Nach Baliye
Genre	Dance Reality
Created by	Sanvari Alagh Nair, Fazila Allana, Kamna Menezes
Directed by	Deepak Ghatani: (Seasons 1–2) Ashim Sen: (Seasons 5–6) Arun Sheshkumar: (Seasons 4, 7–8)
Presented by	Sangeeta Ghosh Shabbir Ahluwalia Hussain Kuwajerwala Tina Kuwajerwala Hiten Tejwani Gauri Tejwani Sanjeeda Sheikh Aamir Ali Karan Wahi Gautam Rode Karan Patel Rithvik Dhanjani Karan Tacker Upasana Singh Manish Paul Waluscha De Sousa
Judges	Saroj Khan Farhan Akhtar Malaika Arora Kunal Kohli Vaibhavi Merchant David Dhawan Isha Koppikar Farah Khan Karishma Kapoor Arjun Rampal Terence Lewis Shilpa Shetty Sajid Khan Marzi Pestonji Preity Zinta Chetan Bhagat Sonakshi Sinha Mohit Suri Ahmed Khan Raveena Tandon
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	9
No. of episodes	201
Production
Producers	Hemant Ruprell (Season 4–6) Shobha Kapoor (Season 7)
Editor	Kumar Priyadarshi (Season 8)
Production companies	SOL Productions (Season 1–2) Wizcraft International (Season 4–6) Balaji Telefilms (Season 7) BBC Worldwide (Season 8) Salman Khan TV (Season 9)
Release
Original network	Star One: (Seasons 1–2) Star Plus: (Season 3–9)
Picture format	576i HDTV 1080i
Original release	17 October 2005 (2005-10-17) – 3 November 2019 (2019-11-03)

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 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.

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.^[1]

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.^[2] The series was produced by SOL Productions.

Contestants

• Supriya Pilgaonkar and Sachin Pilgaonkar, winners
• Poonam Narula and Manish Goel, runners-up
• Rajeshwari Sachdev and Varun Badola, 3rd position
• Delnaaz Irani and Rajeev Paul, 4th position
• Archana Puran Singh and Parmeet Sethi, 5th position
• Shilpa Saklani and Apurva Agnihotri, 6th position
• Neeru Bajwa and Amit Sadh, 7th position
• Sai Deodhar and Shakti Anand, 8th position
• Manini Mishra and Mihir Mishra, 9th position
• Manasi Joshi Roy and Rohit 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.^[3] SOL Productions produced the second season as well.

Contestants

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

• Sanjeeda Sheikh and Aamir Ali, winners
• Rakhi Sawant and Abhishek Avasthi, runners-up
• Kashmera Shah and Krushna Abhishek, 3rd position
• Karan Patel and Amita Chandekar, 4th position
• Indraneil Sengupta and Barkha Sengupta, 5th position
• Sweta Keswani and Alexx O'Nell, 6th position
• Pooja Bedi and Hanif Hilal, 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.^[4]

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
• Reshmi Ghosh and Amit Gupta, 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 Mahi Vij, winners
• Sargun Mehta and Ravi Dubey, first runners-up
• Neelu Vaghela and Arvind Kumar, second runners-up
• Suhasi Dhami and Jaisheel Dhami, third runners-up
• Karan Mehra and Nisha Rawal, eliminated on 16 March 2013
• Charlie Chauhan and Kunwar Amarjeet Singh, eliminated on 9 March 2013^[5]
• Shefali Jariwala and Parag Tyagi, eliminated on 2 March 2013^[6]
• Dimpy Mahajan and Rahul Mahajan, eliminated on 23 February 2013
• Elena Boeva and Kushal Tandon, eliminated on 3 February 2013
• Smita Bansal and Ankush Mohla, eliminated on 27 January 2013^[7]
• Deepshikha Nagpal and Keshav Arora, eliminated on 13 January 2013^[8][9]

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.^[10]

Gurmeet Choudhary was declared the Best Performer of the series.^[11]

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.^[12] Gurmeet Choudhary and Debina Bonnerjee were declared the runners-up.^[13]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'."^[14]

Contestants

• Rithvik Dhanjani and Asha Negi, winners on 1 February 2014
• Gurmeet Chaudhary 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
• Kanika Maheshwari and Ankur Ghai (7th position), quit on 11 January 2014
• Bruna Abdullah and Omar Herror (8th position), eliminated on 8 December 2013; re-entered as wild card entrants, eliminated on 4 January 2014
• Raju Srivastav and Shikha Raju (9th position), eliminated on 15 December 2013
• Amrapali Gupta and Yash Sinha (10th position), eliminated on 1 December 2013^[15]
• Sanjeev Seth and Lata Sabharwal (11th position), eliminated on 24 November 2013^[16][17]

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

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