Aayna Ka Bayna also known as Delinquent Dancers is a 2012 Marathi-language musical drama film written and directed by Samit Kakkad. The film stars Sachin Khedekar and Amruta Khanvilkar while Siddesh Pai, Amit Rokade, Dinesh Kamble, Pravin Nair, Anand Chavan, Sanket Farad, Rahul Kulkarni, Akhilesh Vishvakarma and Nikhil Rajemahadik portray pivotal roles. A group of juveniles living in a remand home possess amazing dancing skills, but their path is hindered by their warden. Two dance masters assist and guide these aspirants towards their goal.
The film received positive response from critics and audience upon release. Moreover, it went on to screened at twelve film festivals across the globe and won several accolades, it received two Zee Chitra Gaurav Awards and one Sanskruti Kala Darpan Award while internationally it won ten awards at CineRockom International Film Festival, including Best Feature Film, Best Director (Kakkad), Best Actor (Khedekar) and Best Actress (Khanvilkar).
Plot
The story about group of juveniles living in a remand home who are eagerly trying to sort out their bleak lives. To help them, Shivani uses the dance therapy to counsel them. As a part of it, these boys get a chance to take part in a dance competition. But their strict warden Sathe opposes them. The boys then decide to escape and show their special talent to the world.
Cast
Sachin Khedekar as Harshwardhan Sathe
Amruta Khanvilkar as Shivani
Ganesh Yadav as Kishore Kadam
Rakesh Vashisht as Sagar
Siddesh Pai as Chuttan
Amit Rokade as Sample
Dinesh Kamble as Putran
Pravin Nair as Tochan
Anand Chavan as Mutra
Sanket Farad as Joseph
Rahul Kulkarni as Teen Patti
Akhilesh Vishvakarma as Bike Raja
Nikhil Rajemahadik as Vikash Pele
Sulabha Arya as Putran's mother
Chhaya Kadam as Chuttan's mother
Jaywant Wadkar as Chuttan's father
Nandakishor Choughule
Shaikh Sami Usman
Kiranraaj Pohe
Ranbir Chaudhari
Prashant Rane
Sagar Satpute as Chillar room boy
Santosh Juvekar as Anchor (special Appearance)
Production
Kakkad held an open auditions for the role of nine juveniles with the intension to cast dancers with the same background. 400 people showed up, coincidentally one of Rokade's nephews and four students from his dance school were signed for the movie. They underwent a 20 days acting workshop.
Soundtrack
The film songs and background score is composed by Ajit-Sameer. The title track of the film was choreographed by Umesh Jadhav even before the song was written by Vidyadhar Bhave and recorded. He took help of international tracks of Pitbull, Beyonce, Eminem and Michael Jackson among others to choreograph the nine hip-hop dancers. The remaining songs are choreographed by Boogie Woogie winner Rohan Rokade.
Release and reception
The film had its theatrical release on 30 November 2012 and in 2014 the film was dubbed in Hindi and aired on Sony Max. The film was chosen as a closing film of the Reelworld Film Festival, Toronto in 2013. The film subsequently screened at 39th Seattle International Film Festival, 10th Indian Film Festival Stuttgart.