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That's actually a really good question. I've been wondering it myself.
Personally, I think the showed suffered from an unfair format (letting professional dancers compete with non-professionals) and it was only exacerbated by the unfair judging happening.
I know this topic has been discussed to death, but I still think it's very, very unfair to have professionals who practise dance 24/7 in their free time to compete with either complete non-dancers like Shaan or trained dancers who don't have time to practise 24/7 due to work commitments like KVB. There is a difference. If you live to dance, if your work is to dance, then there is no question that you will excel in a dance show. I think it's so unfair to learners like Suresh Menon who don't even get a second chance to learn because their dancing pales so much in front of the professionals. I just really dislike the fact that Lauren and Mukti are competing with people like Shaan, Sana, and Drashti. Especially Mukti, at least Lauren has some celebrity status as an actress (in movies and shows) whereas Mukti, all I know her is from ZND and as the sister of Neeti and Shakti Mohan. And even ZND was dance based.
And the judging this season has been completely ridiculous. Sometimes I think the judges judge each person on their individual dance level, and them sometimes they just judge them using their moods. I mean, if they were to judge according to dance level, then the lowest Lauren could ever get would be a 29, her acts have been close to flawless almost every show (except recently). It doesn't even make sense because in the beginning of the show, people like Drashti were receiving amazingly high scores and then all of a sudden their scores dropped to like early 20's while their level of dancing has either gone up a little or stayed the same. I remember in JDJ 1 and 3, there would be 2 dance styles the celebrities or their choreographers could choose to do in that week. So for example, in week 3, they all would be allowed to only do the salsa or disco. They had to choose. I thought that was such a great way to judge because not only could you see how the person improved, you can also judge the contestants relative to each others. After all, in a show like this were there can only be one winner, skill level must be taken into consideration. But in JDJ 6, it seems like you can do whatever dance style you want to, which doesn't help at all in judging the participants relative to each other.
I don't know. I've just really been let down this season.
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