Then again, such is the movie’s outre, anything-goes spirit that, were an alien race to descend from the skies and join our characters in toe-tapping harmony, one would scarcely bat an eye. At least two diamonds do emerge from that rough, in the form of policeman’s son Dharmesh (Dharmesh Yelande, an “ABCD” alum) and deaf-mute Vinod (the excellent Punit Pathak, who played the recovering drug addict Chandu in the previous film), who “feels” the music he can’t hear - and, for good, melodramatic measure, suffers from an unexplained tubercular cough that comes home to roost at the most inopportune moment.
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First, though, they must increase their ranks - a plot device that allows “ABCD 2” to indulge in that beloved dance-movie cliche of the open audition full of overly self-confident galumphs who dance the way William Hung sings. But soon enough, he changes his mind, and begins training the Stunners for the world hip-hop championship in (where else?) Las Vegas. Vishnu’s love of the bottle gives rise to the film’s most impressive musical number, “Happy Hour” (one of 10 tracks by returning songwriters Sachin Sanghvi and Jigar Saraiya, and lyricist Mayur Puri), in which the tipsy professor and his fellow barflies sway to and fro in a choreography that evokes the “Smooth Criminal” number from Michael Jackson’s “Moonwalker” feature - the first of several direct and indirect nods to the late King of Pop.Īt first, all of Suresh’s impassioned pleading falls on deaf ears, Vishnu being all too aware of his prospective pupils’ tainted past. He’s a coach in need of a team, and Suresh is sure he has just the right team for him - if only he can shake Vishnu from the drunken stupor he sinks into nightly at a popular Mumbai watering hole. Enter Vishnu, last seen transforming the first film’s rag-tag band of hoofers into champions, now all washed up again (for reasons the movie can’t be bothered to explain). The troupe - including lead dancers/choreographers Suresh (Varun Dhawan) and Vernon (Sushant Pujari), and lone female dancer Vinnie (Shraddha Kapoor) - retreat to their service-industry day jobs (waiter, pizza deliveryman, hairstylist), where they are persistently mocked by their customers for being “cheaters.” For Suresh, the brooding, bicep-bulging, Channing Tatum-type, shame is an especially bitter pill, given that his mother (Prachi Shah) was a celebrated dancer who “died with her anklets on” (and, periodically, appears to Suresh in sepia-toned dream sequences).
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