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.
Edited by rbpll - 8 years ago