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Ab Tak Chhappan 2 Review:

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Ab Tak Chhappan 2
Theatrical Poster
Directed by	Aejaz Gulab
Produced by	Raju Chada Gopal Dalvi
Written by	Nilesh Girkar
Starring	Nana Patekar Ashutosh Rana Vikram Gokhale Gul Panag
Music by	Amal Mallik
Cinematography	Siddharth More
Edited by	Vinay Chauhan Abhijith Kokate
Production company	Alumbra Entertainment
Distributed by	Wave Cinemas Ponty Chadha (worldwide)
Release dates	27th February 2015
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Movie information:

Ab Tak Chhappan 2 (English: So Far Fifty Six II) is a 2015 Hindi crime filmproduced by Raju Chada and Gopal Dalvi. The film is directed by Aejaz Gulab and scripted by Nilesh Girkar. The film stars Nana Patekar in the lead role. It also starsGul Panag, and Ashutosh Rana. The film is a sequel to Ab Tak Chhappan. The film was released on 27th February 2015 to mixed to positive reviews.The story revolves around Inspector Sadhu Agashe (Nana Patekar) from the Mumbai Encounter Squad. It is inspired by the life of Police sub-Inspector with Mumbai Police force Daya Nayak.

Cast

• Nana Patekar as Inspector Sadhu Agashe
• Gul Panag as Reporter Shalu Dixit
• Mohan Agashe as Ex Commissioner Pradhan
• Govind Namdev as Police Commisioner.
• Raj Zutshi as Rawle, Brother of Zamir (Antagonist from First Film).
• Vikram Gokhale as Home Minister Jagirdar
• Dilip Prabhavalkar as Chief Minister
• Ashutosh Rana as Suryakant Jakhar, Sadhu's Immidiate Junior

Basic plot:

Ex-encounter specialist, Sadhu Agashe is called back for a special case involving the Mumbai crime scene. After being nudged by the law and cases pending on his name, Sadhu’s retirement is going by just fine as he finds happiness in fishing and rowing off in village waters along with his teenage son. Finding pleasures in his leisure time, Sadhu is approached by the Home Minister for re-taking his position as the encounter specialist and clean up the mess. Still guilty for his wife’s murder, Sadhu intially brushes off the offer in the lieu of protecting his son. Although after being forced by his son to rejoin the force, a confident Sadhu gets back on the job.

What trails ahead is his journey. A lot had changed since he left the force and with the blurred lines between poilitical and the underworld, will Sadhu be able to remain true to his job?

Actor-wise review:

Nana Patekar is a great actor and while he made Sadhu Agashe’s character unforgettable in the prequel, thanks to the film’s poor storyline, fails to pack a punch with this one. I recently watched him in a brilliant biopic on Prakash Amte and after that this Bollywood come back is quite disappointing.Your heart goes out to Nana Patekar, who resurrects his role as an encounter cop and in doing so, lends utmost authenticity to his character. As a man torn between his duty as a cop and responsibility as a father, he singlehandedly strives to salvage what appears to be a poor remake of the gripping original (Shimit Amin's Ab Tak Chhappan, 2004) with his tremendous screen presence.

Gul Panag plays a feisty crime journalist but does not impress at all. I have no clue why but in majority of the scenes her pitch is extremely high. Well, we are not deaf eh! It is probably best if she continues with politics for now.

The supporting cast includes Ashutosh Rana, Mohan Agashe, Dilip Prabhavalkar and Vikram Gokhale. In spite of being actors with great potential, they are highly underplayed in this film.

Final verdict:

Ab Tak Chhappan 2 was expected more than it's prequel but,there is no killer action or pace like its prequel as I said earlier. It lacks the essence for a entertaining super cop drama like those of Salman khan's Dabangg-series or Ajay Devgn's Singham series. Not well direction and what actually spoils all the fun is editing of the movie. Not well executed movie, so from my end it's 2 rating just for "Nana Patekar's performance".