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{{Infobox film
| name = Dance Like a Man
| image = Dance Like a Man.jpg
| alt =
| caption = DVD cover
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| director = [[Pamela Rooks]]
| writer =
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| story =
| based_on = {{Based on|''Dance Like a Man''|[[Mahesh Dattani]]}}
| producer = [[National Film Development Corporation of India|NFDC]]<br />Rooks A. V.
| starring = [[Shobana]]<br />[[Arif Zakaria]]<br />[[Anoushka Shankar]]
| narrator =
| cinematography = [[Sunny Joseph]]
| editing = Bina
| music = [[Ganesh and Kumaresh|Ganesh{{emdash}}Kumaresh]]
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| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2004|5|1}}
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| country = India
| language = English
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'''''Dance Like a Man''''' is a 2004 Indian English-language [[Dance in film|dance]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed by [[Pamela Rooks]] based on the play of the same name by [[Mahesh Dattani]].<ref>{{Cite web|title='Don't poke your audience, stroke them!'|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2004/oct/26mahesh.htm|access-date=8 October 2023|website=[[Rediff.com]]|date=26 October 2004|first=Subhash K.|last=Jha|author-link=Subhash K. Jha|archive-date=29 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429070130/https://www.rediff.com/movies/2004/oct/26mahesh.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The film stars [[Shobana]], [[Arif Zakaria]] and [[Anoushka Shankar]] in her acting debut.<ref>{{Cite web |title='I am not aching to pursue acting' |url=https://m.rediff.com/movies/2003/feb/15anu.htm |access-date=8 October 2023 |website=[[Rediff.com]] |date=15 February 2003 |archive-date=8 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231008044431/https://m.rediff.com/movies/2003/feb/15anu.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The film won the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dance like a winner|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/dance-like-a-winner/story-AFCLcbXugMxieKxYrIp3EO.html|access-date=8 October 2023|website=[[Hindustan Times]]|date=5 October 2004|first=Saibal|last=Chatterjee|archive-date=8 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231008044415/https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/dance-like-a-winner/story-AFCLcbXugMxieKxYrIp3EO.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Cast ==
*[[Shobana]] as Ratna
*[[Arif Zakaria]] as Jairaj Parekh
*[[Anoushka Shankar]] as Lata
*[[Mohan Agashe]] as Amritlal Parekh
*[[Samir Soni]] as Vishal

== Production ==
[[Shobana]] and [[Anoushka Shankar]] were cast in the film due to their expertise in [[Bharatanatyam]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shobana ready with Pamela Rooks' 'Dance Like a Man'|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/eyecatchers/story/20031229-shobana-ready-with-pamela-rooks-dance-like-a-man-791188-2003-12-28|website=[[India Today]]|date=29 December 2003|first=Kanika|last=Gahlaut|access-date=8 October 2023|archive-date=8 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231008044530/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/eyecatchers/story/20031229-shobana-ready-with-pamela-rooks-dance-like-a-man-791188-2003-12-28|url-status=live}}</ref> After liking [[Arif Zakaria]]'s performance as a eunuch in ''[[Darmiyaan: In Between|Darmiyaan]]'' (1997),<ref name="H">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/10/02/stories/2004100200500300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207053102/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/10/02/stories/2004100200500300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 February 2005|work=[[The Hindu]]|title=From stage to screen|date=2 October 2004|access-date=8 October 2023}}</ref> he was cast in this film and underwent training in Bharatanatyam. The film was shot in Bangalore akin to the play.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/bangalore-times/all-set-to-shoot-dance-like-a-man/articleshow/31102210.cms|title=All set to shoot Dance Like a Man|date=13 December 2002|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=8 October 2023|archive-date=30 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230930042629/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/bangalore-times/all-set-to-shoot-dance-like-a-man/articleshow/31102210.cms|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title='Dance Like A Man is an intimate story' |url=https://m.rediff.com/movies/2003/feb/19pamela.htm |access-date=8 October 2023 |website=[[Rediff.com]] |date=19 February 2003 |archive-date=8 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231008044417/https://m.rediff.com/movies/2003/feb/19pamela.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Shobana didn't watch the play because she didn't want to be influenced by it.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shobhana|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/shobhana/225396|website=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]|date=5 February 2022|first=Saumya|last=Roy|access-date=8 October 2023|archive-date=8 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231008044422/https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/shobhana/225396|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Reception ==
=== Critical response ===
Film critic [[Subhash K. Jha]] wrote that "Unlike Mahesh Dattani, who has deliberately denuded his film ''[[Morning Raga]]'' of the theatrical element, Pamela Rooks seems to revel in the staginess of the original material".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nowrunning.com/movie/1737/english/dance-like-a-man/326/review.htm|title=Dance Like A Man Review|via=Nowrunning|first=Subhash K.|last=Jha|author-link=Subhash K. Jha|date=30 September 2004|access-date=8 October 2023|archive-date=26 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926161303/https://www.nowrunning.com/movie/1737/english/dance-like-a-man/326/review.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> A critic from ''[[Rediff.com]]'' and wrote that "''Dance Like A Man'' can be lauded for trying, though it could have done much better to rise above the bookishness that often hampers the script".<ref>{{Cite web|title=When a man dances|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2004/oct/01dance.htm|access-date=8 October 2023|website=[[Rediff.com]]|date=1 October 2004|first=Bijoy|last=Venugopal|archive-date=14 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214145014/http://www.rediff.com/movies/2004/oct/01dance.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Reviewing the film at its Chennai screening in October of 2004,<ref name="H"/> a critic from ''[[The Hindu]]'' wrote that "On the whole the story and the time zones lend themselves to visual poetry at times eventhoughthe dialogue is painfully studied. The director uses the past and present in alternating sequences to tell the story and the visual imagery contrasts and merges with the narration. Adding mood to the striking frames are the classically tuned background score by Ganesh-Kumaresh, which heightens the sense of time and ambience in an artiste' s environment. But this is the kind of film that will attract only a niche audience".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2004100102160300.htm&date=2004/10/01/&prd=fr&|title=Dance Like A Man|date=1 October 2004|work=[[The Hindu]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127022038/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2004100102160300.htm&date=2004%2F10%2F01%2F&prd=fr&|archive-date=27 November 2007|url-status=usurped|first=Chitra|last=Mahesh|access-date=8 October 2023}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{IMDb title|0373779}}

{{National Film Award Best Feature Film English}}
[[Category:Indian dance films]]
[[Category:Indian drama films]]
[[Category:Best English Feature Film National Film Award winners]]

Dance Like a Man - Revision history

Amol kolhe at 04:45, 8 October 2023