As Mahi, the gangster moonily in love he is all gooey eyed even when he is bashing up some hapless soul. Nawazzudin steals the show but then he always does. It's a stretch to imagine her winning a housing society dance show leave alone an all-India one. The new actress NIdhhi Agerwal is spunky and cute but no match for Tiger in the dance department. He also tries to look more manly here and it has worked going by the claps and whistles in the hall. He still has a bit of road to cover before I call him a good actor but he has a sincerity and simplicity just like his dad that makes him very likeable. He has built his body to perfection and his dances and fights show perfect form and control. The story builds up on all these angles, the ambitions of the young dancers to make it big, the gangster's crazy love and the romance between the two young people. Munna becomes his teacher and then his friend and though he wants to help the gangster, he falls in love himself. At one of them he meets a land shark thug who wants to learn dancing so that he can impress a young dancer he is in love with. Munna earns money by wining dance face-offs at pubs. His foster dad, a failed dancer, wants him to have a corporate job. There is lots of stuff happening and most of it is logical or at least logical in a filmi way so you can buy it. The best part is they are well woven in and make the movie quite meaty in content. What sets this apart is that the story has lots more apart from just the dance angle. The movie is about following your dreams and being true to your passions. I totally enjoyed watching every moment of it except for a mediocre love song, but that's just quibbling.

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