Any Body Can Dance 2

Cast: Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor, Prabhu Deva, Lauren Gottlieb(Olive), Punit Pathak(Vinod), Dharmesh Yelande(D), Raghav Juyal(Raghu) and Sushant Pujari(Vernon)
Director: Remo D'Souza
Genre: Dance



Very few sequels do better than prequel. This one is worth a watch.



You may look forward to:

• Inexplicably Varun Dhawan. He can give some serious competition to the established dancers in Bollywood. He gives one performance after another throughout the movie. This film is worth checking out for him
• Shraddha Kapoor unexpectedly does perform. Wont say she is the best fit amongst all the dancers, specially in the presence of Lauren. But, she never feels like a misfit either. She is not much of a solo performer, but she has the potential to stand amidst all the good dancers and not make a mockery of self. Kudos to the new bee in dance club :)
• Prabhu Deva has a much better role than the first one in its series. He makes you laugh, he as well turns evil for a while. He is the reason why the movie has a story. No doubts about his potential in Hip Hop  + Ranjni fusion performances, as aptly put by 'Varun Dhawan' in the movie :D
• Punit Pathak, Dharmesh Yelande, Raghav Juyal and Sushant Pujari are fab dancers as much from its first series, however there are some old faces missing and new faces which are added
• What is better about ABCD2 than its prequel, is that this one has a better storyline, the choreography is at par the standards and the 3D is awesome quality, you almost feel you are on the stage. Remo does a good job!

What you can sleep over:

• Lauren Gottlieb is not utilized to her potential. She looks more of an item girl than a good dancer
• I expected a few more things from Remo's film. Unlike ABCD prequel, this one doesn't have amazing costumes or theme dances or amazing light and stage. Remo has the potential to bring in innovative themes, you don't see much of it in this one
• Music of the movie is fine, mostly fits in, but could have been better

The dampeners you should be aware of:

• One aspect of Indian dance movies i just cannot assimilate is the Indianised music in which they do hip hop. It ain't fusion, its just either patriotic or religious. May be it works from business perspective for smaller cities, but it absolutely dampens the spirit of hip hop. Specially, when internationally staged, it just doesn't fit in
• The many other special effects, flying and jumping are out right unnatural, again dampens the spirit of dancers, though looks good on screen
• There are even concepts copied from various American dance movies, uncool!

My Rating: 3.5/5 (For the genre- Dance)

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