Movie Review - Chance pe Dance

If you are reading this review I would suggest you go see this movie. If you have the slightest interest in dance movies or Shahid's abs you already know how ridiculously unnecessary the world 'storyline' is. 'Chance pe Dance' is the equivalent to pornography - it is just a series of boring scenes slapped in between what you really came to see... the dancing.

From that perspective, 'Chance pe Dance' is majah paisa vasool with big beats, saucy dance sequences, a nice cast and dare I say a non-existent plot. Of course the big beats don't make any sense considering the music by Pritam Singh, Adnan Sami, Ken Ghosh & Sandeep Shirodkar is as interesting as counting hair.

And the dance sequences are few and too far apart. And the cast tries too hard to make things interesting. Sizzling on the dance floor and miserably fizzling when the dancing stops, 'Chance pe Dance' is a cliche-ridden movie by people to whom formula is clearly mother's milk. There is no chance for the flick to dance at the box office.

The film's hackneyed, predictable script is a giant step in the wrong direction. The dialogue is clunky, the plot is derivative, and as a result 'Chance pe Dance' collapses in a heap, like a dancer's discarded sweatshirt. Sameer Behl (Shahid Kapoor) is a struggling actor with big dreams. A high profile movie director notices his gifted booty shaking skills and signs him on as the lead for a big project, and then fires him. Poor Sameer is broke and begins living in his car. With no dough to eat, he applies for the job of a dance teacher at a school and is hired to train his students for an inter-school dance competition. Will the kids win the tournament? Will Sameer become a mega Bollywood star? Its so hard to guess. Meanwhile there's the ekdum thanda predictable romance between Sameer and the charming choreographer (Genelia). And all the while Sameer looks like he is working out at the most expensive gym in India even though he has no cash to eat.

The good news is that both Shahid and Genelia are just enough to best the bum script, they are likeable and their dance talent is undeniable. And thankfully the moves are choreographed (by Ahmed Khan & Marty Kudelka) to show off their entire forms rather than just flashing body parts. The film might enthrall younger viewers who are unfamiliar with this time-tested formula. Know that Shahid infuriatingly veers from confident to supreme hamming, especially during the comic moments. And the chirpy Genelia is stuck one again in a poorly written thankless role. Director Ken Ghosh ought to stick to 30-second commercials or 4-minute music videos, instead of 2 hour-long ones.

Watch 'Chance pe Dance' if you love feeding coins into a cliché meter, because for a movie about dancing, it is pretty clumsy in its feet.