Yeh Ballet is a fictionalised drama based on the life of Manish Chauhan and Amiruddin Shah, who rose to brilliance, despite the disapproval of their families. Before the show hit the digital screens, Sooni Taraporevala (the director) had also shot a documentary on the subject back in 2017.
Nishu (Manish Chauhan) is a college-goer and the only son of a taxi driver. Asif (Achintya Bose), on the other hand, is a boisterous teenager from the slums who works for a gangster part-time, to earn a few extra bucks. As fate would have it, the two end up joining the Mumbai Dance Academy to shake a leg at ballet and immediately start on the wrong foot.
The artists are mentored by Sam Aaron (Julian Sands) - an unusual ballet teacher who motivates them to tread along the dancing path despite their economic disparities, societal prejudices, and disapproval of their families.
Yeh Ballet Movie Cast, Release Date, Trailer, Songs and Ratings
In late 2016, Manish Chauhan and Amiruddin Shah, two Navi Mumbai kids from poor families, secured scholarships to one of the world's most prestigious ballet schools in the US, less than three years after they started learning the dance form. It's an extraordinary true story. And in mid-2017, Sooni Taraporevala — best known for co-writing or writing the Mira Nair films, Salaam Bombay! and The Namesake — presented it in 360-degree video with the short documentary, Yeh Ballet. Now less than three years later, Taraporevala is back with an eponymous film on Netflix — it's only her second directorial feature, in over a decade — that dramatises the boys' fairy-tale journey. Think of it as Gully Boy, but for dance, or an Indian version of Billy Elliot.