Naach

Naach
Naach
Soundtrack album by Amar Mohile, Shailendra-Swapnil & Nitin Raikwar
Released	15 October 2004
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	38:42
Language	Hindi
Label	T-Series

Naach
Naach
	Poster
Directed by	Ram Gopal Varma
Written by	Pooja Ladha Surti; Sulekha Bajpai; Musharaff Ali Khan
Produced by	Ram Gopal Varma; Chitra Subramaniam
Starring	Abhishek Bachchan; Antara Mali; Ritesh Deshmukh
Cinematography	Kiran Reddy
Edited by	Amit Parmar; Nipun Gupta
Music by	Songs; Amar Mohile; Shailendra-Swapnil; Nitin Raikwar; Background Score; Amar Mohile
Production; company	RGV Film Company
Distributed by	T-Series
Release date	12 November 2004;
Running time	150 minutes
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹130 million (US$1.6 million)
Box office	₹32 million (US$380,000)

Naach ('Dance') is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language dance film directed by Ram Gopal Varma, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Antara Mali and Riteish Deshmukh.

Synopsis

Abhinav (Abhishek Bachchan) and Reva (Antara Mali) are two, middle-class citizens in the big city of Mumbai. Both are trying to get a breakthrough in their individual professions. Abhinav wants to be an actor and Reva wants to be a choreographer. Both meet, fall in love, and spend some intimate moments together.

Abhinav tries to help Reva out. Things get better when he gets his first film offer, however, Reva refuses his help and wants to make it on her own. Abhinav becomes a huge star. She eventually gets her first offer to choreograph but the director had only wanted to approach Abhinav through her. Eventually, both of them drift apart and break up.

Reva finally gets a genuine offer to choreography by Diwakar (Riteish Deshmukh), who really likes her style and work. Reva by now has become a huge star, and soon she is given the offer to work with Abhinav.

The rest of the film focuses on whether Abhinav and Reva can put their differences aside and if they get back together.

Cast

Abhishek Bachchan as Abhinav Kalantri
Antara Mali as Reva
Ritesh Deshmukh as Diwakar Pandit
Rajesh Tandon as Sandesh
Priya Badlani as Priya
Manoj Pahwa as Director
Rajesh Khera as Rajesh Malhotra

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of Naach consists of 8 songs composed by Amar Mohile, Shailendra-Swapnil, and Nitin Raikwar; the lyrics of which were written by Nitin Raikwar, Taabish Romani, Jaideep Sahni, and Makrand Deshpande.^[2]

Tracklist
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Berang Zindagi"	Nitin Raikwar	Nitin Raikwar	Sukhwinder Singh & Gayatri Iyer	04:43
2.	"Naach Naach Ke"	Taabish Romani	Shailendra-Swapnil	Shweta Pandit	04:49
3.	"Ishq Da Tadka"	Nitin Raikwar	Nitin Raikwar	Adnan Sami & Sonu Kakkar	05:04
4.	"Sara Sara"	Taabish Romani	Amar Mohile	Kunal Ganjawala, Hema Sardesai & Gayatri Ganjawala	03:02
5.	"Rakth Ka Hai" (Reprise)	Makrand Deshpande	Shailendra-Swapnil	Makrand Deshpande	06:13
6.	"Bandhane Lagi"	Jaideep Sahni	Amar Mohile	Shweta Pandit & Sumit Kumar	06:11
7.	"Awara Man Mein"	Nitin Raikwar	Amar Mohile	Shweta Pandit	03:05
8.	"Rakth Ka Hai"	Nitin Raikwar	Shailendra-Swapnil	Kunal Ganjawala & Shweta Pandit	05:35
Total length:					38:42

Critical reception

Rujuta Paradkar of Rediff found the story and music of the film to be weak and the structure of the film to be inspired by Rangeela. The critic gave the film a rating of 3.5 out of 5.^[3] Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama praised the acting performances of Antara Mali and Abhishek Bachchan and gave the film a rating of 1.5 out of 5 saying that, "NAACH lacks in that vital department that’s the lifeline of every film – script."^[4] Aniket Joshi of Planet Bollywood was impressed with the acting performances of the lead actors specially Antara Mali about whom he said that, "Antara Mali probably gives the performance of her career". The critic gave the film a rating of 8 out of 10 saying that, "Though Naach is not outstanding, it is still one of the better films to come out this year. Naach is a must see for all the Bollywood fans who want to see a "real" love story."^[5]