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Despite the horribly clichéd story-line, the melodramatic crying, and the unintentionally comical scenes, what REALLY aggravated me about this movie was the fact that a significant portion of the dance choreography used in the film was STOLEN from other dance crews. In the final performance scene, one crew dons the iconic mask and gloves of Jabbawockeez Crew and continues to use their choreography. These very same "Jabbawockeez impostors" manage to incorporate the choreography of I.aM.Me Crew into their routine as well.

If that wasn't enough, when it comes to the final break dancing battle scene, the dancers blatantly steal routines from the famous Jinjo Crew. One dancer goes even further to use the signature "hat-trick" moves of bboy Vero (of Jinjo Crew).

In the break dancing community, when one bboy steals another bboy's moves, it is called "biting". In this movie, the dance choreographers bit off of bboy Vero, the rest of Jinjo Crew, I.aM.Me, and Jabbawockeez.

The theatrical elements are enough to earn this film a 3 or a 4, but the flagrant disrespect shown to several hardworking, original, un-credited dance crews, drops this movie down to a 1.

Aayna ka Bayna(2012): This 2012 Marathi Film was released before ABCD but was not able to create an eligible Fuss probably because of its Regional language limitations. However, this movie is by far the best attempt to portray topic like "Western Dance" taken up by Marathi film Industry(I know they are late) and I hope they will go a long way with this. Taking the same path as many other Hollywood Movies like step Up, Stomp the Yard or Street Dance, this movie too tried maintaing a storyline along with Dance sequels. The Movie is about a group of 9 youngsters who at early age of their life got associated with crime because of their circumstances. But while spending their life in Judicial Correction center come across with Shivani, who changes their outlook towards life by using "Dance Therapy". Movie is superb, wished I had a better print to watch but its Fine. Don't Miss out this one if you have subtitles available. And Last but not the Least.... Amruta khanvilkar Rocked yet again.. ;)