Originally posted by: Me_Anonymous
Sunday 23rd September
All Solo Performances and one Group Performance tonight😃.
Solo Performances:
Rashmi [Freestyle]:
Another Bollywood Dance Form performance from Rashmi. It's her forte. I can see why she is known for her expressions. When her movements were not as flowy or restricted in other words her expressions covered for it.
It was good but not something great.
My score: 9 out of 10 - I didn't enjoy this performance as much compared to her previous performances. But her expressions were 👏
Rithvik [Freestyle]:
It was good. I liked lasers used. He is an amazing dancer. I was a little disappointed with the choreography today (Sneha, please create magic with your choreographies like in Saturday's performance. On a fan scale from 1-10, 1 lowest and 10 highest, it declined from 5.5 to 5 only😭).
My score: 9.5 out of 10. - There wasn't any major wow moment in this performance.
Gurmeet [Tandav]:
Gurmeet is really good in character-based performances and I think I have posted this before many time on this forum (or may be I didn't post but certainly did think so and still do think) that Gurmeet is Excellent in character-driven performances. His acting skills come in very handy in such performance. He was really poised in the whole performance.
BUT, I did some digging on Tandav way before when I watched Mahadev episode where He performs Tandav dance. I know the context it was danced on. Honestly speaking, I didn't feel any anger, angst, frustration or any such emotion from Gurmeet's steps. There were really very little dance steps. From his body language, yes, but not the dance steps.
As far as I know and understand, the type of Tandav Gurmeet performed it's a violent and angry dance form where dance steps should convey what the dancer is feeling. Gurmeet's performance had fire stunts but there were too many of them. I also remember Jayati Ji's Tandav performance. It didn't have any stunts like in this performance but still got the emotions across (Not comparing their performances but just giving an example).
Shampa, please, please, please create some amazing choreographies like you did in the middle weeks of JDJ5.
My score: 6.5 + 1 out of 10. - That '1' is for his acting throughout the performance. I was expecting a lot more from Gurmeet in this Tandav act.
Isha [Rope Malakhamb]:
I can see now why some would call/consider Rope Malakhamb a dance form. I could feel the rythm and a beat in this performance when the actual song doesn't really have one. I remeber in her very first Pareshaan performance, I couldn't understand the Rope Malakhamb bit for weeks. It seemed odd to me so her getting 9 was justified in my eyes (also due to that fall in one of the lifts). However, in this performance, I could feel a rythm especially when she has that lunge position hanging onto the rope and is going/flying round in circles.
I think she forgot a step or two in the middle of her performance when she was on the floor and went back to the rope.
My score: 9.5 out of 10 - was it an officially recognised Dance Form? No. But Isha performed it really well and it was a Blockbuster (since there is no minimum limit for anything to be blockbuster) performance. Wouldn't say 'Perfect' (due to that forgetting thing). No sympathy involved at all. If she decided to perform then she or anyone shouldn't expect that Isha be given sympathy marks. Not in my world.
Group Performance:
Isha-Salman:
The most clean lifts and it was good.
Gurmeet-Suchitra:
Chemistry was lacking. I have been noticing it for a weeks now, even in Gurmeet-Shampa performacnes that understanding/chemistry is lacking and that made the performance not very enjoyable for me.
Rashmi-Deepak:
Rashmi forgot some steps. Then there were some coordination issues. Deepak was a few seconds ahead of her.
Rithvik-Sneha:
It was good. Rithvik was a few seconds ahead of Sneha in steps.
Overall Group Performance Observation:
Seeing them all perform together, I can now understand why everyone only remember's Isha's lifts and stretches only. She is the only one who does them the cleanest out of all. Rithvik-Sneha performed that back-flip-turning that Isha-Salman had in their group performance. The reason I remember is because Isha-Salman's was cleaner than Rithvik-Sneha's.
Scores: Agree with Judges' scores for group relay performances.
Overall Episode:
Skipped most of the general talk, even Rani-Madhuri bits. It looked really boring.
Only fun bit was Manish's singing with KJo in the chorus😆. Love KJo. He is so much fun compared to other judges on the show.
Agree with Rani, Manish the best Anchor (but then again I haven't watched many reality shows, only three in total)
*Below are my opinions only, not facts. Feel free to disagree*
Conclusion:
My overall views about each of the remaining contestants on their performances so far:
Rithvik good in anything and everything as long as he controls his energy in each act.
Gurmeet good in character-based performances which sometimes even helps hide his dancing flaws.
Rashmi good in Bollywood and Indian dance forms. Not good in Western. She tried Samba, Contemporary and Cha-cha-cha. They weren't really that good.
Isha good and much better in Western type dance forms than in Bollywood or Indian dance forms. I don't know about Ballroom Dance Forms since that Argentine Tango wasn't really Argentine Tango and that Ballroom Dance B&B, I had some issues with her frame/posture. So in Ballroom forms unsure, umm, more towards 'not that good'.
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