MAD-MAD about dance
Starring: Saahil Prem, Amrit Maghera, Akhilesh Unnithan, Abhishek Saha, Salah Benlemqawanssa
Rated: 5/10
It’s a slow starter, actually a very slow starter, especially when you look at the title. But you see that tongue twister of a name in the credits aboveIJ He’s the guy — Salah Benlemqawanssa — who makes the film. But sadly for the film, he makes an appearance only towards the climax and lights it up as never before.
But boy, he is a dancer from another world, seemingly without any bones in his body, compelling you to Google his antecedents, and boy, they are brilliant too. He can go parallel to the ground, standing on his feet, he can make you think that time has stood still, he can hang his body in a limbo and he can make you wonder if he at all is human in a conventional way. Yes, he is too good but too scant in the film which erroneously centres around chief character Sahil Prem, his passion to find his guru, his stay in Sheffield with his friends, his love life and his quest to represent India at a dancing competition.
All this and much more takes you away from the actual dancing and that’s where this otherwise good-intentioned film errs. Not that Sahil is not groovy looking and realistic. Only, his dance moves are way below the stunning excellence of Benlemqawanssa who was the winner of France Has Incredible Talent and has traversed the world hunting down and training dance talent, holding solo dance shows and generally stunning his audiences with his incredible body balance on stage. You could walk into the film post interval and enjoy the show with this amazing dancer.
