Judwaa 2 (Movie Review)

Judwaa 2: Old Wine Well Preserved!

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David Dhawan’s Judwaa 2 is successful in cloning his own characters but fails to deliver a new set of gags and humour. Varun Dhawan as Prem and Raja is fantastic and does give Salman Khan a competition but Salman Khan’s brand is so colossal that every act of Prem and Raja in Judwaa 2 reminds us about Salman Khan.

Varun Dhawan is good in his comic timing, dance moves and stunts; he has worked hard to evolve into a complete combo pack as a paisa vasool entertainment star. Moreover, these days, a shirtless Sallu Bhai has many competitors. Judwaa 2’s story is placed in the same template of the previous one – twins, with the same kind of reflexes, one timid and the other a tapori, one of them kidnapped and left to the mercy of streets and the other groomed in elite school and college. The street-smart Raja lands up in a foreign land with cooked up stories of having an ailing mother, sister, father and what not. Laughably, everyone in authority who come across them has a feeble heart and fall for his stories. And every time, Raja along with his sidekick has an easy escape.

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Jacqueline Fernandez (Aliska) and Taapsee Pannu (Samara) are two beautiful trophies the Judwaa have in their life. And these beautiful girls do what they are expected to do – giggle, sob, cuddle, kiss, dance and slip into bikinis at beautiful locales and act as dumbs just like their dumb and sometimes smart boyfriends. Jacqueline acts and looks the same in almost all the movies and does what she is best at flawlessly and Taapsee Pannu had tried to shed her ‘Pink’ and ‘Baby’ image by being bold and beautiful.

Upasna Singh, Anupam Kher, Rajpal Yadav, Vivan Bhatena and Pawan Malhotra are just there to remind you that please don’t look for logic. They try hard to tickle your funny bone and they do, but most of the time they fail.  

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Well, remind yourself that you are watching a David Dhawan film and therefore, discard your brain and Edward de Bono’s six thinking hats. Yes, there are some moments you tap your foot along with super energetic Varun Dhawan and may also wish to be on the dance floor. The old hit numbers ‘Oonchi Hi building and ‘Tan Tana Taan Tan Tan Tara’ transport you back to the 90’s.

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In short, Judwaa 2 also is not so interesting and funny like the original. It successfully ensures to be mediocre like its previous outing with Salman Khan. Everyone is loud here, leaving the audience to bear in silence all the stale antics. The last scenes where the original 90’s Judwaa walk in, the film plunges into the dullest scenes because of the lousy conversations between them and the current Judwaa. A tribute to Sallu is a dampener here. If you have no other options then go for Judwaa 2   at your own risk. A contemporary Judwaa, without carrying the baggage of the past in Varun Dhawan’s own style along with a new set of characters which are different from the mannerisms of the previous one, would have been more interesting to watch. Unfortunately, for some filmmakers ‘change’ is a taboo subject.

.Life Connoisseur Movie Rating: 2/5

Cast: Varun Dhawan (Raja/Prem), Jacqueline Fernandex (Alishka), Taapsee Pannu (Samaira), Anupam Kher (Bakshi), Upasana Singh (Samaira’s Mother

Genre: Action Comedy

Director: David Dhawan

Producer: Sajid Nadiadwala

Written by: Sajid-Farhad (Dialogues)

Music by: Sajid-Wajid, Meet Bros, Sandeep Shirodkar, Anu Malik

Edited by: Ritesh Soni

Cinematography: Ayananka Bose

Production Company: Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment

Distributor: Fox Star Studios

Release Date: 29^th September 2017

Language: Hindi

Duration: 150 Minutes