Sachin Chaudhary

Audience reviews Sadak 2 (2020) Profile image Sachin Chaudhary Posting publicly. Filter by All Review menu icon Profile image Sumeet Nadkarni 3 days ago Sadak 2 review : No joke but Sadak 2 was really my most awaited film of 2020. As a school kid, I had bunked classes to watch the first part five times in its first week at Gemini cinema Bandra, my unbeaten record till date!! Featuring Sanjay Dutt as the sanki taxi driver Ravi who rescues his lady love Pooja Bhatt from clutches of the eunuch pimp Maharani, Sadak had terrific performances, Nadeem Shravan's extraordinary music and pulsating action in the climax which made it one of Mahesh Bhatt's most successful as well as memorable film till date. It is a perfect dose of entertainment for me - and I just love it. So naturally, I started watching Sadak 2 with high expectations- after all it had the legendary Bhatt Saahab returning to direction after twenty odd years, Sanju Baba and Pooja reprising their iconic roles with the current A lister Alia Bhatt added to the cast. And what did I get.... Alia Bhatt screaming or hamming in every scene she appears, Sanju Baba largely ineffective with not even one good fight scene accorded to him, Pooja Bhatt heard (not even seen!!) as a ghostly voice who only Sanju can hear and a villain in form of Makarand Deshpande who cannot achieve even ten percent of what the late Sadashiv Amrapurkar did as the menacingly evil Maharani. Starting as a road trip for which Alia hires Sanju Baba as her cabbie, the inconsistent plot tries to cram in multiple characters and elements in to it. Aditya Roy Kapoor plays Alia's love interest who is falsely convicted by a fake godman (Deshpande). Alia, labelled a mentally unstable person, is running away from her parents who are andh bhakts of that godman. They keep chanting "Jai Guruji" every single minute which gets irritating after a while. Somewhere in all this mess, there is good ole Gulshan Grover who claims to have chopped off his own hand to offer it to Jai Guruji. By the way, Grover is called Haathkata probably for this unique feat!! Truly, nothing makes sense in this sham of a screenplay penned by Bhatt Saahab where one phone call turns an otherwise scheming antagonist in to sympathising positive character and vice versa. Moreover, the music score, always his strong point, is absolutely pheeka here. Not a single song stays with you. I actually fast forwarded the last one thanking the Bhatts for taking this film digital instead of a theatrical release. Any positives then, you may ask? Well, the technical aspects are good enough. The production values are befitting an enterprise of this kind. And last but certainly not the least, Sanjay Dutt still commands a solid screen presence like he did in the 90s. Unfortunately, Sadak 2 doesn't do him any justice. Nor does it do any justice to its prequel lovers. Skip it.