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Call Me Dancer is a 2023 documentary by director and producer Leslie Shampaine.

It is a story of perseverance, passion, culture and an unlikely friendship. This documentary follows Manish Chauhan, a street dancer from Mumbai, whose working-class parents depend on their only son’s financial support. When he accidentally walks into an inner-city dance school and encounters the brilliant but curmudgeonly 70-year-old Israeli ballet master Yehuda Maor, a hunger develops within him. The ambitious Manish becomes determined to make it as a professional dancer, but the odds are stacked against him. Together, Manish and Yehuda transform each other’s lives, searching to uncover who and what they are. Yehuda seeks purpose and a place to call home. Manish dreams of dancing on the world stage but struggles to break free from the confines of his economic and social circumstances.