In Judwaa 2, Varun Dhawan plays the roles of Raja and Prem, like Salman Khan in Judwaa, but Taapsee and Jacqueline aren’t called Mala and Rupa like Karisma Kapoor and Rambha. Here’s our movie review.
Dua aur muah (kiss) me yaad rakhna.
Salman Khan’s Judwaa (1997) wasn’t a great film, but it has nostalgia attached to it. This is why most of uswere keen on seeing how close Varun Dhawan gets to Salman in Judwaa 2. He doesn’t disappoint. The film also entertains without making a demand on your mental faculties. However, your ability to watch it twice or not will depend on your appetite for slapstick.
A smuggler called Charles (Zakir Hussain) kidnaps one of the conjoined twins of the Malhotra family right after their birth. They grow up as Raja and Prem (both played by Varun Dhawan) who live in Mumbai and London respectively. They behave in a similar fashion whenever they’re in proximity, which means they’ll spank women and try to forcibly kiss them. A doctor in the film describes it as one in eight million cases, and actually pinches a kid to demonstrate his theory. As if we are looking for logic in such a film.
You know David Dhawan’s cinema. It mostly works on clichés, so nobody is surprised when a supposedly Christian character in the film says, “Hum god se tumhare liye prarthana karega.”
Later, a shirtless Prem gets ragged at a Britain college, because why not? There,s a reason why people sweat in gyms to get six-pack abs. You remember the background score ‘Wicked Sunny’ from Mujhse Shaadi Karogi? Here, it’s ‘Nanga Prem.’ Never mind. Soon, the two heroines, Alishka (Jacqueline Fernandez) and Samara (Taapsee Pannu), join junior Dhawan and raise the temperature. By now, it,s all gloss and punchlines. How? Consider this: Somebody asks Upasana Sing, Taapsee’s mother in the film, whether she knows music. She replies, “Sa re ga ma Amitabh Bachchan.”
Why? Because Pa Get it? Soon after this or maybe before, who cares, Upasana Singh looks happy when Prem brings an unconscious Samara to her house. She chirps, “Tumne aisa kya kiya jo ye behosh ho gayi” Don’t roll your eyes just yet. This happens when Dhawan’s character kisses both mother and daughter because his twin is also doing the same somewhere nearby.
Ah, it’s so original. From 1997 to 2017, what has not changed at all in this film is its inherent misogyny and racial jokes. They come at you one after another, without a pause.
But you laughed in Judwaa Well, you may laugh this time as well. I never said it’s completely unfunny, and there are other gags that totally work.
Take a look at this conversation Raja Afghanistan ka capital kya hai? Alishka: Kabul (Read it in Jacqueline’s voice). Raja What? Jacqueline: Kabul, Kabul.
Raja Al habibi, aaloo bukhara main tumhara. It happens with so much spontaneity and energy that you laugh. At least, I laughed.
