Sadak 2 Movie Review: Far too dull and devoid of style; absolutely skip

Updated On: 29 August, 2020 09:09 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu

At its two hours plus runtime, Sadak 2 unfolds like a daily soap adaptation of Wild Wild Country featuring vigilante heroes, their problematic parents and phoney Godmen.

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Sadak 2
U/A Drama
On: Disney+Hotstar
Cast: Alia Bhatt, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt
Director: Mahesh Bhatt
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Till today, I was fairly confident that 2020 won't give us a film that's worse than the Kartik Aaryan and Sara Ali Khan starrer Love Aaj Kal. Looks like this God-awful year hits a new low every time you stop looking. This Friday dropped on Disney+Hotstar, Sanjay Dutt and Alia Bhatt starrer Sadak 2. The film marks Mahesh Bhatt's return to direction after a two-decade-long hiatus. Bhatt Senior, known for path-breaking films like Arth and Zakhm, attempts to tell the story about the business of religion. Lamentably, it's inconsistent in both its writing and execution. At its two hours plus runtime, the film unfolds like a daily soap adaptation of Wild Wild Country featuring vigilante heroes, their problematic parents and phoney Godmen. At a particularly duff sequence, I had to replay the scene only to be sure that the shabby scene belongs in a film helmed by Bhatt Sa'ab.

Along with his writer Suhrita Sengupta, he borrows a leaf from the 90s style of filmmaking that gives the film a peculiar antiquated vibe. That is, in fact, a big part of the reason why you don't relate to the film. There are some cardboard characters - an heiress on the run (Arya Desai played by Alia), her boyfriend recovering from a drug abuse problem (Aditya Roy Kapoor, aptly stereotyped, yet again) and a lonely man who will protect them against all odds (Dutt). Saving the day in this otherwise tepid tale is the charisma of its leading man - Sanjay Dutt, who is a natural. He gets every beat of his character right, almost to make you reminisce about the good memories of the 1991 original.

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