TV REVIEW: Kisses and tears mark Jhalak 3
The show started with the ex Jhalak winners Mona Singh (season 1 winner) and Prachi Desai (season 2 winner) putting up a fun performance. And then they introduced the 12 contestant jodis. Unlike many other celebrity reality shows where in the first season the best contestants seems to have been exhausted, in Jhalak… the contestants get better and better with every season.
If Mona and Mahesh were fun in the first season, this season we have Ram Kapoor, Hard Kaur, Mohinder Amarnath, Anand Raj Anand and many many more who are extremely energetic, peppy and a LOT of fun.
Moving on, the hosts Shweta Tiwari and Shiv Pandit are so unlike each other that they actually complement each other well. Funny? But true! Shweta is talkative, funny, energetic, vivacious and SEXY. Everything that Shiv is not. But yet, they do a good job of putting the show together.
The judges on the other hand are quite similar. For one they are all WOMEN! Judge number one, Saroj Khan is well…Saroj Khan, Vaibhavi Merchant (yeah she too is there) will become a Saroj Khan very soon (just give her a couple of years) and Juhi Chawla is too cute to be a judge. And we love them. Saroj Khan's whistles, Juhi's inability to say anything bad to any contestant is somewhat comforting.
As for the contestants, we have not seen such an exciting lot on a single show together. Everybody is too energetic, too cute or way too hot. For example Hard Kaur can't stop jumping around. She also calls herself 'sharm proof'. Mohinder Amarnath on the other hand is too cute to be true. And so is Bhaichung Bhutia and Ram Kapoor. As for the hot people, there's Gauhar Khan and Karan Grover. Need we say more?
Now moving on to the controversial part...
Well, this season, the Jhalak makers to make controversy making simpler have introduced a new aspect to the show – the Jhalak House, a place where all the contestants will practice on camera. There are some rules too. For example, the microphone has to be on all the time etc etc. Did this remind you of some show? We thought so…
The first controversy was a fight ending up in tears. Gauhar Khan the supermodel and her choreographer Hanif Hilal (who had also been hanging around with Ms Pooja Bedi for some time) started off with a brilliant performance and ended up crying. Well, this is how it went…
Right after their performance, Gauhar was asked whether she had said bad things about her choreographer. She denied. But then she forgot all about the Jhalak House camera, which brought out the ugly truth about Gauhar, who had been bitching about Hanif behind his back. Hmmm…The judges did not like it much. Juhi when asked to say something about the incident, turned poetic. And Gauhar cried. Hanif looked crestfallen and rather dejected. Pooja Bedi sat in the audience.
Now if you have fights, there has to be an antithesis to fights as well. So how about a blossoming romance? Parul Chauhan and choreographer Deepak delivered a sizzling performance in which Parul kissed Deepak twice. Not Bad! And when they went backstage and were asked about those twin affectionate pecks, Deepak soon clarified that he wasn't dating Parul. When asked why he had to clarify, he admitted that he has been getting too many mobile messages regarding the same.
So there you have it! Love and Hate, Kisses and Blows – and all the required masala on a single show!
Jhalak Dikhla Jaa Season 3 has been interesting in the opening episodes. Now it remains to be seen whether all this 'controversy' adds some fun to the show or just ends up mucking it all.
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