It may surprise you but I watched the film in India, with my cousin’s family. I would stop at 7 on 10.

I have not seen the film to which this is a sequel so I was filled in by my cousin. The references to the brother are too numerous for people like me.

While it is commendable that no songs were sung around trees, the Govinda chant does get on one’s nerves. They could have also edited down Amitabh Bachchan’s monologue towards the end. There are some good lines (”kabhi kabhi hamare usool zindagi se bade ho jaate hain” resonated with me the most) but the Poirot-like deductive unravelling of the role of Rao Sahab was a bit far-fetched. My niece asked several times how he could know all that. Aishwarya was decorative and barring her crying in the shooting and death scenes, mostly plastic - which is the norm. I was a bit sad to see Supriya Pathak wasted in the film.

I wonder how Aishwarya ‘ek chai lana’ Rai and Cheeku ‘my father was killed by my Uncle’ Nagre will square off in the next sequel!

Shefaly, Welcome back! Even I kind of lost track when they started talking about the older brother. My friends had to fill me in. Probably a 30-second flashback would have been good. The Rao Saab politics was way too complicated and the script writer needs to be given kudos for coming up with such an elaborate plot, which, I’m sure, nobody knew/guessed. And yes, I think Cheeku will be played by some other hot guy and AB Sr. will be in his death bed by then. Ash…middle aged frustrated woman? We’ll see!

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Godfather, Goodfellas and all other gangster movies! - Ruhi

and of course, welcome back…

I wouldn’t say it’s very good! It’s good, yes. And decent enough for a Hindi movie. That’s the reason I gave it a 7.5. If I start ranking Hindi movies on a global scale, then I don’t think I would give it more than a 5/10.- Ruhi