The movie is about a New York dancer Dia (Madhuri Dixit) who decides to come back home when she hears news that her dance teacher is dying. Madhuri is late and her guru dies, but his last wish was to keep Ajantha, a theatre where they learnt dance safe, as the government has decided to demolish it and construct a shopping mall. Madhuri tries to persuade the MP Akshaye Khanna, but he asks her to prove that the theatre needs to be saved by performing a dance drama taking in only the villagers as the artists. Madhuri Dixit takes up the challenge and how she accomplishes it even after facing many obstacles form the rest of the story.

The movie reminds us of Lagaan and even so when Madhuri Dixit accepts the challenge, the background score is very much like Lagaan. But any movie can’t become Lagaan and it shows. The movie’s pace falters during the second half and goes through a lot of cliché’s which was thankfully not a part in the first half. The long drawn out Broadway musical style drama at the end was quite good but again, the inclusion of clichéd scenes of the audience getting involved with the drama and reacting to it spoils the impact a wee bit.

Director Anil Mehta has presented a straightforward story with some brilliantly executed sequences but the rest are contrived and pretty much over the top. The movie was expected to be inspirational but the protagonist gets her job done quite easily which is why our heart doesn’t go to her, an aspect which was why movies like Iqbal, or Chak de or Lagaan were accepted globally. Even after the climax, the baddies turns good in a jiffy but what made them change their mind? Anil Mehta has lost a golden opportunity, we must say, as he had the comeback girl