Gadar 2 starts 17 years after the incidents of Gadar in 1947. Now that Tara and Sakina with their son Jeete are settled , a major incident forces Jeete to secretly get into Pakistan only to land himself up in trouble. How Tara Singh rescues him from Pakistan is the story as a villian with a personal vendetta awaits Tara Singh in Pakistan.
I want to first start with the performances because that's the biggest drawback of this film. Anil Sharma once again desperately tries to launch his son Utkarsh into Bollywood with this film. Of course he played the kid Jeete but that doesn't mean you have to again cast him for the same role. This boy Utkarsh just cannot act!! His dialogue delivery will make you vomit!!!!!! My god people were laughing when he was giving threats "Tumhare itne chithre karega" part was so hilarious because his voice itself doesn't have that menacing tone at all. And what kind of character he has? A boy dreaming to be an actor suddenly starts bashing the Pakistani army in Pakistan, dude how?? Does it make any sense? Was it necessary to portray Utkarsh like some mass action hero? Dude he's light years away from that first he should get his acting and speech right.
Ameesha Patel never did acting for a long time and after coming out of that acting exile , she seems to have forgotten acting. She has absolutely nothing to do in this film apart from just cry and smile and run around here and there and even that she couldn't do properly.
The character of Amrish Puri, Ashraf Ali was very well written. He had a side that hated india but also a side that was humane . His negative character felt natural and well balanced. In Gadar 2, Manoj Wadhwa plays the villian Hamid Iqbal who is nothing but an out an out typical villian from Pakistan who has nothing but hatred . His character is too cliched and far from natural which is why I felt despite Manoj doing a decent job , his character was too weak.
Sunny Deol's close friend in Gadar played by the very talented Vivek Shauq is replaced by someone idk who , but cannot do any justice to the standards set by Vivek. Vivek was ready made comedy actor having appeared in Jaspal Bhatti shows but who is this in Gadar 2?? The dude cannot act and in his short screen presence cannot make you laugh as well.
It is only Sunny Deol as Tara Singh who manages to save the film in the second half to just some extent with his shouting screaming and a million "Jeeteeyyyyyyyy"s in the second half. His moments were the ones that brought maximum hoots and laughs in the theatre .
The movie is 2hrs 55 mins long almost close to what Gadar was . While Gadar 's 2hr 55 mins felt like breeze, Gadar 2's 2hr 55 mins felt like painful drag . There's an absolutely cold and bland love story attempted between Utkarsh and new comer Simrat and because both kids can't act, the overall love story crash lands . It just did not have the sweetness of Tara and Sakina from Gadar 1.
In The second half also, despite having some whistle worthy moments, the film becomes so repetitive that you will keep asking in mind "When's this film coming to an end?" The climax goes on and on and on and ultimately becomes extremely tiresome. The climax with those tanks was pretty interesting but stretching it too much resulted in me especially losing interest. Thank God it ends soon after that and not stretching to parts in some final sequence where Utkarsh and Simrat are getting married.
Anil Sharma uses 2023 cameras but his filmography style is stuck in the 90s. He absolutely has no idea when to use slow motion and when fast motion. In one chase sequence, the film starts moving at 4x speed making it feel like a comedy movie (comedy movies have speeds like that to show funny characters running around ) and sometimes the film starts showing slow mo shots all of a sudden where not required also. Women have nothing to do in his film. The editing of this film too is extremely poor . I think Utkarsh's parts should have been chopped off even more but hey, won't the editor get sacked by the director if he did that ??
Music is good.
Overall, Gadar 2 is a film that could have been better if Utkarsh Sharma were thrown out and a more talented young man were taken, if Ameesha Patel was given proper training again before she stepped back on the set and if the editing were better.
I want to first start with the performances because that's the biggest drawback of this film. Anil Sharma once again desperately tries to launch his son Utkarsh into Bollywood with this film. Of course he played the kid Jeete but that doesn't mean you have to again cast him for the same role. This boy Utkarsh just cannot act!! His dialogue delivery will make you vomit!!!!!! My god people were laughing when he was giving threats "Tumhare itne chithre karega" part was so hilarious because his voice itself doesn't have that menacing tone at all. And what kind of character he has? A boy dreaming to be an actor suddenly starts bashing the Pakistani army in Pakistan, dude how?? Does it make any sense? Was it necessary to portray Utkarsh like some mass action hero? Dude he's light years away from that first he should get his acting and speech right.
Ameesha Patel never did acting for a long time and after coming out of that acting exile , she seems to have forgotten acting. She has absolutely nothing to do in this film apart from just cry and smile and run around here and there and even that she couldn't do properly.
The character of Amrish Puri, Ashraf Ali was very well written. He had a side that hated india but also a side that was humane . His negative character felt natural and well balanced. In Gadar 2, Manoj Wadhwa plays the villian Hamid Iqbal who is nothing but an out an out typical villian from Pakistan who has nothing but hatred . His character is too cliched and far from natural which is why I felt despite Manoj doing a decent job , his character was too weak.
Sunny Deol's close friend in Gadar played by the very talented Vivek Shauq is replaced by someone idk who , but cannot do any justice to the standards set by Vivek. Vivek was ready made comedy actor having appeared in Jaspal Bhatti shows but who is this in Gadar 2?? The dude cannot act and in his short screen presence cannot make you laugh as well.
It is only Sunny Deol as Tara Singh who manages to save the film in the second half to just some extent with his shouting screaming and a million "Jeeteeyyyyyyyy"s in the second half. His moments were the ones that brought maximum hoots and laughs in the theatre .
The movie is 2hrs 55 mins long almost close to what Gadar was . While Gadar 's 2hr 55 mins felt like breeze, Gadar 2's 2hr 55 mins felt like painful drag . There's an absolutely cold and bland love story attempted between Utkarsh and new comer Simrat and because both kids can't act, the overall love story crash lands . It just did not have the sweetness of Tara and Sakina from Gadar 1.
In The second half also, despite having some whistle worthy moments, the film becomes so repetitive that you will keep asking in mind "When's this film coming to an end?" The climax goes on and on and on and ultimately becomes extremely tiresome. The climax with those tanks was pretty interesting but stretching it too much resulted in me especially losing interest. Thank God it ends soon after that and not stretching to parts in some final sequence where Utkarsh and Simrat are getting married.
Anil Sharma uses 2023 cameras but his filmography style is stuck in the 90s. He absolutely has no idea when to use slow motion and when fast motion. In one chase sequence, the film starts moving at 4x speed making it feel like a comedy movie (comedy movies have speeds like that to show funny characters running around ) and sometimes the film starts showing slow mo shots all of a sudden where not required also. Women have nothing to do in his film. The editing of this film too is extremely poor . I think Utkarsh's parts should have been chopped off even more but hey, won't the editor get sacked by the director if he did that ??
Music is good.
Overall, Gadar 2 is a film that could have been better if Utkarsh Sharma were thrown out and a more talented young man were taken, if Ameesha Patel was given proper training again before she stepped back on the set and if the editing were better.