Son of Sardaar 2 movie review: Son of sar dard, too!

Film Son of Sardaar 2UA Comedy familyDir Vijay Kumar AroraCast Ajay Devgn Mrunal Thakur Ravi KishanRating 1 starIf you must know mdash and that I was quite surprised about mdash Son Of Sardaar 2 is essentially an IndoPak love storyOf course it is for all intents and purposes a Punjabi film in Hindi But then you forget there are Punjabis on both sides of the border The only place theyrsquore likely to meet let alone mate is of course outside South Asia In this case where Indian Punjabrsquos national drink Scotch comes from As in ScotlandWhich is where the son of sardar hero Ajay Devgn lands straight from the pind to be with his wife who wants a divorceHence he has no place to stay He rooms in with a bunch of Pakistani women of all age groups One of whom is a young Pak girl who has fallen for an Indian dudeAnd so our son of sardar must pose as the girlrsquos dad at the UK countryside opposite four more sardars to sneakily seal this IndoPak romance And make a marriage happenAnother one in the Pak group Mrunal Thakur falls for our sardar as in Devgn insteadRather progressive for the times of IndoPak segregation I must say And this is a big deal when you consider that past mainstream movies like Ae Dil Hai Mushkil and Salaam Namaste originally had an IndoPak love story in them that they couldnrsquot dare put out among desi publicIs there anything else I must say about this crackpot comedy mdash about a geriatric pole dancer sheep farming battle tank etc mdash with a dozenplus totally unrelated characters and without sar aur payr as in brains or legs to stand on only lame jokesIf only I could recall all the lunacy that follows to somehow stretch your time and their nonexistent script Frankly nothing merits recalling outside of one of the sardars in the other lot in this filmrsquos Scottish sheep farmThatrsquos actor Mukul Dev who looks rather bloated onscreen and in poor health The deterioration mustrsquove been rapid Mukul passed away on May 25 2025 about a couple of months before this release Itrsquos tragic that this was his last filmHe was a fine actor if you only remember even the first Son Of Sardaar 2012 Which Irsquom told was inspired by SS Rajamoulirsquos Maryada Ramana This sequel is clearly a figment of an insane lack of imaginationBut you live and learn I learnt from this picture about mixing poppy flowers to make tea that can give you happy hallucinationAlso I loved the throwback to the film Border including scenes with the young Devgn and others for a joke on how the son of sardaar in this film is repeating lines from the wardrama pretending to be an Army colonelCould make for a great standalone reel That sadly canrsquot be said for the rest of the picBesides looking at number two in the title you realise if Son Of Sardaar works commercially how Devgn would have added to the number of running film franchises he ownspushes in every genre suspensemystery Drishyam madcap comedy Golmaal Dhamaal action SinghamhellipGreat retirement plan alright Is that why you notice the number of finance people credited in the filmrsquos opening titles CFO finance head financial officer etc and closing titles two full columns Itrsquos quite unique observe it if yoursquore in the theatreWhich makes me believe this picture is possibly part of a smart subsidy rebate scheme I hope they make their moneyrsquos worth Keeping a share of the profits for some of the audiencersquos mental health insurance may be a noble ideaFor the end result for Son Of Sardaar 2 can either be lsquoasardaarrsquo effective or lsquosar dardrsquo headache depending on you what else You can tell what Irsquom reeling under right now

Son of Sardaar 2 movie review: Son of sar dard, too!

Film: Son of Sardaar 2
U/A: Comedy, family
Dir: Vijay Kumar Arora
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Mrunal Thakur, Ravi Kishan
Rating: 1 star

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Son of Sardaar 2 movie review: Son of sar dard, too!

Film: Son of Sardaar 2U/A: Comedy, familyDir: Vijay Kumar AroraCast: Ajay Devgn, Mrunal Thakur, Ravi KishanRating: 1 star

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Film: Son of Sardaar 2
U/A: Comedy, family
Dir: Vijay Kumar Arora
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Mrunal Thakur, Ravi Kishan
Rating: 1 star