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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This choreo is so bad! Varun is going to cut his feet on the glass! I don’t care if he has a beautiful chest, I can’t with this song. Also the rap sucks.
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I feel like this exact dance could easily be done at a male stripper place. I’m getting far less “torment” than I am “look at my hot body”
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There are so many other little things in this scene that are sending my brain to horrible unnecessary places, don’t fuel the fire. I really need Varun as a stripper now. Thank you.
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At least clean the glass before you dance
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This is the thing this dancer does in every movie, the finger thing, and it never impresses me as much as I feel like it is supposed to
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The finger dance is both strangely great and yet icky to me
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Actually, his brother coming in kind of saved the whole number. Still not much emotional impact but way better dance performance than Varun.
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For me, the worst part about being homeless would be all these young people coming and making me listen to them talk about their stupid dance battle and pretending to care.
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Who is this being broadcast to? With the onscreen graphics and stuff? Is there some magical TV channel where I could watch underground dance battles?
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Face masks! They saw the pandemic coming!
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But like, even in the before times, this couldn’t have been a smart move. They’d get winded so fast!
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I was just thinking it is really hard to dance in a face mask. I can’t even run half a lap in one.
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I can appreciate this movie because I can email my students back while watching, come back and have missed absolutely nothing.
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11-year-old LOVES the face mask team.
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I showed my sister the promo photo of Varun with the leather hood and his chest out, and she said he belonged in a porno.
Also, maybe I’m dumb, or maybe it’s because I have my computer split screen so the movie projection is smaller, but I can’t tell chest make up aside from just being shiny.
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most people aren’t tan in between muscles. Naturally that would be a lighter area.
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Oh yes, show those painted pectorals!
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OUCH fire feet!
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I gotta say, redoing Bezubhan kinda drew me back in. Also I think this performance is better than the one at the end of the movie. Fire shoes!!
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Call back! Bezubaan song is in every ABCD movie!!!! I love how many little easter eggs there are for those of us who love this series.
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Also Shraddha continuing to be queen of rain.
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Did the roof collapse or is there an open ceiling?
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It is so awesome how without practicing with them he knows all their choreography.
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Also how he can seamlessly fit into it when they choreographed with one less person?
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Anyone else distracted with why the body make-up doesn’t wash off in the water?
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I feel bad for Nora, but she was too good for Varun anyway
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11-year-old: How come they get so much more time dancing than the other teams? (He is resentful that the mask team aren’t the stars).
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That is an excellent point, 11-year-old!!! This is why dance contests need rules
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Who is a better dancer, Nora or older brother?
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Did they censor asshole, but not shit? Or did I hear wrong?
Also this is probably when Varun and Nora broke up, right? Is her character’s name Nora too? I have a lot of thoughts.
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It is possible her character does not have a name?
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In this movie, that would make perfect sense.
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Varun is SO SHORT!!!!
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Did Varun not think to call poor pitiful Zarina before this??? Is he as irritated by her pitifulness as I am?
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I was really hoping they would mash their names together, like Street Breakers or something.
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The longing in this hug!! Varun burying his face in her shoulder! DEPRIVED!!!
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And the most physical job in the world is… Dancer.
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Okay, if that hug and following scenes had happened 20 minutes into the movie instead of 20 minutes before the end, we could have had a whole romantic arc for them!
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Ganesha song, also a touch from all ABCD movies!!!! I love this franchise so much
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Anyone know V Unbeatable? A dance group that was on America’s Got Talent and I think did some promo with Varun. Was really hoping they would be in this movie, but I don’t think they were.
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Varun hat. NO!
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The backwards baseball caps in other scenes aren’t that bad.
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How upset is Hot Cousin if he still had time for his super elaborate hair swoop before he left the house?
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It isn’t like heroines cry without make-up.
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And then in my movie, there is a callback to this scene in the second half when Varun shows up again, this time to beg for Shraddha to marry him instead of the family choice fiance. Only that time he is thrown out and beaten on the sidewalk, until his dance troupe helps him sneak into the wedding as a performer and they elope. And then other stuff happens too. Maybe she gets pregnant at some point and he has to dance for both of them?
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Can you please just write all the movies??
(Varun would definitely dance for his child after they’re born, his child would kick a ton in Shraddha’s womb and would be walking way faster than the other babies.)
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Is it insensitive for me to say Shraddha also looks great in the hijab?
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Just now hitting me that Judgemental Uncle’s son is also a member of the dance troupe. DUDE! Check Yourself!!!!
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You mean floppy hair cute boy, or someone else?
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floppy hair cute boy
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I kinda like the open thigh look, it makes women look strong, rather than sexual.
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Why are some of them wearing tutus…
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Ballet! They are wearing pointe shoes
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It’s just weird that the entire troupe doesn’t also have the same. Some in boy shorts doesn’t seem right to me.
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11-year-old only wants to see flips.
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11 year old speaks for us all
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Oh oh! I’ve seen this movie before! There will be magical crowd created music!!!!!
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WAIT! No music, no performance, you cann’t win??? That sounds like a RULE!!!!
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Bhangra Paa Le – you guys need to see that…
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The abandoned cathedral must have amazing acoustics if these drums are loud enough for everyone to hear.
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cathedrals do have amazing acoustics.
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Prabhudeva looks sooooo good in white, he should wear that colour always
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I’m not the only one waiting for these white costumes to inevitably be unzipped to reveal other outfits, right?
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Wait, whose doing the lights? Do they have to submit a lighting plan ina dvance? Or would that be a RULE!!!!
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“how do they afford to get all those styling suits? and how do they change so quickly” – 11 year old.
“It’s a movie, it isn’t real” – 5 year old
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I have woken up too late. Enjoy the rest of the movie. 😀
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“How do they get the dust.”- 11 year old
“In India there is a national holiday where they throw that dust on you so they get it from there” -8 year old
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8 year old makes more sense than the movie
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Your children are the actual smartest.
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They are pretty bright.
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