Ronnie is up against formidable foes and hardened sceptics. The time-tested formula appears to work fine up until a point, but once the expected superhero act kicks in it is an unstoppable downhill slide. The hero - yes, the very rebel for the cause of love whose dazzling martial arts moves felled an arch-villain in Baaghi a couple of years ago - penetrates the heart of the Goa underworld and takes on sundry drug dealers, Russian ruffians, uncooperative cops and menacing gangsters in a fight to the finish. Ranveer Pratap Singh alias Ronnie, a Special Forces captain stationed in Kashmir comes in from the cold when a five-year-old girl, Rhea, daughter of the woman (Disha Patani) he once loved but could not marry, is abducted in front of her Panjim play school. Tiger Shroff's fan base is bound to feel well served.
That is exactly what the makers are banking upon. If you do not mind that intrinsic drawback, and like Tiger Shroff enough to endure the relentless one-man army operation unfolding on the screen, this film might actually not only pass muster but also, in patches, feel like a visceral treat. But neither the heart nor the mind stands a chance of surviving this relentless onslaught of biceps, pecs and clenched fists. The character pIayed by Deepak Dobriyal lectures the comparative importance of dil and dimaag. So he lets it rip without letting the need for nuances get in the way of his style, which rests primarily on taking the plot of the 2016 Telugu actioner Kshanam and turning it into an exercise designed for Tiger doing his hyper-masculine number in the face of grave danger.Īs a result, Baaghi 2 is more a two-and-a-half-hour stunt show than a genuine piece of cinema. But shouldn't it have been built around a 'story' of sorts? The director obviously does not believe overly in that precept. Granted that it is all handsomely executed. It is all very fine to mount bomb explosions, chases, airstrikes and elaborate fight sequences designed to highlight the might and precision of the righteous soldier.
The cookie-cutter approach to storytelling - an invincible hero, responding to a plea for help from a beloved he parted from four years ago, runs amok and goes all guns blazing at an entire retinue of vicious antagonists - militates against the basic principles of the genre because it completely blocks the possibility of any real emotional engagement taking shape between the audience and the characters. Of course, the hero, a battle-scarred army commando nursing a broken heart and venting his ire on the enemies of the nation, comes out in one piece no matter what is thrown at him. Baaghi 2 Movie Review: A still from the film.
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