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.
dontcallitbollywood 
I really wish this breakdown had been on the original track. Makes the song better.
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EVIL WHITE PEOPLE!!!!!!! Also with very practical dance tops.
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Ooooh the desi guilt trip.
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The Evil White Team Captain is not so good with the dialogue, but great with the sneering face.
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How tall is the white guy, does anyone know? Also, does anyone know who he is?
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This guy: https://www.francistroughley.com/
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British! Take the most talented folks and convert them to Britishness! It’s Macaulayism, but in a dance film! This movie should totally be shown in history classes.
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Wait, so is the message DON’T emigrate?
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I think it’s more “wealthy privilged documented immigrants, be aware of and care for your less privilaged brothers”. There’s a little thing over the end credits, it’s a real problem in England for exactly the reasons the film describes.
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This is where the “whistles” come in.
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How does the Pakistani team captain get his hair like that? And how does it stay like that while dancing?
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Finally the dancing god dances!
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“anna”= big brother in Southern slang.
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Everyone in our family calls our Grandpa Anna because that is just what we had always heard others refer to him as, including his own children (i.e., my dad).
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Awwwwww!
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Sorry, but if Muqabla isn’t your favorite from the movie, you’re wrong. I also lost my mind when it started in theaters. Can you believe my dad was ASLEEP during this???
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THE BEST DANCE IN THE MOVIE!
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This whole song, could nto hear the music in my theater because the screams were so loud.
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I wish my theaters were more vocal. I had to hold in my cheers because no one else was reacting.
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Same here!
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Laila to “sweetheart” in the subtitles…eh…fine I guess
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And “Romeo and Juliet” I am so mad about this!
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Why always Romeo and Juliet instead of Laila Majnu???? (typed without looking away from the screen)
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Easier reference to understand for English speaking audiences?
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The pub got a stage with props! ANd then it turned into a church!
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Logic is irrelevant to the POWER OF DANCE!
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These dialogues they keep repeating aren’t even that good. “This will be fun” is just a common phrase, not anything memorable.
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These kids are terrible dancers
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As are most children…
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Varun’s older brother is adorable with the kids
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Who is super cute guy who went to Shradha’s house?
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I think her cousin? Not sure
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No, I mean the actor?
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Dancer looks like, was on a bunch of dance reality competitions and also this
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So far, he is my favorite in this movie.
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No! Inter dance romance! KISSING!!!! SHOCKING!!!!
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The fact that I don’t even remember these characters’ names kinda waters down the effect of the romance.
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Until now, I was thinking of him as “the slightly gay one”. But I guess that doesn’t work any more.
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They have names?
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Ew, I forgot Varun has earrings in this movie too. They kind of look like gauges. Vomit.
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And I feel like in every other Varun movie, he has tattoos. I doubt any of them are real?
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I doubt also, but the serve nicely to highlight his muscles.
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I feel like he had arm band tattoos in SOTY too. Maybe BKD also. Works really well for that.
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BAM!!!! Blam the rich for the problems of the poor! TRUTH, Nameless Tall Dancer Dude!!!!
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If there are no rules, why is there a qualifying round? This is a mixed message.
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Does anyone else keep looking for Farah at the judges table?
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Those judges seem pretty useless
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There are no judges! There are no rules! Except that there are actually both those things?
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Did the graphic say Rule Breaker? As in a singular one?
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They break the rules of English plural as well.
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OH, geeky grammar jokes are the best!
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Someone must agree with us about Shraddha’s hats, seeing as it was the whole theme of her dance troupe.
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Tall actor’s accent – what is that – Indian trying to sound American? What is it?
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Okay, but Varun with BLUE tips in his hair? Heck yes. I love it.
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Yes! Now it doesn’t look like a failed attempt to be blonde, but a thing on it’s own.
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Now I’m wondering if this was one of the last scenes they filmed and his blond tips had grown so far out that even the hair people realized they looked terrible and just dyed them blue to look more natural but still cool and street dancer-y.
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If I actually enjoyed ABCD2, that callback might have hit me more.
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This is my favorite exchange fo the movie!!!! It’s SO DEEP!!!!! “We dance to express, you dance to impress”. also, how I feel about my blog versus Film Companion.
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See what I mean about Aparshakti feeling like he is doing a spoof of a pitiful poor person? Somehow it just makes me giggle and I know it shouldn’t.
Also making me giggle, Varun’s hat, but that is a completely reasonable reaction.
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The next challenge, if Prabhudeva is the only one who looks good in fedoras, who can work a newsboy cap?
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Shahrukh, duh:
https://gumlet.assettype.com/thequint%2F2016-08%2F51131321-77c2-4969-ba5a-890522413df6%2Fsrk%20pardes.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&w=640&dpr=2.6
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Is this the same space the DAnce Battle is held in later? Or some other falling apart cathedral? How many are there in London???
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That cathedral looks pretty sturdy to me.
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I think if the cut Kesh was going to be such a big thing, they probably shouldn’t have given Aparshakti such a transparently expensive and emo haircut. With shaved sides even???
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Does Varun have pastel rainbow tips now? Or are they just silver? Either way, no, who was responsible for his hair, I have a lot of questions.
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And now his hair is white again!!!!! Oh oh, is it because he is part of the white group? And when he was part of the desis, it had brown highlights?
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Respect to the British guy for using “dhol”.
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White Dude=Bad Dude
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It rhymes!
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Sad song! Does that mean the dance of pain is coming!
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YES! I love it so much, it brings me such joy
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Come on! Take the money!!!!! Use it to pay your $200 haircut charges for your super cool tragic haircuts!
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See, it was this part. Four Varuns appear and stagger-dance while one sits and wallows in self pity. This is when I couldn’t stop laughing and also when I stopped taking this movie seriously.
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Up until now you were still taking it seriously???? I lost it at the “Tragic dance battle injury”, which is of course the OPENING OF THE FILM
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Dang it, “taking it seriously” was the wrong phrase. I think it was more “gave up” or “stopped caring”. I was already horribly bored by this point, and Dua Karo kind of sealed it.
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It took you this long! Chest make-up in the morning was my marker.
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Listen, Varun is one of my favorites. I have suffered a lot for him.
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VArun runs really funny
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YES! SHIRTLESS TORMENT!!!!
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Street DAncer 3D – you thought it was about dancing, but really it is about hair.
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Varun, put on shoes!
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I am laughing so hard! XD
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