ABCD: Any Body Can Dance

ABCD: Any Body Can Dance
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRemo D'Souza
Written byScreenplay:
Tushar Hiranandani
Dialogues:
Amit Aaryan
Additional Dialogues & Lyrics:
Mayur Puri
Story byRemo D'Souza
Produced byRonnie Screwvala
Siddharth Roy Kapur
StarringPrabhu Deva
Ganesh Acharya
Kay Kay Menon
Lauren Gottlieb
Punit Pathak
Dharmesh Yelande
Salman Yusuff Khan
CinematographyVijay Kumar Arora
Edited byManan Ajay Sagar
Music bySachin–Jigar
Production
company
Distributed byUTV Motion Pictures
Release date
  • 8 February 2013 (2013-02-08)
Running time
143 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget12–42 crore[1][2]

ABCD: Anybody Can Dance is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language dance drama film directed and choreographed by choreographer Remo D'Souza and produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur under UTV Spotboy Motion Pictures.[3] The film stars Prabhu Deva in the lead role along with Ganesh Acharya and Kay Kay Menon. The participants in Dance India Dance appear in supporting roles.[4] Along with the Tamil and Telugu dubbed versions titled Aadalam Boys Chinnatha Dance and ABCD respectively, the film, made at a budget of between Rs 120 million and 420  million,[1][2] was released worldwide in 3D on 8 February 2013 to mostly positive reviews from critics.[5]

A sequel, Disney's ABCD 2 was released on 19 June 2015.

  1. ^ a b "Prabhudeva to hike his price post 'ABCD' success". India TV. 10 February 2013.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference toibudget was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Remo's dream comes true, AnyBody Can Dance goes on the floor zeenews.india.com
  4. ^ ABCD – AnyBody can Dance by Remo D'souza Archived 15 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine DanceIndiaDance.in
  5. ^ "Didn't want to release ABCD with Akshay's Special Chabbis: Prabhu Deva | NDTV Movies.com". Movies.ndtv.com. 7 February 2013. Archived from the original on 12 February 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2013.