Street Dancer 3D
Directed by : Remo D'Souza
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9648672/
Dance ka rule number.1.. never be number2.
Two rival dance groups, one from India whose leader is Sahej (Varun Dhawan) and other from Pakistan who is lead by Inayat (Shraddha Kapoor), both of them unite for a cause to help immigrants on streets reach their home by winning 'Ground Zero' named dance competition. Biggest issue for me was the overdose of dance, I understand its a dance based movie but the amount that keeps coming right at your face gets so tiring and its not like they are showing us out of the world dance moves. The India-Pakistan rival track is overdone too that eats up lot of 1st half, I did like the Kohli bit thing that both Sahej and Inayat do. Talking of the dance competition, most of the rounds I just couldn't make why this particular team won or why did the other one not win, some blame has to go to poor editing. I did enjoy the semifinals dance act though its ruined by the redone track 'Bezubaan' which doesn't work like the last two times. Finale act again was problematic, the bhangra theme just lacked that 'wow, I wanna watch this dance again' feel, however did enjoy the 'Mile Sur Mera Tumhara' track. And it was funny to see a dance competition that says it has no rules, and is looking for only crazy, does that happen in real too, if so I am glad I don't give a damn to such shows on TV. Coming to performances, Varun irritates but its his character thats kind of selfish, and the banter with Inayat kinda of bored me. Loved his anger dance during the track 'Dua Karo'. Shraddha Kapoor character was very weakly written too, I still found her good and it was also nice to see her not paired as love interest with Varun. Enjoyed Nora Fatehi dance moves in 'Lagdi Lahore Di', my favorite track from movie. Prabhu Deva wows you with nostalgia when you see him groove on 'Muqabla' which is for a change good re-created classic song. Street Dancer 3D (I saw in 2d on laptop) suffers due to lots of mentioned reasons, I would not say its a bad film still, its easily a one-time watch movie but had they worked more on the immigrant track, kept less of Ind-Pak banter, lesser dance scenes in 1st half, proper editing of competition, then we might have got the kind of dance movie it should had been.
My Rating : 4.5/10
Panga
Directed by : Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8983166/
Kabaddi mein raid karna, theek ladke ke rishte ko thukraane jaisa hota hai..
Its about a forgotten Indian kabaddi champion, Jaya Nigam Sachdeva (Kangana Ranaut), currently married to Prashant Sachdeva (Jassie Gill) and mother of son, Aditya (Yagya Bhasin), who decides at age of 32 that she wants to make a comeback to the sports. Like her earlier movies, director presents the narrative in a light entertaining mood. We get to see Jaya as a caring mother who also works at the ticket counter of Railways for whom she used to play once in the kabaddi team. There are many such real life examples, where comeback at late age happens, and that too successful ones, few examples are even mentioned in film when Aditya is trying to convince his dad to ask her mom to give it a try. There's even a hilarious song which is completely opposite of 'Haanikarak Bapu' from Dangal, as here its the son making her mom daily wake early and do jog/exercises/follow diet plan to get back into the shape. Its the kabaddi portions that lets the movie down, as it appears that they kept focus more on Jaya's perspective and doing so they do succeed in me rooting for Jaya, the mother in the kababbi final tournament but Jaya, the kabaddi player ends up been just a one moment glory which felt more filmy than real. The whole track of Prashant and Aditya struggling to cope with Jaya away at training place could had been skipped totally, and same with the routine montage of training for a big sports event. The kabaddi team captain having problems with Jaya also felt very forced to add un-necessary drama. I am clearly on different page than what director wanted to show, and I am not even a fan of Kabaddi but thats just how it was, I never felt those emotions you feel for a player/team winning the final in other sports films. What mostly works is the family drama, and the dilemna/worry Jaya always has about her family when deciding to give Kabaddi another chance. Coming to performances, everyone was good, Richa Chadha shines in supporting act and I enjoyed that dialogue reference she makes about Kabaddi tackles to arrange marriage proposals. Kangana Ranaut is in super form, which I felt missing in some of her last few films. Neena Gupta is sweet and lovely in small role. Yagya Bhasin is adorable and gives some of best moments in the film. Panga is most likely gonna entertain and make you happy, maybe motivate you too in someway, but it surely misses the mark for me.
My Rating : 6/10
Directed by : Remo D'Souza
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9648672/
Dance ka rule number.1.. never be number2.
Two rival dance groups, one from India whose leader is Sahej (Varun Dhawan) and other from Pakistan who is lead by Inayat (Shraddha Kapoor), both of them unite for a cause to help immigrants on streets reach their home by winning 'Ground Zero' named dance competition. Biggest issue for me was the overdose of dance, I understand its a dance based movie but the amount that keeps coming right at your face gets so tiring and its not like they are showing us out of the world dance moves. The India-Pakistan rival track is overdone too that eats up lot of 1st half, I did like the Kohli bit thing that both Sahej and Inayat do. Talking of the dance competition, most of the rounds I just couldn't make why this particular team won or why did the other one not win, some blame has to go to poor editing. I did enjoy the semifinals dance act though its ruined by the redone track 'Bezubaan' which doesn't work like the last two times. Finale act again was problematic, the bhangra theme just lacked that 'wow, I wanna watch this dance again' feel, however did enjoy the 'Mile Sur Mera Tumhara' track. And it was funny to see a dance competition that says it has no rules, and is looking for only crazy, does that happen in real too, if so I am glad I don't give a damn to such shows on TV. Coming to performances, Varun irritates but its his character thats kind of selfish, and the banter with Inayat kinda of bored me. Loved his anger dance during the track 'Dua Karo'. Shraddha Kapoor character was very weakly written too, I still found her good and it was also nice to see her not paired as love interest with Varun. Enjoyed Nora Fatehi dance moves in 'Lagdi Lahore Di', my favorite track from movie. Prabhu Deva wows you with nostalgia when you see him groove on 'Muqabla' which is for a change good re-created classic song. Street Dancer 3D (I saw in 2d on laptop) suffers due to lots of mentioned reasons, I would not say its a bad film still, its easily a one-time watch movie but had they worked more on the immigrant track, kept less of Ind-Pak banter, lesser dance scenes in 1st half, proper editing of competition, then we might have got the kind of dance movie it should had been.
My Rating : 4.5/10
Panga
Directed by : Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8983166/
Kabaddi mein raid karna, theek ladke ke rishte ko thukraane jaisa hota hai..
Its about a forgotten Indian kabaddi champion, Jaya Nigam Sachdeva (Kangana Ranaut), currently married to Prashant Sachdeva (Jassie Gill) and mother of son, Aditya (Yagya Bhasin), who decides at age of 32 that she wants to make a comeback to the sports. Like her earlier movies, director presents the narrative in a light entertaining mood. We get to see Jaya as a caring mother who also works at the ticket counter of Railways for whom she used to play once in the kabaddi team. There are many such real life examples, where comeback at late age happens, and that too successful ones, few examples are even mentioned in film when Aditya is trying to convince his dad to ask her mom to give it a try. There's even a hilarious song which is completely opposite of 'Haanikarak Bapu' from Dangal, as here its the son making her mom daily wake early and do jog/exercises/follow diet plan to get back into the shape. Its the kabaddi portions that lets the movie down, as it appears that they kept focus more on Jaya's perspective and doing so they do succeed in me rooting for Jaya, the mother in the kababbi final tournament but Jaya, the kabaddi player ends up been just a one moment glory which felt more filmy than real. The whole track of Prashant and Aditya struggling to cope with Jaya away at training place could had been skipped totally, and same with the routine montage of training for a big sports event. The kabaddi team captain having problems with Jaya also felt very forced to add un-necessary drama. I am clearly on different page than what director wanted to show, and I am not even a fan of Kabaddi but thats just how it was, I never felt those emotions you feel for a player/team winning the final in other sports films. What mostly works is the family drama, and the dilemna/worry Jaya always has about her family when deciding to give Kabaddi another chance. Coming to performances, everyone was good, Richa Chadha shines in supporting act and I enjoyed that dialogue reference she makes about Kabaddi tackles to arrange marriage proposals. Kangana Ranaut is in super form, which I felt missing in some of her last few films. Neena Gupta is sweet and lovely in small role. Yagya Bhasin is adorable and gives some of best moments in the film. Panga is most likely gonna entertain and make you happy, maybe motivate you too in someway, but it surely misses the mark for me.
My Rating : 6/10
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