Writer-director Taraporevala delivers a by-the-numbers movie that hits the requisite beats of a slum-to-stardom template, including an obligatory moment where a disapproving parent is won over by their kid's talent, without any special touches. Unfortunately, Yeh Ballet - “yeh” is Hindi for this is - is nowhere as brave as its protagonists. Think of it as Gully Boy, but for dance, or an Indian version of Billy Elliot.
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.
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. 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.
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