Originally posted by: Riddikulus
There is no doubt that Salman is good at what he does on Jhalak. Because he's been doing it for 5 years and that kind of experience as well as personal and professional bonding with the crew gives him an advantage over any dancer who has ever participated on the show. Like Karishma had pointed out, this is his home ground. Literally. He knows how everything works - how to play to the cameras, how to work with their angles, how to use the stage, how feasible certain ideas are to execute with the crew's capacity and production values, what buttons to push with the judges, how the rehearsals work and how to utilise them most fruitfully...and much more, I'm pretty sure. An entire episode was dedicated to him as a guest mentor last year, for heaven's sake. There have been dancers on the show before, and the bar for them has been set according to their capabilities too. But none of them have been as intimately familiar with the show, its format and its working as Salman is. And that is why, like Karishma and even Manish said once in jest, he would fit better in a judge's chair than a contestant's shoes. This is what I feel.