The episode starts off with showing all the different cities that were auditioned. Clips of a few chosen contestants were shown, some dancing, some drama, some tears. 123 contestants have been selected for the theatre round.

The 123 contestants come to Mumbai and make their way into the hotel. The contestants are given a Cruise party. Some contestants decide to stay back and reherse instead because they didnt want to regret later.

Jaaved Saab and Anuji are shown talking to eachother about the next round, and how it will be very difficult to say no.Hussain is shown talking to the contestants on the bus, saying out of 123, 77 are girls. He wishes everyone all the best

The theatre rounds will be held at the National Centre for Performing Art. Contestants wait for the theatre rounds to start. Some rehersing, some worried, some sleepy, some applying makeup. Anuji, Jaaved Saab, and Uditji are shown talking about how Alisha still has not arrived.

Hussain and Mini welcome all the contestants and open the doors for the Theatre Hall. All contestants walk in and are mesmerized by it.

Theatre rounds finally begin!

Each batch is of 10 contestants.

The first batch of girls go on stage to sing. Richa leading. Richa sings “Ek Radha, Ek Meera”. Other girls are shown singing. Jaaved Saab tells Richa Aneja, Rajasi Vaidya, Rani Hazarika to step forward. These 3 have been selected. The other 7 have to leave.

Next batch is of boys. Rehan Khan leading. He sings “Vada Raha Pyar Se Pyar Ka” and is selected. Sreeju is also selected. He celebrates with his mother

Next batch of girls, and a girl named Tia is out.

Next batch of girls agains. This batch only has 9 girls. Uma is missing, the latecomer. Anuji says shes already missing now, so shes not taking it seriously, that’s really sad! The other girls sing. Jiniya, Harshida, and a third girl are selected from this batch. Jiniya is surprised to see her husband there .

Next batch are boys. Suhit leading. He sings “Teri Yaadon Mein”. Shantanu sings “Omkara”. Shantanu is selected. Alisha asks Suhit to entertainer her once again. He starts his rock style and Alisha and Anuji join in . He is selected and does some acrobats stuff.

Some contestants who were not selected are shown in tears. Then, Uma and Maya are called back in for their results. Both are selected.

Next batch of boys. Emon sings “Tanhayee”. Parleen sings “Tu Aasiqui Hai”. Meiyang sings “Tumse Yun Milenge”. All 3 are selected and go shouting outside. Emon gives his mother a big hug

Top 60 have been chosen. The judges tell them now they will have to sing duets. Male-Female, Male-Male, and Female-Female pairs are decided by the judges. Everyone gets together with the partner and reherse. Choice of song will be from judges.

All contestants are happy with their partners except Richa, who does not want Prashant as her partner. But Jaaved Saab and Alisha make her understand and she agrees. Many problems still occus between the 2, as they have no place to reherse, and Richa does not want to go to Prashant’s room. On the other side, another girl is having problems with her partner Amit Paul because he is sleeping when he should be rehersing. Richa and Prashant finally find a place to reherse. Jatin is going around everywhere looking for his partner, whoes name he does not remember.

Richa makes her way to Amit Sharma to reherse her song, leaving Prashant alone. Prashant tells Richa to reherse with him instead because they will be performing, but Richa says I’m only making Amit listen to my song because he is trained and he can help me. Prashant gives up on Richa and goes back to his bed.

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