ABCD (Anybody Can Dance) review

 
ABCD has to be (in my opinion) the first proper 3D movie in India. Even Ra-One with all their "special effects" looked tacky, but ABCD was very good in 3D.

The movie shows a new feel for dance movies, kind of like the Step Up collection and Street Dance etc in Hollywood. It truly concentrates on dance and dance alone, while addressing little bits of life oriented challenges in between.

The film revolves around Prabhudeva's character (Vishnu), who starts off as the choreographer of the biggest dance academy "JDC" and like all dance movies, due to disagreements, he starts his own dancing "crew" and then we go from there.
The reason Vishnu quits is that he believes "Dance Dil Se" (the dance competition in the film) should not be fixed....the team that performs best should win. JDC's founder Jahangir Khan (played by Kay Kay Menon) spends loads of money and from bribing the judges, he gets his dancing company to win. Vishnu disagrees with this and quits (but don't think JDC has no choreographer, Khan already hired an international choreographer, so he wasn't much bothered by Vishnu leaving).

Vishnu goes to live with his old friend (another choreographer) Gopi. There he finds (without trying) a group of teenagers/young adults who are interested in dance but are also part of two rival gangs.
D (Dharmesh) and Rocky (Salman) are the leaders of these two gangs. Once friends, turn enemies explains the rivalry between the two gangs. 
Alot of the movie from this point on is showing how the rival gangs work together to form one dance crew. There are more additions to their crew but most of it still consists of the "gang" members.

An ex student (from JDC) , Rhea (played by Lauren Gottlieb), of Vishnu's also joins the crew because Jahangir had tried to take advantage of her. She becomes the dancer they had been waiting for to complete their quota.

What movie lover doesn't like love triangles? Well all movie lovers do, so even in ABCD, they won't be disappointed. Rocky, Rhea and D (the Love triangle). Rocky starts going out with Rhea, which angers D.
Eventually D gets with a girl from Rocky's gang which leads to a friendship between the two rivals, once and for all. Vishnu faciliates this as he also tries to improve lives of other members of the crew (like Chandu a drug addict, by helping him quit). DDR (Vishnu's crew) gets into the competition by the most random angle where Jahangir convinces the judges to put them in as "jokers" to anger Vishnu even further. DDR reaches the semi finals and on the day of the semi finals, Chandu goes to buy a ring for his girlfriend (who's in the crew as well) as he is going to ask her to marry him after the semi final performance.

SPOILER ALERT!
Just then he again meets his old druggie friends who want to see his ring and ask Chandu to join them for a round of drugs. Chandu refuses and asks for his ring back. His friend then throws the ring box towards him which falls down. As Chandu is about to retrieve it, he is hit by a truck and dies instantly. All are waiting for Chandu to turn up for the semi finals when they learn of his demise.
They are shocked but resolutely go ahead with their touching semi final dance routine. DDR reaches the finals only to get a shock that their act has been performed by JDC! Mayur (member of DDR) ultimately comes out to be the culprit who has sold out his team and becomes JDC's lead dancer as well.

DDR prepared their act within 10 minutes eventually emerge out as the winners of "Dance Dil Se".

This is a funfilled movie with a lot of ups and downs which made me think that it was a little too long and kind of had too many aspects to it, however, it is a must watch for dance lovers and people who are just interested in the movie for their stories. Prabhudeva was not great with his acting bu made up for it with his dance moves

I give this movie 6.5/10 "6.5 out of 10"
Rating: Above Average! 3D camerawork amazing! Must watch for dance fanatics! Beautifully composed music