Gadar 2: 2023 Bollywood Period Action Drama Film

Movie Name: Gadar 2: The Katha Continues
Directed by: Anil Sharma
Starring: Sunny Deol, Ameesha Patel, Utkarsh Sharma, Simrat Kaur, Luv Sinha, Manish Wadhwa, Mir Sarwar, Rohit Choudhary, Gaurav Chopra, Rumi Khan, Arjun Dwivedi
Genre: Action, Drama
Running Time: 165 Minutes
Release Date: 11 August, 2023
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Production House: Zee Cinema

Gadar 2: The Katha Continues

Gadar 2: The Katha Continues is an upcoming 2023 Indian Hindi-language period action drama film directed and produced by Anil Sharma from a story written by Shaktimaan Talwar. It is a sequel to the 2001 film Gadar: Ek Prem Katha. The film stars Sunny Deol, Ameesha Patel and Utkarsh Sharma in the lead roles.

It is scheduled to be released on 11 August 2023.

During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Tara Singh returns to Pakistan in order to bring back his son Charanjeet.

Zee Studio, Sunny Deol, Ameesha Patel and Utkarsh Sharma officially announced Gadar 2: The Katha Continues on 15 October 2021 (Dussehra) on their social media accounts, revealing the release date 2022 with motion poster. The first poster of the sequel titled ‘Gadar 2’ was unveiled on 26 January 2023 (Republic Day) and it shows Tara Singh, played by Sunny, with a hammer.A few days ago there was a news that the teaser of the film will be released along with Salman Khan’s film Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan and the teaser will be of 55 seconds but it turned out to be just a rumor. The film has also set its release date as August 11, 2023.

Casting:

As before, Deol was offered for the role of Tara Singh. Patel was offered the role of Tara Singh’s wife, Sakeena role. Sharma was offered for role of Charanjeet “Jeete” Singh.

Nimrat Khaira was offered the role of Charanjeet Singh’s love interest, Muskaan, in September 2021. Khaira rejected the offer in wake of the 2020–2021 Indian farmers’ protest. She also stated that Zee Studio and Bollywood opposed the farmers’ protest, so she will not work in any film offered by Bollywood. After Khaira turned down the role, Simi Chahal was offered the same role, but she also rejected it due to the protests. During an interview in May 2022, Shipra Goyal said that she was offered the role of Ghadar 2 after Chahal but also declined. Wamiqa Gabbi also rejected the role of Muskaan. Kainaat Arora is said to have flatly refused for the role of Gadar 2. Eventually, the makers brought in Simrat Kaur for the role. Manish Wadhwa was offered the role of a Pakistani army general in the film. Rohit Choudhary, was also cast in the role of a Pakistani army general in the film. Luv Sinha and Gaurav Chopra have also been cast in important role.

Music:

The music of the film is composed by Mithoon with lyrics written by Sayeed Quadri.

Release:

Gadar 2: The Katha Continues is scheduled to be theatrically released in India on 11th August 2023. Also, Gadar Ek Prem Katha was Re-Released in Cinemas on 9th June 2023. The Gadar 2 Teaser was released on Zee Studio YouTube Channel on 12th June 2023, celebrating the 22nd Anniversary Of Gadar Ek Prem Katha.

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Gadar 2: Movie Review

Sunny Deol is superb in this middling sequel

Sunny Deol as Tara Singh reprises the hand pump and ‘zindabad’ scenes but there is very little that is original and impactful in the new film

Tara Singh (Sunny Deol) once again takes out his high-decibel gaddi to Pakistan in this faithful sequel to Gadar. It is not as provocative as the original as driver Anil Sharma seeks to take a middle path. Perhaps, it feels like that because the socio-political atmosphere outside the theatre has become much more dramatic and shrill than what it was when the original released in 2001. Still, it is good that Sharma has toned down the jingoistic tone. Set ahead of the Bangladesh War, it talks of moving on from the hate-filled atmosphere of Partition. Instead of a particular religion, he comes down heavily on individuals who use religion as a tool to further their jaundiced political agenda. The problem is Sharma finds such people only across the border. Where is the representation of Ashraf Alis and Hamid Iqbals, the antagonist in the latest version, on this side of the divide?

The bad part is it is not as poignant as the original. For all its politics of hate, Gadar did have a tender love story between Tara and Sakina (Ameesha Patel) at its core and Uttam Singh’s music ensured that it pressed the right buttons.

This time the emotional ignition falls short as Tara returns to the neighbouring nation to get his son Jeete (Utkarsh Sharma) back. The idea is just to put Tara, the one-man army, back in Pakistan and let him and the audience go berserk. The route is contrived and the bulwark of sentiments is not strong enough to lift the action.

Having said that, few could match Sunny in depicting the intensity of a wounded soul. With honesty in his eyes and a hammer in his hands, he once again pulverises the opposition single-handedly. Wish Sharma had given him situations with more heft and humour to work with. Tara reprises the hand pump and ‘zindabad’ scenes but there is very little that is original and impactful in the sequel. The hand pump scene had a distinct rawness to it but here when Tara lifts the wheel with shlokas playing the background, we know where it is coming from. We know Sunny’s fight sequences have their own intrinsic logic but the climactic scene doesn’t pass even that test. It is simply lazy writing.

Manish Wadhwa impresses as the evil general whose hatred for Hindus and Hindustan emanates from a personal loss during the Partition but we miss the larger-than-life performance of Amrish Puri who matched Sunny in the snarling contest.

Utkarsh has got a lot of screen time to make his presence felt and provide the romantic tapestry to the action but for a large part, he remains just a satellite of Tara. Ameesha is made for melodrama and here again, she plays the teary-eyed wife and mother with conviction. The problem is she hasn’t added much to her creative arsenal since the original hit the screens. The result is as the film progresses, Sakeena becomes a one-note character who begs for empathy rather than earning it.

Anand Bakshi’s lyrics and Uttam Singh’s music were the lifeline of the original. Here Sayeed Quadri and Mithoon haven’t disappointed but still could not match the magic of ‘Udja Kale Kanwa’. ‘Chal Tere Ishq Main’ stands out and provides some padding to Utkarsh and newcomer Simrat Kaur to create a romantic bedrock for the action to take a leap but this prem katha could neither satisfy the bloodthirsty souls nor could it sing to the melody-minded. Tara twinkles somewhere in between.