Sometimes we keep waiting for few movies. By the time its announced, we almost are convinced that it will be the best. The promoters, creative engines, performers, etc all are so solid with prover track record are enough to make us feel that it can not go wrong.Shahid Kapoor, Genelia D’souza with Ken Gosh. Film promoted by UTV. They can not get go wrong… right?
So when they come out with chance pe dance, the expectations are sky high (specially after stupendous run of Shahid at box office).
So let’s come to the story. The story is about a struggling talent aspiring to get a foothold in the hindi film industry (luck by chance?). The name is Sameer Behl (Shahid Kapoor). He is a great dancer and a super acting talent. The film starts with the never say die attitude of this struggler giving 100s of auditions in last 3 years. By the grace of God, he gets a chance for a music video which is snatched by another influential candidate. Nevertheless, he happens to meet a nice girl, Sonia Sharma (Genelia D’souza) who is choreographer by profession.
They again meet at another audition where Sameer is selected as Hero and she is working as choreographer. Sameer gets this biggest news of his life on the same day he is thrown out of his room by his landlord. Sameer starts living off his car and gets a day time job as dance teacher in school to suvive till his film starts only to know later that he is thrown out of the film and the director (Mohnish Behl) is trying to hunt his hero through a big talent hunt show.
With a broker heart, can Sameer manage to achieve his dream?
The story is nothing new. It’s the journey of the protagonist from a struggler to emerge as winner at the end. However, with Shahid’s dancing skills and the title of the film, someone can assume this to be dance film and to offer great dance sequences with engrossing storyline.
But sadly, the story never takes off… It keeps showing ups and downs in Sameer’s life repeatedly and has some improperly closed subplots like the school children track. The clear looser in this fair in the writing… the script and the screenplay (as always the case).
Unfortunately, the director Ken Ghosh could not cover the week screenplay with something extraordinary treatment. The movie keeps happening at a snail’s pace with no excitement to offer. We keep thinking now something will happen, but it never does. The writer lacked content and ideas and so does the director. It’s an unfortunate failed attempt.
On the performances side, everyone is good at his or her own place. They delivered what is demanded. Shahid puts genuine effort in the film. Dances well (though there could have been better choreography. We see better in TV shows now a days), acts well, tries to connect with the audience. But the writing fails him miserably. Same with Genelia. She has not given proper scope. In whatever she has got, she did justice to her role. Mohnish Behl, Parikshit Sahani are also ok. Satish Shah as the principle of the schools has a habit of keeping everything tidy but his character is cut short and never used properly. He does a good job as always.
The music could have been better for a film of such kind. Pee Pee is wasted at the start itself. The dance song at the schools is already a hit and shows dancing prowess of Shahid.
The cinematography, production quality are ok. The problem with this film is everything is just ok. Nothing much to offer.
The film has some good moments but those are not enough to suggest anyone to spend his hard earned money on expensive tickets.
So in short, I will not recommend this movie to anyone. May be dance lovers, Shahid fans can enjoy it much better.
BR Rating : *1/2
BR Verdict : Below Average
BR Recommends : Can’t Recommend to anyone…. sorry for that! I wanted this film to be good.
