Likes: Playing the Guitar, Writing Songs, Playing Poolĭislikes: People talking loudly at restaurantsĢ013: BIG Star Entertainment Award for Best Actor in a Romantic role for Aashiqui 2, BIG Star Entertainment Award for the Most Romantic Award for 2013 (alongside Shraddha Kapoor)Ģ014: Screen Award for Jodi No. Shaad Randhawa does fine in his short supporting role.Īashiqui 2 is too soggy and can make you cringe in your seat for being typical and tedious.Collecting Matchboxes, Playing the Guitar, Drawing, Writing Songs Her pretty face and expressive eyes add to her appeal. In comparison, Shraddha Kapoor shows vast improvement and is able to stand on her own. He is not bad but better was expected in his first solo lead act for the potential that he showed in the past. His face and expressions (or the lack of it) often remind of John Abraham in his initial days. To its merit, the film boasts of some good tunes though comparing it with the soundtrack of the prequel doesn’t make much sense.Īditya Roy Kapur has good screen presence but his character is so half-baked and one-dimensional that you remain apathetic to his emotional turmoil. Unfortunately the narrative gets so monotonous in its second half and keeps repeating itself endlessly that you lose the film much before its end. Thankfully the only redeeming factor about the film is its pragmatic end which comes as a pleasant surprise after too much of surrealism.
Like in Kareena Kapoor’s Heroine, you eventually turn indifferent towards the protagonist for their inability to get a grip on their own life.
Moreover his sob story makes him look more like a loser and rather than empathizing with him, you start detesting him. Rahul’s alcoholic misconduct gets repetitive after a while and he gets into such self-pity mode that he can give Devdas a run for money. And when it finally comes, the story just keeps beating around it, making it absolutely one-dimensional. However the instant (and perhaps only) recall value of the 1990 Aashiqui is its melodious numbers while not much of its story is spoken about.Ī bigger problem with the sequel is that there isn’t a defined conflict in the story for a long time.
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What the sequel derives (thematically) from the original is also the aspect that it’s a love story marred by professional aspirations (though under different circumstances). Rahul’s blind faith in Aarohi is fashionably filmi and their love story is predictably tame. And Aarohi believes she owes her stardom to Rahul and can’t leave him alone.Īashiqui 2 is too mushy and melodramatic – both being old-school emotions in contemporary context. Yet Rahul can’t face his artistic failure and resorts to alcoholism (rather he always was a drunkard for no reason). So while you expect an Abhimaan kinda ego-clash between the two, they seem to be more considerate than competitive. But when Aarohi turns one, Rahul feels isolated and out-of-sync with the industry. While he himself lacks any aim in life, Rahul is so upbeat about Aarohi that he pushes her into becoming a singing sensation. He comes across Aarohi (Shraddha Kapoor) and is so impressed by her singing skills that he offers her a big career in music world. Alas there’s no such backstory and it seems as if Rahul is characteristically a crybaby. He seems sad in life and you assume his depression might be arising from some troubled past. The film opens with a guitar-strumming Rahul (Aditya Roy Kapur) who is essentially an alcoholic but seems to be more in the hangover of Ranbir Kapoor’s Rockstar. The only common link arguably is that it dates back to the original’s era in terms of its soul and substance. Same is the case with Aashiqui 2 which has no correlation whatsoever with its two-decade old prequel. IDiva verdict: Aashiqui 2 is too soggy and can make you cringe in your seat for being typical and tedious.īhatts have always turned unrelated movies into film franchises, connecting them merely by genres. What's Not: Aditya Roy Kapur's character is so half-baked and one-dimensional that you remain apathetic to his emotional turmoil. What's Hot: Thankfully the only redeeming factor about the film is its pragmatic end which comes as a pleasant surprise after too much of surrealism.
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