Cull Bill
Film: Hate Story 2
Cast: Surveen Chawla, Jay Bhanushali
Directed by: Vishal Pandya
Duration: 2 hrs 7 mins
Rating: * 1 / 2
The success and skin show of Hate Story prompted the film
makers to make a sequel – Hate Story 2 doesn’t have any sleaze and we were
never quite expecting it to have any story anyway. This is just another revenge
drama inspired by a host of films right from Khoon Bhari Maang (1988) to Tarantino’s Kill Bill (2003). She comes close to doing that but the heroine should have wiggled her big toe,
that homage would have been fun.
Much like The Bride, Sonika finds herself buried alive in a
coffin but manages to sneak out. In flashbacks we are told that she was a
demure girl once upon a time who also happened to be the mistress of a
politician Mandar (Sushant Singh). When she falls in love with her friend from the photography
class (Jay Bhanushali) and escapes to Goa,
Mandar bhai gets very very angry and literally sends her underground.
When she is back on her feet she is seeks vengeance, there
is no Deadly Viper Assassination Squad to take care of here, just a bunch of
few ordinary thugs. Defying the laws of science, one of them also succumbs to
death with a LPG tube in his mouth and given the rising cost of LPG, it is not
the cheapest option to kill.
Neither the characterization nor does the story has much to
write home about – they are stereotypes all the way. There is no rational or
justification how the main protagonist transforms herself from a shy person to
gun totting glamour girl.
The leading lady doesn’t leave much of mark on her
performance and Sushant Singh does the scowling and growling that is demanded
of him. From being a tale of retribution Hate Story 2 ends up as a farce.
Published in The Navhind Times on 20th July 2014
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