Netflix will release Best of the Best on September 18, a coming-of-age comedy about two childhood friends who join UCLA’s competitive Bollywood-fusion dance team. The film follows the pair as a college friendship turns into a demanding run toward a national competition.
Netflix’s official Tudum page says the friends discover that the route to the U.S. championships is tougher than they expected. The story places dance training, campus life and the pressure of competition at the center of the film rather than treating the performance scenes as a separate musical feature.
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Priyanka Kedia lead the cast. Netflix’s promotional material presents the two actors as the friends who step into UCLA’s team and face a much higher level of competition. Their characters must balance the excitement of joining the group with the work required to stay in it.
The team performs Bollywood-fusion dance, a style that combines Indian film-dance traditions with other choreography. That setting gives the movie a clear cultural and collegiate identity. The competition also creates the story’s main test: the friends must learn how to work together while trying to earn a place on a team built around performance and precision.
Netflix lists the film as PG-13 and gives it a runtime of about one hour and 52 minutes. The service has released a trailer that shows the dancers in rehearsals and on stage, with the campaign emphasizing the pair’s energy and the scale of the championship goal.
Hasan Minhaj is among the film’s co-writers, according to Netflix’s Tudum coverage. The project combines a campus comedy with a sports-style competition structure, using auditions, training and team pressure to move the characters through the story.
The September 18 date places Best of the Best among Netflix’s fall releases. It arrives shortly after several other high-profile titles in the service’s September schedule, but the movie stands apart through its Bollywood-fusion dance setting and its focus on two friends pursuing the same competitive goal.
For viewers deciding whether the film fits their watch list, the official synopsis offers a straightforward description. Two childhood best friends join a UCLA dance team, find that the road to the U.S. championships is difficult and must manage the personal and performance demands that follow.
Best of the Best will stream on Netflix from September 18, subject to the service’s local release timing. The movie’s early campaign is built around Ramakrishnan and Kedia, the dance team and the challenge of taking a college performance group to the national stage.
