About Waack Girls
| Title: | Waack Girls |
|---|---|
| Plot: | Six Kolkata girls create Waack Girls, a dance group in a city unfamiliar with waacking. Led by Ishani, an expert waacker and managed by Lopa, this light hearted story is filled with music, dance, comedy and drama. |
| Cast: | Mekhola Bose, Achintya Bose, Barun Chanda, Rytasha Rathore, Anasua Chowdhury, Chrisann Pereira |
| Director: | Sooni Taraporevala |
| Cinematography: | Igor Kropotov |
| Editor: | Jahan Bativala |
Waack Girls
Shubhra Gupta
The Indian Express
Prime Video show is good-natured, well-intentioned
Some of the most engaging parts of the show, co-written by Taraporevala, Iyanah Batlivala, and Ronny Sen are those, ironically, when there’s no dancing.
An underdog dance group making something of itself: right from the opening frame of Waack Girls, you know that this will be the trajectory of this rag-tag bunch, based in Kolkata. But this Sooni Taraporevala-created-and-directed nine part series attempts to build in differentials. First off, Kolkata is still not a city you’d think of when it comes to street style dancing and underground meetings where dance-offs occur. A lovely Cal feeling is captured in a crumbling old mansion, in a tony club, in the corner puchka-wala, and in the accents people use. You do see some familiar structures on the skyline, like the Howrah Bridge, but they are just there, no emphasis laid. That is refreshing.