Dabangg 2 -Rev/Coll. - Gross 271 Cr WorldWide - Page 3

Posted: 11 years ago
Review : Dabangg 2 – Salman does it again

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

Posted: 11 years ago
Girish Johar ?@girishjohar

All songs are very good, well picturised & enjoyable. Kareena looks out of this world in the Fevicol song!!!! #Dabangg2

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1hGirish Johar ?@girishjohar

Witty one liners of #Dabangg2 will surely be craze of the nation !!

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1hGirish Johar ?@girishjohar

Salman is the soul of the film & Arbaaz - as they debut director does an excellent job !! #Dabangg2

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Posted: 11 years ago
Bhakti K Mehta ?@bhaktikmehta

My sashtang pranam to the gods of entertainment@BeingSalmanKhan & @ArbaazSKhan #Dabangg2

Posted: 11 years ago
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Saw Dabangg! Full on entertainer!!! A box office hurricane and@BeingSalmanKhan is in outstanding form!!! He will drive his fan base crazy!

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Posted: 11 years ago

Dabangg 2 Review

Arbaaz Khan's directorial debut banks heavily on Salman Khan to get the movie through. That's not always a good solution.

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.

Dabangg 2 Review

Posted: 11 years ago

DABANGG 2





                                                Exclusive Movie Review : DABANGG 2


                                



Directed by Arbaaz Khan
Produced by Malaika Arora Khan / Arbaaz Khan
Story by Dilip Shukla
Starring : Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Vinod Khanna, Prakash Raj, Arbaaz Khan

DABANGG 2  - Movie Review by Sree Prasad Nair

Theatre - Abu Dhabi National Cinemas, UAE
20/12/2012 – 9.00 pm
Occupancy - 100% (SOLD OUT)






Salman Khan is called as the God Of Bollywood Box Office these days. Thanks to his last 4 films, unbeatable record of back to back blockbusters (Dabangg, Ready, Bodyguard & Ek Tha Tiger) The actor is also leading with the last two years top grossers. In 2012 Salman hit a hatrick record with his 198 cr grosser Ek Tha Tiger. And Dabangg2 release timing is just perfect for the film with Christmas & New Year holidays to follow. But the question is 'Will Dabangg2 cross 200cr? Will it rewrite the box office history by beating 3 Idiots collections?



Dabangg2 is the sequel of the 2010 blockbuster Dabangg. It also marks actor-producer Arbaaz Khan entry as a director.  Dabangg2 stars Salman Khan , Sonakshi Sinha , Vinod Khanna Prakash Raj & Arbaaz Khan

Story
Dabangg 2 is the story of conflict between Inspector Chulbul Pandey played by Salman Khan & Bachha Bhaiyya played by Prakash Raj. Salman kills Prakash Raj's brother and the Revenge starts & continues from there….



Positives Of The Film
Salman Khan is Salman Khan means Total Entertainer… No other opinions on that. He is in terrific form and his performance is at par with Dabangg. His fans were quite disappointed with his lack of punching dialogues & funny dance moves in Ek Tha Tiger, but in Dabangg2 he is unstoppable. No other actor, I repeat no other actor can carry off the role of Inspector Chulbul Pandey other than Salman. His first meeting with Prakash Raj followed by top class dialogues & the last 2mins just before the interval are definite plus points of the film. His witty one-liners, dance moves & action scenes are well treated by the audience. Sonakshi Sinha is looking gorgeous, but don't have much role in the film just like her previous films. Vinod Khanna is first rate. The father-son funny scenes are really hilarious. Prakash Raj's acting is good, but his role is kinda repetitive like his role in Singham. Arbaaz is just ok by providing few laughs. Nikitin Dheer got good screen presence and effective as well. Another plus point of the film is the chartbuster Fevicol Se & Kareena Kapoor 's presence. Superb choreography of Farah Khan performed brilliantly by Salman & Kareena only added charm to the song. Action scenes are well executed with few over the top stunts. But a masala film like Dabangg2 demanded it. Music by Sajid-Wajid is foot tapping & cinematography by Aseem Mishra is good.



Now to the negatives :
The captain of the ship, Arbaaz Khan himself is responsible for his pathetic direction. Agreed an actor can't direct a film easily, but unfortunately his direction is plain ordinary even considering it as his first effort. Dilip Shukla's story lacks good content & emotions like in Dabangg (which penned by himself & Abhinav Kashyap) The first half is boring with 4 songs & 3 action scenes within 50mins. Also Salman's entry in a rescue mission, stunts followed by film's title song, We have watched it on Wanted, Bodyguard, Dabangg. And now in Dabangg 2 too no difference even with same gundas. Arbaaz Khan tried hard to make us laugh, but most of the times he was very boring. Songs timings are nowhere with the situations especially Fevicol Se song. And I have no idea why Arbaaz Khan was there in that song? What he was doing??? Arbaaz – Mahie Gill love story was not needed. A talented actress like Mahie Gill is wasted in the film, ditto for Manoj Joshi for only one scene. The climax was too rushed & disappointed as it reminds you the same climax scenes of Wanted, Dabangg & Bodyguard! Still these minuses don't affect the film.



Overall Salman Khan's Dabangg2 is a Christmas gift for Salman Khan fans & a strictly 1 Time watch for others. The film is all set to beat the non-holiday record of Akshay Kumar's Rowdy Rathore and likely to open with 23cr. Its business at single screens will be historical and good at multiplexes (will see drop after the weekend due to less content) Film will be benefited from Christmas & New Year holidays. Lifetime business is likely to finish at 193cr (just my prediction) If it crosses 200r, then it's a happy news for the industry.




VERDICT – Its 5/5 BlockBuster for Salman Khan!
Rating – 3.5/5 (3.5 for SALMAN KHAN & SALMANIA All The Way)

A Christmas Blockbuster from Salman Khan
Posted: 11 years ago
In terms of Direction. Dabangg was better. But Chulbul Pandey is ultimate coz of Arbaaz today. 

And Dabangg 2 never fails to impress you. Its the best Masala this year. Honestly. If this films gets the same WOM as the first 1 then sirf dhamaal hi hone wala hai. Arbaaz isn't that bad as director. For first timer he was fine.

And trust me. I laughed in this one more than the first 1. Emotional scene in here also hit me harder too coz first one we were just learning about Chulbul's character but in this one we know he is in happier mood and living happily with his family.
Posted: 11 years ago
Kiaara Sandhu ?@KiaaraSandhu

Exclusive,,,Dabangg 2 Public Reports are Overall Good !!

Kiaara Sandhu ?@KiaaraSandhu

Exclusively,,Dabangg 2 took Earth Shattering Opening in Paid Preview Shows in Pakistan

Kiaara Sandhu ?@KiaaraSandhu

Exclusively,,Dabangg 2 Collected HUGE 1.5 cror plus Opening in UAE & Gulf...Confirmation Tomorrow !!!!.

Kiaara Sandhu ?@KiaaraSandhu

Exclusive,,Dabangg 2 took Excellent Opening in UK & Ireland.

Kiaara Sandhu ?@KiaaraSandhu

Exclusive,,Dabangg 2 took BUMPER Opening in Evening Shows in UAE & Gulf.


Kiaara Sandhu ?@KiaaraSandhu

Dabangg 2 100 % Packed Houses BUMPER Opening in Abu Dhabi,,Sharjah in UAE



Posted: 11 years ago
kunal kohli ?@kunalkohli

Just saw dabang ! Too entertaining. Can see the next show too. Looks like 230cr+ congrats Salman,Arbaaz,Sonakshi,Malaika

Posted: 11 years ago
Komal Nahta ?@KomalNahta

D2 1st report:jodhpur-8.30 a.m.show in bioscope 80% full. 9.30 show full in advance.Glitz 9 a.m. show 90% full. As predicted, initial bumper

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