Street Dancer 3D
U/A: Drama
Director: Remo D'Souza
Cast: Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor
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Given that I had enjoyed watching the first two instalments of the ABCD series (2013 and 2015), I walked into Street Dancer 3D expecting something more than just fabulously-staged dance sequences. Remo Dsouza's franchise has long been touted as India's answer to the Step Up series. Sadly, the third part also follows the latter editions of the Hollywood franchise in being all about dance, without much of a storyline to bank on.

Choreographer-turned-director Dsouza turns this film into a humdrum India-Pakistan war. Arch rivals Sehej (Varun Dhawan) and Inayat (Shraddha Kapoor) are captains of their respective dance troupes — Street Dancers and Rule Breakers. They passionately support their respective countries, India and Pakistan, with a shameless reference to the significantly exploited angle of cricket also getting screen time. They have a continual desire to outdo the other in the world's biggest dance battle, Ground Zero. The rivalry, however, is forgotten when they learn of one another's empathetic attitude towards those immigrants of the other's country, who have neither food to eat, nor homes to stay in.