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Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 Episode 1 review: Energetic, creative and never seen before performances

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 has begun and the competition is tough indeed. We watched the first episode and were amazed by the level of creativity and freshness the show brought. The theme of the first week was - Never Seen Before. While there were a lot of things we liked on the show, the makers could have done away with a few things. Read on to know our verdict on the first episode...

THE GOOD

Red carpet entry

All the three judges - Remo D'Souza, Madhuri Dixit-Nene and Karan Johar dancedon the red carpet followed by the choreographers, who put up a wonderful show. It was a treat to see everyone put forward their best.

Remo's performance

The choreographers paved the way for Remo's solo act. His new casual look complemented his dancing style and personality. Need we say more!

The Comedy Nights With Kapil infusion

Palak's introduction started at CNWK. She announced her entry into Jhalak and surprised everyone including Bittu Sharma. When she realised that the Sharmas will never vote for her coz they never have enough balance on the phones, she burst into tears. With that Bittu threw her right outside the house.

Aloo VS Bhalu

Varun Dhawan announced a dance off between Palak and Alia Bhatt. While we knew Alia would win hands down, it was fun to watch them fight over Humpty Sharma aka Varun.

Ashish Sharma's dance and technology

The Rangrasiya actor and his choreographer Shampa showcased a novel concept of dance and technology. The act seemed right out of a video game. Very unique and the judges agreed!

Sophie Choudhry and Puja Banerjee's props

Both the divas performed on a huge and unique prop. Sophie danced with her choreographer in a revolving palace. Puja did an aerial act on a floating bed. Totally out of the world and definitely something we've never seen before.

Sukhwinder's live singing

The popular singer danced on his own song, Chal Chaiya Chaiya Chaiya from Dil Se. While his performance was disappointing, it was his live singing that took the cake. In addition to that, Sukhwinder even played the drums during his performance.

Remo's dance with Siddharth Shukla

It started off with Drashti and Siddharth dancing together. Later they requested Remo to join the Balika Vadhu actor and teach him a few steps. Once Remo was on stage, we barely noticed Sid who was struggling to match steps with the ace choreographer-director.

THE BAD

New hosts - Ranvir Shorey and Drashti Dhami

The duo lacked chemistry and comic timing. While Ranvir tried to save the day with his one liners, it just didn't connect with us. Wethinks Drashti was in the show to just add to the glamour quotient. Karan Johar, who mostly interacted with the hosts, also seemed lost between them.

Madhuri Dixit's style

So much was said about Mads' new style and look - what we saw in the first episode was rather disappointing. She almost would have slipped and fallen on her face if Remo and KJo had not held on to her. Madhuri seemed uncomfortable in the outfit, which didn't match her body type at all.

Ranvir's rap

JDJ started with Ranvir's rap on Remo D'Souza. The lyrics were juvenile and rather uninspiring. It had no vow element.

Rangrasiya infusion

Sanaya Irani was on the show as Paro to extend her support to Ashish aka Rudra. The cocktail of the reality show and Colors' daily soap was tad too much.

Palak's scores

While we believe Palak's performance was energetic and she tried to showcase a new dance form, the act was not out of the world. It definitely did not deserve a score of nine from all the three judges.

Mouni Roy's tears

Just because she is a daily soap actor, doesn't mean that she had to bring the melodrama on the JDJ stage as well! After her lake performance got over, Mouni suddenly broke into tears. Why? Apparently coz she was overwhelmed with everything that was happening around her. Haha!

Sudesh Lahiri's comic act

Considering Ranvir and Drashti lack a little in the comedy section, the makers roped in Sudesh Lahiri to fill in the gaps. But it was a pain to sit through his forced comic act!

All in all, wethinks the first episode matched our expectations. Now we are waiting to see what Episode two has in store for us.

Actress Madhuri Dixit, who is judging dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa', feels best dancer may not win the show as contestant who strikes a chord with audience eventually emerges victorious.

"As a person I learnt lots of things (from the show) when we see the journey of so many contestants on the show, how they began and how they evolved. It is always not the best of dancers who win the show, but the contestants have to touch the hearts of the audience," Madhuri told PTI in an interview.

The actress is judging the show for the fourth time in a row. The other judges are filmmaker Karan Johar and choreographer-director Remo D'Souza.

"Acting and dance both are my passion. In film industry acting and dancing both are important. I am very happy doing Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa', it is very close to my heart. I love to see people dancing and judging them," she said.

"There are lots of new things this time like introduction of new dance forms, newer concepts. This time we are going to be stricter... Getting eight, nine and ten marks will be difficult. They (contestants) will have to work really hard to get good marks," Madhuri said.

"We also have lot of fun stuff like lie-o-meter, when one of the judges is too diplomatic we will be using that. We will be changing choreographers midway and make it more challenging for the contestants," she said.

The current seventh season of the dance show will see Ukrainian dance expert Maksim Chmerkovskiy on the jury.

Maksim will be there for few weeks. He is well trained in Latino and that kind of dancing, so we will have an expert guy talking about the dance forms and contestants," Madhuri said.