| Chance Pe Dance | |
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Theatrical release poster |
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| Directed by | Ken Ghosh |
| Produced by | Ronnie Screwvala |
| Screenplay by | Ken Ghosh Nupur Ashtana Manu Rishi |
| Starring | Shahid Kapoor Genelia D'Souza |
| Music by | Adnan Sami Pritam Chakraborty Ken Ghosh Sandeep Shirodkar |
| Cinematography | Hari Vendanta |
| Distributed by | UTV Motion Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 15, 2010 |
| Running time | 158 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | 25 crores |
Chance Pe Dance (English: Chance to Dance) is a Bollywood comedy film starring Shahid Kapoor and Genelia D'Souza. It is directed by Ken Ghosh and produced by Ronnie Screwala under his banner, UTV Motion Pictures.[1] The film was released on 15 January 2010. The film's working title was Yahoo and another title, Star, was also considered.[2] Also the film was shot halfway through with Jiah Khan as the heroine, but was later replaced by Genelia D'Souza.
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Sameer Behl (Shahid Kapoor) comes to Mumbai with Bollywood dreams, struggles through the day as a courier boy and keeps failing in auditions for advertisements. More stereotypes are stuffed in as he refuses to take help from his dad in Delhi, is thrown out from his rented flat by the landlord and comes away with his calculative companion. Soon Sameer is signed as the male lead in a film and friend Tina (Genelia D'Souza) is selected as the choreographer on the same project. Both homeless and jobless now, Sameer sleeps in his car and works as a dance teacher in a school. Subsequently Sameer loses his film and is disillusioned. Tina encourages him to participate in a television talent-hunt show, the winner of which will win the same role that Sameer was to play. In his screen-test, Sameer dedicates his monologue to his mother. After his monologue, during the interview, he comes to know that his father's shop in Delhi has been demolished. He leaves Mumbai to meet his father heart-broken about the whole thing. After watching Sameer's performance in the TV, his father convinces him to go back to Mumbai and participate in the show.
After coming back to the show, he is initially denied an entry at the show due to his late entry, however he is given a chance to perform at the show after Sameer convinces the director. He wins the show and is shown later to be the hero of the movie "Chance pe Dance" walking the Red Carpet a year later with Tina.
Yahoo was the film's working title, but later, Ken Ghosh confirmed the title Chance Pe Dance in August 2009. Star was also considered, in the initial stages, but the makers rejected it as a film was released in early 2008 starring Kunal Khemu was titled Superstar.
Katrina Kaif was rumoured to be Shahid’s co-star but the makers eventually chose Jiah Khan. She shot for the film but was asked to leave halfway through. Reportedly, she got over-friendly with Shahid Kapoor and was not doing her job well. She was replaced by Genelia D'Souza who shot her scenes in a whirlwind schedule.[3] Chance Pe Dance is loosely based on Shahid Kapoor and D'Souza's lives as it was mentioned on Tere Mere Beach Mein, a show hosted by Farah Khan, that they were both given a second chance in life.
The film was promoted on STAR Plus's Music Ka Maha Muqqabla on Episode 8.
The film opened to a poor response both on the box office and the reviews panel. The film was declared a 'Flop' within one week of its release.
| No. | Title | Artist(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Pe... Pe... Pepein...." | Neeraj Shridhar, Master Saleem, Hard Kaur | 4:21 |
| 2. | "Pump It Up" | Vishal Dadlani | 4:56 |
| 3. | "Pal Mein Hi" | Soham, Shreya Ghoshal | |
| 4. | "One More Dance" | Kunal Ganjawala | |
| 5. | "Yaba Daba Yahoo" | Kunal Ganjawala | |
| 6. | "Rishta Hai Mera" | Shaan, Tulsi Kumar | |
| 7. | "Just Do It" | Amit Kumar | |
| 8. | "Pump It Up" (Remix) | Vishal Dadlani | |
| 9. | "Pe... Pe... Pepein...." (Duet) | Neeraj Shridhar, Master Saleem, Tulsi Kumar, Hard Kaur |