LUX Dance India Dance is a reality dance show that airs on the Indian satellite television channel Zee TV. The show has been produced by UTV Software Communications and has become India's largest dance-based reality show. The show is choreographed by some of the most popular Indian choreographers, such as Terence Lewis, Remo D'Souza and Geeta Kapoor. Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty is the grandmaster of the show. The show's title track was composed by Adil and Prashant. The show airs every Friday and Saturday. The winner of the first season was Salman Khan from Bangalore, representing Remo's team; the winner for the second season was Shakti Mohan from Mumbai, representing Terence's team.
The show gathers raw talent aged 15 to 25 from all over India. Once chosen, the contestants are trained by professional Bollywood choreographers. Thereafter the participants compete against each other. Some of the dance forms that are taught to the contestants are ballet, acrobatics, shadow dancing, mid-air dancing, Broadway theatre, contemporary, Bollywood, Latin, ballroom, and hip-hop. The Grand Finale of the first season was on Saturday, May 30, 2009.
So far, there have been several series of Dance India Dance:
Dance India Dance (season 1) - solo contestants
Dance India Dance (season 2) - solo contestants
Dance India Dance Li'l Masters - for young dancers
Dance India Dance Doubles - for paired dancers
Dance Ke Superstars - contestants from season 1 competing against contestants from season 2.