Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa season 8

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 8 also known as Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Reloaded is the eighth season of the dance reality show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. It premiered on 11 July 2015 on Colors. The series is hosted by Manish Paul yet again. Karan Johar, Shahid Kapoor, and Ganesh Hegde and Lauren Gottlieb judged the series. Malaika Arora replaced Johar later. The finale took place on 10 October 2015 declaring Faisal Khan and Vaishnavi as the winners while popular actress Sanaya Irani and Jai was the first runners-up.

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 to be back in April 2015. The press conference and launch was held on 3 July. Colors TV released the first promo featuring judges Karan Johar and Shahid Kapoor in June. The shooting started from 2 July where host, judges and contestants were spotted at the sets.

In April 2015, it was revealed that Manish Paul will be retained as host. In May 2015, it was announced that RJ and Bigg Boss 8 finalist, Pritam Singh was roped in to present the series replacing Ranvir Shorey. He later walked out of the series in June due to differences with the production managers.

In May 2015, it was announced that Karan Johar would not return as judge and that Farah Khan will replace him but later it was he decided to stay back. Later it was also announced that Madhuri Dixit won’t be returning as judge. In May 2015, it was revealed that Remo D'Souza has quit the show after judging the show for the last four years as he announced to judge Star Plus's dance show Dance Plus.

In June 2015, Shahid Kapoor was announced to join as a judge. Ganesh Hegde and season 6 runner-up Lauren Gottlieb were later added as the other two judges.

In September 2015, Johar announced his departure from the series as a judge as he had to shoot for his film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.

The grand finale shooting was held on 7 October 2015 in Mumbai where judges, finalists, host and guest celebrities were spotted at the sets. Alia Bhatt and Salman Khan had attended the shoot to promote film Shaandaar and reality show Bigg Boss 9. Comedy Nights Bachao cast including Krushna Abhishek, Bharti Singh, Adaa Khan, Puja Banerjee and Karan Wahi also were at the finale shoot for more entertainment.

Cast
This series features twelve celebrity contestants. In May 2015, Kavita Kaushik and Sanaya Irani were revealed as the first contestants. The full line up was revealed in June 2015.

In August 2015, cricketer Irfan Pathan and actor Vishal Karwal were roped in as wild card entries. Irfan was selected to go ahead in the competition while Vishal was straight away eliminated.

Irfan withdrew himself from the series later due to cricket commitments.

In September 2015, the series brought four new wild card entries, Anita Hassanandani, Neha Marda, Roopal Tyagi and Sukirti Kandpal. Anita, Neha and Roopal were selected to go ahead in the competition while Sukirti was straight away eliminated.

Score chart

 * green numbers indicates the highest score.
 * red numbers indicates the lowest score.
 * indicates the winning couple.
 * indicates the runner-up couple.
 * indicates the second runner-up couple
 * indicates the fourth-place couple
 * indicates the couple eliminated that week.
 * indicates the contestant was not selected.
 * indicates the returning couple that finished in the bottom three.
 * n/a indicates the couple did not get any scores

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: Motion
 * Week 2: Party
 * Week 3: Team War
 * Week 4: Dance on Favourite Superstar Song
 * Week 5: Made In India
 * Week 6: Andaaz Apna
 * Week 7: Background Dancer
 * Week 8: Costume Dhamaka
 * Week 9 : Usage of Props & Wild Card Entry
 * Week 10: Films Masala
 * Week 11: 90's theme and Teen Ka Tadka
 * Week 12: Dance with India's Got Talent contestants
 * Week 13: Grand finale

Teen Ka Tadka guest partners

 * Shamita & Deepak - Sanjeeda Sheikh
 * Sanaya & Jai - Drashti Dhami
 * Mohit & Marischa - Gautam Gulati
 * Faisal & Vaishnavi - Akshat Singh
 * Anita & Sanam - Vishal Singh
 * Neha & Rajit - Amruta Khanvilkar