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Ravi Dixit | May 31, 2009 at 07:43 am
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The Finals of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa to announce the winner of the 3rd season
22:56 IST So the Buzz on the web was correct and the channels was not able to keep it under wraps; the winner is Baichung Bhutia and he winds INR 4 million in cash!! and goes on to become the first male winner of JDJ.
Baichung Bhutia the most famous footballer in India wins with overwhelming support from Sikkim.
Sikkim witnessed an SMS frenzy as people from all walks of life voted for their favourite son of the soil, football star Bhaichung Bhutia, in the reality TV show 'Jhalak Dikhla Ja'.
The voting lines opened Friday 9 p.m. and closed 8 p.m. Saturday.
Women from 5th Mile at Tadong here, which is part of a organisation called Sahayta Club, chipped in with Rs.30,000 to buy mobile cash cards that would facilitate 10,000 SMS votes for Bhutia.
'We have all chipped in with the money we kept for running our households. Even our kids have broken their piggy banks to donate money to buy the cash cards to vote for the star footballer,' said treasurer Phurkit Lepcha.
22:41 IST Karan is eliminated from the show and now the two remaining contestants are Ghuhar and Baichung, so far this is as per script that Baichung is going to win. Karan and Nicole walk off the stage.!!
22:22 IST Mallika Sherawat comes on to the stage and daces on Main Talli ho Gayi...
22:18 IST Karan and Nicole are doing a kuch kuch hota hai act. A pretty bad one though. Vaibhavi Merchant was not very happy with the act; Juhi was totally taken in by the act; Saroj Khan too was not very pleased by the act. Saroj Khan gives 8 ;Juhi gave 9 and Vaibhavi gives 8. So it is over to the audience votes.
Well during the breaks the channel is promoting Dus Ka Dum their sure shot hit that will be broadcast next week during the weekends.
22:09 Guahar Khans performance has got the judges touched and they are heaping praises on her. It was an electrifying performance. All the three judges are giving her a standing ovation. Saroaj Khan is speechless and so all the judges end up giving her 30 marks. She thanks Allah and God profusely.
Well the internet blogsphere is abuzz that the telecast was recorded before and Baichung Bhutia is the winner of the show. In some time we will know if that is true?
21:44 IST Hard Kaur's mother gives away a special award to her Daughter and reveals that the actual name of Hard Kaur is Taran Kaur. Hard Kaur is a name that was given by her rapper friends.
21:29 IST Parul Chauhan is given the award of best performance award in a Maha Dramatic Award for the fainting act that she did during the preliminaries. This is followed by another performance by Gauhar Khan.
21:20 IST Hard Kaur is back on the stage with Anand Raj Nand and is looking pretty gracious, though the element of serious dancing is really missing here. She is not even making efforts to lip sync. Hope the show picks up!!
21:00 IST The show is already underway and Maliaka Arora is trying to dance and the channel is trying to make it look good with post production jerks and frame freezes..:-) As per Maliaka Baichung is the hottest in the field and Karan is hottest in small screen. Now She is dancing with both of them on chaiyaan chaiyaan. What I saw yesterday on Dance India Dance was much better!!
The three judges viz. Juhi Chawla, Vaubhavi Marchant and Saraj Khan actually clapped at the end of her performance. As this is the finals every one is being nice to every one.
Baichung and Karan are the two boys in the finals and the sole girl is Gauhar.
The Maliaka performance is followed by and a performance by Karan Grover and Prachi Desai from Jhalak 2. Well Prachi has put on some decent weight in the last one year. This is followed by a performance of Baichung and Mona Singh; the winner of Jhalak 1. Mona Singh still rocks after two years of winning the crown of season one. Hussain and Gauhar Khan are paired for the third performance of the finalists. Both are super dancers and well this is the best act amongst the three. Hussain is really putting in all the effort to make it count!
The winner will be announced shortly. Some background information on the show is as follows:
Viewership Analysis
Unllike Dance India Dance (DID) this dance reality show is not doing as well. Actually it is also not the top show on the channel last week. Last week C.I.D a police thriller was the number show on Sony Entertainment Television, but there is still a buzz about this show. Indian Idol on the same channel got the entire country buzzing and so this show following in the foot steps of its predessor is doing reasonable well for the channel.
Last week it contributed to 11% of the viewership of the channel, though in comparitive terms JDJ 3 is only 1/5th of DID. Though Zee TV itself is about 3 times the size of Sony Entertainment Television. As Sony Entertainment Television was hugely impacted by Indian Premier League and its telecast during the prime time in India. Hardest hit were the weekend programming like song and dance reality shows with Zee TV being an exception.
Truemors
Baichung Bhutia is the Winner of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 3 
