When watching this film a quote by Shakespeare comes to your mind…”A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. This is exactly what Baaghi 2 is about…
There is too much of action and the story gets lost somewhere behind the kicking, beating and flying.
All this while we rued what Jacqueline Fernandez was seen doing to the iconic Ek do teen song and dance number. Turns out, this travesty was the least of the problems in Baaghi 2, an overblown, padded-up and puffed-out adaptation of last year’s engrossing Telugu hit ‘Kshanam’ about an NRI who is summoned back to India by his former girlfriend to find her kidnapped daughter.
Finding the missing girl is not all that concerns the Hindi remake’s hero, now re-christened RanveerPratap Singh, an army man who gets a chance to use his battle tactics to a wage a kinetic war on drug dealers in an elaborately staged Rambo-like climax that finds Tiger Shroff flying high literally.
Everyone hams Prateik Babbar and, surprisinglyManoj Bajpai ham so much it is an embarrassment to watch them whenever they are on screen. With Babbar that’s not a major problem as the script has little time for him. The only one who gets away with the hamming is Randeep Hooda. His long-haired hippy-esque cop-act is put forward with a certain degree of intelligence, otherwise found to be lacking in almost every sequence.
Does Tiger find the kidnap victim? Does anyone really care what happens to the missing child when we have more urgent concerns, like trying to hold on to our senses while characters talk nonsense like “Muslims are not only known for biryani but also for qurbani.”
This, coming from an actor as able Deepak Dobriyal is a shame. But then, what is not.
Baaghi 2 is definitely worth a miss unless you are a die-hard Tiger fan. The film lacks nothing but has nothing either…
Don’t waste your hard earned money on this mess. Instead get a DVD of Rambo and enjoy some real cinema.
The only good part of the movie are the popcorn and coke. The rest is utter nonsense.
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