
Cocktail 2
Romance Comedy Hindi
After a decade together, Diya and Kunal's relationship is shaken when Ally, an old friend, re-enters their lives. What begins as a plan between two women spirals into chaos, triggering hilarious, emotional rollercoaster none of them saw coming.
| Cast: | Shahid Kapoor, Kriti Sanon, Rashmika Mandanna, Rohit Saraf, Dimple Kapadia, Arjun Rampal, Ishita Dutta, Sanjay Dutt, |
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| Director: | Homi Adajania |
| Writer: | Luv Ranjan |
| Editor: | Akshara Prabhakar |
| Camera: | Santhana Krishnan Ravichandran |

All Guild Reviews of Cocktail 2

Shahid Kapoor, Kriti Sanon, Rashmika Mandanna's Film Reduces Relationships To A Joke

A Gen Z rom-com with a millennial soul and the heart of an overgrown child, Cocktail 2 is a hit-or-miss mix of tips about life, love and uncharted adventures in Sicily that do not fully dissolve into the breezy, pulpy potion that the film seeks to serve up. The pearls of wisdom that it bandies about stick out rather awkwardly as another menage e trois led by a young man in an open relationship navigates the ebbs and tides of the heart and the desires of two women who are polar opposites. Coming 14 years after Cocktail, which was about two equally dissimilar ladies making impulsive choices, right or wrong, and holding up a mirror to the wayward ways of an entitled, commitment-phobic philanderer, the follow-up scampers in a different direction and winds up (along with its three principal characters) in a place where confusion runs riot.

मादकता थोड़ी कम है इस ‘कॉकटेल 2’ में

पहली बात-यह फिल्म ‘कॉकटेल 2’ 2012 में आई सैफ अली खान, डायना पेंटी, दीपिका पादुकोण (गौतम, मीरा, वेरोनिका) वाली फिल्म ‘कॉकटेल’ का सीक्वेल नहीं है। उस फिल्म में भी दो लड़कियों और एक लड़के के बीच के रिश्तों का कॉकटेल था, इसमें भी है, सो इस फिल्म का नाम वैसा ही रख दिया गया। हालांकि कुछ और भी रखा जा सकता था लेकिन फिर ‘कॉकटेल’ के ब्रांड-नेम का फायदा नहीं मिल पाता न। अपने फ्लेवर में यह फिल्म उसी के जैसी है-रंगीन, बोल्ड, दिल-दिमाग से ज़्यादा आंखों को भाने वाली। दीया और कुणाल कई साल से एक साथ रह रहे हैं। ‘शादी कब करोगे’ के सवाल पर तंग आकर वे खुद कहते हैं कि शादी के बाद किए जाने वाले सारे काम वे कर चुके हैं, बस रस्में बाकी हैं। वे छुट्टी मनाने इटली जाते हैं जहां मिलती है दीया की सहेली जिसका नाम है ऐली, रहती है अकेली और है जैसे कोई पहेली। दीया के कहने पर ऐली कुणाल पर लाइन मारती है ताकि उसकी वफादारी चैक की जा सके। कुणाल फिसलता है या नहीं लेकिन ऐली ज़रूर फिसल जाती है। अब भसड़ यह मची है कि कुणाल किस से शादी करेगा या कौन कुणाल से शादी करेगी या कुणाल शादी करेगा भी या नहीं।

Shahid Kapoor shines as film trades its gloss for melodrama

There’s no getting past the conservatism which comes wrapped in this pyaar ka punchnama: for all its modern vibe, it’s the guy who gets the last word.
‘Ooh, a threesome?’ ‘Hawww, noooo, just checking’. This could well be a tagline for Cocktail 2, a spiritual sequel of the 2012 original of the same name, which once again gives us a guy and two girls looking for The One. Kunal (Shahid Kapoor) plays a dashing chef whose mere presence makes irate female customers swoon. But he’s perfectly content with the love of his life, Diya (Rashmika Mandana), and the two have settled into post-hangover-burpy-domesticity minus the pheras: shaadi, who needs that, when the two are miya and biwi in all but name? On a holiday in stunning Sicily, a chance encounter with the free-spirited Ally (Kriti Sanon), an old friend of Diya’s, becomes the third side of the triangle. Ally is single, and ever ready to mingle, and following through on a wholly contrived ruse, finds herself alone with Kunal: will the two find more than one chance to stray, and how will that impact our lovey-dovey jodi? Who will be the twosome, and who will walk away, all lonesome?


For all its bold, brash, bronze-bodied imagery of relationships in the digital age, Cocktail 2 is just as shy of breaking stereotypes as its 'spiritual' predecessor.

As long as its purpose of throwing everyone on the dance floor as they flaunt their toned abs in fancy clothes is served, Cocktail 2 doesn't feel obliged to make any sense
We got to be kidding ourselves if we thought films like Cocktail have anything to do with modern day love or changing relationship dynamics. Thriving on styling more than storytelling, fashion and far flung destinations flush its frames like ’90s escapism once did with dream sequences of dancing in the Swiss Alps. When Homi Adajania’s Cocktail came out in 2012, what caught everyone’s fancy was Deepika Padukone’s loosened-up avatar, Diana Penty’s poised debut and the twain painting London red in a wardrobe full of chic clothing. What didn’t blow anyone’s mind was watching rom-com’s worn-out poster boy Saif Ali Khan fool around women half his age in a disappointingly conventional love triangle penned by Imtiaz Ali.

Shahid Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna, Kriti Sanon serve up a misogynistic mocktail

Cocktail 2 has absolutely nothing to do with the 2012 original, Cocktail, starring Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone and Diana Penty, aside from a remixed song and the returning director, Homi Adajania.
Laziness in mainstream Bollywood isn’t conditional; it’s constitutional. Cocktail 2 is a mocktail of a movie; sugary slop pretending to be the real deal. It’s populated by caricatures and not characters, set in locations that feel like postcards and not actual, lived-in places. Perhaps this is all by design; perhaps inauthenticity is the aspiration. But there has to be an element of truth even in the most far-fetched of falsehoods; there has to be something for those being duped, in this case, the audience, to latch on to. You could put Cocktail 2 under a microscope, or dip it in a chemical, and you still wouldn’t be able to decipher what truth it’s trying to get at. One thing is for sure, though, it is among the most misogynistic movies that mainstream Bollywood has made in a long time, which, for an industry that thrives on misogyny, is saying something.


‘प्यार जब नया होता है तो एक्साइटिंग होता है, जबकि पुराना प्यार उस फटी हुई टी-शर्ट की तरह होता है, जिसमें रात को सोते हुए हम कंफर्ट महसूस करते हैं।’ शाहिद कपूर के किरदार कुणाल का यह एक डायलॉग डायरेक्टर होमी अदजानिया की नई फिल्म ‘कॉकटेल 2’ का सार है। लेकिन इस एक बात को कहने के लिए उन्होंने ढाई घंटे का साधारण और कंफ्यूजिंग सा प्रेम त्रिकोण बुना है। इसमें ग्लैमर तो भरपूर है, लेकिन यह गहराई से कोसों दूर है। होमी अदजानिया ने साल 2012 में ‘कॉकटेल’ बनाई थी। तब फिल्म में दीपिका पादुकोण, डायना पेंटी और सैफ अली खान थे। दीपिका के निभाए किरदार वेरोनिका को आज भी याद किया जाता है। डायना पेंटी की पहचान आज 14 साल बाद भी इस फिल्म की मीरा के तौर पर होती है, लेकिन अब इसके स्पिरिचुअल सीक्वल (कहानी नई, अंदाज वही) ‘कॉकटेल 2’ में ना तो वह पुरानी वाली खुशबू है, और ना ही वह नशा।

A sobering enterprise

Homi Adjania’s Cocktail 2 is the spiritual sequel to his own 2012 film Cocktail starring Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Diana Penty — a love triangle referencing Archie comics and doffing its hat to the Betty and Veronica prototype. The latest offering written by Luv Ranjan and Tarun Jain once again gives us a menage à trois where two women Diya and Ally ( Rashmika Mandana and Kriti Sanon) fight over the affection and affectation of one man Kunal( Shahid Kapoor). And once again the exotic locations and risqué outfits cannot hide a safe, domesticated, traditional core lurking underneath all that gloss.
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