Maitreyi Ramakrishnan gives Best Of The Best its anchor as Maya, one half of a lifelong pair who land at UCLA and then push straight into a Bollywood dance club. ’s review says the Netflix comedy works despite a plot that never pretends to hide its college-comedy bones.
On 18 September, the film arrives on Netflix with Lena Khan directing and Hasan Minhaj and Prashanth Venkataramanujam writing the script. Priyanka Kedia plays Anjali, the other friend at the center of the story, and the setup quickly turns into a clash over choreography rather than a fresh reinvention of campus-comedy rules.
UCLA to the dance club
Freshers’ week sends Maya and Anjali into UCLA and into the college’s Bollywood dance club, which is where the film starts to separate itself from a generic campus story. Ronak then becomes the obstacle inside the club, locking horns with Maya over how the new-season routine should move, with his push toward Bollywood weddings setting up the creative dispute.
That structure is the film’s business case. Best Of The Best keeps the familiar college-comedy outline, but it adds South Asian dance-competition energy and a cast built around Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Priyanka Kedia, which gives the movie a clearer audience lane than a standard campus farce. The result is less about novelty of plot than about how aggressively the film moves through it.
Hasan Minhaj and Prashanth Venkataramanujam
The script by Hasan Minhaj and Prashanth Venkataramanujam gives the comedy its snap, even as the review says the plot twists are instantly familiar. That combination is the point: the film is not selling surprise story mechanics so much as speed, rhythm, and performance, and Lena Khan’s direction is described as carrying infectious energy.
The choreography pushes that formula furthest when the ending folds in a heist plotline involving the Koh-i-Noor, the diamond now in the crown jewels. For viewers deciding whether to press play, that is the useful signal: this is a college comedy built on a recognizable template, but its dance numbers and final set-piece do the heavier lifting than the story engine.
Best Of The Best lands on Netflix from 18 September, and the review suggests the safest expectation is the right one: watch it for the movement, not the mystery.
