Yaaaaay, Street Dancer 3D!!!! The movie I left work early to see opening day and regret NOTHING. It is everything I could want from a dance themed story of diaspora identity struggle. Okay, not everything, there could be a little more romance.
Crippling dance battle injuries! Dramatic bad one liner declarations! Body make-up! Shirtless dance of torment! Really, not to be missed.
You can watch it on Prime, and probably other places too. Hit “play” at 3pm Chicago time and join me here.
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How much sex do Nora and Varun have? I’m sorry my brain is already going there, but now I’m wondering.
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I thought Zero? Because they are good people!
And also because I think of their relationship as Varun flirting with her and admiring her dancing, but Nora having more real feelings.
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It makes way more sense, I was just latching onto the “I know the other parts of your body” line.
The flirting nature could also explain the lack of romance with Shraddha.
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That’s what I am thinking, Varun is ultimately innocent and unsexual, he and Shraddha feel like 12 year olds feeling each other out.
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Shraddha could be his sexual awakening. But the innocence could also be traced back to how sheltered he is, and his arc throughout the movie, so in a way, it makes sense. I think. Sort of.
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“Boo Boo” is a terrible nickname for your girlfriend. Idk, I hate it.
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She’s amazing.
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I kinda hate Lagdi Lahore though.
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I love how much Varun is called out in this movie, it gives me life
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“Does he work for the army?” -8 year olds response to one of Varun’s dancing outfits.
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Geography: Lahore is a Punjabi city in Pakistan. So this song is a lovely little “hey, there is part of the Punjabi region that is in Pakistan and part in India, we are all the same ethnicity”.
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These little cousin girls are super cute. And it is a travesty we never got a dance number in the antique store.
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They would break EVERYTHING!
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That’s what would make it wonderful!
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The poor owners though!
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The cleanest and most spacious pub in London indeed
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Wait, but there were donuts, you mean it isn’t a special donut pub?
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In this unverse I guess yes
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But later they also ordered pasta and pizza and drinks! It’s an everything pub!
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I haven’t seen the movie before, but idea of watching a match in donut shop with a policeman is pretty cute.
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It really is! I want to watch all sports like this
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Nachi Nachi! I love this song! Super underrated!
Also Shraddha in red is gorgeous.
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I’m sorry, but did she just try to have sex with the floor?
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Have you seen the video for Garmi? Just wait.
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“try”?
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Nora is a great dancer, but those knee cut outs are killing me
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Wait, not even knee! Upper thigh! Is that supposed to be sexy?
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How do you even win a street dance battle? What’s the criteria? What’s the scoring system?
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I feel like there is probably something similar to wrestling, some number of times you back hits the floor or something that we don’t know about.
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That certainly is one way to clean the floor
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White turtleneck on Prabhu is another winner! Meanwhile Shraddha’s clothes just look messy and busy by comparison
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I like her beanie though!
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Yes! Until the oppressed masses unite and fight their common oppressor, nothing will change! Look at the systems of power! I would say this is the most Marxist Dance Battle movie, but I’ve seen Step Up: Revolution.
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The heartwarming feed the poor people – feels bizarre in a dance film.
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Oh right, you haven’t seen the movie yet! It’s like the main theme. Never feels totally un-weird.
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They are Street Dancers and these people live on the street — Of course, it makes sense!
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I saw this in the theater with my dad, he fell asleep about halfway through, but this eating scene when Shraddha gets home is the only thing he remembers about the entire movie.
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Meanwhile, my lunch order still hasn’t arrived, and I am just getting hungrier and hungrier this whole time.
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I’m having strange flashes of the BBC cop shows I watch. Are those police officers going to walk out of this brightly lit dance movie and into some gritty night light version of London and have their own story?
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Aparshakti!!!!! Ayushmann’s little brother! Who plays the funny friend and I think can’t really handle this part. I keep thinking he is pretending to be poor and humble as a joke.
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His hair bleach is growing out in these scenes and it really really doesn’t look good! Almost works for the character though, without being able to go to his London stylist, the color faded and the hair got too long.
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It does fit with the character.
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Feels a little too on the nose in these quarantine times, hehe.
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I’m guessing in reality he wanted to grow out the bleached bit and then cut it short with only healthy hair and wasn’t willing to get it redyed and trimmed just for these scenes. Good on VArun! Get it done as fast as possible!
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Hi, I’m here for a bit.
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Hi! Watch out, my lunch order wasn’t delivered so I am hungry and grumpy
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PUUURRRRFECT! I love cranky angry Margaret!
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I wonder if Varun’s British accent is supposed to be terrible…
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Well it was funny.
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Varun’s highlights…. eeeeck!
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WE were just talking about that! Pretty sure this particular sequence was filmed late, so it had faded to the bleach and was growing out. It looks different (not better, but different) in other scenes.
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This airport is almost as open and airy as a bar! Truly, London is the place to go for large empty public spaces.
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Varun can’t do an English accent to save his life
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Zarina Wahab NEVER gets to play a happy person! Oh wait, never mind, her DDD role gives me life. Remember that? When she was rich and snotty instead of oppressed and miserable?
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I can’t stand her. I want to sympathize or even empathize with her but I just cant. Ugh.
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Does he live in the dance studio?????
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Prabhadeva is the only modern day man who shoul dbe allowed to wear a fedora
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Okay, I feel like Varun saying “GF” meaning “someone who will take care of you when you are old”, is supporting my “virgin” theory.
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What if he’s asexual? 😮
That still leaves the option open to romance with Shraddha, which would be way more innocent and fit Varun and Shraddha’s capabilities as actors anyway.
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All Indian young people are asexual until they are married. That is what films have taught me, God magically calls forth sexual desire from dead clay as soon as the mangalsutra goes on.
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I feel like modern cinema is kind of breaking away from that, so it would actually be interesting to see someone who doesn’t experience sexual attraction even after marriage.
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Oh, and his hair is back to being how it was intended, while still bad.
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Shraddha’s hat is good again! She just has the best hats in this. This movie needs more romance and more Shraddha hats.
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I might be disagreeing with you, but Shraddha has the best wardrobe in this movie. It really is the hats.
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Am I the only person who gets distracted by what space this is?
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This has to be the most non-underground place since it’s in a CATHEDRAL!!
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But a cathedral with people growing through the walls?
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HA! This made me burst out laughing.
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Did they make any other Prabhudeva references in the movie? I caught Urvashi, but I can’t remember if there was anything else, not counting Muqabla. I muted this a few times cuz I got bored.
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“take it easy Urvashi”, reference to one of Prabhu’s famous songs.
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It’s also the earrings! I’m usually not a fan of huge earrings, but they work on Shraddha so well!
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I agree!!!
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Ooooo, Prabhu! Laying on the HISTORY!!!!
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“We can never be one” WE WERE DEPRIVED OF SUCH GREAT ROMANCE, I’M TELLING YOU!
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EVIL WHITE PEOPLE!!!!!! I love how all in this movie is on their evil.
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They really went all out for the Happy Village just to give a background to Zarina’s call. Unless it is green screen footage from every other Happy Village movie.
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floor sex.
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Garmi is a horrible song, but I’m leaving it off mute so I can keep snarking.
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And once again, Nora’s upper thighs are visible and nothing else. Must be a thing.
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Varun flicking sweat off Nora’s waist is so CREEPY!
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Yuck. Yupp!
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Who is on Varun’s pants??? I want to say Bob Dylan, but surely not
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How have I never noticed there’s a face on his pants until now??
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But whose face?????
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I can only get behind Varun and Nora as a couple because the visuals of them together in this song are kind of hot. Aside from her on the floor.
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To be fair, I do think Nora’s top is super practical for dancing. And floor sex.
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