Satyameva Jayate 2 movie review: John Abraham’s triple role is three headaches rolled up in one film | Bollywood

There’s not even a single person who’s speaking on this movie. Everyone seems to be shouting, screaming and yelling on the prime of their lungs, leaving your eardrums longing for some calm. Satyameva Jayate 2 is a shoddy and sloppy depiction of jingoism and vigilantism at its most shameless. Within the identify of a vigilante motion thriller and attempting to money in on the nostalgia for masala movies of the 80s, writer-director Milap Zaveri provides us a stale script that does not even attempt to add something new or distinctive.

Showcasing the combat towards injustice and misuse of energy, Satyameva Jayate 2 serves us a montage of done-to-death scenes that give the movie’s lead heroes — John Abraham and John Abraham — an opportunity to fulfil their pledge to root out corruption. From docs at a authorities hospital sitting on a strike, children dying because of meals poisoning and lack of oxygen, to a flyover collapsing or a woman setting herself on hearth after being raped by a politician’s son, Zaveri has copied and pasted cliched tropes from the 80s. That is not what you name a tribute. And to imagine that at this time’s audiences would take pleasure in this with equal zeal or have takers for this sort of cinema, is sort of the courageous thought.

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The movie’s story revolves round Dadasaheb Balram Azad (John Abraham) and his two sons, additionally performed by Abraham — one grows as much as be a House Minister (Satya) who desires his anti-corruption invoice handed whereas the opposite performs a sassy cop (ACP Jay). There’s additionally Divya Khosla Kumar taking part in Satya’s spouse Vidya, the politician from opposition, and Gautami Kapoor because the mom of the twins. Divya, maybe, is the one character who does not go loud together with her dialogues however then it is nearly seems to be like she’s studying from the teleprompter with none expressions. For a second, I used to be completely satisfied to see a girl having a barely respectable position in an in any other case male-dominant movie, however Divya’s poor dialogue supply and a mean act does not actually make her stand out. There are additionally Harsh Chhaya, Anup Sonu and Sahil Vaid in supporting roles they usually play their components nicely in no matter little they needed to do.

The one advantage of this movie may have been John Abraham however the actor does not have a lot to play with apart from sticking to the boundaries set by the cheesy screenplay and redundant, over dramatic dialogues. And I simply did not get the logic of each character minting rhymes to make some extent. It’s usually so poetic that you just really lose the essence of the scene. Pattern these: ‘Tu bharatiya naari hai… thaan le toh sab pe bhaari hai’ or ‘Sign pe khada hawaldar sau rupaye mein meherban hai… naam tumhara Khan toh aatankvadi poora khandan hai… wahan apne hello ghar mein pankhe pe latak raha kisaan hai… lekin mera desh mahaan hai’. There isn’t any dearth of those screamed into your ears that you find yourself with a headache.

Amid all this, I’ve by no means understood why Bollywood filmmakers go overboard with patriotism and find yourself with jingoism… although Satyameva Jayate 2 goes past that, for worse. Every time there’s blood splashing on display screen, you hear some patriotic tune being performed within the background and to not neglect the fixed hammering on the truth that nation comes earlier than self. ‘Tan, Mann, Dhan se badh kar Jan, Gan, Man.’

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Not simply corruption, Zaveri, by means of the poetic dialogues and heavyweight strains, additionally touches upon farmers’ suicides, Lokpal Invoice, good muslim unhealthy muslim divide, ladies being raped (Nirbhaya case and Telangana case), and takes a jibe at social media taking priority over actual issues. At one level, I actually thought he was attempting to improvise and make the movie related, however the thought did not final for lengthy and the lads had been again to their jingoistic deeds.

Being a hardcore industrial potboiler with uncooked motion, Satyameva Jayate 2 has a mixture of songs — some abruptly positioned and a few not too unhealthy. The marriage observe Tenu Lehanga, and the Karwa-Chauth tune Meri Zindagi Hai Tu will be get together hits, whereas Nora Fatehi obtained a giant thanks for Kusu Kusu within the opening credit. Was that tune actually wanted? I do not assume so.

Satyameva Jayate 2 is certainly a courageous try at bringing audiences again into theatres by tempting them into believing that it is a full-on masala movie, and in case you do take pleasure in these type of loud motion thrillers, it’s a one-time watch.

Satyameva Jayate 2

Direct: Milap Zaveri 

Solid: John Abraham, Divya Khosla Kumar

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