Among these are an estranged wife (Tisca Chopra) now happily settled in the US, a separated son whose heart still beats for India, an injured dancer necessitating a hurried replacement and another one who coughs blood as the competition reaches a crescendo.
If that were not enough, the characters are given to unabashed displays of overarching religious zeal and, of course, much patriotic chest thumping and tricolour waving.
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Kabul chawla review on abcd 2
1. KABUL CHAWLA REVIEW ON ABCD 2
Genre : Dance Drama
Cast: Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor, Prabhu Deva,
Dharmesh Yelande, Lauren Gottlieb, Raghav Juyal
Director: Remo D'Souza
2. With a cast crammed with energetic
guys who need no provocation to set
the dance floor on fire, ABCD
2 delivers passages of stunning
musical calisthenics.
Varun Dhawan is no mug at this game
and he holds his own alongside the
likes of Sushant Pujari, Dharmesh
Yelande, Raghav Juyal, Punit Pathak
and Lauren Gottlieb.
The only non-dancer in the principal
cast is Shraddha Kapoor, but she too
melds perfectly into this cheerfully
breathless world where everybody is a
master twirler.
ABCD 2 is supposedly inspired by the
exploits of two real-life Nalasopara
boys who put India on the world map
of hip hop in 2012 by winning the
world championship in Las Vegas.
3. The wide-eyed Indian dancers go on a spin
around Sin City on an open-top Big Bus, stop by
at an Indian restaurant (run by Pooja Batra) and
get into a brawl with a rival team. Pointless
detours all.
4. But there is little in the film that
suggests that it has anything to
do with the actual world.
Everything is larger than life in
this unidimensional portrayal of
a universe where passion for
dance overshadows all else.
Despite its rather lame
storyline, ABCD 2 does not
scrimp one bit on melodrama. It
throws the whole kitchen sink
into the attempt to generate
fervour for the fluttering flag.
As the film rushes helter-skelter
towards its climax, the director
pulls out all the familiar tropes
from his little box of tricks.
5. •Among these are an estranged wife (Tisca Chopra) now
happily settled in the US, a separated son whose heart still
beats for India, an injured dancer necessitating a hurried
replacement and another one who coughs blood as the
competition reaches a crescendo.
•If that were not enough, the characters are given to
unabashed displays of overarching religious zeal and, of
course, much patriotic chest thumping and tricolour waving.
•So we hear Bharat Mata Ki Jai on more than one occasion.
Ditto Ganpati Bappa Morya. And while they are at it,
can Vande Matarambe far behind?
•Dance and desh bhakti make for a potent potion that quickly
degenerates into cringe-worthy inanity.
•After a tolerable first half, ABCD 2 turns increasingly corny
with every passing post-interval sequence.
