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CALL ME DANCER

By Leslie SHAMPAINE, Pip GILMOUR

FIRST HAND FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2023

Billy Elliott meets Slumdog Millionaire - but for real.

Festivals
& Awards

Santa Barbara IFF 2023

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Leslie SHAMPAINE, Pip GILMOUR
- Producer(s)
- Leslie SHAMPAINE (Shampaine Pictures)
- Synopsis
- Manish grew up in the crowded chaos of Mumbai – known as the city of dreams. He is athletic, handsome, a dutiful son, and he fantasizes about living the life of a military or Bollywood action hero. He has no desire to go to the business school that his overworked father has saved for day and night. When he discovers hip-hop and then classical ballet at an inner-city dance school, he is captivated by the athletic movement. He comes under the tutelage of Yehuda, an aging ballet master who recently arrived in Mumbai. Manish devotes himself to an art form that is virtually unknown in India and struggles to prove to his family that he can beat the odds and make it as a world-class professional dancer.
  
  So begins the story of a young man who dreams of dancing on the world stage and a teacher who inspires him to fight against the cultural, economic and physical barriers. Together they embark on a mission to prove that their passion for dance can break all boundaries.