Directed by : Gopi Puthran
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5668770/
Asthma hai na tujhe, le paint khaake marr..
Spoilers ahead...
Shivani Shivaji Roy (Rani Mukerji) gets appointed as new DSP of Kota and soon gets to know about the rape and brutal murder of a young girl. She assures to the media that she would bring the killer down to her knees. And that hurts the ego of the psycho killer Sunny (Vishal Jethwa) who now will challenge her to the limits and in process hurt more girls.
What I loved about last film in this series was that you were quite involved with the antangonist Tahir Raj Bhasin to an extent that even though he was always wrong, yet the cat and mouse chase was a lot fun to watch and ofcourse he gave a brilliant performance as well which then made Rani Mukherjee's act even more to applaud and you actually let the 'heroic' act she gets to have in the climax work.
But in Mardaani2, everything is different, here we got Sunny who is pure evil to an extent that he would eat flesh (possible Hannibal fan) and breaks fourth wall to talk with us directly, an idea that gets irritating after a while. Then we see Shivani in Sherlock mode easily identifying the crime and people involved. Infact leaving asides 2-3 moments, her act is shown as a superhero cop who is just failing to catch the culprit because that would happen in last 5 mins since its a movie.
There's a big speech Shivani gives at one point to a news channel interview, telling the lifestyle of a woman and comparing it to a guy, and I have no problem with that as most of it was truth. But, how does that help the movie and the narrative, or if they could had altogether kept focus on the troubles a female faces even after been DSP, and let the guy get caught without all the drama.
Being such a serious topic, its strange how the director and writer duo mess up so much that the emotions that certain scenes should have brought just don't because it just feels like you aren't watching something real.
Vishal Jethwa is good in his performance as debut, slightly one note to my liking though. Rani Mukherjee just overplays the character this time but more of that is to blame the writing team.
Mardaani2 isn't unwatchable, its just a disappointment after having seen how well the franchise (I expect more films in future) started.
My Rating : 4.5/10
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5668770/
Asthma hai na tujhe, le paint khaake marr..
Spoilers ahead...
Shivani Shivaji Roy (Rani Mukerji) gets appointed as new DSP of Kota and soon gets to know about the rape and brutal murder of a young girl. She assures to the media that she would bring the killer down to her knees. And that hurts the ego of the psycho killer Sunny (Vishal Jethwa) who now will challenge her to the limits and in process hurt more girls.
What I loved about last film in this series was that you were quite involved with the antangonist Tahir Raj Bhasin to an extent that even though he was always wrong, yet the cat and mouse chase was a lot fun to watch and ofcourse he gave a brilliant performance as well which then made Rani Mukherjee's act even more to applaud and you actually let the 'heroic' act she gets to have in the climax work.
But in Mardaani2, everything is different, here we got Sunny who is pure evil to an extent that he would eat flesh (possible Hannibal fan) and breaks fourth wall to talk with us directly, an idea that gets irritating after a while. Then we see Shivani in Sherlock mode easily identifying the crime and people involved. Infact leaving asides 2-3 moments, her act is shown as a superhero cop who is just failing to catch the culprit because that would happen in last 5 mins since its a movie.
There's a big speech Shivani gives at one point to a news channel interview, telling the lifestyle of a woman and comparing it to a guy, and I have no problem with that as most of it was truth. But, how does that help the movie and the narrative, or if they could had altogether kept focus on the troubles a female faces even after been DSP, and let the guy get caught without all the drama.
Being such a serious topic, its strange how the director and writer duo mess up so much that the emotions that certain scenes should have brought just don't because it just feels like you aren't watching something real.
Vishal Jethwa is good in his performance as debut, slightly one note to my liking though. Rani Mukherjee just overplays the character this time but more of that is to blame the writing team.
Mardaani2 isn't unwatchable, its just a disappointment after having seen how well the franchise (I expect more films in future) started.
My Rating : 4.5/10
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