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Naach: The surreal dance
13th Nov 2004 22.30 IST
By Aparajita Ghosh

In his latest movie Naach , filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma moves towards realism to tell a credible story embellished with his excellent cinematic technique and direction – thereby giving the movie a surreal and a somewhat abstract look.

Naach is an intense love story about two characters with strong principles and values that drive them apart and eventually bring them together too.

It tells the story of two strugglers in the film industry. Reva ( Antara Mali ) is an aspiring choreographer who ridicules the dances in films for being too outdated and without soul. She wants to change the very style of choreography in films.

Abhi ( Abhishek Bachchan ), on the other hand, is a struggling actor who accepts the industry as it is and wants to get a break soon. Like Reva, he too has his own principles and lives by his own code.

Lady luck smiles on Abhi and he gets his first acting break, while Reva continues to struggle. As time passes Abhi goes on to become a big star and the ideological differences between Abhi and Reva become bigger and the two part their ways.

Reva gets her first shot at fame in a music video and goes onto become successful star. Abhi and Reva meet again and they get to work together in a musical film too. As the two get together again, the chemistry and the ‘animal instinct’ between the two often reflects in the flashes of their repressed love coming out.

Naach is yet another attempt at cinematic experimentation by RGV. He punctuates his script with pregnant silences that are often broken by characters’ facial expression telling the unsaid. And he pays meticulous attention to every detail to make a scene look as authentic as possible.

Another strong point of the movie is the way Ramu has shot the film’s songs, using stylistic cinematography with queer makeup and popish ambience.