest score.

Week 13 was themed 'Teen Ka Tadka' special episode wherein every contestant will get a new celebrity contestant to dance with. Sana and Tushar who were paired with Mumaith Khan could not perform in the episode since they got eliminated in that week.