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Son of Sardar 2

Comedy Drama Hindi


Years after settling an epic family feud and surviving house arrest in Punjab, Jassi Singh Randhawa returns this time chasing love, not trouble. But when he lands in Scotland to win back his estranged wife, he stumbles into a hostage crisis, a mafia war and the most bizarre Sardaar wedding of the century.

Cast:Ajay Devgn, Mrunal Thakur, Ravi Kishan, Neeru Bajwa, Vindu Dara Singh, Mukul Dev
Director:Vijay Kumar Arora
Writer:Jagdeep Singh Sidhu, Mohit Jain
Editor:Ninad Khanolkar
Camera:Aseem Bajaj
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Bursts into bagpipes, buffoonery, and borrowed patriotism, each stumbling over substance in pursuit of spectacle

FCG Member Reviewer Arnab Banerjee
Arnab Banerjee | Indpendent Film Critic
Sun, August 3 2025

(Written for The Daily Eye)

Son of Sardaar 2 is back, and this time the sardaar has swapped swords for bagpipes—aye, we’re in Scotland now, lads! Directed by Punjabi punch specialist Vijay Kumar Arora and bankrolled by Ajay Devgn (also starring, obviously), Jyoti Deshpande, N.R. Pachisia and Pravin Talreja, this one’s a chaotic cocktail of comedy, culture clashes, and complete confusion. A standalone sequel to the 2012 madcap masala-fest Son of Sardaar, this film dares to ask the question: What happens when you mix a fake war hero, a dysfunctional band, a confused wedding, and Ravi Kishan’s eyebrows into one movie? Apparently, a whole lot of madness. The plot? Let’s just say it’s more tangled than a pair of wired earphones in a jeans pocket. Our man Jassi (Ajay Devgn), fresh off a long exile (probably dodging sequels), flies to bonnie Scotland to win back his estranged wife (Neeru Bajwa). But instead of rekindling romance, he finds himself knee-deep in cross-border chaos featuring a mob rivalry, a desi wedding gone rogue, and a mistaken identity twist that feels like Comedy of Errors… rewritten by Rohit Shetty during a sugar rush.

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Ravi Kishan and Deepak Dobriyal outdo Ajay Devgn to keep this goofy comedy kicking

FCG Member Reviewer Anuj Kumar
Anuj Kumar | The Hindu
Sun, August 3 2025

Lined with India-Pakistan jokes, the stereotypical Punjabi entertainer, starring Ajay Devgn and Mrunal Thakur in lead roles, intermittently comes alive with its politically incorrect humourson-of-sardar-2-9

After watching Dhadak, one finds a serious layer in this infantile sequel to Ajay Devgn’s tribute to his Punjabi roots as well. The writing plays on the Bollywood Sardar stereotype, one who is innocent, stands his ground, and doesn’t show his back in a battle. Lest we forget, the makers ensure the word Punjabi keeps popping up in the dhol-centric background score as well. After a long wait for a visa, when the simpleton Jassi (Ajay) comes to London, he discovers that his wife Dimple (Neeru Bajwa) has decided to ditch her. Lost, he strikes a chord with Rabia (Mrunal Thakur), a Pakistani musician who runs a wedding band with a transgender musician, Gul (Deepak Dobriyal), and Mehwish (Kubra Sait), as well as her foster daughter, Saba (Roshni Walia), after being ditched by her philandering husband, Danish (Chunkey Panday).

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A confused, half-hearted comedy

FCG Member Reviewer Udita Jhunjhunwala
Udita Jhunjhunwala | Mint, Scroll.in
Sat, August 2 2025

Doesn't have a clear purpose, and Ajay Devgn plays Jassi with a weary familiarity that suggests he knows what kind of film he’s in

Thirteen years after Son of Sardaar hit cinemas with its brand of crowd-pleasing comedy, its sequel arrives with less humour and even less purpose. Vijay Kumar Arora takes the helm of Son of Sardaar 2, repackaging the chaotic energy of the original into a modern comedy about mistaken identities, cross-border friction, and manufactured family values. Son of Sardaar 2 is not a direct narrative continuation of the original but borrows the premise of an impromptu fake family assembled for a wedding from the 2017 Turkish film Aile Arasında (Between Family). In this version, a Pakistani family enlists the help of a kind-hearted, gullible Indian Sikh man to help the youngest member marry her Sikh boyfriend. Ajay Devgn plays Jassi, a gentle Sikh protagonist whose journey from Punjab to the UK—after finally receiving his long-awaited spouse visa—doesn’t yield the results he expected. Cuckolded by his wife Dimple (Neeru Bajwa), an aimless Jassi finds himself caught in the middle of India-Pakistan cultural chaos.

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न दमदार न बेकार ‘सन ऑफ सरदार 2’

FCG Member Reviewer Deepak Dua
Deepak Dua | Independent Film Journalist & Critic
Sat, August 2 2025

2012 में दिवाली के मौके पर आई अजय देवगन वाली ‘सन ऑफ सरदार’ (Son of Sardaar) दक्षिण के मशहूर निर्देशक एस.एस. राजमौली की तेलुगू फिल्म ‘मर्यादा रामन्ना’ का रीमेक थी जिसे हिन्दी में अश्विनी धीर ने डायरेक्ट किया था। चूंकि रीमेक आमतौर पर ऐसी फिल्मों के ही बनते हैं जिनकी कहानी में दम हो, तो उस फिल्म में बाकायदा एक कहानी थी जो एक सिरे से दूसरे सिरे तक जा रही थी। यह अलग बात है कि उस फिल्म में मूल तेलुगू फिल्म की गहरी और प्रभावी बातों को दरकिनार कर सिर्फ कॉमेडी और एक्शन पर ही सारा ज़ोर डाला गया था। फिर भी स्क्रिप्ट में गति थी और जो हो रहा था, फटाफट हो रहा था और उस फिल्म ने आपको बोर नहीं किया था। ‘सन ऑफ सरदार 2’ (Son of Sardaar 2) उस फिल्म का सीक्वेल तो नहीं ही है, होती तो आने में 12 साल न लगाती। इस फिल्म में एक ऐसी कहानी जबरन गढ़ी गई है जिसके केंद्र में अजय देवगन का ‘सन ऑफ सरदार’ जैसा किरदार हो, उस फिल्म जैसा पंजाबियों का माहौल हो ताकि इसका नाम ‘सन ऑफ सरदार 2’ रख कर पिछली फिल्म की सफलता और लोकप्रियता को भुनाया जा सके। अपने यहां यह चलन अब ज़ोर पकड़ चुका है कि एक फिल्म के कंधे पर दूसरी फिल्म का बोझ रखना हो तो वैसी-सी कोई कहानी ले आओ, न मिले तो बना डालो। तो, यह वाली ‘सन ऑफ सरदार 2’ की कहानी ‘लाई’ नहीं ‘बनाई’ गई है और यह बात फिल्म शुरू होने के कुछ ही देर में तब समझ आ जाती है जब ज़्यादातर किरदार और बातें जबरन घुसेड़ी गई लगती हैं।

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Deepak Dobriyal runs away with Ajay Devgn-Mrunal Thakur’s hare-brained comedy

FCG Member Reviewer Shubhra Gupta
Shubhra Gupta | The Indian Express
Sat, August 2 2025

Ajay Devgn leads this enterprise which wants to be a laugh-a-minute, madcap caper, but keeps slackening? Pair your hero with an age-appropriate leading lady, and give him a few chuckle-worthy lines. Can't be that hard, can it?

I had nearly, and happily, forgotten most of the first Son Of Sardaar. Only when I saw Ajay Devgn in a nicely-tied turban looking lost in a ‘yeh kya ho raha hai’ manner, and the late Mukul Dev (this is his last film) and Vindu Singh roaming about aimlessly, that I had a flashback of the original. I wasn’t a fan of the first one. Part 2, with these three reprising their roles, accompanied by some new faces, strains to be a little better. But only just. Two elements have been added to the plot-what’s-that proceedings. One is a running India-Pakistan gag, in which a few characters are Pakistani, and they are not all ‘soorma-eyed’ terrorists (gasp). The other is a wonderful actor who should basically be given all the awards: a nearly-unrecognisable Deepak Dobriyal playing a trans person with brio, nearly runs away with the film. Or would have, if his character was given half a chance to do more than the all-over-the-place script allows him to.

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Brain Rot needs an upgrade too

FCG Member Reviewer Anmol Jamwal
Anmol Jamwal | Tried & Refused Productions
August 2, 2025
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Punjabi Energy

FCG Member Reviewer Bharathi Pradhan
Bharathi Pradhan | Lehren.com, Treasurer FCG
Fri, August 1 2025

Everything about a sardar and Punjabiyat is reinforced. The credits open with the title song and each time ‘Son of Sardaar’ is mentioned, there’s a closeup of Ajay Devgn pointing to his kada. Heavy with many mentions that a sardaar never turns his back on anyone under his protective wing, simple farmer Jassi (Ajay Devgn) steps into the UK and into a role he’s eminently unsuited for. The energy that comes with the title prepares you for rambunctious noise. But what director Vijay Kumar Arora and writers Jagdeep Singh Sidhu and Mohit Jain serve is consistent comedy that doesn’t evoke even a smile. At least 80 per cent of Jassi’s adventures in a foreign land where wife Dimple (Neeru Bajwa) has summoned him only to ask for a divorce and for her share of his property, is like an amusement park without joy rides.

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FCG Member Reviewer Upma Singh
Upma Singh | Navbharat Times
Fri, August 1 2025

बॉलीवुड में सीक्वल सीजन इन दिनों उफान पर है और इस मामले में सबके आगे चल रहे हैं सुपरस्टार अजय देवगन। हाल ही वह ‘रेड 2’ लेकर आए। आगे उनकी ‘दे दे प्यार दे 2’, ‘दृश्यम 3’, ‘धमाल 4’ और ‘गोलमाल 5’ जैसी सीक्वल फिल्में कतार में हैं। इसी बीच सिनेमाघरों में शुक्रवार, 1 अगस्‍त को आ चुकी है- सन ऑफ सरदार 2। यह एक नो-ब्रेनर यानी दिमाग का शटर बंद करके देखी जाने वाली कॉमेडी फिल्‍म है। यह साल 2012 में आई अजय की मल्टीस्टारर फिल्म ‘सन ऑफ सरदार’ का स्टैंड अलोन सीक्वल है। इसका अजय के किरदार जस्सी रंधावा के अलावा पिछली फिल्म से कोई लेना-देना नहीं है। कहानी यूं है कि जस्सी रंधावा (अजय देवगन) की पत्नी डिंपल (नीरू बाजवा) लंदन में जॉब कर रही है, जबकि वह पंजाब में वीजा मिलने का इंतजार। एक दशक के बाद जस्सी को आखिरकार वीजा मिल जाता है, मगर जब वह डिंपल के पास पहुंचता है तो पता चलता है कि डिंपल किसी और के प्यार में है और वह जस्सी को तलाक देना चाहती है। इधर, एक दिन जस्सी पाकिस्तानी मूल की राबिया (मृणाल ठाकुर) से टकराता है, जिसका पति दानिश (चंकी पांडे) उसे छोड़कर भाग गया है। राबिया अपने परिवार जैसी टीम महविश (कुब्रा सैत), गुल (दीपक डोबरियाल) और सौतेली बेटी सबा (रोशनी वालिया) के साथ शादियों में नाचने-गाने का काम करती है। सबा, शहर के धाकड़ राजा संधू (रवि किशन) के बेटे गोगी (साहिल मेहता) से प्यार करती है। दोनों शादी करना चाहते हैं, मगर देशभक्त राजा को पाकिस्तानी और नाचने गाने वाले लोगों दोनों से नफरत है।

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