Overview
- Best of the Best premiered on Netflix on Friday, September 18, 2026, and is now available to stream worldwide.
- The film stars Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Priyanka Kedia as lifelong friends who join UCLA’s competitive Bollywood‑fusion dance team, and it was directed by Lena Khan from a script by Hasan Minhaj and Prashanth Venkataramanujam.
- Critics commonly praise Ramakrishnan and Kedia’s chemistry and the film’s large, hybrid choreography, while several reviews say editing choices frequently break the flow of dance sequences and blunt their impact.
- The soundtrack is a major talking point, featuring wide-ranging licensed tracks and an original A. R. Rahman song, and lead actors underwent months of intensive dance training with choreographers credited on the production.
- Reviewers note the film’s clear focus on South Asian‑American campus life and the college Bollywood‑fusion circuit, and its mainstream Netflix release could raise public awareness of that longstanding campus culture even as some critics call the story predictable.