isaacsundaralingam

Desingu Raja 2 is a sorry excuse for a movie, packed with mindless subplots that go absolutely nowhere. The first film was silly but the comedy actually worked - so well, that I could still catch it on TV and have a good time.

But this sequel confuses loud, obnoxious noise for comedy - with zero timing or purpose. I can't think of a single scene that made me even crack a smile. The acting, the songs, and just everything about it was horrible. There was one single reaction in the theater throughout, and it was just silence.

There's hardly anything redeeming here, making it an easy frontrunner for the worst movie of the year.

Atrociously cringe-worthy dialogues, but still a decent movie nonetheless.

Also the fact that it was set in Afghanistan, but every character was speaking in English with an Afghani accent felt silly. Nobody else but English speakers do this... where you make a movie about another country, then cheapen it by anglicizing (think even movies like Gladiator where ancient Romans speak English). Have you ever watched say, a Chinese movie about something happening in Brazil where everyone is supposed to be Brazilian but speak Mandarin? Or a French movie about Japan where all Japanese people speak French? I dunno, I would have preferred the same movie in Arabic to preserve authenticity. This just felt silly, and it's silliness that shouldn't have impacted an otherwise decently inspiring and heartwarming movie!

Alright dude, we get it - Muslim Mughals are evil, barbaric people. Hindu Marathas are progressive, peace loving, equal rights champions who bleed patriotism and courage. Not to forget that Sambhaji is basically Indian Jesus, if Jesus could take on a thousand men at once in a fight.

15-20 minutes into the movie and I've already hit my tolerable quota for how much brainless patriotism I can absorb, and it's then just like being a spectator at a gladiator event, but with military grade binoculars to get all up close to soak in the gratuitous blood and violence. And oh, the final 30 minutes was basically just The Passion of the Christ, but with more testosterone and with none of the poetry.

Action scenes were cool sometimes though, but that's about it!