Casts: Prabhu Deva, Punit Pathak,
Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor, Lauren Gottlieb, Dharmesh Yelande, Salman Yusuff
Khan
Banner: Utv Motion Pictures and Walt Disney
Pictures
Director: Remo D'souza
Producer: Sidharth Roy Kapoor
Writers: Remo D'souza
Music: Sachin - Jigar
Release Date: 19th June 2015
Story line: The film will explore the real life
struggle of choreographers Vishnu and Suresh from Vasai (Mumbai suburb), who
went on to win the World Hip-Hop dance championship.
The story traces the journey of an Indian dance troupe, a motley
assortment of boys and girls who come from the backstreets of a Mumbai suburb;
their rise to fame, sudden downfall and then their heroic attempt to seek
vindication by regaining their lost glory and pride. Will they be able to
achieve success at the biggest International platform? Will they make their
beloved Vishnu Sir proud, who is himself struggling with his not so perfect
past?
Know more about the captain of the Ship, the
director: Remo D'Souza (real name Ramesh Gopi, born 2 April 1972) is
an Indian dancer, choreographer, actor and film director. Although he is mainly
involved in choreography, he has also contributed to other Indian film
industries, mainly Bengali cinema. He judged the show Jhalak Dikhhla
Jaa with the Indian actress Madhuri Dixit and the director Karan Johar.
His first movie as a director, F.A.L.T.U, was a moderate success
at the box office.
He made India's first 3D dance movie, ABCD -
AnyBody Can Dance, with contestants from series 1 and 2 of Dance India Dance
(Dharmesh Yelande, Salman Khan, Bhavna and Prince) and Prabhu Deva and Lauren
Gottlieb from So You Think You Can Dance.
My Gut Feel and comments:
Ahhh !!! Sequel/Part 2 is a tricky ground as one
thing is for sure that only successful films lead to Sequel/Part 2 which
practically means an added pressure on creative heads to live up to the
expectations of audience as comparison with the prequel/ part 1 is inevitable.
Sad part is that most of the time in case of sequel/Part 2 film makers not able
to recreate the magic. Tanu weds manu returns has been an exception recently.
Good things about ABCD was the rawness which Remo
brought on screen with a simple story weaved around dancing
performed by real life passionate dancers like prabhu deva, Ganesh Acharya and others. Liked we
witnessed in the past in case of sequels and part 2s , now the budget, scale
and technicalities grown up in case of ABCD 2 as well which conventionally is
not a healthy sign as gone against the sequels/part 2s in the past.
In today’s time even if most of the film makers are not
smart enough to make a good film however they definitely became smarter to
create an 1 minute trailer which can baffle the audience and brought
them to theaters. Off late it was a same case with Roy and Bombay velvet.
I have seen the promo of ABCD 2 several time to read between the
lines and to figure out the difference of point five star which
means, will it be a 2.5 star .i.e. an average movie or 3 star movie .i.e. a
good movie. My mind said 2.5 stars however my gut feel said 3 stars.
I am giving this movie 3 star out of 5 stars, five days before
the release.