India's Best Dancer 2 also known as India's Best Dancer: Best Ka Next Avatar is the second season of the Indian reality TV series India's Best Dancer. It premiered on 16 October 2021 on Sony Entertainment Television. This season hosted by Manish Paul. The Grand Finale was aired on 9 January 2022 and winner was Saumya Kamble, who later appeared as a choreographer in India's Best Dancer (Season 3) along with Raktim Thakuria and Saumya Kamble and Raktim Thakuria appeared as a choreographer in India's Best Dancer (Season 4) also.
Concept India's Best Dancer will showcase the people of some of the best dancing talent, who with their solo performances, will compete to win the show. In the Grand Premiere, the judges announced the Top 12 contestants who will have a respective mentor in the journey ahead. Week-on-week these 12 contestants will have to impress the judges and audience alike to move closer to winning the most coveted title of India's Best Dancer.
Top 12 contestants +India's Best Dancer Top 12 Contestants City Style Choreographers Place Saumya Kamble Pune Belly Dance Vartika Jha1st Gourav Sarwan Jaipur Popping Rupesh Soni1st Runner-up2nd Roza Rana Rourkela Freestyle Sanam Johar2nd Runner-up3rd Raktim Thakuria Guwahati Hip-Hop,Lyrical Aryan Patra 3rd Runner-up4th Zamroodh Kerala Bollywood Sonali Kar4th Runner-up5th Akash Tambedkar Mumbai Hip-Hop Tushar ShettyEliminated6th Dibbay Das Silchar, Assam Contemporary Pankaj ThapaEliminated Sanket Gaonkar Karnataka Contemporary Anuradha IyengarEliminated Kanchi Shah Mumbai AnimationPaul Marshal Eliminated9th Apeksha Sukheja Ahmedabad Classical Sadhwi Majumdar Eliminated Milind Bhatt Lucknow Lyrical Chandani SrivastavaEliminated11th Muskan Singh Bhopal Kathak, Tutting Bhawna Khanduja/Kumar SharmaEliminated12th
Score chart
Artists Auditions Rounds Grand Premiere Race to Top 8 Race to Finale Grand Finale Auditions Mega Auditions (Top 12) Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8Week 9 Contestants Choreographer 16–17 October 23–24 October 30–31 October 6–7 November 13–14 November 20–21 November 27–28 November 4–5 December 11–12 December 18–19 December 25–26 December 1 January 2 January 8–9 January Total Score No Points30 60 30 No Points Saumya Vartika Advanced to top 12 30 28 30 30 30 60 60 30 Finalists Winner Gourav Rupesh 30 30 24 30 28 60 60 30 1st Runner-up Roza Sanam 29 30 29 30 24 55 57 30 2nd Runner-up Raktim Aryan 28 30 30 29 27 58 59 253rd Runner-up Zamroodh Sonali 29 30 27 30 30 53 60 30 4th Runner up Akash Tushar 25 30 28 27 27 52 54 30 Eliminated (1 January) Dibbay Pankaj 30 26 27 29 27 57 56 NP Eliminated (1 January) Sanket Anuradha 25 30 30 30 30 54 NP NP Eliminated (1 January) Kanchi Paul 30 29 26 30 24 Eliminated (12 December) Apeksha Sadhwi 30 30 27 27 24 Eliminated (12 December) Milind Chandni 29 28 24 25 Eliminated (5 December) Muskan Bhawna/Kumar 24 23 27 Eliminated (28 November) Notes , BTM No Elimination Muskan Muskan GouravMilind MilindApekshaAkash ApekshaKanchiRoza AkashZamroodhSanket AkashDibbaySanket RaktimDibbaySanket NoneEliminated No Elimination Muskan Milind Apeksha No Elimination AkashRozaSaumyaKanchiDibbayZamroodhSanketRaktim Gaurav
Color key indicates the contestant was eliminated. indicates the contestants in bottom. indicates the contestants got the full score. indicates the contestants did not perform. indicates the winner of the season. indicates the runner-up of the season. indicates the contestant quit the show. indicates the finalists of the season.
Notes : On 16th,17th,23 & 24 October the episodes aired were auditions rounds only. : Initially Rajendra Bishnoi is in top 12 but due his injury Stand-By contestant Dibbay Das join Best 12. : On 30 & 31 October the episodes were Mega Auditions and selected the top 12 contestants. : On 6 & 7 November the episodes were Grand Premiere there contestants were not scored by judges. : On 18 & 19 December, the contestants performed twice (one with their choreographer and the other with the contestant) and the contestants got scores from the judges twice. : On 25 & 26 December, Sanket did not perform due to the demise of his father and hence did not receive the score. : On 1 January, Dibbay Das did not perform as he got injured while practicing and hence did not receive the score.
Battle of the best + Battle Between The Bottom Contestants Sr. No. Contestants Result 1 Muskan vs MilindMuskanMilind 2 Akash vs Apeksha vs MilindMilindApeksha &Akash 3 Apeksha vs Kanchi vs RozaApekshaRozaKanchi
Episodes
Guests + Ref(s) 1 20 & 21 November 11-12 Suniel Shetty & Karisma Kapoor 90's Special 2 27 November 13 Chunky Panday & Neelam Kothari Neelam and Chunky Special 3 28 November 14 Nora Fatehi & Divya Khosla Kumar To Promote Satyameva Jayate 2 4 4 December 15 Ayushmann Khurrana & Vaani Kapoor To Promote Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui 5 5 December 16 Asha Bhosle Celebrating 75 Years of Asha Ji 6 11–12 December 17-18 Dharmendra & Asha Parekh Dharmendra And Asha Ji Special 7 18–19 December 19-20 Ex-contestants of Super Dancer 4 Dance Ka Super Sangam 8 26 December 22 Nora Fatehi and Guru Randhawa To Promote The Song: Dance Meri Rani 9 9 January 26 Shilpa Shetty, Badshah, Dharmesh Yelande, Mika Singh & Manoj Muntashir The Ultimate Finale
See also Dance Plus Dance India Dance Dance Deewane Super Dancer
References
External links
India's Best Dancer 2 on Sony Liv