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MUMBAI: Jay Bhanushali, who is hosting DID (Dance India Dance) L'il Masters 5, has been a part of many earlier seasons of the dance reality show, and states that he has seen it grow over the years.
“This was the first non-celeb dance reality show which gave Indian commoners a chance to showcase their talent. So when we started, I realised that not even the contestants knew what they had to do, and even we had no clue what we had to make. So everyday there is a blank slate, we had to keep writing it, and in the end we realised this is what we did wrong, and this is what we did right,” recalls Jay. He also remembers auditioning 200-250 contestants for almost 36 hours.
Meanwhile, Mithun Chakraborty was an integral part of many seasons of Dance India Dance, and was called Grand Master on the show. Jay, who has worked closely with Chakraborty on many seasons, says he misses his camaraderie with the superstar-actor on the show.
“I remember the first time I had met him in Kolkata at the auditions, we just had a normal ‘hello, hi’. Then suddenly when we were shooting in Mumbai, he started pulling my leg and I was playing along with whatever he was doing. But then just because he was so caring and down to earth, he came to me and said, ‘Jay, I am not doing this because I want to put you down, I am doing it because I want to make a Tom & Jerry kind of bonding between us’,” he remembers.
“Whenever I get a chance, I speak to him. I met him in between also,” the Bigg boss 15 fame concludes.
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