Jodi Number One is an Indian Tamil-languagedance competitionreality television show broadcast on Star Vijay starting in 2006. The contestants are couples who are generally television stars in their own right, often from the television industry.[1][2][3] Over twelve years, Jodi Number One has rolled out ten seasons.
The first season aired on every Friday to Saturday at 20:00 from October 2006. The show witnessed four real life couples and 4 fictional (real) life couples engage in a 13-weeks dancing competition. The panel of judges composed of dance master Kala, actor Prashanth and Ramya Krishnan chose the two finalists. The viewers themselves chose the third finalist. Divyadarshini and Aravind Akash serving as the hosts.
Prem Kumar and Pooja - The winners of the Wild Card round were judged the champions of Jodi No. 1 by the audiences. They received 10 lakhs as the prize money.
Jodi no.1 season 2 witnessed many small screen couples, with 8 new celebrity couples. The 8 couples were Kalaiselvan Tinku, Preethi Sanjeev, Yugendren, Hayma Malini, Sree, Krithika, Prithviraj, Uma Riyaz, Arvind, Lakshmi, Irfan, Monisha, Venkat, Nisha, Dev and Aishwarya. Silambarasan, Sangeetha and Raju Sundaram were the judges. Divyadharshini and Deepak Dinkar hosted the season. Tinku and Preethi were the winners of Jodi no. 1 season 2, receiving the 10 lakh prize, whereas Venkat and Nisha won the Best Performance award taking home the Chevy Spark.
Best Jodi (Group Formation & Navarasam Round) / Jaya Lakshmi Best Performer in (Classic Round, Filmy Round and Semifinal)
Jodi - 2 / Individual - 3
2
Swetha and Leelavathi
Best Jodi (Rajini Round) / Leelavathi Best Performer in Devotional Round
Jodi - 1 / Individual - 1 (Eliminated)
3
Jacqueline and Shivashankari
Best Jodi in Social Issues Round / Jacqueline Best Performer in (Animals Round and Social Issues Round) / Shivashankari Best Performer in Remix Round
Jodi - 1 / Individual - 3 (Eliminated in semifinal)
4
Abhinaya and Nethran
Abhinaya Best Performer in (Dasavatharam Round / Wild card round 1).
Individual - 2 (Eliminated)
5
Issac and Logan
Quit from competition
6
Prem Gopal and Vivek
Best Jodi (Romance Round, Animals Round, Filmy Round and Semifinal) / Vivek Best Performer in (Fusion Round and Semifinal) / Prem Gopal Best Performer in Remix round
Jodi - 4/ Individual - 3/ 2nd Place
7
"Rinson" and "Rafiq"
Best Jodi (Fusion Round & Devotional Round) / Best Performer Henna (Guest Performer) in Tamil Nadu round / Rafiq (Romance Round and Filmy Round) / Rinson (Classic Round and finals 1)
Jodi - 2 / Individual - 4 (Eliminated)(Qualified to final)/3rd Place
8
Prabhu and Tyson
Prabhu Best Performer in Navarasam Round
Individual - 1(Eliminated)
9
Ajeesh Rahman and Aneesh Rahman
Best Jodi (Dasavatharam, Tamil Nadu Round, Classic Round & Remix Round) / Aneesh Best Performer in (Rajini Special Round, Social Issues & Romance Round) / Ajeesh Best Performer in Animals Round)
Jodi - 4 / Individual - 4/ 3rd Place
10
Manoj Kumar and Nirmal / Jayanth
Manoj Best Performer in (Wild card round 1)/ Jayanth Best Performer in (Wild card round 2)
Individual -2 (Eliminated)(Qualified to final) winner in Jodi season 5 title
Eliminated Jodi's
Order
Artists
Reasons
1st
Abhinaya and Nethran
Not in sync. Needed a lot of improvement.
2nd
Manoj Kumar and Nirmal
Nirmal not giving his best. But Manoj was given a 2nd chance to dance with another pair in wild card round.
3rd
Swetha and Leelavathi
Swetha injury. Leela was given 2 choices either to dance with another pair or dance with Swetha if she recovers by wild card round.
4th
Prabhu and Tyson
Not in sync. Performance wasn't consistent.
5th
Issac and Logan
Quit from competition as the Singapore boys have to go back to Singapore for their National Service: ARMY.
6th
Jayalakshmi and Moulika
Eliminated in first final
Season 7
The seven season aired from October 2018. This Jodi season 6 was different from the previous seasons. Each couples paired with choreographer and an actor. SOL Productions produced the seven as well.[9][10]
This Jodi season 7 was different from the previous seasons. All couples are actors with a few exceptions. Also for the first time, elimination is as individuals rather as a pair. One male and female contestants each with the lowest cumulative scores are eliminated each week. The first contestants to be eliminated this way are Vetri and Shalini.[11][12]
This jodi was eliminated together in Old Songs Round.
2
Sai Prasanth and Shivani (TV Actress)
Sai Prasanth was eliminated in Cinema Round. Shivani was then paired up with Vadivel Balaji.
3
Vadivel Balaji (Comedian) and Nandhini (TV Actress)
Nandhini was eliminated in Cinema Round. Vadivel Balaji was then paired up with Shivani.
4
Sai Sakthi (TV Actor) and Julie (TV Actress)
This jodi was eliminated together in Situation Round.
5
Yuvraj (Actor/Dancer) and Suchi Bala (Actress)
Suchi Bala was eliminated in Party Round. Yuvraj was then paired up with Jennifer.
6
Karthik (TV Actor) and Jennifer (TV Actress)
Karthik was eliminated in Party Round. Jennifer was then paired up with Yuvraj.
7
Amudhavanan (Comedian) and Kuyili/Asha (TV Actress)
Asha was eliminated in celebration round. Amudhavanan was then paired with Shivani.
8
Vadivel Balaji (Comedian) and Shivani (TV Actress)
Vadivel Balaji was eliminated in celebration round. Shivani was then paired up with Amudhavanan.
9
Vijay (TV Actor) and Anandhi (TV Actress)
Vijay and Anandhi were eliminated due to their low marks in semifinal rounds.
10
Lokesh (Actor/Dancer) and Sunita Gogoi (Dancer/Actress)
Top 1 Runner
11
Siddarth (TV Actor) and Priya (TV actress)
Top 2 Runner
12
Amudhavanan (Comedian) and Anandhi (TV Actress)
Both paired up together in Wildcard round
Season 9
The eight season aired from 25 October 2014 to 12 September 2015 and ended with 46 Episodes. Radha and Kalyan were the judges. Priyanka Deshpande and Erode Mahesh hosted the season. Rahman and Sofia as the winners.
It started on 12 November 2016[13][14] and ended on 16 April 2017 with 44 Episodes. T. Rajendar, Sadha and Devayani were the Main judges.[15]Priyanka Deshpande and KPY Kuraishi hosted the season. The show Directed by Daniel Aloysius Xavier. DStudio produced the nine season as well. Manichandra and Felina as the winners.[16]
The ten season aired from 4 November 2018 to 13 January and ended with 20 Episodes. Bhavana and Rio Raj hosted the season. The show Directed by Daniel Aloysius Xavier. DStudio produced the ten season as well. Lokesh and Megna as the winners.
^1 : Since Week 3 had no elimination, the marks will be added with Week 4 and the team with the lowest marks will be eliminated.
^2 : Since Week 5 had no elimination, the marks will be added with Week 6 and the team with the lowest marks will be eliminated.
^3 : There will be no elimination on Week 7. But there will be two tickets directly to finale (1st and 2nd) based on marks given by Judges and Leaders.
^4 : Guest performance by Kumaran and Divyadharshini for Rowdy Baby song.
^a : Star Vijay also celebrated "20 years of Dhivyadharshini" illustrating her career as an anchor in Vijay Television for the past 20 years during the Jodi Fun Unlimited Grand Finale. Dhivyadharshini was presented with a family portrait depicting her late father whom she lost at a young age in addition to a memorabilia award with illustration of all the shows that she hosted.
