Jhoom India Finally Rolls Up
Jjhoom India finally rolls
By: Shaheen Parkar
October 8, 2007
The SaharaOne reality show has already had its share of hiccups.
Though SaharaOne has launched the promos of Jjhoom India, its new music-based show, it has not been playing sweet music backstage. This desi version of the Western show Stars On Stage has already had its share of in and outs even before the show goes on air.
This reality spectacle, produced by the Optimystix duo of Vipul D Shah and Sanjiv Shama (the names behind Comedy Circus, Ye Meri Life Hai), has a singer teamed with a non-singer celebrity who grooms the latter in belting out popular numbers.
Wishlist
Several names from the television and music world have been and are still being approached. The names finalised include Chhavi Mittal with Jatin, Varun Badola with Akriti Kakkad, Shama Sikander with Zubin, Shweta Tiwari with Suresh Wadkar, Roshni Chopra with Vinod Kumar Rathod, Apara Mehta with Parthiv Gohil (who makes his playback debut with Yuh shabnami in Saawariya) and Shekhar Suman with Sanjivani (of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa fame).
It is learnt that Babul Supriyo was initially pencilled in with Shweta Tiwari. Says a source, “Babul had already shot for the promos of Jjhoom India and the channel was keen to include him, but then he had something interesting coming up with the soon-to-be launched NDTV Imagine. As a result, Babul opted out.
Judge kaun?
As reported earlier in “Papa na kehte” (September 21) Shreya Ghoshal was also considered but was not too keen on the show. Meanwhile, Asha Bhosle and Bappi Lahiri have been finalised as the judges, and talks are on with Mahesh Bhatt.
However, the forthright Bhatt says, “They have been in talks with my daughter Pooja about the show. She is negotiating with them. As far as I know, I am not doing it. Now they have approached my brother, Mukesh Bhatt.
Says producer Vipul D Shah, The third judge will be finalised in a day to two. We had approached Subhash Ghai but he was busy shooting for his film Yuvraj in Europe. The rest of the contestants, too, will be clear soon.