So I finally watched the first week's episode and can I just tell how wholesome it is to just see a group of wonderful dancers back on stage after the disaster called IBD 4?
Also it is me who feels they are spending more on this champions show than they did throughout IBD 4?
The sets and props look grander and much better. I wonder who the supervising choreographer is of the show since they don't show credits. Puneet absolutely ruined IBD 4 by turning it into another Dance Plus. I hope Binny is back because the choreography quality does seem like his.
So while I am liking the concept and the fact that some of the best dancers are facing each other but I thought this was a team competition and was disappointed with this whole finalist thing. They turned it into Dance Deewane Junior lol. Anyways coming to the performances, as much as I love our SD Bacchas, I think we have to agree that IBD 3 probably had some of the BEST dancers! Every IBD 3 contestant's performance was so good. Aniket, Shivanshu, Samarpan and even Debparna for that matter. They all look inteernational standard dancers.
I can't take Samarpan's performance out of my head. Ufff what is this guy? What is this smoothness? Unbelievable! Won fair and square! Same with Aniket. The fact that dancing on the stairs can look so beautiful - only a wonderful dancer like Aniket is capable of that. Again a fair and square win.
Coming to the bacchas, Tejas has always been the rockstar he is so there's not even a question about his swag and his talent but as much as I liked the performance, I still felt that it was a bit underwhelming choreography wise, probably because of the moving prop or something. They should've selected a better song for him. Fair and Square win though and a deserving first finalist.
Arshiya's performance felt a bit underwhelming as again it steered more towards athletics than dance. She also left a few beats here and there. Arshiya is such a versatile dancer yet looks like even this time they are going to make her do stunts like Debparna.
Not a fan of Akina's dance but dude they should've won the round fair and square against Vau and Pari. WTF was that act? Such outdated comedy acts looked good in Super Dancer 1 not now. Bechari Pari, such a wonderful dancer had to be reduced to doing taporigiri with Vau. Please tell me again why is Vau a part of this??🤬 Vivek and Akina 's act was wonderful, the choreography, concept and the whole production was mindblowing!
Shivanshu was too good in the battle against Sanchit. I don't know how did Remo make Sanchit win when his battle clearly lacked finesse and was repetitive. Shivanshu killed it in the round, he did not miss even a single beat, especially towards the end. He should've won the round.
Finally coming to my favorite act of the week, no point in guessing what will it be for a classical fan like me
It was obviously Anu and Rupsa's Ami Je Tomar on Ramayana
After Shweta-Pratiti-Sadhwi's Ramayana performance, this is going to be my next favorite act. What a song mix, what presentation, what fusion of the styles ufff...too good. They literally did five Indian dance styles and it was so beautiful especially the begining in Odissi with the golden dear. Uff I keep going back to see that part again and again. Like Mahi said I would've never thought Ami Je Tomar could've been presented like this. Also it had Sushiel Da's craft written on it completely. Sushiel Da 🤝 Classical acts on reality shows! Also I'm just so glad Rupsa is now being called to do semi classical and age appropriate dance otherwise I was so worried for her given the kind of dancers we see her do these days. 🙈 I felt the fusion of four different classical dance forms along with a folk dance was a much tougher act to execute than Saumya and Steve's act. As much as I enjoyed Saumya and Steve, I felt their act had too much which made it look a bit clumsy. Also great to finally see Steve doing other styles 🤣
My most disappointing act for the week for some reason was Tushar and Florina. First of all Tushar why tf would you choose a song like Shut Up and Bounce to dance with a kid 😭🤣 Plus the basketball prop is such an old prop in the book, there was nothing new in the act, we have seen such acts before. But I'm amazed to see how wonderful Florina has grown to be as a dancer. The confidence, the expressions, the stage presence and swag, I was bowled over by that. 🤩 Also Florina and something happening to her on stage goes hand in hand 🤣
Looking forward to this week. But last week I think IBD team should've won than SD. They were much better!