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Starring: Akshay
Kapoor, Sheena Shahabadi, Rehan Khan, Bhavna Pani,
Sabina Sheema, Vinod Khanna, Mahesh Manjrekar
Director: Zaigham Ali Syed
Fast Forward
is yet another attempt in Bollywood to make an
out-and-out dance film like Dirty Dancing or Grease,
which have been all time super hits and have enthralled
millions of moviegoers the worldover.
It is a story of a friends, whose passion is Dance and
about how they struggle to keep their passion alive, in
spite of the varying circumstances. For them, its
celebration of freedom; freedom to breathe, freedom of
space and freedom of expression.
So when Akshay professes love
to Rehan's kid-sister Bhavna, Rehan again disapproves
this. He severs all ties with Akshay, opts out of the
dance group and also detests his sight.
The finale sets up in a dancing competition called Fast
Forward (hence the title) amongst many top dancing groups
including Sunny and Rishi’s.
An interesting climax fight between Vinod Khanna and
Mahesh Manjrekar and when Vinod Khanna bashes up a
dozen-odd villains reminisces his roles in Amar Akbar
Anthony and Heri Pheri.
Cast:
Akshay Kapoor - Sunny
Rehan Khan - Rishi
Bhavna Pani - Jeel
Mahesh Manjrekar
Vinod Khanna
Sabina Sheema
Jai Kumar Nair
Siddhant Karnick
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Directed by debutante Zaigham Ali Syed, this film has
some brilliantly choreographed songs and dances. The
director has put in great efforts in filming the dance
numbers while losing grip on the storyline.
We have a story of two friends, Rishi (Rehan Khan) and
Sunny (Akshay Kapoor), who are fantastic dancers. Sunny
falls in love with Rishi's sister Jeel (Bhavna Pani), only
to discover she was suppressing her burning desire to
dance. Sunny shows Jeel a whole new world through dance,
but unknowingly they revive Rishi's painful and dark past.
Rehan is haunted by visions of his mother performing
dances at sleazy joints and not surprisingly he dislikes
the idea of his kid-sister wearing her dancing shoes and
starts gyrating. Surprisingly Rehan strongly aspires to be
an accomplished dancer some day.
Akshay’s character is shown to
have a roving eye, but he honestly falls for his pal’s
sister Bhavna.
Vinod Khanna and Mahesh Manjrekar have nothing worthwhile
to do in this flick, while the youngsters pitch in decent
performances. Rehan, Akshay and Bhavna make a sincere
attempt. Siddhanth Karnick and Sabina Sheema are perfect.
Fast Forward features a heady mix of dance sequences - hip
hop, Salsa, Rumba, Samba, well choreographed and something
new. But the weakness lies in a poor script. Anyway it was
an honest attempt to make such an out-and-out dance film
with fresh faces.
- PAW
Credits & Crew:
Produced by Anjum Rizvi
Directed by Zaigham Ali Syed
Lyrics - Shabbir Ahmed, Javed Akhtar, Irshad Kamil
Screenplay, Dialogues - Rahil Qazi, Pawan Sony
Rxecutive Producer - Naren Kumar
Choreographers – Sonia Jaffer, Vishnu Deva, Seema Desai
Original Music by Akbar Sami
Cinematography by Abdul Wahab
Film Editing by Sandeep Francis
Sound Editor - Renganaath Ravee
Sound Design - Vivek Sachidanand
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