Heartbeats

Heartbeats is a 2017 romance-dance-dramedy written and directed by Step Up creator Duane Adler. The movie stars newcomers Krystal Ellsworth and Amitash Pradhan. Cast Krystal Ellsworth as Kelli Daphne Zuniga Justin Chon Paul McGillion Aneesha Joshi as Deepika Amitash Pradhan as Aseem Salman Yusuff Khan as Pallav Kishori Shahane Mohan Kapur Development Duane Adler, music supervisor Joel C. High and producers Andrea Chung and Sriram Das teamed up with Roc Nation to create original music for the movie and the film's choreography. Sony Music later acquired the soundtrack. Chung studied abroad in India at NYU and was a fan of Adler's Save the Last Dance, in 2013 she approached Adler about developing a cross-over dance movie with Indian and American Contemporary musical and dance mash-up highlighting the celebration of the two cultures and discovered Adler too wanted to make a cross-cultural film.