Review of ABCD2

Three years ago Ace choreographer Remo D'souza had made India's first dance film that too in 3D taking no big stars but only genuine dancers from reality TV show, and we got a surprise hit ABCD. Being overwhelmed with the surprise success of the  movie  the  same production house and director's team is back once again with its sequel ABCD2. This time it has bigger stars, big sets, larger scale dance performances, larger scale of technology, but the only thing which lacks this time is a story about the bonding of the characters of a dance troupe.

The story is loosely based on the struggle of Suresh and Vernon from Mumbai who made a dance group and became the finalists of big Hip-Hop competition at Las Vegas. The story

starts with a dance competition where Suresh(Varun Dhawan) and his dance group are disqualified for the charges of copying the dance steps from an Youtube video.Very soon Suresh decides to reform his team and to take part in world dance competition for Hip-Hop with his team including his lady love Vinni(Shraddha Kapoor). Very soon they find a mentor in the form of Vishnu Sir (Prabhu Deva). Later their team is joined by other DID stars Dharmesh and Punit(Who were there in the first part too). As expected they win the competition at India level and went to Las Vegas for the world level competition. Here after having some predictable twist and turns, the too much predicable story reaches to its finale after a long 155 minutes. 

Overall the story has nothing new to offer. Even the screenplay is also weak and cliche, there is hardly any interaction between the characters specially in the first half. It seems while

writing the screenplay the main motive was to insert song and dance one after another. At one point it may look like you are watching Dance reality show videos on Youtube one after another. Although there is a twist just before the interval which is good. In the second half the story is better than the first half but towards the end again song and dance keeps popping up one after another in a very short gap, which makes the film even lengthier in running time.
But in spite of this if the film grabs your attention that is solely because of the  brilliantly choreographed dance sequences , which have been performed by equally brilliant dancers.

As a director Remo D'souza had nothing much to do , rather it was just choreographing more dance sequences for him and he has successfully done that.

Varun Dhawan has proved he is one the finest dancers of today's generation. He shines with his moves even in the group of professional dancers. Shraddha Kapoor too surprises with her wonderful dance moves. She has maintained really well in the group dances, also she impresses in her solo dance in "Sun Sathiya" song. Prabhu Deva once again proved his dancing abilities with his high energy which is hard to match by the other actors who are of half of his age.

The other actors who are mostly professional dancers have danced really well and provided good support in acting department too.

Among the technical team it can be said the cinematography is very nice. The picturisation of the dance sequences is breath taking. The editing could have been much sharper and its length could have been reduced by at least 20 minutes.

Provided it is  dance film the music by Sachin-Jigar is not that impressive. The only two songs which are good are the original songs from the first part that is "Bezubaan" and "Sun Sathiya". The other songs have no potential which will make you remember those when you will be out of the theaters.

Overall ABCD2 is a movie which is only about dancing. The story is weaker, the emotion and humor quotient is much less than the first part. But the dance is bigger and better here. So if you love dance then it is a must watch for you.