Karishma On NB4 - Article

Karisma Kapur will face the camera after five years as a judge on the reality dance show Nach Baliye 4.

She will join choreographer and film director Farah Khan and actor Arjun Rampal to judge the season four of the dance show which goes on air in October.

Sabbas Joseph, director, Wizcraft said that Karisma has been a successful dancer and she was at ease when offered the show. "She knows Farah and us well," he added.

Significantly, the announcement of her participation in the show came on her fifth wedding anniversary.
Karisma had been looking for a comeback in movies and wants to test acceptance level through the medium of television, sources said.

Karisma's last release was Mere Jeevan Saathi in 2006. She also played the protagonist in Karishma: The Miracles Of Destiny on Sahara One in 2003.

Karisma was also one of the many filmstars who participated in a dance number in Shah Rukh Khan's Om Shanti Om.

When contacted, Farah said, "I have been a judge on two singing-based reality shows. But dance is my forte and I think I am more comfortable judging a dance show."

Farah also defended the reality shows and said the rise of Abhijit Sawant, winner of Indian Idol, who is now also one of the participants of Nach Baliye 4 , exemplified the good these reality shows do to talented youngsters. "However, it is upto individuals as to how they use a platform like reality shows to make their way up the ladder," Arjun said.

Satirist Jaspal Bhatti and wife Savita will be one of the twelve couples participating in the show.