Director: Anil Sharma
Writer: Shaktimaan Talwar
Cast: Sunny Deol, Utkarsh Sharma, Ameesha Patel, Manish Wadhwa, Simrat Kaur
Duration: 170 mins
Available in: Theatres
It’s 1971, India and Pakistan are on the brink of war, and Tara Singh (Sunny Deol) still hasn’t tried anger management therapy. Inspired by his rage, the screen is yelling at us now – the director’s credit (Anil Sharma) and the title of the film (Gadar 2: The Katha Continues) is so emphatic that it threatens to uproot us like a stray hand-pump. The man seems to raise his voice even when he isn’t saying anything.
More than two decades since the events of Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001), former rioter and truck driver Tara Singh is a freelance Indian soldier of sorts. Early on, a colonel instructs a crisis-stricken major with two words that amount to blasphemy in the Gadar universe: “Control yourself”. His troops are being slaughtered, which means only one thing: Tara Singh arrives in his truck and casually mows down an entire Pakistani battalion at the border. It’s just another day in office for the Sikh hero who sings with his Muslim wife Sakina (Ameesha Patel) in his spare time, and screams at his grown-up son Charanjeet (Utkarsh Sharma) for wanting to be an actor. “Study or you’ll become a mediocre truck driver like me,” he warns the boy. There’s a lot of killing in this film, but irony is one of the most gruesome victims.