Dance India Dance (season 5)

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Zee TV’s Dance India Dance (DID) returned to TV screen on June 2015 with Season 5. With each successive season, DID had set higher benchmarks for excellence in dance and the new season presents itself in the form of the Biggest Battleground of Dance, where each participant would set a certain standard with their dancing prowess and challenge the other to #BeatThat.

The show was produced by Zee Entertainment Enterprises’ content engine, Essel Vision Productions. The auditions for DID Season 5 began in April and were held across 17 cities to scout for the most deserving dancing talent. To groom the contestants and brought out the best in them, DID 5 brought on board an all-new trio of masters – Mudassar Khan, Gaiti Siddiqui and Punit Pathak. Actor Mithun Chakraborty returned as the Grandmaster on the show.

While Master Mudassar had been on the judges’ panel in the previous season, that was a new role for Gaiti and Punit, who was a contestant in the second season of DID.^[1]

This season was premiered on 27 June 2015. Like previous seasons Jay Bhanushali hosted the season too. Season 5 was ended on 10 October 2015 by celebrating Grand Finale. Proneeta Swargiary was the winner of this season and Nirmal Tamang was 1st runner-up.^[2]

Judges[]

Grandmaster:

• Mithun Chakraborty, has been being the head judge for the whole series. Every week after watching all performances of contestants he takes decision on the bases of their performances and comments of masters. When contestants perform a perfect act Mithun Chakraborty delivered a dialog Kya Baat, Kya Baat, Kya Baat... and he gives a Grand Salute for an extraordinary performance.

Masters:

• Mudassar Khan, was also a judge in season 4. His team is named Mudassar Ki Mandali for both seasons. And his dialog for perfect act is You are Chik Chik Boom Fire.
• Punit Pathak, was a contestant in season 2 and he becomes a master in this season. The name of his team is Punit Ke Panthers and his dialog is This was a Jhamu performance.
• Gaiti Siddiqui, is a Bollywood choreographer. She came to judge DID first time. Her team is named Gaiti Ke Gangsters and her dialog for perfect act is It is K.I.L.L.E.R.

Guest Judge:

• Geeta Kapoor, came this season as a special guest in episode 16 (16 August 2015).^[3] She was a master in first 3 seasons of DID and judged DID Li'l Masters (season 2–3) too.

Top 15 contestants[]

Top 11 contestants[]

Finalists[]

1. Winner: Proneeta Swargiary (from Punit Ke Panthers)
2. 1st runner-up: Nirmal Tamang (from Gaiti Ke Gangsters)
3. 2nd runner-up: Sahil Adanaya (from Gaiti Ke Gangsters)
4. 3rd runner-up: Kaushik Mandal (from Mudassar Ki Mandali)
5. 4th runner-up: Ashish Vashistha (from Punit Ke Panthers)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website