Gadar 2 Movie Review: Even Sunny Deol Is Not Enough To Save This Tacky Sequel

Gadar Movie Review: It’s 2001 and it was my first year in college. Being a film enthusiast, the idea of bunking college and watching a movie with friends was really exciting. When Sunny Deol’s Gadar and Aamir Khan’s Lagaan hit the theatres that year, I simply couldn’t miss either of them. My classmates and I decided to watch the Sunny Deol starrer first. We went to watch the movie at Gaiety, a single-screen cinema in suburban Mumbai. The 900-odd-seater theatre was packed with Sunny Deol fans who would whistle and clap at every dialogue and dance to his songs. We could barely hear any dialogue. We decided to watch it again and the experience was similar. People were tossing coins on the screen as a token of love for the movie. It was only after a few weeks and on my third watch, I could hear and see the film without any noise.

About 22 years later, Gadar 2 hit the screens this week with a lot of expectations and enthusiasm from the loyal fans of the first part and even the new generation. But unfortunately, Gadar 2 is not even a patch on the first part. A shoddy screenplay, bad script, and a whole lot of redundant dialogue make the sequel a perfect recipe for disaster.

Director Anil Sharma maintains this high-pitch fervor from the first frame to the last. The film is set 17 years after the original, in 1971, where Tara Singh (Sunny Deol) is living happily ever after with his wife Sakina (Ameesha Patel) and son Chiranjeet (Utkarsh Sharma). Hamid Iqbal (Manish Wadhwa) is the head of the Pakistani battalion who was in charge of stopping Tara and Sakina. He is hellbent on revenge. He kills Ashraf Ali, Sakina’s father, using his position. He now wants to kill Tara Singh. The war clouds are looming and the Indian army seeks help from local truck drivers to deliver their reinforcement ammunition on a hilly slope. Tara leads the way and even fights with the Pakistani army just like a soldier. But in the process, he gets lost. Has he been captured by the Pakistani army? Or has he lost his life? To find out the answers, his son decides to go to Pakistan and get his father back. He goes undercover and meets Muskaan (Simratt Kaur). But there is a twist in the tale.