HIP-HOP’S BOLLYWOOD MOMENT

“A DANCE NEEDS TO MAKE YOU HAPPY AND YOU NEED TO LOOK GOOD DOING IT, AND HIP-HOP HAS THAT EFFECT, IRRESPECTIVE OF GENDER”
—Bosco Martis, choreographer

Featuring a bunch of dancers who plied their trade on competitive reality TV shows, (2013) had next to no A-list stars, its most recognisable face being Prabhudeva. Yet choreographer Remo D’Souza’s second film as director, starring the terpsichorean talents of Salman Yusuff Khan, Dharmesh Yelande, Prince R. Gupta, Punit Pathak and Tushar Kalia, managed to gross nearly Rs 40 crore at the domestic box office. It was the fillip that the producers needed to start a dance franchise, much like the popular series in Hollywood. (2015) was inspired by the true story of Suresh Mukund and 2 crossed the Rs 100 crore mark. Its star, Varun Dhawan, who played Mukund, is poised to return on the big screen with his co-stars Shraddha Kapoor, Yelande, Pathak and Raghav Juyal in yet another dance flick helmed by D’Souza—Street .