Why Reality TV is not Reality

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Posted: 8 years ago
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Contestant Shantanu Maheshwari is not a non-dancer who is developing his skills on the show. In reality, he is a professional hip hop dancer who has competed at an international level. He should be judged keeping in mind that he is a professional just as Salman is judged at a higher level. Moreover, the choreography from the New Years episode was taken from his routine from 2015 and not Alisha's choreography.
Here is the link of his 1st place performance oat the WOD competition:
https://youtu.be/https://youtu.be/fm3fcOmbzWI

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Posted: 8 years ago
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Who even is backing Shantanu and Saying he is a Non-dancer? Rather all of us are saying yes he is a WOD winner so treat him in that way. And about not being Alisha's choreography. Shantanu and Alisha have a team of choreographers (which Everyone does) who help them out in JDJ. Macedon and Nimit who are a part of Shantanu's crew and who won WOD with him (therefo atleast we know concept is there own unlike Salman copying from a foreign show) and I would disagree that the 'whole' Performance was the same as the WOD one. Have seen that Performance a gazillion times and have see the new year epi dance many times too. The elements might be same and precisely 3 steps are same. Other than the costume having similarity nothing else. And yes we would be happy if Shantanu is treated like Salman. Where Salman is always overscored, and Shantanu is always underscored so who wouldn't want a talent like Shantanu get the right respect he deserves!
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Its another kind of laughing session when people say that Salman is judged at a "higher level" Makes me wonder if I am watching a different show :P He definitely deserves one award this season and that is for being OVERSCORED throughout the season. And about contestant Shantanu Maheshwari u r talking about, he is a dancer, WOD champ and we have always said it since Day 1. The very first epi of Jhalak he was mentioned as a dancer only by Ganesh Hegde (check that out again) Most importantly, Shantanu deserves to win this season the most 😎
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Originally posted by: supermom1

Contestant Shantanu Maheshwari is not a non-dancer who is developing his skills on the show. In reality, he is a professional hip hop dancer who has competed at an international level. He should be judged keeping in mind that he is a professional just as Salman is judged at a higher level. Moreover, the choreography from the New Years episode was taken from his routine from 2015 and not Alisha's choreography.

Here is the link of his 1st place performance oat the WOD competition:
https://youtu.be/https://youtu.be/fm3fcOmbzWI


Lol, nobody said Shan is a non dancer, its just Farah who doesn't know anything apart from her Bollywood world. 'Nobody ever said that,and yes Ganesh knew from start his dancing background. AND please watch the episodes well, I remember during the first episodes Shan said that he has to give his 200% best because people knew his dancing background. He never lied unlike Salman who copied concept but takes full credit for it and copy dance steps for atleast 4 acts,even lied about prop! Shan is always judged strictly dear and sometimes he is underscored. Salman judged at another level? Haha yes judges are so lenient with him and he is always over scored when he hardly dances and is directly involved with plagarism. Link is broken but nevermind I saw Shan dance multiple times and they didn't copy the whole thing like Salman. He copied only 2 steps from his OWN choregraphy not like Salman who COPIES THE WHOLE THING(dance and concept) from ANOTHER show. If you had to belittle Shan, you should have done your homework properly
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Nobody said Shantanu is a non dancer...go check his Jhalak profile on the Colors website. It clearly states that he is a dancer.
Its just that he doesn't have too much experience of various dance forms and this is his 1st reality show unlike Salman who has participated 5 times.
And as for the WOD choreography...the people who choreographed it are assisting Alisha in Jhalak ...
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Posted: 8 years ago
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No one here said shantanu is a non dancer. We want him to be judged as a dancer. Congratulations for making the joke of the day that salman is judged on a higher level. If u watch the episodes clearly it is Aishwariya who does the whole dancing and salman will be like a prop lifting Aishwariya but he's getting a 30 but shantanu dances for the whole 2 mins and he gets 26. I think they are being lenient with the so called dancer and strict with whom according to u is considered as a non dancer. Yes shantanu is a dancer and he won WOD. That's y we want him to be respected as a dancer the way they respect salman but I know it won't happen. No matter who wins this season, the most deserving contestant will be shantanu. They can underscore him but the public knows who's the best leaving some people who consider salman to be the mj of jhalak.
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Posted: 8 years ago
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Contestants are judged as per their dancing level😆. Joke of the year. In this season of JDJ , nobody is judged at any level😆 despite of the fact that S9 contains the highest number of professional dancers such as salman, shantanu, poonam & priyanka, teriya, Nora ...potential non-dancers such as siddharth, shakti,suvreen...decent dancers such as karishma, arjun, swasti...unlike previous seasons but still this season is biggest flop. None of the perfomances can be termed as unforgettable or I can say WOW. Contestants are judged on the basis of their market value and fanbase as public voting is not available this season.This is where shantanu baazi maar gaya. Like D3 ( shantanu's previous show in Channel V) , here he is also a fluke😆. Between the GEC biggies and an established dancer like Salman, a guy like shantanu - who is first timer in mainstream , a simple and sober in nature and personality without any OTT drama, dukhbari kahani or pampering towards female co-contestants , would not have reached till final stage if he wouldn't have an active fanbase. Colors realised this and created this Jaqline-shantanu cutie drama to give shanatnu more footage.
As far as perfomace is concerned, problem is judges play as a double dholki when it comes to shantanu. They don't consider him a proper professional dancer but judge him strictly and don't overlook his mistakes whereas in Salman's case who is way more established dancer than Shantanu, they completely overlook the fact that he dances so less. Most of the difficult steps and dancing are done by Ashwariya.
In my personal opinion like every dancer , shantanu also have his share of strength and weaknesses. His biggest strength is that his perfomances are purly carried out through dance. His weakness or rather say his choreopgraphers team weakness is that they are not trying different generes of dancing. Mostly they stick to hip-hop, freestyle and Bollywood. This dramatic kind of acts are not their forte that's why Chauu didn't work well.
Yes, there are few steps which are taken from WOD perfomances not only in New Year's perfomance but also in deshbhakti waala perfomace ( I forgot the song) which I personally didn't like as those steps are quite repetitive and I have remebered them by heart but What is so wrong in that ? If a dancer like Salman can copy a whole dance from other dance act then shantanu has only copied 1-3 steps that too from his own perfomance.
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