{"id":3979,"date":"2013-01-10T23:09:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T04:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:41:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:41:04","slug":"movie-review-dabangg2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2013\/01\/movie-review-dabangg2.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review : Dabangg2"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Rating<\/strong> : 3\/5
\nGenre<\/a> : Drama
\nYear<\/a> : 2012
\nRunning time : 2 hours 10 minutes
\nDirector : Arbaaz Khan
\nCast : Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Prakash Raj, Vinod Khanna, Arbaaz Khan
\nKid rating<\/a> : PG-13<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chulbul Pandey is back this time with father Prajapati Pandey (Khanna) brother Makhandas (Arbaaz Khan) and new wife Rajjo (Sonakshi Sinha) in tow. Dear Ma has died and brother Makkhi has turned over a new leaf (need more reminders<\/a>?) Chulbul asks for a transfer to Kanpur, where he proceeds to wreak havoc on the local criminals. Chief among the criminals is politician Baccha Bhaiyya (Prakash Raj) who is contesting the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n

Chulbul \u201cRobin Hood Kungfu\u201d Pande is upto the same antics again. Like in Dabangg, here too he accompanies the dhishum-dhishum with playful antics interspersed with energetic dance numbers. It is to Salman\u2019s credit that he makes the cheesy Chulbul-ism\u2019s work, and gives it his all, whether it\u2019s giggling or pelvic-thrusting his way through the film. Sonakshi Sinha has transformed from the ghaagra choli wearing single girl Rajjo to the chiffon saree clad Mrs. Chulbul Pandey. She spends her time cooking, cleaning, hanging out the washing\/other homely things, relegating some of her time to batting her eyelashes \/waiting for husband dearest at saree shops or accompanying him in raunchy dance numbers side-by-side with the neighborhood nautch girl.<\/p>\n

Prakash Raj makes a formidable villain. Vinod Khanna has little to do except be fatherly. Arbaaz Khan is Makkhi, just as daft, although not as villainish anymore. This film is what it is, an all out masala entertainer \u2013 no sense or logic needed. Dialogues are daft and the sly innuendoes reminded me of Kader Khan\u2019s dialog writing skills. Direction is poor. The music is passable \u2013 with \u201cMaare Seeti\u201d number displaying infectious number \u2013 me thinks they need not have bothered with bringing in \u201cMunni” (Malaika) in at all! Kareena makes a short appearance in the \u201cFevicol Se\u201d song.<\/p>\n

The problems with this film are too many too list, but let me list my one big objection. Dabangg2 reiterates the \u201ctraditionalist\u201d roles for it\u2019s men and women. While Chulbul is brawny and rains fistcuffs, his wife is the dutiful daughter-in-law and simpering consort to her manly man. It is another thing that I probably am out of touch what constitutes a \u201cgood\u201d hero, because Chulbul fails to be one in my book. He is a good son, a good brother, talks respectfully to his mother\u2019s garlanded photo on the wall, but of questionable morality when it comes to his wife, as he talks of brothel-houses with great familiarity and spends much of his gusto-filled evenings there.<\/p>\n

This is the film to see if you want silly and pointless. Aim any higher and this film falls short. This is Dabangg Version 2.0 and rather worse for the wear.<\/p>\n

Kidwise<\/strong> : I read in India Today<\/a> that Salman Khan continues to make \u201cclean, entertaining\u201d films with Dabangg2, because the film apparently was passed by the Censor Board with a UA certificate and no cuts. If this is \u201cclean\u201d then there is a disconnect here. UA translates to PG-13, but I\u2019d advice restraint for kids in general \u2013 the film has large doses of sleaze, not to mention the \u201cFevicol Se\u201d number which is one of the vulgarest dance sequences I\u2019ve seen, and I\u2019ve seen all of them. \u201cSheila ki jawani\u201d looks almost classy by comparison.<\/p>\n

With the recent Delhi crime<\/a> I am even more critical of the out-dated gender roles and societal mores that the film stresses upon. Bollywood \u201cculture\u201d might not be THE problem but it does create an atmosphere where women aren\u2019t their own agents, just helpless beings in need of protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rating : 3\/5 Genre : Drama Year : 2012 Running time : 2 hours 10 minutes Director : Arbaaz Khan Cast : Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Prakash Raj, Vinod Khanna, Arbaaz Khan Kid rating : PG-13 Chulbul Pandey is back … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":"","facebook_10233691416821117_190635594420624":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,90,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-152","category-all-netflix","category-hindi-movies-on-netflix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":2,"uagb_excerpt":"Rating : 3\/5 Genre : Drama Year : 2012 Running time : 2 hours 10 minutes Director : Arbaaz Khan Cast : Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Prakash Raj, Vinod Khanna, Arbaaz Khan Kid rating : PG-13 Chulbul Pandey is back … Continue reading →","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45CAb-12b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10396,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions\/10396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}