B-10 | Friday, January 31, 2020 BOLLYWOOD www.WeeklyVoice.com Street Dancer 3D: Strictly For Dance Addicts “Street Dancer 3D”; Cast: Va- effects-ridden psychedelic dance gigs. You spot the familiar faces run Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor, action, and also ilming a sizeable of Dharmesh Yelande, Salman Prabhudeva, Nora Fatehi; Direc- chunk in the London outdoors. Yusuff Khan, Raghav Juyal and tion: Remo D’Souza; Rating * * Farhad Samji’s (often erratic) Punit Pathak among the danc- & 1/2 (two and a half stars) writing offers a functional script ers -- reality TV discoveries who about Indian and Pakistani ar- have courted Bollywood spotlight “Street Dancer 3D” reiterates tistes coming together to help il- in earlier Remo D’Souza ilms three things we always knew. A legal South Asian immigrants in and who are a genuine value-add dance lick with cool moves and the UK. to his ilms every time. psychedelic FX doesn’t need Sahej (Varun Dhawan), who The toast of the danceloor, script or logic. Second, whenever hails from India, and Pakistani though, are not surprisingly Prab- you run out of mojo for a cli- origin girl Inayat (Shraddha Ka- hudeva and Nora Fatehi. Two de- max punch, throw in the colours poor) lead the rival dance groups, cades on, Prabhudeva reinvents of ‘deshbhakti’ (in this case, the Rule Breakers and Street Danc- his elastic electricity of “Muqa- idea is amped up with a liberal ers, in London. Both these teams bla” from the 1994 hit “Kaadha- dose of Indo-Pak ‘bhaichaara’ as want to win Ground Zero, a high- lan”, and he is still fun to watch. the players of both sides literally proile dance contest. From being Nora scorches the danceloor groove to “Mile sur mera tum- driven by the ambition of indi- with “Garmi” before the screen- hara”). Finally, with some luck vidual success, the young dancers play shuts out her character. and lots of absence of nepotism, realise the essence of using their Shraddha Kapoor and Varun Nora Fatehi could be the biggest art for others. Dhawan get to play a yin-yang female dancing star in new-age thing that worked for D’Souza’s ed rivalry between the two dance Primarily intended to regale equation. Shraddha’s Inayat is Bollywood. two “ABCD” ilms before this, groups, takes a ‘loving thy neigh- as a dance lick, the ilm unfoldsquite the haughty go-getter whi- Remo D’Souza’s latest un- and you could be wondering why bour’ course. that subtext with every stereo- leVarun’s Sahej is the softer one leashes a spectacularly choreo- this ilm isn’t called “ABCD 3”. D’Souza operates on a lavish type imaginable, highlighted in with a sense of humour. graphed and executed exhibition It would have been, except there budget, and it shows. At a ru- Prabhudeva’s hackneyed line Varun, ever the energetic of dance, as a near-absent story- was a copyright tangle. moured Rs 85-crore tab, “Street about emerging beyond dancing dancer, does not miss a beat line struggles to act as an excuse For extra impact, D’Souza has Dancer 3D” has been touted to be for oneself and learning how to while playing out his oft-intricate to let ‘desi’ kids groove on a for- this time added an Indo-Pak an- India’s costliest dance lick ever. dance for others. moves.“Street Dancer 3D” is a eign dance stage. gle to his story that, after initial A lot of the money obviously To D’Souza’s credit, he has as- dazzling dance fest. In every oth- In a way the ilm re-hauls every- formality of showcasing expect- went into setting up the special sorted a ine bunch for the various er sense, it is an ordinary ilm. Rajini Shoots For FIR Against Choreographer Acharya MUMBAI: An FIR has been iled against celeb- rity choreographer Ganesh Acharya by a woman Man vs Wild in assistant choreographer Divya Kotian for “forcing” her to “watch porn videos”. A copy of the document obtained by IANS claimed that after Acharya became the general sec- Bandipur Reserve retary of Indian Films and Television Choreogra- pher Association (IFTCA), he would frequently call Kotian at the IFTCA ofice at Veera Desai, Andheri (West) and Mukti Rehearsal Hall. Kotian has further told the National Commission for Women unit in Maharashtra that Acharya has been “depriving” her of work in the ilm industry and “demanding commissions” from income. According to the legal document, Acharya said She alleged that when she went to attend a special that whenever a coordination of any song was done, general meeting of the IFTCA, she was abused and she was asked to pay Rs 500 per dancer to Acharya, assaulted by Acharya’s people. else she was not allowed to do any coordination in “The entire scene is covered in the CCTV foot- the industry. age. I have complained to the Amboli police sta- Rajni with Bear Gryllis in Bandipur. Pic: PSKK Twitter As she could not pay, he later asked her to be his tion,” Kotian said. assistant which she rejected as Kotian wanted to BENGALURU: Tamil Super- lists 28 species of mammals to Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta had also work independently. The complainant also claimed star Rajinikanth visited Karna- be present in the forest, includ- come out and spoken about the choreographer for taka’s Bandipur Tiger Reserve to ing royal Bengal tiger, Asian el- that whenever Kotian reached Acharya’s ofice she spreading “malicious rumours” about her and ruin- shoot an episode for Discovery ephant, common leopard, bonnet would ind him watching porn videos. ing her reputation. channel’s popular programme macaque, Indian pipestrelle and Ishan, Ananya Do ‘Man vs Wild’ with host Bear barking deer, among others. Tahira Kashyap’s B’day Bash Grylls, an oficial said on Tues- Meanwhile, the state’s chief Crazy Stunts For day. wildlife warden Sanjay Mohan “We gave permission for 6-8 said that this was not the irst timeTheir ‘Khaali Peeli’ With Breast Cancer Survivors hours to Discovery Channel to a Discovery Channel documenta- MUMBAI: Actors Ishaan and shoot in Bandipur Tiger Re- ry was shot in the reserve. Ananya Panday are all set to serve,” T. Balachandra, the re- “Lot of documentaries were showcase their action avatar in serve’s director and conservator shot in Bandipur. I have urged “Khaali Peeli”. The young actors of forests, told IANS. Discovery Channel that they must shot for the second schedule of He said the one-day shoot be- show the efforts being made by the upcoming ilm in Wai, Maha- gan at 11 a.m. on Tuesday and the Karnataka forest department rashtra earlier this month. ended by 4 p.m. “They paid as day and night in saving the forest Turns out, action director per the norms. Per day they have wildlife,” Mohan told IANS. Parvez Shaikh had designed an to pay documentary fee, vehicle The chief wildlife warden is elaborate action sequence that fee and others. For four days, looking forward to a good name was to be ilmed on the lead pairt. they paid Rs 10 lakh,” he said. for the tiger reserve and recogni- Ishaan and Ananya insisted on Balachandra said Rajinikanth tion to the forest staff with this performing it themselves, instead spent ive hours in the forest. programme. of using doubles. MUMBAI: Filmmaker and also cut a cake with the survivors. Bandipur Tiger Reserve, an In August 2019, Grylls had A scene required Ishaan to writer Tahira Kashyap last Thurs- “I really enjoyed meeting these 874 sq km national park, was hosted Prime Minister Modi in jump off a pick-up and slide 30 day met several breast cancer sur- amazing and brave women. I re- formed by integrating most of the the show, which was shot at the meters on the ground. “Since vivors and celebrated her birth- late to their journeys and contin- forest areas of erstwhile Venu- Jim Corbett National Park in Ut- there was a possibility of getting day with them. ue to learn so much from them,” gopala Wildlife Park established tarakhand in February last year. injured, Ishaan and Ananya prac- The meet and greet session was Tahira said. in 1941, and later enlarged to its In ‘Man vs Wild’, former Brit- ticed a lot before ilming it. In the held at Tata Memorial Hospital A few days ago, Tahira had a current state in Chamarajanagar ish serviceman Grylls showcases 10-day shoot, Ishaan also ilmed a in Mumbai, where Tahira shared grand birthday bash at her home district, about 220 km southwest survival strategies in extreme chase sequence in the narrow by- the story of her battle with breast where her husband, actor Ay- of Bengaluru. The tiger reserve challenging conditions. lanes of Wai,” Shaikh said. cancer with several women. She ushmann Khurrana, was present along with other celebrities in- cluding Twinkle Khanna, Yami SUBSCRIBE TO THE Gautam, Sonali Bendre and Raj- VOICE NEWS NETWORK kummar Rao. Go To VNN Canada ON YouTube TV Actress Sejal Commits Suicide MUMBAI: TV actress Sejal Sharma committed suicide on Friday. She was known for her role of Simmy Khosla in the show “Dil Toh Happy Hai Ji”. Sejal hailed from Udaipur and CONTACT: 905-795-0639 OR came to Mumbai in 2017. She has appeared in some commer- WRITE TO [email protected] cials and in a web series “Azad Parindey.”.