Release date: 21 Dec 2012 | ||
Director : Arbaaz Khan | ||
bollywood3.com Rating : 3.5/5 | ||
Producer : Arbaaz Khan, Malaika Arora Khan | ||
Music Director : Sajid-Wajid | ||
Starring: Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Prakash Raj |
Salman Khan always lives up to his fans expectations, and this time he is back with his super hit character Chulbul Pandey. Even though sequels of good movies turn out to be not-so-good, Dabangg 2 had a unique buzz right from the time when it was announced. Directed by debutante Arbaaz Khan, Dabangg 2 also stars Sonakshi Sinha and Prakash Raj in other lead roles. After some huge and unique promotions, Dabangg 2 has finally released. Let's see how it is.
Story:
Chulbul Pandey(Salman Khan) is transferred to Kanpur, where he lives with his wife, Rajjo(Sonakshi Sinha) father, Prajapati Pandey(Vinod Khanna) and brother Makkhi(Arbaaz khan). Chulbul being a fearless police officer that he is, solves a kidnapping case and messes with Baccha Bhaiya's(Prakash Raj) who is a politician with an immoral attitude. Chulbul fights his gang with his fearless attitude which leaves Baccha Bhaiya gnashing his teeth. He in turn takes revenge by harming Chulbul's unborn child. The rest of the story is how Chulbul retaliates to Baccha's crimes and comes out victorious.
Plus Points:
Salman Khan is his usual self, keeps the crowd yelling and cheering, scene after scene. His humor and romance is tremendous, but what make the viewers stuck to their seats are his action sequences. He looks dashing in the desi action and yes! Salman khan goes shirtless in one of the scenes. Sonakshi Sinha looks more appealing and beautiful. Unlike the first part, Vinod Khanna shares an affectionate relation with his son and depicts more comedy and humor this time. Acclaimed actor, Prakash Raj plays a villain of the decade with his overwhelming performance.
Minus Points:
Busy with his direction, Arbaaz Khan isn't seen in a lot of scenes. Not that we have much to say about the minus points, but the movie has a few similarities to the first part which could have been a bit different. The second half of the movie contains a little less humor and more action. Being an out-an-out entertainer, the movie could have been more elongated. Apart from these few points, the film couldn't have been better.
Technical Aspects:
With some new and some old one-liners the dialogues of the movie are just superb as the first part. Music is peppy and numbers like 'Fevicol Se' and 'Pandeyji Seti', definitely urges the audiences to leave their seats and shake their foot. Also the slow numbers including 'Dagabaaz Re' and 'Saason Ne' are well sung and also shot nicely. Even though Malaiaka makes a come back for a few seconds in the song, 'Pandeyji Seti', Kareena steals the charm with her amazing dancing and pleasing looks. Action sequences have been shot very well and Salman Khan is in his peaks while doing it. Screenplay of the movie is decent and so is the editing.
Verdict:
On the whole, Dabangg 2 is all in all amalgamation of being a perfect family entertainer and one of Salman's best performances. He once again proves his worth and Dabangg2 is set to create new records at the box-office. A decent and entertaining family outing, Dabangg 2 has everything from music, masti, dance, and romance going its way. Don't miss it.
Bollywood3 Rating : 3.5/5
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Salman is the soul of the film & Arbaaz - as they debut director does an excellent job !! #Dabangg2
From Mufaddal Fakhruddin 20.12.2012
There are two kinds of a Salman Khan movie. One, which banks on Salman Khan's incredible on-screen personality and fan-power to enhance itself. And second, which only banks on Salman Khan. Dabangg, the 2010 classic that gave India a new character to love, and a whole set of dance moves to ape, belongs to the former category, which while being a complete masala entertainer had its heart, and the script, in the right place. Dabangg 2, unfortunately, falls into the latter category, that tries way to hard to ignite the magic of the original, but loses itself into playing too much to the Salman fans and the hoi polloi.
And I am not kidding when I say that Dabangg 2 tries to recreate the original. It does, and goes about it on exactly the same beats. The movie opens with a nod to the original – a fight in a warehouse where Chulbul Pandey urf Robin Hood Pandey urf Sunny Deol Pandey, makes a grand entry and beats a bunch of baddies with an overdose of slow-motion and muscle flexes. You would think that, that would be the end of it, now the story will take a new turn, present something new and exciting for us to rally behind Pandey-ji, but it then again borrows from the original, introducing the main villain for a short while, then cut to a song about his love interest's beautiful eyes, then shift to a few comedic showdowns with the baddy, and, etc.
Dabangg 2 is exactly like Dabangg in terms of pacing, but without the solid story content and interesting characters to give it meaning and move it forward. Dabangg 2 is a routine cop-bad politician story and ends in precisely the same way you would expect it to.
Chulbul Pandey has now transferred to Kanpur, a new area for him to place goggles behind his shirt, beat-up crime, and make news reporters go weak in the knees. Of course, an honest and a dabangg police officer is an itch to a politician who, before him starting to ruin his plans, liked to spread fear and get votes by illegal means. What follows is a series of events you have all experienced before, much like Dabangg, but here it is presented in the most boring, hosh-posh, uninventive, and unconvincing way.
In fact, the story is in the rut for the first 2-hours of the movie. Two hours. Every plot progression is interjected with needless fight scenes (there are at least three sequences of Pandey fighting goons before the story even starts), pointless character build-up of Pandey's father, his brother, his brother's wife, his wife and everyone else; and the songs, which if they weren't as good, would make things even worse. I am actually confused why so much time was spent providing background for the aforementioned characters when none of them are used in the story whatsoever. And an important plot pointer, which should have been mentioned in those scenes, only gets conveniently placed after the intermission because…you know, there needs to be a plot, right? There needs to be conflict and this was the most Hindi film-ic solution they could find.
That's where the problem lies with Dabangg 2, the screenplay and script is majorly lacking, and whatever story it does have is stretched out in a way that it becomes blatantly obvious. There were number of times where I went, "why did I just watch this scene?". Dabangg 2 felt lost. They say not all those who wander are lost, but Dabangg 2 actually is.
Arbaaz Khan tries to cover all of those shortcomings by smacking us in the face with more Salman Khan, more tall-cut broad shots of him walking in style and music blaring in the background, more heavily slow-motion action sequences, more comedy scenes, more (forgettable) one-liners, and more songs.
In terms of performances, Salman Khan as Chulbul Pandey brings all he has into the role, but with a weak script like this even his humongous personality cannot rise above it. Sonakshi Sinha is a prop…she looks really pretty, I guess? Prakash Raj as Baccha Singh and Nikitin Dheer as Chunni Singh are solid as the archetypical villains. Arbaaz Khan, Vinod Khanna, Mahi Gill and other supporting characters provide decent backing to Salman Khan.
Dabangg 2 was supposed to be an absurd, raunchy masala movie, and it is, but not a good one. The excuse that it's not supposed to be an intelligent film doesn't work here because there is a tact into being the leave-your-brains-at-home movie and Arbaaz Khan's directorial debut fails to be that. Very rarely do Hindi movies get a sequel, and Dabangg 2 is exactly the reason why.
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