Aaja Nachle, the recently released Indian film directed by Anil Mehta touted to be the comeback vehicle of an Indian star Madhuri, who ruled the hearts of millions through the nineties, pretty much meets expectations. Expectations, not to be a great film, but one where die-hard Madhuri fans are going to get to see the diva at her best, once again. She moves like a dream, has the most enchanting smile, and captures your imagination with her histrionics.
The story, well, is about the done-to-death underdog protagonist, getting together a team of some more underdogs, to take on the world (not literally, of course), emerging triumphant in the end (but obviously!). In that sense, the movie has more than one similarity with Chak De India, another movie from the same banner this year. Only, sport gets replaced by dance, and the protagonist, of course, is a woman this time round. And, as in the case of most movies with a similar theme, it works this time too.
So, to keep it short, Madhuri is a choreographer abroad, who had left the Indian small town she grew up in to follow her dreams. When her guruji (Darshan Jariwala, Mr. Hamster) is on his deathbed, she comes back to town, and finds some people with ulterior motives wanting to get rid of the land guruji used for dance and drama. The challenge now lies in convincing other town folks that the land needs to be preserved. For that, she needs to put up a show in a span of two months, made up of rookie actors from the town itself.
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