Fast Forward Movie Reviews

Firm friends Rishi (Rehan Khan in an assured performance) and Sunny (Akshay Kapoor) are obsessed with dancing. But the dancing buddies always run short of cash. They even perform at weddings to make some money. Enter Vinod Khanna, who runs a place called Cave, where dancers perform in a WWF kind of ring and the audience selects a winner. Rishi's gang vanquishes the earlier winner. But there's a return challenge show where the loser must pay

A dance film should be uplifting and entertaining, buoyed by a great soundtrack. The acting and story do not matter as long as the moves, choreography and set pieces blow you away. Fast Forward is out of step on all counts. The story and acting are amateur, weak and one-dimensional, but the biggest disappointment is the dance. The dancers are depicted as being down-and-out losers or rebels without a cause who are supposedly driven by passion for dance

Films like DIRTY DANCING and GREASE have enthralled millions of moviegoers across the globe. There have been few attempts to make out-and-out dance-based films in Bollywood, although there's a barrage of dance-based shows on television these days. FAST FORWARD, directed by debutante Zaigham Ali Syed, has some brilliantly choreographed songs, but there's a hitch: Absence of a gripping storyline. Actually, FAST FORWARD stands on a faulty story and the patchy screenplay