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If you put your heart into dance, dance will never leave your heart – that is the profound aphorism that the plot of ABCD – Anybody Can Dance is predicated on. It is a film that wants you to leave the auditorium with a spring in your steps and a sparkle in your eyes, even if you are not much of a dance freak.
Nothing wrong with that per se. ABCD – Anybody Can Dance is a rather well-meaning entertainer that showcases plenty of nimble-footed, high-spirited dancing talent. It is the overall impact of the film that comes up woefully short for want of genuine emotional force.
As you get into the swing of things, you certainly want the underdogs to come out on top. But their struggles with themselves and the world at large do not add up to much simply because the antagonists are poorly etched, shadowy figures sans the malefic drive that would make the audience want to hate them with all their hearts.
For all its energy and style, choreographer Remo D’Souza’s 3-D dance film suffers from the lack of a screenplay good enough to catapult all the youthful hype and hoopla beyond the surface level and make this the ultimate tribute to the joys of choreography.
ABCD – Anybody Can Dance holds its own only when the actors are engaged in what they are good at – swaying to the beats of foot-tapping music. Besides Prabhu Deva and Ganesh Acharya, the cast includes Dance India Dance participants like Dharmesh Yelande and Salman Yusuff Khan, among others.
They are all wonderful dancers no doubt, and their acts do exude infectious verve and vigour. Unfortunately, the narrative is too whimsical and jerky to allow the string of robust dance performances to come together as a cohesive, euphoric whole.
The film is understandably replete with dance routines, and some of the set pieces are nothing short of spectacular. Sadly, the newcomers in the cast are infinitely more comfortable with calisthenics than histrionics.
But then ABCD also has Kay Kay Menon in a pivotal role. As always, he is a delight even when he resorts to over-the-top methods in order to be heard above the din.
Menon is the only major member of the cast who isn’t required to break into a jig on the slightest provocation. Yet he brings a certain rhythm to bear upon his performance as the cynical owner of a hip and happening dance troupe who is willing to stoop to any level to win a television reality show.
Pitted against him and his troupe is a livewire Prabhu Deva as a dance teacher who loses his job in the aforementioned company because he does not see eye to eye with the proprietor.
With the help of a friend (Ganesh Acharya), the slighted protagonist cobbles together his own team of dancers, boys and girls from a disadvantaged background.
The rich kids-poor kids divide isn’t the only classic cliché in the screenplay. There are subplots galore and love, friendship, heartbreak, parental opposition, drug addiction, jealousy, betrayal, tragedy and eventual triumph are all thrown into the cauldron for good measure.
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If you put your heart into dance, dance will never leave your heart – that is the profound aphorism that the plot of ABCD – Anybody Can Dance is predicated on. It is a film that wants you to leave the auditorium with a spring in your steps and a sparkle in your eyes, even if you are not much of a dance freak.
Nothing wrong with that per se. ABCD – Anybody Can Dance is a rather well-meaning entertainer that showcases plenty of nimble-footed, high-spirited dancing talent. It is the overall impact of the film that comes up woefully short for want of genuine emotional force.
As you get into the swing of things, you certainly want the underdogs to come out on top. But their struggles with themselves and the world at large do not add up to much simply because the antagonists are poorly etched, shadowy figures sans the malefic drive that would make the audience want to hate them with all their hearts.
For all its energy and style, choreographer Remo D’Souza’s 3-D dance film suffers from the lack of a screenplay good enough to catapult all the youthful hype and hoopla beyond the surface level and make this the ultimate tribute to the joys of choreography.
ABCD – Anybody Can Dance holds its own only when the actors are engaged in what they are good at – swaying to the beats of foot-tapping music. Besides Prabhu Deva and Ganesh Acharya, the cast includes Dance India Dance participants like Dharmesh Yelande and Salman Yusuff Khan, among others.
They are all wonderful dancers no doubt, and their acts do exude infectious verve and vigour. Unfortunately, the narrative is too whimsical and jerky to allow the string of robust dance performances to come together as a cohesive, euphoric whole.
The film is understandably replete with dance routines, and some of the set pieces are nothing short of spectacular. Sadly, the newcomers in the cast are infinitely more comfortable with calisthenics than histrionics.
But then ABCD also has Kay Kay Menon in a pivotal role. As always, he is a delight even when he resorts to over-the-top methods in order to be heard above the din.
Menon is the only major member of the cast who isn’t required to break into a jig on the slightest provocation. Yet he brings a certain rhythm to bear upon his performance as the cynical owner of a hip and happening dance troupe who is willing to stoop to any level to win a television reality show.
Pitted against him and his troupe is a livewire Prabhu Deva as a dance teacher who loses his job in the aforementioned company because he does not see eye to eye with the proprietor.
With the help of a friend (Ganesh Acharya), the slighted protagonist cobbles together his own team of dancers, boys and girls from a disadvantaged background.
The rich kids-poor kids divide isn’t the only classic cliché in the screenplay. There are subplots galore and love, friendship, heartbreak, parental opposition, drug addiction, jealousy, betrayal, tragedy and eventual triumph are all thrown into the cauldron for good measure.
Read more....
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