India's Best Dancer Hindi TV series

India's Best Dancer is an Indian Hindi-language television reality dance show of the India's Best Dancer franchise which airs on Sony Entertainment Television and also available through SonyLIV OTT platforms in India. The show was first developed by Frames Production in the India.

The shooting of Season 1 was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India and shooting started on 13 July 2020 and broadcasts have started from 18 July 2020. Tiger Pop was the winner of Season 1.^[1] Online auditions for season 2 began on 5 May 2021 on SonyLIV.^[2] The season 2 aired on 16 October 202

Series overview

Season	Host(s)	Judges				Episodes	Original broadcast			Contestants	Prize money	Winner	Winning choreographer	Runner-up	Runner-up choreographer
Season		Judges				Episodes	Premiere	Finale	Network	Contestants	Prize money	Winner	Winning choreographer	Runner-up	Runner-up choreographer
1	Haarsh L. , Bharti Singh	Geeta Kapoor	Terence Lewis	Malaika Arora		48	29 February 2020	22 November 2020	Sony Entertainment Television	13	Template:INRConvert	Template:Win	Rowspan=2 Template:Win	Template:Runner-up	Template:Runner-up
2	Manish Paul			Malaika Arora		26	16 October 2021	9 January 2022		12		Template:Win	Template:Runner-up	Template:Runner-up
3	Jay Bhanushali			Sonali Bendre		52	8 April 2023	30 September 2023		14		Template:Win	Template:Win	Template:Runner-up	Template:Runner-up
4	Jay Bhanushali, Aniket Chauhan			Karisma Kapoor		36	13 July 2024	10 November 2024		14		Template:Win	Template:Win	Template:Runner-up	Template:Runner-up
5	Haarsh Limbachiyaa			Karisma Kapoor	Javed Jaffrey			9th May 2026

Spin-off

Season	Host(s)	Judges			Episodes	Original broadcast			Contestants	Prize money	Winner	Winning choreographer	Winning Team	Runner-up	Runner-up choreographer	Runner-up Team
Season	Host(s)	Judges			Episodes	Premiere	Finale	Network	Contestants	Prize money	Winner	Winning choreographer	Winning Team	Runner-up	Runner-up choreographer	Runner-up Team
Champions ka Tashan- IBD v/s SD	Haarsh Limbachiyaa	Geeta Kapoor	Remo D'Souza	Malaika Arora		16 November 2024		Sony Entertainment Television			Template:Win Tejas	Rowspan=2 Template:Win	Template:Runner-up	Template:Runner-up

Judges and hosts

Name's	IBD (Season 1)	IBD (Season 2)	IBD (Season 3)	IBD (Season 4)	IBD (Season 5)
Geeta Kapoor	colspan="1" Template:Yes	colspan="1" Template:Yes	colspan="1"Template:Yes	colspan="1" Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Malaika Arora	colspan="1" Template:Yes	colspan="1" Template:Yes	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a
Sonali Bendre	colspan="1" Template:N/a	colspan="1" Template:N/a	Template:Yes	Template:N/a	Template:N/a
Terence Lewis	colspan="1" Template:Yes	colspan="1" Template:Yes	colspan="1"Template:Yes	colspan="1" Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Karishma Kapoor	colspan="1" Template:N/a	colspan="1" Template:N/a	colspan="1" Template:N/a	colspan="1" Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Javed Jaffrey	colspan="1" Template:N/a	colspan="1" Template:N/a	colspan="1" Template:N/a	colspan="1" Template:N/a	Template:Yes
Bharti Singh	colspan="1" Template:Yes2	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a
Haarsh Limbachiyaa	colspan="1" Template:Yes2	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	colspan="1" Template:Yes2
Jay Bhanushali	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:Yes2	Template:Yes2	Template:N/a
Manish Paul	Template:N/a	Template:Yes2	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Template:N/a
Aniket Chauhan	Template:N/a	Template:N/a	Contestant	Template:Yes	Template:N/a
Total No.	5	4	4	5	5

Note: Nora Fatehi replaced Malaika Arora as a judge for some episodes when Arora was unable to join the shoots during Season 1.

Seasons

Season 1

Template:Main India's Best Dancer 1 first season was premiered on 29 February 2020 on Sony Entertainment Television and Sony Entertainment Television Asia. This season was judged by Geeta Kapoor, Terence Lewis and Malaika Arora and hosted by Haarsh Limbachiyaa and Bharti Singh. The Grand Finale was aired on 22 November 2020 and winner was Tiger Pop.^[3]

Season 2

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India's Best Dancer 2 also known as India's Best Dancer: Best Ka Next Avatar is the second season and premiered on 16 October 2021 on Sony Entertainment Television. This season judged by Geeta Kapoor, Terence Lewis and Malaika Arora for the second time and hosted by Manish Paul. The Grand Finale was aired on 9 January 2022 and Saumya Kamble was declared as the winner.^[4]

Season 3

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India's Best Dancer 3 also known as India's Best Dancer: Har Move Se Karenge Prove is the third season and premiered from 8 April 2023 on Sony Entertainment Television. This season will be judged by Geeta Kapoor, Terence Lewis and Sonali Bendre and hosted by Jay Bhanushali. The Grand Finale was aired on 30 September 2023 and Samarpan Lama was declared as the winner.

Season 4

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India's Best Dancer 4 also known as India's Best Dancer: Jab Dil Kare Dance Kar is the fourth season and premiered fon July 13, 2024 on Sony Entertainment Television. This season will be judged by Geeta Kapoor, Terence Lewis and Karishma Kapoor and hosted by Jay Bhanushali and Aniket Chauhan.

Season 5

India's Best Dancer 5 is the fifth season set to premier in 2026 on Sony Entertainment Television. This season will be judged by Geeta Kapoor, Terence Lewis Karishma Kapoor & Javed Jaffrey and will hosted by Haarsh Limbachiyaa.

Spinoff

Maharashtra's Best Dancer
Champions Ka Tashan-IBD v/s SD

Choreographer details

Choreographer's name	Contestant's name
Choreographer's name	Season 1	Season 2	Season 3	Season 4	Season 5
Anuradha Iyengar	Paramdeep Singh	Sanket Gaonkar	Hansvi TonkTemplate:Ref	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Aishwarya Radhakrishnan	Swetha WarrierTemplate:Ref	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Aryan Patra	Template:N/A	Raktim Thakuria	Anjali MamgaiTemplate:Ref
Ashish Patil	Rutuja Junnarkar	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Bhawna Khanduja	Swetha Warrier	Muskan SinghTemplate:Ref	Samarpan Lama	Template:N/A
Chandani Srivastava	Template:N/A	Milind Bhatt	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Pratik Utekar	Mukul Gain	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Harsh Keshri
Kumar Sharma	Template:N/A	Muskan Singh	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Rupesh Soni	Template:N/A	Gourav Sarwan	Aniket ChauhanTemplate:Ref	Divyajyoti Naik
Noel Alexander	Adnan Ahmed Khan	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Pankaj Thapa	Subhranil Paul	Dibbay Das	Ram Bisht	Template:N/A
Pankaj Thapa	Subhranil Paul	Dibbay Das	Vipul Khandpal	Arjun Sathe
Arundhati Garnaik	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Apeksha Londhe	Template:N/A
Subranil Paul	Template:Grey		Sushmita Tamang	Template:N/A
Subranil Paul	Template:Grey		Akshay Pal	Akina
Swetha Warrier	Template:Grey	Template:N/A	Shivanshu SoniTemplate:Ref	Template:N/A
Rishabh Sharma	Himanshi GurheriyaTemplate:Ref	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Sonali Kar	Template:N/A	Zamroodh	Shivam WankhedeTemplate:Ref	Template:N/A
Paramdeep Singh	Template:Grey	Template:N/A	Samarpan LamaTemplate:Ref	Template:N/A
Sushant Khatri	Adnan Ahmed KhanTemplate:Ref	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Amardeep Singh Natt	Himanshi Gurheriya	Template:N/A	Akshay Pal	Template:N/A
Himanshu Parihar	Sadhwi Majumdar	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Saumya Kamble	Template:N/A	Template:Grey	Boogie LLB	Chitrakshi Batra
Vartika Jha	Tiger Pop	Saumya Kamble	Akshay Pal	Nepo
Sagar Bora	Aman Shah	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Sadhwi Majumdar	Template:Grey	Apeksha Sukheja	Template:N/A	Ishani Nag
Sanam Johar	Template:N/A	Roza Rana	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Akash Thapa	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Anjali Mamgai	Rohan Choudhary
Paul Marshall	Md.Akib	Kanchi Shah	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Raktim Thakuria	Template:N/A	Template:Grey	Vipul KhandpalTemplate:Ref	Steve Jyrwa
Tushar Shetty	Sonal Vichare	Akash Tambedkar	Norbu Tamang	Template:N/A
Tarun Raj Nihalani	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Debparna Goswami	Template:N/A
Vaibhav Ghuge	Raj Sharma	rowspan=2Template:N/A	Shivam Wankhede	Aditya Crazyy
Vaibhav Ghuge	Raj Sharma	Hansvi Tonk	Template:N/A
Rutuja Junnarkar	Template:Grey	Template:N/A	Hansvi Tonk	Template:N/A
Vivek Chachere	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Shivanshu Soni	Template:N/A
Kartik Raja	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Aniket Chauhan	Amos Mathi
Gourav Sarwan	Template:N/A	Template:Grey	Aniket Chauhan	Template:N/A
Vipul Khandpal	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Template:Grey	Nextion
Shivanshu Soni	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Template:Grey	Vaishnavi Shekhawat
Ashutosh Pawar	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Nikhil Patnayak
Mini Pradhan	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Template:N/A	Template:N/A
Template:Color box Winner Template:Color box Runner-up Template:Color box Finalists

Notes

Template:Note: Aishwarya Radhakrishnan appeared only for Grand Premiere as Choreographer of Swetha Warrier in Season 1 and was replaced by Bhavna Khanduja for rest of the season.
Template:Note: Rishabh Sharma and Sushant Khatri were replaced by Amardeep Singh Natt and Noel Alexander respectively as choreographers of Himanshi Gurheriya and Adnan Ahmed Khan respectively in Season 1.
Template:Note: Bhavna Khanduja was replaced by Kumar Sharma as choreographer of Muskan Singh in Season 2.
Template:Note: Anuradha Iyengar, Aryan Patra, Vartika Jha, Raktim Thakuria, Rupesh Soni, Swetha Warrier, Paramdeep Singh, Sonali Kar were replaced by Rutuja Junnarkar, Akash Thapa, Subhranil Paul, Pankaj Thapa, Kartik Raja, Vivek Chachere, Bhawna Khanduja, Vaibhav Ghuge respectively in Season 3. After elimination of Sushmita Tamang, her choreographer Subhranil replaced Amardeep as choreographer of Akshay Pal.

References

↑ Tiger Pop becomes the winner of India's Best Dancer. Mumbai Live(22 November 2020). Retrieved 22 November 2020.
↑ India's Best Dancer Season 2: Launch. Times Of India(2021-10-11).
↑ India's Best Dancer winner: Tiger Pop lifts the trophy of the first season; takes home cash prize of Rs 15 lakh. Times Of India(22 November 2020).
↑ India's Best Dancer 2: Malaika Arora, Geeta Kapur, Terence Lewis return as judges. The grand finale was aired on 9 january 2022 and Saumya Kamble was declared as the winner., Bhasin, Shriya. www.indiatvnews.com(2021-09-22). Retrieved 2021-10-13.

External links

India's Best Dancer Template:Webarchive on Sony Liv

[1] Tiger Pop becomes the winner of India's Best Dancer. Mumbai Live(22 November 2020). Retrieved 22 November 2020.

[2] India's Best Dancer Season 2: Launch. Times Of India(2021-10-11).

[3] India's Best Dancer winner: Tiger Pop lifts the trophy of the first season; takes home cash prize of Rs 15 lakh. Times Of India(22 November 2020).

[4] India's Best Dancer 2: Malaika Arora, Geeta Kapur, Terence Lewis return as judges. The grand finale was aired on 9 january 2022 and Saumya Kamble was declared as the winner., Bhasin, Shriya. www.indiatvnews.com(2021-09-22). Retrieved 2021-10-13.

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