ABCD 2 review:

One good reason to watch this film is that it is based on the inspiring true story of a gritty and fabulous dance group, Fictitious. This group coming from the modest, far flung suburb of Nalasopara, just by the dint of its talent and determination, managed to reach the finals at the world hip hop dance championship in Las Vegas. 

Another good reason is that the film has some of the best dancers of the country, including Dharmesh, Lauren Gottlieb etc as part of its cast, thus making it a fairly entertaining watch for dance enthusiasts. Varun Dhawan plays Suresh, one of the leaders of the dance group, which had to face national humiliation as it is caught 'copying' from another group. Vinnie (Shraddha Kapoor) is the enthusiastic, only female member of the group and is secretly in love with Suresh. After the fiasco in the Indian dance competition, Suresh plans to take the troupe to the world championship, but it won't come easy for the troupe, given the limited financial and other resources. Reluctant Vishnu sir (Prabhudheva) is roped in to help them out from this crisis. - See more at >

Quite soon into the film, Prabhudeva’s character says : ‘should I show or tell’? In a dance movie, is that even a question? As it turns out, the showing perks up ‘ABCD 2′. A little. When Prabhudeva is on the floor, there is a snap and pop, even though his moves are familiar. A couple of numbers do crackle. There are two dancers in here who are amazing. But the rest of them, and their sequences, turn into the seen-this-so-what’s-new glaze. And when the film stops to look around for a story, which it does much too frequently in its two- and-a-half-hour run time, it turns banal and listless.

A group of underdog hip-hop dancers, reviled for copying, want to resurrect their name. In the movie’s beginning is its end. The only way a film like this can beat predictability is to deliver as many surprises as it can. But the writing department is the weakest : clichés abound as the characters whirl about frantically in an attempt to shed cardboard.

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Remo D’Souza’s latest, ABCD 2, suffers from a strange problem — it’s let down by its very raison d'être: dance. For a film revolving around a hip hop dance championship, one expects actors to break into twists regularly, but ABCD 2’s many and needlessly frequent dance sequences make it less of a film and more of a bunch of loosely-strung music videos that can’t tell a compelling story. Worse, they end up inflating the film’s runtime: 155 minutes feels at least 30 minutes more than it actually is or needs to be. See more at >

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