An archive of Hindi movie reviews and ratings from 2010 to 2020.

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  • ...is a terrific combination of rich visuals, amazing choreography and strong emotions.

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  • ...does have a strong message to send across to its audience – that of love in the face of adversity, compassion towards those we know and those we don’t, and stresses upon the importance of friendship over personal gains – but fails to stitch it together with an organised cinematic fabric.

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  • ...does offer a visual spectacle when it comes to dance but the patchy story and screenplay dilutes the overall impact. 

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  • The script lacks substance and it merely looks like a forced run up to an ultimate dance battle.

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  • The film is filled with speeches and dance, no scope of seeing anyone act it out per se.

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  • An excuse to choreograph a whole load of dances, though it seemed like one long dance broken by bits of story around empathy and international integration.

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  • ...Remo returns to what he does best — assemble one dance-off after another to string together a film that has its heart in the right place.

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  • ...true to the simple minded genre of let’s-dance-to-challenge-and-conquer-all, is a chitrahar of grand, impressive, foot-tapping dance performances strung together by a very silly but melodramatic story that carries a moral — love all, hate none.

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  • The movie leaps to life only in the last 30 minutes, as various crews twist and twirl their way through the inevitable contest. But to get there, you have to wade through sentimental slush and endure trite humour (the tin-eared dialogue is by Farhad Samji) and endless distractions.

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  • A true test for a dance movie is checking if it holds its own minus the groovy numbers. And in this case, what’s left if you remove the electric dance sequences, is an excuse for a story and some exasperating performances.

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  • For the running time of this film – two hours and twenty-four minutes – people are pirouetting, leaping, flipping, contorting and moving their limbs in impossible ways. Watching them, I thought – if the script was half as nimble as these gifted people, this film would have been a smash. Sadly, that is not the case.

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  • ...is one big fat dance performance at a huge reality show, which has a story thrown in somewhere there.

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  • The dance here looks like action set-pieces, bodily contortions and jumps and leaps in the air. Similar and repetitive at that, and stretching way too long over 150 minutes.

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  • ...has its heart in the right place, one only wishes the music and the choreography had something new to offer.

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  • ...the problem with this franchise is that for some reason the makers think these films need to be about something more than the dancing. Something ‘important’, something ‘serious’. They couldn’t be more wrong.

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  • Why are filmmakers so severely obsessed with stuffing their films with gratuitous melodrama and messaging when they already have enough material on display?

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  • ...this one is only about cardboard central characters and side-lined sensations doing the same old, same old.

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  • It is an edifice built on a weak foundation: yes, a mound of rubble is what Street Dancer 3D as it collapses under its own weight. It whips up, in an unseemly fit of frenzy, a purported celebration of dance. Cinema is given short shrift in the bargain.

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  • The first thing a good dance movie ought to do is give us numbers that make us want to leap up to our feet right there in the aisle, and go shake-shimmy-shake. On that score alone, Street Dancer 3D, the third in the ABCD line, flubs it.

    29

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  • ...has all the razzle-dazzle, the razzmatazz required in a dynamic dance sequence on stage, it has all the right moves as far as the dances are concerned. But precious little to hold attention once the music stops.

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  • This film exists neither to impress nor express but to oppress and distress.

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  • ...his must count as the most mediocre dance movie in a while.

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