That curious little new hit on the block — Anybody Can Dance, pyar se ABCD — should have been easy to dismiss as timepass really, but I find myself wanting more for it. For those who don’t know, ABCD is a dance film, rather heavily inspired by the Step Up series and directed by the choreographer Remo D’Souza.

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A choreographer, played by Prabhudeva, is cast out of a successful dance company by his slimy partner, played by KK Menon, in favour of a firangi dance director who will teach the company more sophisticated moves. So, he goes back to his roots, training a bunch of rowdy, basti kids to compete in the biggest TV dance show — Dance Dil Se. The rest is familiar — tribulations, turnarounds and finally, triumph.For a culture so in love with song and dance, we haven’t had a dance movie for a surprisingly long time — not since the Mithun and Govinda ones decades ago.

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