Nach Baliye 9 Highlights: Jodis shake a leg with their gurus in choreographer’s week special

One of the most loved and watched dance reality shows Nach Baliye is having a great season so far. Things got spiced up even more last week when four wildcard jodis entered the competition, leaving the other participants and judges stunned with their performances. While Urvashi Dholakia-Anuj Sachdeva and Vishal Aditya Singh-Madhurima Tuli received a warm welcome, Pooja Banerjee-Sandeep Sejwal and Palak Purswani-Avinash Sachdev indulged in fun banter with their competitors. Stay tuned to know what happened this week!

09:30 PM: Urvashi says that she was going to say RoNita’s act was bad but won’t, because it was fantastic! Well, only time will tell who won the challenge between UrUj and RoNita.

09:25 PM: The next challenger team is UrUj, who challenge Rohit Reddy and Anita Hassanandani. Before their performance, Anita reveals that she has known Urvashi for 20 years and that makes things more exciting. Rohit and Anita dance on the famous track ‘Dola Re’ and give a superb performance, leaving judges and audience with goosebumps by their aerial act as a finishing touch. Raveena calls it a ‘drop dead’ performance and rushes to the stage to hug them.

09:10 PM: Manish invites Vishal Aditya Singh and Madhurima Tuli to the stage next. They stun the judges with their sizzling act, mixing Jazz and Bollywood. Raveena says she found it mind-blowing while Ahmed praises their concept, calling it beautiful. Manoj Bajpai, Raveena, Priyamani and Ahmed then shake a leg with the jodi before Raveena pulls Ahmed back to the judge panel. ShAlam joins ViRima on the stage and the two jodis get an equal average score of 89%

08:45 PM: Manoj Bajpai and Priyamani are the new guests on show, who receive a warm welcome. The next challenger called to the stage is ViRima. They challenge Shraddha Arya and Alam Makkar, joking that they were eliminated because of them. Shraddha and Alam fuse Gujrati Garba with Marathi beats in their energetic and colourful performance. Their choreographer Vaibhav, who had undergone a knee surgery recently, is praised for his amazing performance. Ahmed says he loved the vibrancy while Raveena questions ViRima if they think they chose the right couple.

08:20 PM: Challengers Palak and Avinash are next to hit the stage with their choreographers and claim that their act is different as its full of creativity. The judges enjoy their performance and Ahmed says that it was well done. The scores of the 2 couples are revealed and while PriVika get an average score of 88%, PaNash receive 87%. Prince and Yuvika win the first challenge. While Avinash jokes that Prince is a ‘baingan’, Prince calls Avinash a 'karela'.

08:15 PM: The first challenge is that jodis have to dance with their choreographers and the first challengers are Palak Purswani and Avinash Sachdev. They challenge Prince Narula and Yuvika Chaudhary who performed on the song ‘Aankh Maarey’. Their act was a fusion between different Indian dance forms. After their performance, Ahmed says that he loved the coordination and concept, but says constant facial expressions would have been a plus point. The judges lock their score, which will be revealed later.

08:05 PM:  The show begins with the entry of Bollywood’s Khalnayak Sanjay Dutt, who shakes a leg with the judges and hosts. Ahmed and Raveena then reveal that Sanju Baba has got a list of challenges with him today and jodis will be challenging each other this episode. The actor announces that PaNash, ViRima, UrUj and AlyNa are the challengers.