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Mumbai, Sep 30 — Television actor Gurmeet Choudhary and his choreographer Shampa Sonthalia Sunday won the fifth season of "Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa". He defeated Rashmi Desai and Rithvik Dhanjani and took home the winners trophy and a cash prize of Rs.40 lakh.

A novice and a stiff dancer, Gurmeet wooed the audiences and judges with his moves and stylish grooves to pip Rashmi and Rithvik with the maximum votes.

Gurmeet, who earned fame as Ram of TV show "Ramayan", started his journey of "Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 5" from day one as the other two finalists came as wild card entries midway in the show. The judges' panel included Madhuri Dixit, Karan Johar and Remo D'Souza.

Gurmeet's popularity won him the much-needed audience votes, and his choreographer Shampa groomed him to get him the thumbs up from judges. He also suffered a shoulder injury, but he bounced back soon enough.

Gurmeet displayed performances ranging from robotic hip-hop, semi-classical moves and international dance forms like rumba and Paso Doble.

"It feels really great. After working for four to five months, this journey has finally come to an end. 'Mehnat rang layi hai' (hard work has paid off). The trophy belongs to my fans who have voted for me. Public is the winner of 'Jhalak...' not me," Gurmeet told IANS after winning the show.

The show started June 16 with 13 contestants including Gurmeet, Isha, Pratyusha Banerjee, Giaa Manek, Talat Aziz, Bharti Singh, Archana Vijaya, Shibani Dandekar, Jayati Bhatia, Darsheel Safary, Sanath Jayasuriya, Sushil Kumar and Ravi Kishan. Rithvik, Rashmi and Karan Wahi were introduced midway as wild card entries.

The grand finale evening not only witnessed some wonderful acts from the three finalists and former contestants of this season, but also saw Madhuri and Sridevi, once big screen rivals, share the stage. They shook a leg with each other on the show to "Mere haathon mein nau nau choodiyan" (Sridevi's popular song from the film "Chandni") and Madhuri's "Dhak dhak karne laga" from the film "Beta".

Another highlight of the show was Remo and Bharti's performance, as they danced together on "Dil kyun yeh mera". Throughout the season, Bharti often used have fun with Remo by calling him his "love-interest" and her dream of sharing the stage with the choreographer came true in the finale. Her comical acts and funny one-liners kept the entertainment quotient alive.

Madhuri also mesmerised viewers with her Marathi mulgi avatar as she danced to three Lavani numbers. Madhuri's husband Sriram Nene was also present on the show along with their children.

However, Sushil Kumar, Pratyusha, Isha, Jayati and Jayasuriya gave the finale a miss.

Sunday, 30 September 2012 22:44

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Gurmeet Choudhary, the favorite beta of television has finally won the title of Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa. The actor has worked hard to win this title since sixteen weeks. He and his choreographer Champa gave the best acts to the show and won million of hearts and votes. The final three were Rashmi Desai Sandhu, Gurmeet Choudhary and Ritvik Dhanjani.

Talking exclusively to Daily Bhaskar after his victory, Gurmeet says, "I'm really happy, the feeling hasn't sunk in me yet. As soon as my name was announced as the winner I and my wife Debina started dancing with joy. We were doing the street dance. This is a big day for me and it's going to be a big celebration."

"The last winning act was one of its kinds. We were dancing against the gravity and this is something done for the first time in Indian history", adds Gurmeet.

Divulging about his journey in the show, Gurmeet said, "I always concentrated on my acts. I never thought if I had to compete with anyone. After each act me and my choreographer only concentrated on what we had to do next. We never thought of what the other contestants are doing. This show has taught me a lot. I'm a big fan of Micheal Jackson and now I can do any of his steps very nicely. This show has trained me now to be an ace dancer. I was never trained whatever I known today is because of this show."

Commenting on the judges of the show, Gurmeet says, "We were always afraid of Remo sir. He was a strict judge who would catch all our mistakes. We always had that fear of not being able to impress him. On the other hand Madhuriji was a sweet judge. She use to give us one mark extra, whenever we made a mistake she told us but it never got reflected on the marks she gave. She was a kind judge in giving marks. Karan gave us comments which helped us in a big way, I use to take all his comments very seriously and work on it thoroughly."

Now Gurmeet is all set to go back to his daily show on another channel, speaking about that he says, "My producers at Punar Vivah have supported me a lot and also the team at BBC. I use to work 12 hours for the show and then came here and did my rehearsals. These four months have been a roller coaster ride."

The first runner up was Rashmi Desai Sadhu and second runner up was Ritvik Dhanjani.

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Television actor Gurmeet Choudhary and his choreographer Shampa Sonthalia Sunday won the fifth season of "Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa". He defeated Rashmi Desai and Rithvik Dhanjani and took home the winners trophy and a cash prize of Rs.40 l

Television actor Gurmeet Choudhary and his choreographer Shampa Sonthalia Sunday won the fifth season of "Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 5 - Dancing with the stars". He defeated Rashmi Desai and Rithvik Dhanjani and took home the winners trophy and a cash prize of Rs.40 lakh.

A novice and a stiff dancer, Gurmeet wooed the audiences and judges with his moves and stylish grooves to pip Rashmi and Rithvik with the maximum votes.

Gurmeet, who earned fame as Ram of TV show "Ramayan", started his journey of "Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 5" from day one as the other two finalists came as wild card entries midway in the show. The judges' panel included Madhuri Dixit, Karan Johar and Remo Dsouza.

Gurmeet's popularity won him the much-needed audience votes, and his choreographer Shampa groomed him to get him the thumbs up from judges. He also suffered a shoulder injury, but he bounced back soon enough.

Gurmeet displayed performances ranging from robotic hip-hop, semi-classical moves and international dance forms like rumba and Paso Doble.

"It feels really great. After working for four to five months, this journey has finally come to an end. 'Mehnat rang layi hai' (hard work has paid off). The trophy belongs to my fans who have voted for me. Public is the winner of 'Jhalak...' not me," Gurmeet told IANS after winning the show.

The show started June 16 with 13 contestants including Gurmeet, Isha, Pratyusha Banerjee, Giaa Manek, Talat Aziz, Bharti Singh, Archana Vijaya, Shibani Dandekar, Jayati Bhatia, Darsheel Safary, Sanath Jayasuriya, Sushil Kumar and Ravi Kishan. Rithvik, Rashmi and Karan Wahi were introduced midway as wild card entries.

The grand finale evening not only witnessed some wonderful acts from the three finalists and former contestants of this season, but also saw Madhuri and Sridevi, once big screen rivals, share the stage. They shook a leg with each other on the show to "Mere haathon mein nau nau choodiyan" (Sridevi's popular song from the film "Chandni") and Madhuri's "Dhak dhak karne laga" from the film "Beta".

Another highlight of the show was Remo and Bharti's performance, as they danced together on "Dil kyun yeh mera". Throughout the season, Bharti often used have fun with Remo by calling him his "love-interest" and her dream of sharing the stage with the choreographer came true in the finale. Her comical acts and funny one-liners kept the entertainment quotient alive.

Madhuri also mesmerised viewers with her Marathi mulgi avatar as she danced to three Lavani numbers. Madhuri's husband Sriram Nene was also present on the show along with their children.

However, Sushil Kumar, Pratyusha, Isha, Jayati and Jayasuriya gave the finale a miss