Pyaar ka Punchnaama (PKP2): A cliched tale of misogyny.

This is the most common act that happens with every next sequel. The very thought that has been trailing, sequels are always a step behind than its prequel, is proven most audaciously in this episode. Let me decode the math of PKP2; +2 new male protagonists, - liquid, rest all lays the same. Now with this if you are drawing the negative conclusion, then I guess you are not wrong at all. Luv Ranjan has surely upgraded everything apart from the story. Apparently the stale story has been garnished with the shorts growing shorter and the jokes going more off #*%@#! (beep). The pretentious attitude always fails to charm the audience and we don’t understand why that has to be put in with such a major space.

The scale of the movie follows an exact sinusoidal graph; it peaks on both the poles and goes moderate. An engineer who gets a hefty package of 3L.P.(M) yes that is 3 lakhs per month has got all the time to shop and listen the countless bills spent and the episodes of how to save the money and also very strangely he is not annoyed by any official calls but only her girlfriend; a blatant case of misogyny pointed. But, when we are here to watch the movie that is a sequel to PKP, you can’t expect it to be so technically practical, because we all know we are here to understand the female chauvinism that drills down the alpha males and their sound life into their worst nightmares. Certainly the entertainment level stands true and is managed appallingly, but the fact still remains the same that, why the same again? Moreover it is not a sequel at all, it’s all new nonchalance with more bold scenes and same story. 

The movie turns the head down when the female protagonists start peaking down their level of maturity and starts to dominate the matured men, again pointing misogyny, and this time it is risen to an extreme level where you are welcomed to the world where best friends of your girlfriend are the best enemies of you, because, the best friend has the privilege to enjoy all those perks that you availed alongsidedly minus the ‘you have to take all my shit attitude’. As I said the story doesn’t peak but the dialogues are absolutely commendable, and very well delivered. The mentionable 15 minutes long dialogue, as said everything is upgraded, and it drops like a laughing bomb and amazingly everyone is reminded and connected to the epic PKP dialogue and we all burst out laughing. Reaching the climax, the 3 guys have had it all and ready to dump their bag full of rage and the victim of misogyny. One of the protagonists recites the poem of I LOVE YOU, and summarizes how cheap swag these words mean to him and plants a good bye kiss on her girlfriend. The gag just before interval is also a big lash on the annoying cigarette kills commercial ad that pops in every theatre hall and the climax scene of the movie also scores a good point where the alpha males finally get the answer to ‘True love’ and close their account by concluding that, to lead a happy life, its necessary to marry our hand (sarcasm) and love our mom.

Final say: Fun is absolutely filled in abundance, but nothing surprisingly new in PKP2. Certainly worth a fun watch.

My Rating: 6/10