Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Genelia D’ Souza, Mohnish Behl, Parikshit Sahni
Director: Ken Ghosh
Music: Adnan Sami & Pritam
Reasons to watch: Shahid Kapoor has tremendously improved as a dancer. And of course his chiseled abs (for the ladies).
Reasons not to watch: For a movie driven by dance, the music by Adnan Sami and Pritam is good, but not the awe-inspiring stuff you expect out of such a movie.
Storyline: Sameer Behl (Shahid Kapoor) comes to Mumbai with dreams of making it big in Bollywood. He barely makes both ends meet as a courier boy and doesn’t have much luck in auditioning for advertisements. He refuses to take any financial help from his dad (Parikshit Sahni) in Delhi and is thrown out by his landlord (Kurush Deboo) due to stereotypical rental problems.
With no roof over his head and no job to support himself, Sameer sleeps in his ‘car’ (I didn’t know one lungi ad could fetch you a car – Blemish) and joins as a dance teacher in a school (for some reason he hates kids). Then one fine day, Sameer is signed to play hero in a film and his friend Tina (Genelia D’Souza) is chosen to be the choreographer for the same project.
Subsequently (read as stereotypically), Sameer is dumped from the project and he is brought to naught. Motivated by Tina, Sameer takes part in a reality show dance competition whose winner would get to play the same role Sameer was signed to do earlier. I don’t think I need to ‘divulge’ more details on the climax. I bet you would have guessed it by now.
Climax Handling: Nothing new. But money’s worth to watch Shahid in his final act (gets the groove going with a signature move).
Points: Ken Ghosh’s experience with music videos seem to have helped him a lot in chalking out a story such as this. But though the movie moves on well with Shahid at the helm, it gives you a feel of a dreary mix of reality shows and connected music videos as a consummate film.
Rating:6.5/10
Comments: Maybe you can give this dance a chance.
If Shahid’s final act was worth the money, then dancers like us would have to commit suicide.
A misleading title, vacuous script and pitiable music – this movie is absolute trash.
Hi Bhavana. I don’t think you saw a shade of sarcasm in the phrase in brackets. Well maybe I could have spiced up the sarcasm a bit more to make it seem evident. I reduced the spoilers in this review because there are pretty much worse movies of the same genre out there. But essentially, you are right in a way that the script is trash; absolutely banal. Thanks for the feedback. And I also happened to read your review on this movie – Too many spoilers; but I guess it can be attributed to your passion for dance – fair one.