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When dance takes a dramatic detour Be happy — that's all it takes to win a reality dance show in Remo D'Souza's film.
As simplistic and uninspired as its title, this over-commercialised choreography showcase stumbles at every step.
A child who dreams of becoming a dancer ends up appearing more like a debating prodigy. The tiny Dhara (Inayat Verma) fires off razor-sharp lines that leave the adults gasping for air.
She’s clearly in the wrong competition. She should have been on 'India's Next Super-talker', not dancer.
Dhara's super-stoic dad (Abhishek Bachchan, tries hard but doesn't quite land it) declares that studies come first. A single parent rooted in Ooty for eight years, he's still carrying the weight of his wife's loss. But the child sweet-talks her way into a new city to train under her idol Maggie ma'am (Nora Fatehi, who thankfully sticks to dance).
The scene shifts to Mumbai, where Dhara secures a spot in the reality dance show in no time.
But hey, there’s got to be a little spin in the tale — cue a health crisis that rocks Dhara's groove.
The movie morphs into a full-on soap opera, complete with a dad-powered Ganesha number on Mumbai streets, a cheesy 'family round' in the dance show and judges delivering Oscar-worthy overreactions. Amid the melodrama marathon, the little kid starts seeing Maggie ma'am as her 'Mommy 2.0'.
As the movie wheezes its way to its grand finale, the viewer has already tapped out, defeated by the sheer effort of getting there.
(Hindi (Amazon Prime))