Rather, in the mushy scenes, he absolutely scores and he is a potent actor capable of doing much better but sadly the film doesn’t use him right. It would not be fair to paint a flawless picture of him because he too has his weak moments in the film. What acqually work better than expected is the chemistry between the two young leads and it could be real and will probably spread some gossip!Īditya Roy Kapur was easily observable because of his obvious good looks and an impressive pieces of past work. While Shraddha looks pretty, fragile and earnest, Aditya does have his moments of glory, more so because he is good to look at while he manages to deliver his lines without sounding like a child reciting a lesson in the classroom and has a track record that we like, with London Dreams, Action Replayy and Guzaarish to his credit. Rather it could have been an emotional ride, but is rather more like a sizzling, stalling, sickening BEST bus conveying through the mean streets of Bollyland. The romance is sweet, but old-fashionedly so, with none of the steamy, sexy stuff that audiences are used to these days. He helps her, she becomes the star while his career fades fast…you know the usually high-flown talk. Yes, Suri tries very hard yes, the music is fairly decent yes, the story has potential which is about two young people, Rahul (Aditya Roy Kapur) and Aarohi (Shraddha Kapoor) who are both singers, he the established star, she the wannabe. This one kind of reminded us of A Star is Born, or even its desi version Abhimaan, with none of the quality of either acting or filmmaking. Logically speaking, the name itself should have ensured some degree of success but no, that is not what is happening, not even a bit! Nevertheless, Mahesh Bhatt the producer and Mohit Suri, the director of the film, made it clear that the second film merely had the same name it was not connected with the first in any other way, they claimed.
That neither of them managed to follow up on that success is a different story, but the film told a tale that could possibly be continued into the future, perhaps into a new generation storytelling. Even if then, does it actually work, even with the title adding value? In fact, when we first heard about Aashiqui 2 we, like almost everyone else, thought it would be a sequel to the first, which made Rahul Roy and Anu Agarwal instant stars. The plot is constantly weighed down by painfully mundane conversations (at one point, a lovestruck RJ is told by his dad over the phone, ‘When son is in love, father just knows.’) and fails to justify the developments in the story.The Bhatts expressed this one is not a sequel to Aashiqui, but just a retelling of a love story. Suri clearly had a hard time establishing the premise and fleshing out his characters. The story pretty much goes downhill from there with increasing tension in the protagonists’ fragile relationship, which is not to say that the beginning boasts of any flashes of brilliance. It does replicate the original’s musical success to some extent but that’s where the link between the two films ends.Īditya plays Rahul Jaykar (RJ) - an erstwhile star singer with a drinking problem - who spots a girl (Shraddha Kapoor, as Aarohi Keshav Shirke) singing in a quaint little beer bar in Goa and convinces her to come back to Mumbai with promises of helping her become a successful playback singer in the Hindi film industry.īack in Mumbai, the duo falls in love following a random turn of events and has a hard time coping with Aarohi’s success and RJ’s escalating alcoholism. Going by the dictionary definition, a sequel means, ‘A published, broadcast or recorded work that continues the story or develops the theme of an earlier one’ or, ‘something that takes place after or as a result of an earlier event.’Īashiqui 2, starring Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor, is neither. I wasn’t sure how Mohit Suri’s Aashiqui 2 qualified to be called a sequel to Mahesh Bhatt’s 1990 hit romance film starring Rahul Roy and Anu Agarwal, so I looked up the word.
In Aashiqui 2, what probably started as an interesting story idea - troubled artists, dynamics in a relationship - eventually got buried under the debris of random motifs from previous hits delivered by the Bhatt camp, writes Nishi Tiwari.
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