Originally posted by: MommaMomma
Quite an underwhelming week in totality after some amazing weeks of dance. As usual, I feel the old songs came in the way of their dance and styles.
My favorite act of the day was Aryan and Anjali. After a long list of underwhelming acts, they finally hit it out of the park today. Brilliant choreography by Aryan and equally brilliant execution by Anjali.👏 This is one of my favorite acts of Aryan and I love how both of them have found a balance of spending their energy during the performance. I think this was the first act where neither Aryan went over with his energy or Anjali did her signature fast move which I think contributed a lot to the performance as the song didn't demand a high energy dance. Like Farah said, a truly cinematic performance and such fine expressions by Anjali. That's why I love the bunch of kids this season, irrespective of their styles most of them never lose out on expressions.
My next favorite was Shivam. As usual amazing when is in his elements. Sonali absolutely went berserk with hundred Helens dancing inside her 🤣 But a really well choreographed act. Must have been a challenge for Sonali to cover the whole stage without any props but girl managed it really well 👏
I didn't see Samarpan's act because I don't really enjoy these army acts as they tend to look the same and I find them very exploitative of the emotions of our army people and their families. But I guess they did well since they scored 30. However from the promos didn't it look like a copy paste of Subhranil-Prithvi's act from SD4?
My biggest disappointment this week is with Shweta. I don't know when all the other contestants and choreographers are playing to their strengths, why are they not doing the same and always trying out something new? I mean you can still present something new while staying in your style. Shivanshu in his battle today showed what he is capable off and literally usne phaad diya, I want Shweta to utilize that. There's something always stopping them from being a great act, it's always stuck at good. But once they are in their element like Ghar More Pardesiya look how they shine! Like Geeta and Farah both said, their performance had too many unnecessary breaks and narrations that was throwing us off. Even the dance wasn't that imaginative except the Kathak fusion bit. Indian cinema has such amazing old classical numbers, this was such a missed opportunity for them. I hope she pulls up her socks because not everytime will Shivanshu be able to win elimination battles especially when he is pitch perfect in the main performance but it's the choreography that falls short off. I don't know even it it's because Shweta has only danced with girls in the last four shows they did so finding difficult to create the same chemistry with a guy now or something but something is usually off in their chemistry.
I feel super sad for Tushar because if you see him performing today, you could see it was a cracker of a choreography. I LOVED the whole mix including the crescendo and the whole part where they start mixing all the hooksteps. Also banger choice of songs and super smooth transition. Unfortunately a bad day for him and Norbu. Hope they can come back as wildcard because honestly this was the first season where I loved almost every act Tushar designed and was already warming upto Norbu.