Among many words in the IIT lingo, there is a commonly used one called “arbit”, meaning arbitrary. Based on whims, not on reason. After watching Chance Pe Dance, I thanked God-knows-who for inventing “arbit”, for it fits the film so well, it almost defines it!
There are good films and bad films. Within bad films, there are unintentionally funny bad films and plain boring bad films. And now, there is a new category – Arbit and incoherent bad films. Indeed, Chance Pe Dance (CPD) is not based on anything even remotely coherent. It starts with a random song, has many randomly unconnected sequences put together in some form, and has an equally random closure to a story that didn’t exist to begin with.
For a film that’s meant to be a dance film or a musical, the listless music by Adnan Sami is a shocker. The leads don’t do anything wrong as such. But then, the set-up is so insipid nothing really works for it. This is exactly the film that makes you go – What were they thinking when they were making this?!
I can get into specific areas, but that will really make the bad worse. Check out some of these reviews if you must:
Rajeev Masand’s review
Anupama Chopra’s review
Mayank Shekhar’s review
If (at all) there is an audience for CPD, it is the same as that of board games that come with a “for 5-8 year old” descriptor on them. For the rest of us, watch it you have need to discover new lows of wasting time and money.
PS: The high point of my visit to the theatre was the Rajneeti trailer. Looks very cool.
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