Aashiqui 2 Movie Reviews

Since the past couple of years, Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt's Vishesh Films has only invested in sequels: JANNAT 2, MURDER 3, RAAZ 3... but it's after a really long gap, of 23 years to be precise, that the premier production house and Bhushan Kumar [of T-Series] revisit one of their triumphant stories -- AASHIQUI. A film that revolutionized the music industry then...First things first! AASHIQUI 2 is *not* a sequel.

AASHIQUI 2 is a gamble taken by the Bhatt camp and T series. In the forefront are two actors (with some good work behind them), one with proven pedigree and the other with a standard of his own. We need to create a new bank of stars and the youth of today, however much they may idolize the bigger stars, are always on the lookout for fresh faces and newer talent they can identify with. With AASHIQUI 2, this is just what the makers have done

He sings. She sings. He, for his stardom. She, for her supper. And the twain meet. In a restrobar, where she croons and he swoons. And Aashiqui is born. Again! Retelling the celebrity story that stardom ain't an easy ride. It sometimes vrooms and then goes sputter, the fuel of celebdom often running out. Like Rahul Jaykar (Aditya) discovers; once basking in a 'rockstar' like status, but soon losing it to alcohol, addiction and self-deprecation

This could be good soup for the lovers’ soul – with a dash of old-world flavour.

Review: The two most powerful motivators of human action – Love and Addiction. But sometimes Love too falls under the dangerous purview of......

Aashiqui 2 is about two singers in love. It has the Abhimaan angle of a famous artiste, Rahul, played by Aditya Roy Kapur, discovering a small-town girl, Aarohi, played by Shraddha Kapoor, and mentoring her to glory. But director Mohit Suri and writer Shagufta Rafique update the story. The predictable jealousy angle as the partner becomes more famous is sidelined for a thornier problem - he is an alcoholic. So, in fact, Aarohi's success becomes Rahul's salvation

Aashiqui set quite a few trends. It ushered the new-age musical on release in 1990. The soundtrack emerged as a hero, setting a template that let producers make profits casting unknown names as leads. In turn composer duo Nadeem-Shravan emerged as superstars, dictating productions because scripts started being written to fit their songs. Their music, largely blending traditional geet and ghazal with a hint of vintage RD Burman, brought back melody

2013 is touted to be the year of sequels in Bollywood with more than a dozen franchise-based films hitting the marquee. Well, after watching Aashiqui 2, the definition of sequel needs to be visited once again. This particular romance-drama might come across as a sequel to the 1990 hit Aashiqui but it’s not. What the film does though is it religiously follows the Bhatt model — in which winsome music plays a huge role — with dull moments

Bhatts have always turned unrelated movies into film franchises, connecting them merely by genres. Same is the case with Aashiqui 2 which has no correlation whatsoever with its two-decade old prequel. The only common link arguably is that it dates back to the original's era in terms of its soul and substance. The film opens with a guitar-strumming Rahul (Aditya Roy Kapur) who is essentially an alcoholic but seems to be more in the hangover

After a nasty scene of drunken revelry at a concert, popular singer Rahul Jaikar washes down his low self morale with more alcohol. At a local bar in Goa, he spots Arohi, singing his famous number with greater passion than him. An impressed Rahul decides to build her career in order to give his crumbling life a purpose. While slowly he finds himself falling in love with her, her success coincides with his failure, with Rahul settling for

Aditya Roy Kapoor plays a top grade renowned singer. Now he is out of form and has become careless about his career. He has also become a drunkard, loses temper and gets into fights at the slightest provocation. His friend-secretary and other well wishers try to bring him on the right path, but he does not care. On a night, he sees Shraddha Kapoor singing at a bar. He is amazed to see she is singing his songs better than him. It is attraction

Mohit Suri may have done the impossible and crammed every single romantic movie cliché in “Aashiqui 2”. There are traces of the 1973 hit “Abhimaan” along with the original “Aashiqui” (1990). Director Suri tries to inject an intense vibe in his new film, but fails miserably. Rahul Jaykar (Aditya Roy Kapoor), a rock star who is slowly slipping away into oblivion thanks to his alcoholism, spots Aarohi (Shraddha Kapoor) singing in a Goan bar

Once the lovers come together, and the first act is over, why does everything slide? This Aashiqui 2 holds out promise, but doesn’t make the most of it.

I wasn’t sure how Mohit Suri’s Aashiqui 2 qualified to be called a sequel to Mahesh Bhatt’s 1990 hit romance film starring Rahul Roy and Anu Agarwal, so I looked up the word. Going by the dictionary definition, a sequel means, ‘A published, broadcast or recorded work that continues the story or develops the theme of an earlier one’ or, ‘something that takes place after or as a result of an earlier event.’ Aashiqui 2, starring Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor

It is a terribly trite and tested formula. The girl possesses a voice to kill for. The boy has a fan following to die for. The twosome sings for a living. The temperamental, hard-drinking male protagonist is a major composer and songwriter with many a chartbuster under his belt and a humongous chip on his shoulders. The girl – she is poor, ambitious and down to earth – struggles to make ends meet. She sings in seedy beer bars. The boy, smitten by