Aashiqui
2 is a musical love story with Rahul Jaykar (Aditya Roy Kapoor) and
Arohi Shirke (Shraddha Kapoor) as the lead characters. Aashiqui 2 takes
you through a musical journey of two lovers who go through love and
hate, twists and turbulence, success and failure in their lives. Will
they accept their success and live life together or do their egos
separate them forever??
Analysis :
The
Bhatts expressed this one is not a sequel to Aashiqui, but just a
retelling of a love story. Even if then, does it actually work, even
with the title adding value? In fact, when we first heard about Aashiqui
2 we, like almost everyone else, thought it would be a sequel to the
first, which made Rahul Roy and Anu Agarwal instant stars. That neither
of them managed to follow up on that success is a different story, but
the film told a tale that could possibly be continued into the future,
perhaps into a new generation storytelling. Nevertheless, Mahesh Bhatt
the producer and Mohit Suri, the director of the film, made it clear
that the second film merely had the same name; it was not connected with
the first in any other way, they claimed. Logically speaking, the name
itself should have ensured some degree of success but no, that is not
what is happening, not even a bit!
This one kind of reminded us of
A Star is Born, or even its desi version Abhimaan, with none of the
quality of either acting or filmmaking. Yes, Suri tries very hard; yes,
the music is fairly decent; yes, the story has potential which is about
two young people, Rahul (Aditya Roy Kapur) and Aarohi (Shraddha Kapoor)
who are both singers, he the established star, she the wannabe. He helps
her, she becomes the star while his career fades fast…you know the
usually high-flown talk.
The romance is sweet, but old-fashionedly
so, with none of the steamy, sexy stuff that audiences are used to
these days. Rather it could have been an emotional ride, but is rather
more like a sizzling, stalling, sickening BEST bus conveying through the
mean streets of Bollyland.
While Shraddha looks pretty, fragile
and earnest, Aditya does have his moments of glory, more so because he
is good to look at while he manages to deliver his lines without
sounding like a child reciting a lesson in the classroom and has a track
record that we like, with London Dreams, Action Replayy and Guzaarish
to his credit. What acqually work better than expected is the chemistry
between the two young leads and it could be real and will probably
spread some gossip!
Performance :
Aditya
Roy Kapur was easily observable because of his obvious good looks and
an impressive pieces of past work. It would not be fair to paint a
flawless picture of him because he too has his weak moments in the film.
Rather, in the mushy scenes, he absolutely scores and he is a potent
actor capable of doing much better but sadly the film doesn’t use him
right.
Shraddha Kapoor has an ounce of childish jollity to her and
she looks gorgeous at places. But the woman needs to join an acting
school and get down to the basics of emoting with eyes and picking up
the right throw of dialogue delivery. At the most moving emotion
instances in the film, she utters words indistinctly while her dialogues
robotically with spoon fed neatness.
Somehow despite their innate
flaws, their chemistry manages to create a fluttering
butterflies-in-your-stomach feeling. In fact, Mahesh Thakur and Shaad
Randhava give above average performances in their limited roles.
Final Word: Aashiqui 2 Movie Review Coming to the factor whether one should watch this one, Yes, if you have not much else to do.
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