Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa season 7

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 is the seventh season of the dance reality show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. It premiered on 7 June 2014 on Colors. The series was hosted by Ranvir Shorey and Drashti Dhami but later got replaced by Manish Paul. Madhuri Dixit, Karan Johar and Remo D'Souza were the three judges. The finale took place on 20 September 2014 and was won by Ashish Sharma and Shampa Gopikrishna.

Format
The couples dance each week while the judges score each performance out of ten. This time as there are four judges the scores will be up to forty.

With the judges scores and public votes added all together, judges them decide which two couples are in the bottom and will have to do a face off. One contestant gets eliminated each week.

Production
The series was announced in February 2014. The press conference and launch was held on 2 June 2014. The shooting of the series also stated from 3 June. Colors TV had released its promos in May 2014 introducing the celebrity contestants.

In May 2014, it was announced that Ranvir Shorey will be replacing Kapil Sharma as one of the presenters. Drashti Dhami also was revealed to be hosting the show alongside Ranvir. In June 2014, Dhami quit the series as a presenter weeks after the show's launch and got replaced by Manish Paul.

Madhuri Dixit, Karan Johar and Remo D'Souza returned as the judges and announced their return in March 2014.

Cast
This series features thirteen celebrity contestants. In April 2014, it was announced that Purab Kohli, Karan Tacker and Andy Kumar are the first three confirmed contestants. Puja Banerjee, Mouni Roy and Shakti Mohan was later revealed as the other celebrities as well. The final line up was revealed in May.

In July 2014, seven new celebrities Sana Khan, Kushal Punjabi, Rahul Vaidya, Kainaat Arora, Akriti Kakar, Malishka Mendonsa and Tara Jean Popowich entered as wild card entries. Only three including Kushal, Malishka and Tara went ahead in the competition.

Akriti withdrew herself from the completion due to injury so could not perform as a wild card.

Scoring chart
 
 * notes

Dance chart
The couples performed the following each week:


 * Highest scoring dance
 * Lowest scoring dance
 * Non-scoring dance


 * Note

Themes
The celebrities and professional partners danced one of these routines for each corresponding week:
 * Grand Opening Week: Introduction
 * Week 1 : International Judge Week
 * Week 2 : Made in India
 * Week 3 : Judges Demand
 * Week 4 : Jhalak Talkes
 * Week 5 : Wild Card Entries & Prop Week
 * Week 6 : I Love
 * Week 7 : DJ Mix & Indian Cinema
 * Week 8 : Kurukshetra & Team Challenge
 * Week 9 : Backstage Dancer week
 * Week 10 : Independence Day week
 * Week 11 : Dialogues
 * Week 12 : Teen Ka Tadka & Public’s Demand
 * Week 13 : Special Group Theme
 * Week 14 : Semi Finals & Ganesh Hegde Special
 * Week 15 : Super Finale

Week 5 was themed 'Prop week', and each of the participating celebrities dedicated their performances as follow.


 * Puja & Rajit - Picture frame
 * Ashish & Shampa - Stretchy Jacket
 * Karan & Elena - Bucket
 * Mouni & Punit - Golden Shoes
 * Kiku & Kruti - Glass
 * Akshat & Vaishanavi - Glasses
 * Shakti & Tushar - Stretchy Material
 * Sophie & Deepak - Sticks
 * Malishka & Diwakar - Square Box
 * Kushal & Mohena - Heart
 * Tara & Jack - Feather

1st Episode of Week 5 themed 'Wild Card' Special selected 4 new contestant to current participating celebrities.
 * Note - Singer Akriti Kakkar had to quit the show as she was to enter the wild card race due to an accident.

Out of the 6 new Wild Card Entrance the couples which joined the current celebrities in the race of 'Jhalak' were
 * Malishka & Diwakar
 * Kushal & Mohena
 * Tara & Jack
 * Selected Dance
 * Rejected Dance

Week 8 themed 'Kurukshetra is where the judges chooses their teams within the participants and the one with more scores wins.

Weak 10 themed 'Team Challenge' had two performances from the participants, where one was a team performance. Team leader was selected from the previous week's highest scorers. Team participants, dancing style and songs were finalised by these leaders.


 * Mouni's team won the team challenge with getting 30 marks.
 * Green numbers indicates the highest score.

Week 13 was themed 'Teen Ka Tadka' special episode wherein every contestant will get a new celebrity contestant to dance with. Sana and Tushar who were paired with Mumaith Khan could not perform in the episode since they got eliminated in that week.
 * Ashish & Shampa with Sana Saeed
 * Shakti & Tushar with Mukti Mohan
 * Karan & Bhavna with Krystle D'Souza
 * Mouni & Punit with Faisal Khan
 * Sophie & Deepak with Elli Avram
 * Akshat & Vaishnavi with Ali Asgar