A generation inspired by Michael Jackson is making movies dedicated to his style of dance moves. Its a pity he is no longer with us to witness it. Rest in peace Michael! I hope you finally find peace.
Just last week we saw the abysmal launch of Jacky Bhagnani by super producer, Vashu Bhagnani. This week another producer, though less famous, gives his daughter the launch pad for an entry into the "Sapno ki Nagri".
Genrally movies that have a competition in them, song based, dance based, sports based etc. have a feel good factor in them. We have seen many such movies but Aaja Nachle and Rangeela are the closest which come to mind while watching this movie. Although Gayatri Patel is no Madhuri or Urmila as far as acting or looks are concerned, she makes it up with her dancing skills. One disappointing aspect about this movie is that it has a B-gradish look n feel to it which might scare away half its viewers.
Suhani (Gayatri Patel) is a dance school teacher who aspires to feature in a music video some day. She teaches children for free and works night shifts in the bars. Her friend and roomie (played by Shaleen from JTYJN) helps her along the way financially. Along her journey of life she meets some people who influence her life in some way or the other. She meets a guy who falls head over heels for her and turns out to help her whenever she needs it the most. A music video producer who gives her the much needed break also comes along during the course.
Parallely, a story about young kids from the slums being exploited to deliver drugs goes on. The leader of this kid-pack, Aftab (Abhaas Yadav) is an excellent dancer but doesnt put his skills to productive use as he thinks its useless.
The rest of the story is how Suhani battles to get Aftab out of this drug racket and inspire him to join her dancing clique. The climax of this movie is the best part according to me because there is no preachy stuff.
Acting wise, Gayatri is ok. She could probably work on her diction and take some acting classes. Gayatri weaves magic with her legs though. She is an awesome dancer. Glimpses of modelling herself on Madhuri Dixit could be seen. Young Abhaas gave a powerful performance and dances even better than Gayatri. Watch out for this kid. The others were plain ok. Aqib Afsal playing the music video director hams to death.
The music is the soul of this film and is outright brilliant. Vipin Sharma, take a bow. In my view, this is one of the best alnums of the year. Sunidhi Chauhan has rocked in the 3 numbers she was alloted. I highly recommend giving this album atleast one go even if you do not intend to watch the movie. Especially, Sansanati, Taare tod ke la and Jaana Hai.
Debutante director Aarif Sheikh, who has won the national award for best editing (Maqbool) has done a decent job with this movie. With the limited resources that he had in hand, this is the best he could have extracted. Hats off to the choreographer's as well for some mind blowing choreography.
Rating: **1/2 (Go For it if you are a dancing fan..)
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