Khuda Haafiz Chapter 2: Agni Pariksha #PicksAndPiques #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit

#PicksAndPiques #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit Film: #KhudaHaafizChapter2AgniPariksha Genre: Action thriller Rating: * * Runtime: 146 mins. Cast: #VidyutJammwal #ShivaleekaOberoi #DanishHussain #DibyenduBhattacharya #SheebaChaddha #RajeshTailang #riddhisharma Writer/Director: #FarukKabir

#ZeeStudios #Cinergy #PanoramaStudios #KumarMangatPathak #AbhishekPathak #SnehaBimalParekh #RamMirchandani #TreeshulMedia #SonalKarolia #MandviSharma #Deepak Cinematography: #JitanHarmeetSingh Editor: #SandeepFrancis Music: #AmarMohile #Mithoon #VishalMishra #ShabbirAhmed Team Khuda Haafiz was forced to release the film on #OTT because the situation, once covid took hold in the country, had become quite fluid and uncertain. So it’s pretty brave and ambitious of them to want to release chapter 2 in the theatres. Faruk Kabir’s second installment is designed as an emotive action thriller, with the same two actors doing the lead. Vidyut and Shivaleeka play a disturbed couple trying to find a way to overcome unspeakable trauma but as the narrative chugs along, they just keep getting deeper and deeper, becoming victims of the stereotypical cop-politician nexus…until the hero begins to fight back. You have one victim recovering from multiple rapes, another multiple rape victim - a teen girl going into a coma and then recovering, and yet another multiple rape victim, this time a child of 5, succumbing to the despicable act. So with one rape too many ( not graphic thankfully) happening, you are already quite put off at the beginning itself. It also takes way too long for the hero to don his action avatar and make the villains (school-going teens, progeny of powerful politicians) pay the price. In the first half, he gets beaten black and blue and gives no indication of what he can do when push comes to shove. Far too many of the sequences are rather perfunctory and too loosely constructed to seem legit. The action choreography is more lethal and pulverizing towards the climax but before that there’s a dramatic wasteland that neither the director nor the lead actors can do anything to alleviate. There’s nothing original, empathetic or genuine in this telling!