Chance Pe Dance for starters wasn’t promoted well. Like someone mentioned in the comments section, there could probably be only two reasons; One, the makers weren’t too confident of their product or two, they were over confident. Sadly, it turned out to be the former as no hype or money wasted on marketing, would have saved this struggler’s tale directed by Ken Ghosh of Ishq Vishq fame.
Chance Pe Dance is about Sameer (Shahid Kapoor) and his struggle to make it big in the film industry. He fights against every hurdle that comes his way to achieve his dream. He is helped by choreographer and good friend Tina (Genelia D’Souza), who pushes him to participate in a dance competition, which finally helps him get his ‘dream role’.
The biggest flaw in Chance Pe Dance is the script, which is full of glaring loopholes. The story is nothing new, again a underdog tale, but just that you never feel or connect with any of the characters. Apart from the well choreographed dance sequences and exactly 2 well directed scenes, almost everything falls flat – which includes music and performances by the lead stars.
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Story: Boring, predictable and clichéd with unnecessary melo-drama that is too hard to digest in today’s times.
Direction: Below average at best. Ken Ghosh seems to be slipping with each film.
Music: So very important for a film like Chance Pe Dance. But 4 music composers combined (Adnan Sami, Pritam, Sandeep Shirodkar and the director Ken Ghosh himself) don’t get one song right.
Acting: Girls would swoon over his 6 packs, but performance-wise this has to be Shahid’s weakest in a long long time. Genelia D’Douza hams, never gets her diction right. The rest are wasted.
Choreography: Is fantastic by Marty Kudelka and Ahmed Khan. Shahid is in top-form on the dance floor, but bad music kind of ruins the experience.
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Overall, Chance Pe Dance is a weak product that makes Ghosh’s previous work – Fida – look like a classic. At the box office, the film has no chance whatsoever. Yet another open week for 3 Idiots to continue its mind numbing run.
Rating: 
Avoid
@ indicine
although i have already bought the tickets for midnight show tonight, yet I have this gut feeling that i’ll more or less agree with your review after watching it. I tried my best to resist the urge to buy the tickets, but then me and my wife…both are movie freaks and decided to go for it (thought we both share the opinion that its not going to be a good experience)
and just to show off a little bit…it was me who wrote the two possible reasons for low publicity (as quoted by you in the begining of the review) :) … thanks for remembering my words. this shows how carefully you read the user comments.
Will share my views after watching the movie.
Yeh kaisa review hai jo shuru hote hi khatam ho gaya.
Why your revies are short always
Chance Pe Dance is very important for Shahid Kapoor because after great success of Jab we Met and Kaminay now Shahid has gotten good value in bollywood. Another thing his last release Dil Bole Haddipa wasn’t work good on box office.Will it works? Let’s see
Story:
Shahid Kapoor ( Samir Behl ) is strugging actor who came from Delhi to Mumbai to be an actor. He meets to Genelia ( Tina ) who is also struggling to be a choreographer. Both fall in love and that’s it.
Story is very old. We have already watched a lots of movies about struggling hero or struggling singers. Last year farhan Akhtar’s Luck By Chance was also this kind of movie which did average business on box office.Movie starts very well with introduction and daily routine of Shahid. His first meeting with genilia was also good. But after 15 minute audience can understand that what will happened next and you won’t be disappoint about your prediction. Everything happened the way you think.
Worth of the movie:
1. Shahid kapoor’s mind blowing performance
2. Genelia’s beautiful look
3. Some emotional scenes are well executed
4. At interval and Shahid’s Final audition which telecast on TV is really well
5. Shahid and Genelia’s chemistry is very good and in recent some movies except Pyaar Impossible at this time main female lead got good chance to perform. And she did
Performances:
1. Shahid Kapoor is rocking again , after Jab We Met and Kaminay he proved his self again that he is one of the good actors in bollywood. He danced very well like Hritik Roshan style and in emotional scenes he was also awesome.
2. Genelia performed very good her performance was batter then Jany Tu Ya Janay Na and she looks beautiful and more mature.
3. Mohnish Behl wasted and did over acting .
Direction:
Ken Ghosh made Ishq Vishq and Fida which were good movies but didn’t work well on box office. At this time he should have select good idea and batter script but he failed to get good script and then fail to execute it in well direction.
Music:
Music is by Adnan Sami and Pritam. If you are making dancing musical movie then you should have best music. But Ken didn’t get good music. None of any song is good.‘Pump it up’ and ‘Pal main he’ are batter songs. Dance are good in all songs but may be Ken Ghosh didn’t know that people buy music for listening not for watching.
Negative Points:
1. Lack of Script. Movie hasn’t one theme. It changed its track
2. There wasn’t necessary school scenes and kids dance competition. It stucked the main story.
3. There wasn’t necessary Shahid’s fathers scenes in second half. But Ken made it well.
4. Climax is very weak. You are watching movie and you think that now movie got good track and it will be batter and suddenly u will see ‘The End’ then you will surprise that suddenly what happened with movie how can it finish so early within 110 minute running time .
5. A musical dancing movie without any good song looks like Bariyani without meat.
Over All
Chance Pe Dance is good in some parts like Shahid’s Performance, Genelia’s cute look and some good emotional scenes. These plus points can take it to average business. And CPD has only one week for work since most awaited movie Veer is releasing very next week.
Rating
2/ 5 XX (Very less chance for dance with joy for director Ken Ghosh)
Guru Paa jee
this movies doenst have enough stuff to say , so indicine didnt bother their self to put more effort .
indicine nice review i am agree with u and u again also noticed that points which i noticed and taran was also thought like us.
it means this movie is univarsally 1.5 – 2.5 star
i personally like emotional movies , like tum bin , mann , london dreams so in begining i thought 2.5 star but i know that this movie deserve maximum 2 stars.
1 star for shahid’s another good performance.
1 star for genelia’s cute look.
.5 star for good emotions.
indicine team:
did u like interval scene ??? i really liked that and shahid’s audition in hall where u told about his mom.
and what did u feel when u say that shahid has become a star and then suddenly movie finished ???
i was surprised and shocked that how come this movie finish within 2 hrs
plz tell me ur comments abt it.
Guru Paa jee
yeh movie bhi shoro hote hi khatam ho jati hai
especially post interval part is only 45 min.
indicine team
when i watched Paa then there were only 9 people in hall and today i broke my record
do u know how many people with me ???
000000000
beleive me i watched this movie alone in 150 seated hall.
i asked security officer that
heyyy mate am i the only one ?
he said yes
i said thx God it is not a horrer movie.
hahahha
Gurvinderpal, not many are interested in reading long reviews. Most just go through the performances and rating. And also Chance Pe Dance doesn’t even deserve a detailed analysis. It just didn’t work. If you wanna know more, you can always ask here and we’d be only glad to respond.
Nauman, thought Shahid wasn’t too great in the film and where was the chemistry that you were talking about? There were no emotions involved and as a viewer you never even feel the struggle of the struggler.
indicine team:
shahid wasnt great like jab we met or kaminay but he was batter then Dil Bole Haddipa…
and their were a lots of scens combine with Shahid and Genelia, especially 2nd half when they spend a night in Shahid’s car and raing scene.
at interval movie looks good ,
tell me abt ending wasnt u in shock when suddenly movie finished ???
i was really thinking that now his next career has started and they will show that after getting star power how will he feel and how will he handle these things, even i thought that now he will kicked out Genelia and he will start romance with any other super star hereon , just like Luck By Chance. but nothing happened and movie finished.
wasnt it a jok from ken Ghosh ??
now time to sleep already 12:35 am and i hv to wake up at 5 am so 4 hrs for sleep.
indicine
see u early in the morning with other veiwers comments
and u said that u will send me e mail on this weekend, but u didnt send me yet .
i am still waiting ur reply.
bye
Good review Indicine team ….. totally agree with you……The film is vryy predictable and boring…Just as i xpectd
don’t know how does a person eating just one bread a day has 8-pack abs in the movie
Indicine team, I just want to know if you are using any SEO techniques for indicine. Please reply in yes or no if you dont want to go into details
I think Fathiya will like this movie….lolz
@Rony– well said.. he he am sure she will praise it n give a big essay on meaningful cinema ;)
@ Rony
great comment
i think both Fathiya and Tawny will love dis film. dey will rate alongisde DDLJ
no offence intended
Its perfectly okay for each of us to have different tastes. :)
@ Indicine
my comment was lighthearted
Boring movie which puts you to sleep after 15 -20 mins. Watch it only if you want to see Genelia and Shahid for 2 hours. As indicine said movie was very predictable.
1 / 5
My Review for CPD
There is one simple question for Mr. Ken Ghosh…”Why did he ever felt the need to make this movie?”…The question would probably make more sense if I translate it into Urdu / Hindi…”Aakhir eisi kya museebat paree thee film bananey ki janab??”
I mean what was the point behind making this film? I just want to sit on Ken Ghosh’s place and i want to find out one good reason to motivate me to go ahead for the film…Is the subject so different that even my poor execution will be overshadowed?? do i have such a brilliant execution in my mind which will make even an ordinary subject look fresh and appealing?? Do i have brilliant dialogues and a wonderful script which will ensure the return of investments and efforts??? do i have a soundtrack which can pull the crow to theaters???
If i had asked these questions to my own self and if i had been honest in answering them…i wouldn’t have found a single reason to proceed with making the film.
Ok fine…I rope a very talented actor in the shape of Shahid Kapoor, who is an emerging star…but then, in order to act, any actor would need a script and some dialogues with substance. The strongest of talents can not work without a direction.
Thus, the only good thing about the film…Shahid Kapoor’s sincere attempts to save it from becoming a complete disaster…doesn’t work. He is fresh and tries to infuse as much energy as possible into an extremely weak plot and lifeless dialogues.
The film suffers with an immense absence of script and there is practically no direction involved to come out with good results. It seems that while making the film, it was clear to everyone that it won’t work and that is why the publicity expenditures were kept at a bare minimum.
There is not a single song which can be termed as a chart-buster; there is not a single scene which is properly written. The only good segments (and believe me, they are very minimal in number) are those where Shahid throws a good expression or speaks a dialogue in an effective manner. And these scenes too were bearable due to Shahid’s talent rather than the scene itself being effective.
Genelia looks ravishing, but again, her role doesn’t give her any meat at all to work upon. Mohnish Behl, Vikas Bhalla and each and every supporting actor (including child artists) seem artificial and try too hard to appear good.
I had gone to the cinema with a very low level of expectations from this film…and even then, the film turned out to be below my expectations. I can’t figure out why they make such films; why they take the audience for granted; and above all, why do we still have such people who give practically no importance to the content and execution.
There is no point discussing if the film will work or not; it definitely has no chance at all. Try to save yourself from the agony and if you are a die-hard Shahid Kapoor fan, then wait for the DVD.
My Rating: 1/5
very boring…….. 0.5/5
boring… fathia wud luv it.
nauman is alwaz gud, and liked his blog 2….carry on.
The movie is a trash, shahid overacted & made faces like srk, genelia looked fresh but her character has no backbone. the dancing is the same shahid has done before……i was hoping he wud better it.
akhlaq bhai
very nice review keep it up i like it
Bijendra:
thx for ur compliment but i think Akhlaq did batter job than me.
@Akhlaq ..Nice Review.I just watched this crap movie.Ken Gosh is not the only person to be blamed.How can Shahid Kapoor even sign such a movie???This is one of the worst movies of Shahid recently.
@Nauman–Dil Bole Haddipa was better than CPD,atleast it had good music plus humour was more entertaining in that.Btw nice review as usual.
Shahid,Please stop working with Ken Gosh.He gave you break with Ishq Vishq but that doesn’t mean you should thank him whole life by doing movies like Fida and CPD.
Indicine..When are you posting Box Office Updates of CPD?
@ Akhlaq
good analysis of CPD
wat r ur expectations of VEER
Akhlaq good review. Chance Pe Dance was yet another case of utter case of time, energy, money and talent. Have you seen Ishq Vishq? What did you thin of it?
Rex, when the product is bad.. everything including decent performances by actors and well choreographed songs lose value. Script and its execution (direction) is most important to any film.
Hina, Is anyone really interested in going through the box office updates? Opening is poor and its going the Pyaar Impossible way..
Thanks alot everyone for the encouraging remarks on my review. I’m really glad u liked it.
@Nauman, bhayee it so nice of u to call my review better than yours, but the fact is that i always read ur review as a guideline before writing my own. Your reviews are among the factors which motivated me to start writing reviews of my own.
@Hina; u r absolutely right. Shahid has to be careful in selecting his scripts. He is very talented and has to work intelligently to develop his career.
@ Naveed, my expectations from veer are sky high. I know that salman is going to give the best of himself as this is his most belove project. The hype is also there. The only factor to be seen is how the director has pulled it off. Anxiously waitin for friday.
@indicine, yeah i’ve seen ishk vishk. Well i would rate it 2.5/5. The story was nothing new but atleast the music was nice and the treatment was fresh. Shahid was a pleasent surprise as a debutant. I think ken’s best work till date is ‘fida’ although that too was quite a let down.
Akhlaq Bhai:
thx for ur compliment abt me that u think my reviews guide line for u . it is really honour for me.i still think that ur reviews are batter then me .
but i am sorry to say that from now onword i wont put my reviews on indicine.
i am watching Veer on thursday but i wont out my review here.
what is the reason i will let u know within 2 days.
Hina:
i dont need to say u thx abt ur comment abt my review. and u know the reason.
indicine:
i think Ken Ghosh is not good director.
Ishq Vishq was very ordinary movie and nothing was new eccept 3 main lead casts.
Fida was good thrill with Shahid’s performance and Annu’s good music
CPD we know abt that
my rating
Ishq Vishq 2/5
Fida 3.5 /5
CPD 2/5
Indicine.. Not everybody is interested in Box-ofiice updates of CPD.But its part of your job to post weekly box office collections of every movie?
@Akhlaq ..He needs to be careful after Vivah,Jab we met and Kaminey alot is expected 4m this talented star.
@Nauman..lolz..don’t be
yeah surely rony and others wat you said is right…that old faaath faathiya will like this movie and will praise a lot..shes like that only….wat the whole world will say she’s just the opposite…just like all ppl write from left to right arabs write from right to left…..ha ha he he.