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New designers for Nach Baliye
By: Vickey Lalwani
October 29, 2005

Anna Singh

Bollywood designer Anna Singh is out of Star One's game show, Nach Baliye.

The new list of designers — who start work from the fourth round — on the show now reads:

1. Archie: For Varun Badola-Rajeshwari Sachdev and Parmeet Sethi-Archana Puran Singh
2. Komal: For Manish Goyal-Poonam Narula Goyal, Apoorva Agnihotri-Shilpa Saklani
3. Bipin Tanna: Mihir Misra-Maninee De
4. Shabina Khan: Rajeev and Delnaz Paul
5. Anshu: Sachin and Supriya Pilgaonkar
6. Navin Shetty: Amit Sadh and Shabbir Ahluwalia
7. Rakhi: Sangeeta Ghosh

When contacted, Singh blamed only Sai Deodhar and Shakti Anand. "Sai and Shakti started it all; it became an issue from there. They were simply not creatively involved with what I wanted them to wear. They always wanted to wear something else… they had so many issues. Other couples were very sweet."

Is she disappointed? "It's okay. I have put Nach Baliye behind me. It was supposed to be a good thing for me that would last, but it did not. Now I have Sooraj Barjatya's Vivaah. I am out of the show, and ditto for Sai and Shakti."

Sai was unavailable for comment. But Shakti offered, "I don't know why Anna is saying this about us now. Last time I met her, she was very sweet to me. As for the discontentment part, I would say that everybody has his own mind and choices. I think many couples were not comfy with her. We used to talk about it sometimes, between ourselves.

Annaji is from films and there's no bound script in Nach Baliye. There was a concept and a theme in every round. I think the misunderstanding stems from there."

vickey.lalwani@mid-day.com

Who do they design for?

Rakhi generally designs for Aamna Shariff and Shweta Tiwari. Navin Shetty designs for Suneil Shetty and Sanjay Dutt; Shabina Khan handles Shahid Kapoor's attire; Komal designed the outdoor promo campaign for Nach Baliye. While Archie assists Vikram Phadnis, Anshu designs for a few personalities from Bollywood.