Any Body Can Dance, ABCD, is India’s first true
blue-blooded 3D dance-genre film, full of clichés. ABCD is predictable in all sense of the word yet it is quite
watchable, and what better team to direct India’s first true dance film than
some of country’s finest dancers? After seeing Remo D’Souza’s directorial
debut, Faltu, it was certain that
come what may, Remo D’souza cant direct a film. Well for his second film he
stuck to a theme he knows and understands the best, Dance.
ABCD is a
film about dance and dancers. Vishnu (Prabhu Deva) is a celebrated, successful
and dedicated choreographer of Jahangir Dance Academy. Vishnu finds himself at
a loss when the dance academy’s proud and boastful owner, Jahangir (Kay Kay
Menon), ousts him out of the academy with a new American choreographer to
replace him. Disappointed and disheartened Vishnu is ready to leave Mumbai
forever, but a good friend and talent of young dance enthusiasts of a ‘basti’
(a slum-like settlement), makes him return to his passion of dancing. Vishnu
takes on himself to bring together this undisciplined and rowdy bunch of
passionate dancers, to form a team (KKR) and compete in a dance competition.
The film’s best part and
most important part is it’s dancing. All the dances in the film are not just
beautiful but quite interesting as well. Especially the 3D, made these dances
even more enjoyable to watch. When you see dancers like Remo D’Souza, Prabhu
Deva, Ganesh Acharya, and the young dance enthusiasts from television’s most
celebrated talent search show, Dance India Dance, then you realize the actual
power of ABCD being, what I earlier
wrote as well, a true blue-blood dance film.
Coming to the film’s story,
if Remo D’Souza accepts that he rehashed all Step Up films to make ABCD, then I think every question arising
on all the predictability in the story should be put to rest. But even if he
does then also the clichés in the script are hard to pass by. All the strands
of greed versus talent, rowdy undisciplined disciples working as a team,
underdogs being driven to win a title…cliché, cliché, cliché.............
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