Review: Student Of The Year 2

*Loser Of The Year* – Actual dialog from the movie.

Student Of The Year 2 is produced by Karan Johar and is directed by Punit Malhotra. It introduces us to newcomers, Ananya Panday (Shreya) and Tara Sutaria (Mia) and has Tiger Shroff (Rohan) as the hero and Aditya Seal (Manav) as the villain.

This movie has been done many times before. It has all the worst possible clichés which I thought it won’t have but it does and in plenty. I thought that the filmmakers will try and make this realistic and have a core message for the youth who are the main audience for the film. Unfortunately, it has none of that.

This film is so unrealistic that it scares me that kids who are between 7-10 years might start thinking that college will be like everything that is portrayed here.

There is only ONE minute of screen time showing *students* studying. As a 16-year old, it saddens me that this is how Bollywood wants to portray college life i.e. kabaddi, running races, long jumps yada yada. If one wins in these competitions, he/she becomes the *student* of the year.

Really, Bollywood? How low will you stoop down now?

I’m just getting warmed up because there’s a lot to talk about. The action sequences felt that they were straight out of a Jackie Chan movie. In his films, there is a perfect reason why he could do those stunts as he was e.g. an Agent in Rush Hour. But here, these characters are College Students who are flying around everywhere. And next to the kabaddi sequences. The filmmakers made new rules for this sport which made me want to go to sleep.

On a side note, the Indian kabaddi team should take notes from this film.

The direction is so generic and choppy that it’s saddening now. It seems as if the filmmakers don’t care about the audience anymore.

It’s all so cheesy and over the top with a song every ten minutes that kept taking me out of the movie.

The dialog was an abomination. That is all I’ve to say about that.

As I always try to end with a positive note, the performance was surprisingly good. Aditya Seal did a fantastic job. Tara and Ananya were decent as well. Tiger was meh but Harsh Beniwal (Puggi) was the stand out. He got the best laughs.

All in all, don’t waste your ticket money for this mess. You’ll not only save your money, you’ll save a few IQ points too.

————–RATING——————-

1) Performance: Good

2) Treatment: Bad

3) Story: Catastrophic

4) Recommendation: If you’re a fan of Tiger, maybe.