Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns Movie Reviews

Tigmanshu Dhulia had said in a pre-release interview that ‘Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns’ is more “opulent and intriguing” than its prequel and he has lived up to his claim. Dhulia weaves a complex tale of love, jealousy and revenge and the taut narrative ensures that it keeps the viewer engaged throughout. The sequel begins exactly where the first part had ended; Saheb Aditya Pratap Singh (Jimmy Shergill) is wheelchair ridden

The title means nothing, you know. Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster was fine, cheeky and homage-y but this added Returns, a grammatically incorrect English word at the end of a Hindi title? (Instead of, say, Saheb Biwi Aur Doosra Gangster?) It is this anything-goes approach that carries itself on to the opening credits -- with oddly tacky graphics of tossed coins and guns, as if to rub the film’s lack of finesse in our faces -- and to the characters

It is this anything-goes approach that carries itself on to the opening credits — with oddly tacky graphics of tossed coins and guns, as if to rub the film’s lack of finesse in our faces — and to the characters, who are introduced with no subtlety whatsoever: the word Gangster shows up with a funny gong sound, the Biwi appears to wailing B-movie siren sounds in the background.

SBAGR focuses on the obsessions and passions of the Royal families in UP. And it does a fantastic job of capturing the essence of that vanity of that overt machismo.

Tigmanshu Dhulia’s film is a call to the masses to return to the real India of the hinterland; the place where earthy, solid stories exist. Places where the women can unabashedly say, “Hume mard hi kyu milte hai… Shayar kyun nahi milte!” (Why do we get just men… why not poets!)

Subsequent to the colossal critical success of the first part, SAHEB BIWI AUR GANGSTER [in 2011], Tigmanshu Dhulia, an avant garde storyteller of the present times, dives into his first sequel, SAHEB BIWI AUR GANGSTER RETURNS. However, unlike the trend of attempting sequels without connecting with the earlier part, SAHEB BIWI AUR GANGSTER RETURNS makes an effort to take the story of Saheb, Biwi and Gangster forward

Mind you, this is not regular gangsta film; with usual showcasing of arms, ammunition, bangs and blasts. Yes, it has explosives of another kind - 'bangs' (it's a total 'bed'-bangers ball, what gall); Weapons of Mass Seduction and politics of bistar and beyond. This sequel, a strange mix of foul games and passionplay, unfolds with a crippled Saheb (Jimmy) holding onto the last vestiges of his shrinking Kingly pomp and glory. His boisterous biwi

An intoxicated Mahie Gill draped in a sari accentuating her curves listens to the classic ‘lag jaa gale’ from Woh Kaun Thi. But that’s not the only moment where this song appears. In fact Tighmanshu Dhulia makes references to this song at different moments signifying the changing mood of its central characters. Despite being a sequel, Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster Returns is a stand alone piece that doesn’t need any cross referencing to its predecessor

Sequels. Always tricky. Rare is the second installment that surpasses the original. And Bollywood has a particularly dismal record. So expectations were strictly under check for Tigmanshu Dhulia’s grammatically suspect Saheb Biwi aur Gangster Returns. But it’s the director who returns with aplomb. Keeping much of the original’s spirit intact, even surpassing it in many ways. It is not critical to recall or have seen the prequel

A revenge drama with a dash of political satire and a double love triangle dovetailed into a dark thriller, writer-director Tigmanshu Dhulia’s follow-up to Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster is an intense, effervescent and eventually melancholic film. A slimy politician is caught watching porn on his laptop. A bunch of self-serving MLAs are spirited away to a remote bungalow and held captive there ahead of a crucial vote in the Assembly

Royal scandals never fail to regale. In any case when Tigmanshu Dhulia has a new film lined up, a loyal fan base is always waiting to watch. Add to it the fact that Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns is the sequel of a film that has already captured imagination. Tigmanshu's new film follows up the delectably degenerate tale of a royal clan in the UP heartland that kicked off with his 2011 crossover thriller Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster. Gloss over the grammatical gaffe

Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns kicks off from the same note where its prequel was put off. Saheb (Jimmy Shergill) and his shadow Kanhaiya (Deepraj Rana) survive the murderous attempt on their life by Babloo (Randeep Hooda). As put in Saheb’s words, “Hum jee rahe hain. Makbara nahi huye hain abhi tak.” Though Saheb is left crippled by the attack, he is determined to get back on his feet at the earliest. And guess who’s in charge

Charmed to captured again.. ViaCom 18 and Tigmanshu Dhulia return with Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster comes with added characters and is a seductively thrilling absorbing wicked fun. Clearly defining how a sequel should be Tigmanshu takes the story from where it ended and adds more characters, romance while maintains its vernacular style allowing the movie to connect easily with the viewers by paying attention to all the emotions ranging from lust for power

As for the film as a whole, there can be no room for any doubt. It is recommended unequivocally.

This may not be Tigmanshu’s best, but it’s a movie with more balls than most cinema can flaunt.

At home with the genre, Dhulia delivers a winner that not only entertains, but keeps you engaged with its riveting screenplay and top notch performances.

In Saheb Biwi aur Gangster Returns, writer-director Tigmanshu Dhulia takes us back to that deliciously decadent world of decaying, modern-day royalty in Uttar Pradesh that he created in Saheb Biwi aur Gangster. As in the first film, the characters are damaged, brutal and scheming. Relationships are sacrificed at the altars of power and money, or, as Saheb so eloquently puts it, ‘Har rishte ke peeche ek saazish hai.’ Sex is a weapon

With 'Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns', director Tigmanshu Dhulia delivers another earthy cocktail of power games, bedroom politics, and palace intrigue. Only the stakes are higher in this sequel; the love is tainted from the start, and there's even vengeance thrown in for good measure. Indeed the film is gripping for the most part, if you're willing to overlook some convoluted stretches. The stakes are higher in this sequel, the love is tainted from the start

A year-and-a-half later, SAHEB, BIWI AUR GANGSTER RETURNS. The setting is the same; the principal characters are intact while a few new ones make it on the story board. There's Inderjeet Singh (Irrfan Khan) and Ranjana (Soha Ali Khan) who are the two new pivotal characters that form the nucleus of the plot along with Madhavi (Mahie Gill) and Aditya Pratap Singh (Jimmy Shergill). There's also Birendra Pratap (Raj Babbar) playing Soha Ali Khan's father

Saheb Biwi aur Gangster Returns is one of the quickest made sequels in Bollywood. Moreover it isn't typically thematic in treatment like almost all sequels but takes the characters and chronicle from the prequel ahead. One wonders then if the film is more of a commercial consideration but the tag of Tigmanshu Dhulia that comes along gives a certain sense of assurance on content. And while the sequel may not be as imaginative

There is a brilliant sequence in the first half of Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns where a small-time politico is wrestling with a laptop he doesn't know how to switch off. His visitor lets the 'chutbhaiya neta' get red-faced at the blue film, and only then reaches across and finds the right button, both for the machine and the man. In this brief joust, Tigmanshu Dhulia shows just how good a director (and writer; the dialogues are his) he can be

A politician learning to video chat, a man trying to draw blood with a rusty knife and a newbie MLA who doesn’t know what a police FIR is - moments that make Tigmanshu Dhulia’s “Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns” a film that successfully marries the quirky with the violent. Dhulia’s sequel to his 2011 film takes off smoothly from where the original left off. Jimmy Shergill plays Aditya Pratap Singh, a crippled erstwhile royal trying

The story-telling in the first half is so seamless that you overlook the things that had been a problem the first time around.

Personally, I expected more from Tigmanshu. That he managed to pull all back within the last 20 minutes speaks volumes about his genius. He is one of our best filmmakers today.

Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns is almost a fable about four fractured souls who disrupt and destroy each other’s lives, sometimes for power, sometimes for passion. But almost always for attention. They play a two-and-a-half-hour passing-the-pillow game where the pillow alternates between pain and pleasure. Like all fitting follow-ups, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns is as good a standalone film as it is a sequel. If you have seen the first one

That character, Madhavi Devi, is so unbelievably stupid. She (Mahie Gill) is regularly verbally abused by her cripple of a husband Raja Aditya Pratap Singh (Jimmy Sheirgill), even in front of servants and friends, and all she can do in retaliation is fill a peg, listen to lovelorn Hindi film songs and pitifully throw herself at strange muscular men. At a certain point, one even commiserates with the crippled and cruel power-hungry husband

Indeed, here’s so much plotting and planning going yawn, that you lose track of what’s going on in the cauldron of political ambitions and quickie sex.

True to the original, the sequel is a dangerous representation of the greedy game that is the battleground of North Indian politics. Played as much with bullets as it is with shrewdness and cunning.