Satyameva Jayate 2 Movie Review: He’s Johnny, but bravo to you!

Satyameva Jayate 2UA DramaDir Milap ZaveriCast John Abraham Harsh ChhayaRating 15Soon as you plonk into the favourite seat in the theatre this film frickinrsquo smacks you so hard in the head from the screen mdash totally crosseyed you begin to see jock John Abraham in twos and eventually in threesNo kidding the third one you realise in the lsquoBharat Milaprsquo moment when the other two meet is a mustachioed Johnny Standing as a massive statue holding a pickaxe Thatrsquos the twin Johnniesrsquo papa Say yes Papa Now letrsquos move on to figure WTF Wednesday Thursday Friday is going on hereWatch VideoIf you really wanna know mdash a lot of foot fetish in this triplerole traumedy about one Johnny whorsquos a cop and the other the statersquos home minister no less Papa is dead only to be resurrected after much ruin in the filmrsquos second half By foot fetish I mean the camera obsessed with introducing each character Johnnies included with the closeup of feet or bootsThe money shot of course belongs to the scene where Johnny the cop saves a girlrsquos izzat against a gang of goons In turn they taunt him for being able to do what he does because hersquos wearing a uniform Promptly Johnny tells them he knows exactly what they wantldquoPublic demands the same Say you wanna see my body watch me nakedrdquoThis is when the camera like a drone zooms in from Johnrsquos navel travelling across his sixpack abs for a full body tour torso onwards There is a crowd gathered in the scene clapping with sounds embedded to suggest the same from crowds in theatres Except no one else around me This clip gets an encore laterBut this scene going further takes the beef cake John extols virtues of the Indian woman who needs saving nonetheless The national anthem begins to play right then So he must stand in respect Baddies beat him up thenSoon as the anthem is over he takes the flag pole with the tricolour planting it on the villainrsquos private part Growling to the villain who must now pee from the backside because the instrument is brokenNo wut Just had to get this graphic Simply for you to sense how this is such a sasta Salman circus seriously Whatrsquos the punch line of that scene that recurs as well ldquoTan man dhan se badhkar jan man ganrdquo Fun MaybeAlso Read John Abraham Such a film can only be quantified by ticket salesNot if yoursquore John Abraham to be honest mdash a working leadactor for 18 years reduced to a piece of sixfeet brown meat medium rare And this goes beyond him lifting a motorcycle on his head tearing a boardroom table apart with a punch dismantling a car likewise or three Johns holding a helicopter down This is plain torture for an actor pushed into verbal diarrhoea at the snap of the filmmakersrsquo fingersEven if a character asks Cop John what his jurisdiction is he starts blabbering Kutch Baramulla shamshaan Pakistan murga Durgahellip Every line is like the arrow from the rsquo80s Ramayan Only John releasing them to no one in particular Because poor guy mdash apparently in the interest of some mainstream audiences You Team Baan broOnly fans of GundaKanti Shah will love this though Given a relentless string of bad rhymes that follow Aulaad faulaad musalmaan matdaan naari bhaari mootega tootega toofan chattaan chooriyan hathkadiyan aaj yamraj khadi khaki mujra jigra dahaadta phaadta Ganga tirangahellipTwin Johns are vigilantes by the way Cop John beats up cops as well Inside the cop station Behind closed doors asking this subordinate inspector to keep laughing while getting bashed up The fellow sitting outside says ldquoThe guy is laughing as if hersquos watching sequel of superhit film Satyameva Jayaterdquo NopeHome Minister John is a killing machine by night going around piling up heaps of dead bodies along the way Weighing in on what this level of unhinged extrajudicial violencekillings must mean in the state of Uttar Pradesh where this film is set is as much a pointless intellectual exercise as lauding the filmmakersrsquo respect for people of all religions in order to drive home the point of national integrationThis is just a dumb film starring the same three dumbbells for the price of one Designed by an algorithm to go from a religious song to an item number a rural second half to an urban first and three lookalikes solving every national problem there is mdash from food poisoning that requires oxygen cylinders female violence faulty flyover Lokpal Bill to farmersrsquo rightsI know what yoursquore asking Why did I walk in in the first place what did I expect anyway As with many forms of unconditional love sometimes there is a toxic relationship some of us share with movies We can watch all kinds of crap in a dark hall for hours Can you watch this mayhem around John Bravo to you too thenAlso Read Milap Zaveri If intellectuals dislike my movie I donrsquot care

Satyameva Jayate 2 Movie Review: He’s Johnny, but bravo to you!

Satyameva Jayate 2
U/A: Drama
Dir: Milap Zaveri
Cast: John Abraham, Harsh Chhaya
Rating: 1/5

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Satyameva Jayate 2 Movie Review: He’s Johnny, but bravo to you!

Satyameva Jayate 2U/A: DramaDir: Milap ZaveriCast: John Abraham, Harsh ChhayaRating: 1/5

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Satyameva Jayate 2
U/A: Drama
Dir: Milap Zaveri
Cast: John Abraham, Harsh Chhaya
Rating: 1/5