OK, we have had enough bashing everywhere. Now lets analyse the performances and give our honest opinions and marks as per our opinion. Please take care that this topic is not for bashing anyone, and certainely not to get personal. Please stick to the performances and give reasons for the analysis.
First Round:
1) Yash - Gauri - Haila haila
costumes: Gauri looked very pretty and demure.
Yash looked like a fisherman, so costume wise they were great.
Dance: The fact that they were depicting the loud nature of fishermen, their performance did not live upto that latka jhatka one would expect. Gauri was as usual very graceful, but that jhatak matak associated with the west coast dancing was missing.
Marks: 7/10
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Tanaz- Bhaktiyar:
Costume: Tanaz was looking like a dream. Bhaktiyar started looking like Shammi and ended looking like - Bhaktiyar !!😆
Dance: In earlier episodes, couples and choreographers have been given less marks for copying same to same from films, but nothing was said about this performance. I was dissapointed as far as the steps went. There is so much more to that era of dancing - Helen danced the same and evertime came out looking different. So I was not that impressed. They did not try anything different concept wise and stuck to the song. Even the props were not used properly.....In all, it was good, but not upto the semi final standard. I am not usre what impressed the judges so much.
My marks: 6/10
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Hussain-Tina:
Costume: Both were looking so smart that my mouth fell open. They both looked gorgeous and very smart.
Dance: They looked stylish, and used their props amazingly well. Had lovely steps, and the choreos kept to the basics of keeping in sync with the style factor. A little more energy would have added to the performance, but there was nothing to take away from the performance either. They had a tough competition as the original dancers would have hard to beat, so the choreos inspite of keeping the style same, gave them stylish but relatively easy steps. One more good thing that they did was to choose a para which was soft. In all, very entertaining, worth a second look.
My marks: 9/10
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Second round
1) Yash Gauri: Aaja Gufao me aa
Costume: One word: Apt. The costume and the concept was very original and both acheived the look of mystery and sin. Wonderful.
Concept and Dance: Again one word: Mindblowing !!!! What a performance. The whole concept, environment, the feel of their song transported me to a world of darkness, sin and mystery. The steps were fantastic and eyecatching. They were also very different from what Yash and Gauri have dne so far. Deepak was at his creative best and Yash Gauri were at their dancing best. I think it was in all a true semi final performance. 👏
I have no idea why Saroj deducted marks, that too after blowing the whistle....sometimes she is more mysterious than all gufas put together !!! 😆
My marks: 10/10
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Tanaz- Bhaktiyar: Yadein
Costume: Tanaz was looking like an angel, sweet and heavenly. Bhaktiyar was looking smart and depressed. Suited the mood.
Concept and Dance: The concept was very sweet. It started beautifully and strikingly. Tanaz was looking her part and Bhaktiyar emoted very well. But I felt in all somewhere, they lost the intensity somewhere ( like the type we witnessed during the Shweta Manav performance). It just remained sweet all through. Again, the steps looked similar, even in the slow dance - the same kind of lift, same kind of 1-2, 1-2 steps back and forth. Bhaktiyar again came down with the now familiar pose of banging his fist on the ground ......a little balle type movements akin to Shyamak Dabar would have been more suitable. Hopping off the ground for every reason is what is making their dance look so similar to their previous ones. Plus the finish was not as great as the start was.In all, sweet, touching, conceptually beautiful, but lacking in that final bang which would have fetched them the perfect score.
My marks: 8/10
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Hussain- Tina:
Costume: Very different...nothing spectacular. The effect of teh costume was felt only after the dance was in progress.
Concept and Dance: By the time I watched this performance, I had no expectations. My friend told me she had tears in her eyes aftre the performance, while the members here thought they did not dance well, and with reasons. So I did not know what to expect. But as the performance came to it's conclusion, I kept sitting for a while simply thinking how to react. I just did not know how to react, and then realised my eyes were moist too...the concept just over took everything else.
The steps were novel and different, the use of sticks innovative. The performance was straight from the heart. Did Hussain miss steps...I think in the beginning there was some plus minus. Yet it was not something I could actually remember at the end of it.
My marks: 100/10. I have no words to describe how much I loved it.
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Over to yo guys.....
Channel V Dil Dosti Dance
Arjun
