Das Films, Myriad Pictures and Bowery Hills Entertainment’s Hollywood dance romance film, ‘Heartbeats’ has started its shoot in India. 

‘Step Up’ creator Duane Adler wrote and is directing Heartbeats with Ravi Varman as the director of photography. ‘Heartbeats’ boasts an interesting cast which includes: Dancer Krystal Ellsworth, known for her work in Fame and as a backup dancer for Pharrell, Nick Jonas and Justin Bieber, Paul McGillion, Daphne Zuniga, Justin Chon, rising Tamil star Amitash Pradhan, Dance India Dance winner Salman Yussuf Khan.

‘Heartbeats’ is a journey of an all-American girl Kelli (Krystal Ellsworth), a young hip-hop dancer who travels to India for a week-long Indian wedding and falls in love with a new style of dance, the culture and with a young man who introduces it to her (Amitash Pradhan). which helps her later on when she returns to the States.  The movie will emerge dance and romance with the beauty of Indian culture, people, customs, history and scenery.

Jay-Z's Roc Nation is producing original songs alongside composer Gingger Shankar, an Oscar nominee for ‘The Passion of the Christ’. The songs will feature traditional and contemporary Indian music and American hip-hop and R&B.

While not classified specifically as a Bollywood film, this should have appeal for fans of the genre which increasingly span the globe.

‘Heartbeats’ is one of the few films where Hollywood meets Bollywood. It is about an American dancer who travels to India for a week long wedding and falls in love with an Indian man who teaches her a new style of dance which helps her later on when she returns to the States.  The movie will emerge dance and romance with the beauty of Indian culture, people, customs, history and scenery.