Dance India Dance (season 2)
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LUX Dance India Dance also known as DID is a reality
Reality
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 dance show that airs on the Indian satellite television channel Zee TV
Zee TV
Zee TV is an India-based satellite television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, which broadcasts various programmes in Hindi and other regional languages of India. Broadcasting is also present in various nations of South Asia, Europe, the Middle East,...

. The show, Dance India Dance
Dance India Dance
LUX Dance India Dance is a reality dance show that airs on the Indian satellite television channel Zee TV. The show has been produced by UTV Software Communications and has become India's largest dance-based reality show. The show is choreographed by some of the most popular Indian choreographers,...

 has been produced by UTV Software Communications
UTV Software Communications
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 and has become India's largest dance-based reality show. The show is choreographed by some of the most popular Indian choreographers, such as Terence Lewis, Remo D'Souza
Remo D'Souza
Remo D'Souza is an Indian dancer, choreographer, actor and film director. Although he is mainly involved in choreography, he has also contributed to other Indian film industries, mainly Bengali cinema....

 and Geeta Kapoor
Geeta Kapoor
Geeta Kapoor is an Indian choreographer, in Hindi films , and is presently one of the three judges for the Indian reality dance talent show, Dance India Dance - Season 2, where she is one of the three judges, who are also mentors to the shows 18 dancers, called 'Masters'.-Early life and...

. The Bollywood
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 actor, Mithun Chakraborty
Mithun Chakraborty
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 is the grandmaster of the show. The show airs every Friday and Saturday. The winner of the 1st season was Salman Khan (Mohammed Y.K. Ghouse), from Bangalore
Bangalore
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. Due to its grand success in season 1 the show launched Dance India Dance Season 2 on 18 December 2009, and later will star a children based series DID Little Masters
Dance India Dance Li'l Masters
Dance India Dance Li'l Masters is a new dance reality show that will launch on Zee TV from April 30, 2010. The tag line of the show is Dance Ke Baap. The show timings are Fri-Sat 9.30 pm....



Auditions were held in Delhi
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, Vadodara
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, USA, Kolkata
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 and Mumbai
Mumbai
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.

Mega Audition

One hundred dancers were invited to Mumbai. The dancers first went through Remo D'Souza's street dancing round. Then they went through Geeta Kapoor's Indian traditional dance round and finally through Terrence Lewis' International pair dance round. Top 36 performers were selected from these three rounds. After that the contestants were divided into three groups of 12 each (6 boys and 6 girls) and assigned to Remo, Terence, and Geeta. The final 36 presented their solo performances and each master picked 3 boys and 3 girls from their own groups. These top 18 were named Adbhut Athara(18). After the Grand Success of DID 2 and seeing the talent in children like Gouransh and Aarchie during auditions a new session of DID called DANCE INDIA DANCE JUNIOR was announced publicly on 15.1.10. while auditions too started the same day.

Grand Finale Top 4(Results)

Terrence Ki Toli (TKT)

'Shakti Mohan
Shakti Mohan
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, 24 (Mumbai) -- 1st place(WINNER)

Geeta ki Gang (GKG)

Dharmesh Yelande
Dharmesh Yelande
Dharmesh Yelande popularly known in the dance world as Dharmesh Sir is a dancer and choreographer from India. He is mainly known for participating in shows like Dance India Dance , Dance India Dance Li'l Masters, and Dance Ke Superstars all of which aired on Zee TV...

, 27 (Vadodara) --
2nd place(runner up)

Binny Sharma
Binny Sharma
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, 22 (Ahmedabad) -- 4th place

Remo Ke Rangeeley (RKR)

Punit Pathak, 23 (Mumbai) -- 3rd place(2nd runner up)

Top 12

The top 12 contestants of Dance India Dance are (top 4 in bold):

Terrence Ki Toli (TKT)

-Shakti Mohan
Shakti Mohan
Shakti Mohan is a contemporary dancer from India She was the winner of Zee TV's dance reality show Dance India Dance . Shakti won a cash prize of Rs.50 lakh from Zee TV. She also won a Suzuki Wagon R. Shakti also has a brief appearance on the video for the title song of the movie Tees Maar Khan,...

, 24 (Mumbai) WINNER

-Amarjeet Singh
Kunwar Amar
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, 24 (Indore) eliminated at 5th place (Finest talent award)

-Jack Gill, 20 (Norway) eliminated at 8th place

-Kruti Mahesh, 25 (Mumbai) eliminated at 11th place

Geeta Ki Gang (GKG)

-Kishore Aman, 20 (Mangalore) eliminated at 9th place

-Dharmesh Yelande
Dharmesh Yelande
Dharmesh Yelande popularly known in the dance world as Dharmesh Sir is a dancer and choreographer from India. He is mainly known for participating in shows like Dance India Dance , Dance India Dance Li'l Masters, and Dance Ke Superstars all of which aired on Zee TV...

, 27 (Vadodara) First runner up's (Choreographing children in Dance India Dance Li'l Masters
Dance India Dance Li'l Masters
Dance India Dance Li'l Masters is a new dance reality show that will launch on Zee TV from April 30, 2010. The tag line of the show is Dance Ke Baap. The show timings are Fri-Sat 9.30 pm....

)

-Binny Sharma
Binny Sharma
Binny Bishan Sharma is an Indian television actor. She currently co-stars in Sanjog Se Bani Sangini with Iqbal Khan.Before coming to television, Binny was a contestant in 'Dance India Dance' Season 2 and placed 4th.- Personal life :...

, 22 (Punjab) eliminated at 4th place

-Amrita Moitra, 25 (Kolkata) eliminated at 6th place(Choreographing children in Dance India Dance Li'l Masters
Dance India Dance Li'l Masters
Dance India Dance Li'l Masters is a new dance reality show that will launch on Zee TV from April 30, 2010. The tag line of the show is Dance Ke Baap. The show timings are Fri-Sat 9.30 pm....

)

Remo Ke Rangeeley (RKR)

-Saajan Singh, 16 (Punjab) eliminated at 7th place

-Punit Pathak, 23 (Mumbai) eliminated at 3rd place

-Nikkitasha Marwaha, 20 (USA) eliminated at 10th place

-Shashank Dogra, 21 (Delhi) eliminated at 12th place

Celebrity Guests

  • Salman Khan
    Salman Khan
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     (22 January 2010)
  • Dia Mirza
    Dia Mirza
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     (20 March 2010)
  • Amitabh Bachchan
    Amitabh Bachchan
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     (29 January 2010)
  • Vivek Oberoi
    Vivek Oberoi
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     (5 February 2010)
  • Govinda Ahuja (9 April 2010)
  • Helen (16 April 2010)
  • Arshad Warsi
    Arshad Warsi
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     (20 March 2010)
  • Jeetendra
    Jeetendra
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     (19 March 2010)
  • Boman Irani
    Boman Irani
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     (13 March 2010)
  • Ritesh Deshmukh (27 March 2010)

Judges

  • Master Geeta Kapoor
    Geeta Kapoor
    Geeta Kapoor is an Indian choreographer, in Hindi films , and is presently one of the three judges for the Indian reality dance talent show, Dance India Dance - Season 2, where she is one of the three judges, who are also mentors to the shows 18 dancers, called 'Masters'.-Early life and...

     with the team Geeta Ki Gang
  • Master Remo D'souza
    Remo D'Souza
    Remo D'Souza is an Indian dancer, choreographer, actor and film director. Although he is mainly involved in choreography, he has also contributed to other Indian film industries, mainly Bengali cinema....

     with the team Remo ke Rangeeley
  • Master Terence Lewis
    Terrence Lewis
    Terence Lewis is an Indian choreographer. He was born and raised in Mumbai to a Catholic family.Born to Xavier Lewis and Teresa Lewis, he is the youngest of eight siblings. He is internationally trained and specialises in Indian folk, contemporary and neo-classical dance forms...

     with the team Terence Ki Toli

  • GRAND Master Mithun Chakraborty
    Mithun Chakraborty
    Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor, social activist, and entrepreneur, who has won three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the arthouse drama Mrigaya , for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor....


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