Mahesh Thakur and Shaad Randhava give above average performances in their limited roles. Somehow despite their intrinsic flaws, their chemistry manages to create a fluttering butterflies-in-your-stomach feeling. At the most poignant instances in the film, she mutters her dialogues robotically with spoon fed neatness.

But the woman needs to join an acting school and get down to the basics of emoting with eyes and picking up the right throw of dialogue delivery. Shraddha Kapoor has an ounce of childish mirth to her. But, in the mushy scenes, he absolutely scores! He is a potent actor capable of doing much better but sadly the film doesn’t use him right. Aashiqui 2 Review: Star PerformancesĪditya Roy Kapur was conspicuously noticeable because of his obvious good looks and an impressive repertoire of past work! I won’t paint a flawless picture of him because he too has his weak moments in the film. By the film’s end you’ll either be moaning with morbid ear pain from all the on-screen screeching, or will be laughing at the film’s most emotional moments which is definitely not a compliment.

The climax is abrupt and squanders away awkwardly. Don’t try to find logic because there is no scope for it. The warm archaic romance is very feel good. It is definitely not a sequel of Aashiqui! But indeed heavily borrowed and at places directly lifted from Amitabh Bachchan-Jaya Bhaduri starrer Abhimaan. At no point is the man’s love challenged by jealousy but it is his own descent that claws him from within, which the film admirably maintains. Strikingly, the script writers maintain a strict dichotomy between Rahul’s love for Arohi and how he hauntingly bears failure and bruised ego of a yesteryear star, without mixing the two. The plot has been written from an enlightened perspective which does understand the necessity of coming of age in terms of ideas. Surprisingly, the script has kept the love story independent of Rahul’s self loathing tendencies. The film could easily pass as a documentary for Alcoholics Anonymous! Oodles of melodrama and dollops of mush leave you feeling diabetic! But as far as the script goes, there is an interesting and rather impressive point to note. Does their love survive the hardships of life? Or dilemmas of pride and ego weigh heavy on them? Aditya Roy Kapur And Shradha Kapoor in Aashiqui 2 Movie Stills Aashiqui 2 Review: Script Analysis While slowly he finds himself falling in love with her, her success coincides with his failure, with Rahul settling for being a successful woman’s shadow. An impressed Rahul decides to build her career in order to give his crumbling life a purpose. At a local bar in Goa, he spots Arohi, singing his famous number with greater passion than him. After a nasty scene of drunken revelry at a concert, popular singer Rahul Jaikar washes down his low self morale with more alcohol.

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