ARCHANA-PARMEET OUT!!

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By: Nandita Puri
November 22, 2005

Nach Baliye is into its eighth week and it makes great watching, especially on Thursdays. Last week, the take-off on the judges by some of the participants was hilarious. Especially Parmeet Sethi's take-off on Farhan Akhtar. That was cool. Malaika Arora looked stunning in the dance she did, like she always does (sic). But I wondered why she had to wear a body suit. Which kept crinkling every now and then and was distracting us. Well, if I had a body like her, my husband would have probably saved a lot on wardrobe money because all I'd been seen around would be in itsy-bitsy nothings. Saroj Khan, Farhan Akhtar and Malaika Arora Khan in Nach Baliye Why not flaunt it if you have it, because if I had it, I certainly would have. Well, if Malaika really did not want to expose, she should have ditched the sexy ghagra-choli and crinkling body suit and opted for a dress, which the likes of Delnaz Paul wear. Or even a burkha. That way we would have concentrated on her dance instead of the crinkles on her washboard abs. Besides Malaika Arora and the other judges, the nice thing about the show has been the transformation of some of the participants from clumsy movers to pretty competent and confident dancers. From day one the clear favourites (in terms of dancing) were Sachin-Supriya, Rajeshwai-Varun and Archana-Parmeet. Not only do they dance, they express, innovate and perform with panache. After all, dancing is not getting the steps right, but performance as a whole. But other couples have also progressed over the weeks. Like last week's performance by Apurva and Shilpa showed their progress. But then there are also exceptions like Delnaz and Rajiv Paul. Not only are they poor performers, they have not even bothered to make an attempt to improve and innovate from day one. As a viewer, it bothers me. Yet they seem to be sitting on a mountain of confidence in spite of the judges' verdict against their poor performance. And their confidence seems to come from public votes. The stupidest thing about Nach Baliye is when you have an experienced panel with the likes of Saroj Khan and you let dumb SMSes overtake sound judgment. It makes the ordinary viewer like me feel cheated, because it looks obviously staged. The stakes are high and public voting can be bought easily by a fraction of the prize money by the participants who know they don't have it in them to win. Therefore last week's ouster of Shilpa and Apurva in spite of Rajiv and Delnaz's poor show was a shocker. But wait, the big shock is yet to come. This Thursday will see the ouster of two very good performers — Archana and Parmeet — in spite of their performance being praised by the judges. A number of participants are upset at this. "It was so blatant," said an insider who wishes to remain unnamed. As usual, Delnaz-Rajiv managed to remain in the competition, in spite of their below average performance and low ranking by the panel, all due to the audience vote. At this rate, why have a panel at all. Just ask for audience votes. An offshoot of all these various television contests could be the emergence of a new breed of professionals: The professional SMSer. Ideal for housewives and unemployed persons. For a fee, they would keep SMSing for the losing contestants. I just might consider it a career option.

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Reading the article just confirms that it is not talent that counts but just the audience votes. Then why all this judging and all that. I was highly disappointed the day Neeru and Amit went . They had performed so well and then Apoorva and Shilpa had to go and now the talented duo of Parmeet and Archana. It just is not fair. How can anybody accept Delnaz and Rajiv as good dancers? Even when the Indian Idol show was going on, it was the same case with Ravinder Ravi. He used to come back whereas more talented ones had to leave before him. Can't anybody do anything? 😭

Totally agree with this journo! Basically they want to keep two lousy n two good jodis around i guess!

oh sad! archana & parmeet are great and energetic dancers.

btw, this journo nandita puri is actor om puri's wife.

thats what i m also surprised

they have totally rigged it

archana parmeet got good marks last time from judges and audience gives them the boot

this is not fair
who wud watch it more when its clear they r goin to make sachin supriya or varun rajeshwari win

this is all for trps i guess

yes i was searchin this article on E-Paper on Mid-Day

Thanx for posting
So sad the talented ones are going out

gosh 😡 . archana n parmeet r out.. they r the spice of the contest.. without them.. there is no NB..... eesshhhhhhh ...... this is really very unexpectd.....

Archana and Parmeet deserve to be in

this just make me feel 🤢 🤢 😡 ...i mean how can that be? The producers of this show are making a fool out of us by blaming everything on "Audience Votes". No one in their right state of mind will vote for Rajiv-Delnaaz as the Best Dancing couple... 😕..I'm losing my interest in the show now. Totally agree with the writer of the article that everything looks "staged".

It's sad to see that even this show has fallen pray to the TRP gimmicks. It's turned crappy 😡 🤢