Drashti Dhami wins ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa-6’

Television actress Drashti Dhami and her dance partner Salman Yusuf Khan won the sixth season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa on Saturday. The duo lifted the winner’s trophy and took home the prize money of Rs.50 lakh after wowing everyone with their dancing.

The Madhubala fame actress won the title, while Lauren Gottlieb was the first-runner up and Sonali and Sumanth won the third place. Singer Shaan was among the four finalists.

After winning the show, the 28-year-old Dhami thanked everyone and said: “I want to thank everyone. My mum, who is not here right now, she is out of town...I love you mummy! I want to thank my friends, Salman’s friends...”

All the four finalists gave fabulous performances with Dhami dancing to Rangeela, Sonali-Sumanth to Senorita, Shaan to Aa dekhein zara and Lauren to a nice melody of the latest songs, and they wowed everyone.

The show has been judged by actress Madhuri Dixit, filmmaker Karan Johar and choreographer-filmmaker Remo D’Souza.

Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra made an appearance on the finale episode to promote their forthcoming movie Krrish 3. The duo also performed on the song Raghupati Raghav from the film with other contestants – Mukti Mohan, Sana Saeed, Karanvir Bohra and Siddharth Shukla.

Hrithik also shook a leg with Lauren as well as Sonali and Sumanth.

If that was not enough, the judges too took to the stage and gave mind-blowing performances.

The show went on air June 1 with 12 celebrities that included Shweta Tiwari, Karanvir Bohra, Siddharth, Meghna Malik, Suresh Menon, Ekta Kaul, Aarti Chabaria, and Krishnamachari Srikkanth.

Shweta, Siddharth, Karan Patel, Karanvir, Mantra and Mukti came to support the finalists.