Baaghi 2
Hindi (U/A)
Cast: Tiger Shroff, Disha Patani, Manoj Bajpayee, Randeep Hooda
Director: Ahmed Khan
Let there be fight! Enters Tiger bone-breaker Shroff, puncturing every limb in sight.
The heroics begin in Kashmir, where our army officer is every militant's nightmare (stone-pelters, human shield, anyone?) The one-man fauj soon lands in Goa, on request of old lover (Disha Patani) whose daughter has been kidnapped.
Agreed it's a sin to expect anything other than action from a Tiger Shroff movie. But a semblance of a story would have made the pile of corpses a bit more palatable.
Our man, ever Rambo-esque, just wants to find the missing child, but given that it's Goa, bumps into a legion of powder-snorters. Oh those Russians!
Meanwhile, Disha is all directionless, coming alive only in flashbacks where she plays Miss Congeniality, who has the proverbial union-breaker dad. Those are also the moments when Tiger strays into an unknown territory – emoting.
Now, one man who is clearly having fun is Randeep Hooda - a complete hoot, as the selfie-loving cop 'LSD'. Manoj Bajpayee and Deepak Dobriyal also make a formidable cast in this sequel to the 2016 actioner. Another surprise comes in the form of Prateik Babbar, effective as a drugged-out outlaw.
In the climax, all the action shifts to a jungle where combat specialists of all races are huddled up to take on Tiger. But no creed or creation is a match for Captain Ranveer Pratap Singh. Trust our man to bring down choppers!
That's no mean feat. But, at the end of the day, Baaghi 2 is just 145 minutes of a bronzed Shroff, all guns blazing. A beefcake of a movie with no soul.
