Nach Baliye 2

I had nothing but praise for Nach baliye in its first season, this time around the show is terrible. If you will look at my last year blogs I had reserved great praised for Nach baliye, but this year the show has misfired.

• There are no performers like Sachin & Varun Badola who came up with a innovative act again and again, the dances this time around are pretty repitative and listless
• Malaika and Saroj Khan are diluted in their chair by they themselves becoming very friendly towards contestants and their criticisms are not reflected in the high scores they deliver.
• Kunal kapoor was a great anchor, in the seat of judge he is very boring, he needs a script writer to say interesting things
• The format of making the safe contestent's eliminating the unsafe brace of couple is terrible, like Narayani & gaurav who appeared to be the Rageshwari & varun Badola of the current version were eliminated... shame indeed
• These sets are very gaudy this time around, very pinkish and yellowish making it look like a stage of a Saharanpur wedding
• There appears to be a healthy bonding between the contestents, very friendly show, whether on stage or from the audience chairs...its extra warm, extra bonded making things look pretty fixed.
• The Choreographers are subservient and act reverent towards Saroj Khan, the genuine respect of earlier show has somehow been thrown out of the window.
• Malaika's dresses are horrible!

Then perhaps there is Jhalak Dikhla jaa, which had a similar concept, lousy contestants, but became a great show because of terrific judges, who are a class apart, and three fine performers in Shweta, Mona and joker of the pack Mahesh.

I bet there wouldn't be any suspenses here, no fake drama like we see in Nach baliye 2 and deserving Shweta Salve will walk away with the crown.