Vijay TV's Jodi No 1 creates ripples down South

Star One's Nach Baliye has already created waves with its first and on going second season. And similar ripples are anticipated to be generated by the recently launched, Vijay TV's Jodi No. 1. Garnier Fructis Jodi No. 1 is the first ever celebrity dance competition on Tamil TV featuring the most popular faces of the Tamil television industry - four real life couples and four reel life couples. Meet the celeb contestants: Real life couples: Devadarshini-Chetan, Rashna-Vijay Adhiraj, Latha Rao-Rajkamal and Preetha-Raghav. Reel life couples: Shilpa-Bharat Kalyan, Kutty Pooja-Prem, Pooja-Rishi and Tharika-Deepak. The show is a mix of reality and studio episodes on this version as well. The reality episodes will capture the candid moments during the rehearsals, the hard work, the emotions, which the couple undergo in their quest to become Jodi No. 1. The studio episodes will be the performance episodes on the set where the celebrities will showcase their dancing talents in front of the judges. There are 3-jury members for the show includes dance master Kala, actor Prashanth and actor Ramya Krishnan who will judge the performance of the eight jodis. Meet the judges: Dance Master Kala A trained classical dancer, Kala is one of South India's leading choreographers and a National Award winner. Her career graph speaks about 3,600 songs which she has choreographed in various languages. She also has a dance school named 'Kala's Kalalaya' of her own. Actor Prashanth Son of film actor, producer and director, Thiagarajan, Prashanth has many successful films to his credit down south, namely Jeans, Kanethirae Thondrinal, Jodi and Paarthein Rasithein. He is a heartthrob amongst teens and is popularly known as 'Kadhal Ilavarasan'. Actor Ramya Krishnan Glam queen of the south, actress Ramya has played heroine to all leading heroes cutting across all languages in the past two decades. She made her mark in Padayappa with the superstar Rajnikanth and is also known for her special appearance in dance numbers. Jodi No.1, which has hit the airwaves on 7 October, runs Friday-Saturday at 8 pm.