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Dancing up a murky entreaty
Film: Bhangra Paa Le
Cast: Sunny Kaushal, Rukhsar Dhillon, Shriya Pilgoankar, Balraj Singh Khehra, Himanshu Sharma
Director: Sneha Taurani
Rating: * *
Runtime: 130 mins
Bhangra Paa Le is a film revolving around a dance competition and is set within two distinct periods. The film has a sequence set during the World War II where a soldier Captaan (Sunny Kaushal) from the 1940’s, pulls out a dhol and beats up a discordant tune which energises a defeated company into a resurgent battle for survival. His Nimmo(Shriya Pilgoankar) is typically waiting for him in his hometown, Malwa Village, Punjab. This scenario cuts into another, set in contemporary Amritsar, a college where a dance audition for a bhangra troupe led by Jaggi Singh(Sunny Kaushal), is underway. The battle that’s about to rage is for a spot to perform on the world stage in London and Simi( Rukhsar) whom Jaggi hopes to pair up with, turns on the heat with her own individual aspirations. Dheeraj-Rattan’s inter-cutting story-screenplay fails to drum up enough interest or fire-up a fiery tempo despite the high-on-energy dancing by Jaggi and his Pendu Club dancers or the heavy beat and rhythm of the Bhangra.
Sneha Taurani’s film, marketed as a bridge between the traditional forms of Bhangra from Punjab and western dance forms from all across the world, doesn’t do justice to that high-faulting concept. Sunny Kaushal, Vicky Kaushal’s younger sibling makes his solo debut opposite Rukshar Dhillon here. But it’s neither a distinctive nor memorable one. The three film old actor is competent enough as a dancer from both ages but his lack of screen presence makes it all look unremarkable.
A plethora of songs and dances fail to raise-up enthusiasm for this energy sapping exercise that borders precariously on needlessly elongated tedium. Most of the songs are unremarkable, the liberal use of punjabi is rather off-putting and the performances never quite make it to assured. This is a rather ill-fitting attempt at dance/music tribute.
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