CAST: Vidyut Jammwal, Shivaleeka Oberoi, Dibyendu Bhattacharya
DIRECTED BY:Faruk Kabir
BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT:
After exposing the flesh traders in Noman and saving his wife Nargis, Sameer leads a peaceful life with her where they adopt a girl Nandini. However, their happiness is short-lived when Nandini is kidnapped by a landlady’s goons while returning from school. Sameer ventures out to save Nandini and also seek vengeance against the landlady.
THE MEAT AND THE POTATOES
Continuing from the story of the first movie, Sameer and Nargis are trying to put pieces of their lives together after Noman’s mishap. Despite their best efforts, things are not shaping the way the couple hoped for, but Nandini, their adopted daughter binds them together in hope.
Nargis slowly comes out of her trauma and focuses her life on nurturing Nandini, and Sameer, as a proud father, finds himself settling in with a daily routine with his famuly. Until Nandini and one more girl from the school are kidnapped by Thakur Ji’s (Sheeba Chaddha) son and his friend, and later the little kid is brutally raped and killed.
Unable to deal with the loss of her daughter, Nargis leaves Sameer and tells him she will not come back until he punishes everyone who is responsible for her daughter’s death.
IN THE KNOW
Vidyut Jammwal’s Khuda Haafiz: Chapter II – Agni Pariksha is that surprise film of the year that will blow you away as the perfect thriller you have waiting to watch.
Where it ended tells us that there is another chapter coming up but if the quality is as good as this one; keep them coming.
This movie is proof that a perfectly exectuted thriller requires the right elements – a good action executor like Vidyut Jamwal, a good director who knows how to slow cook a story and then explode the scene with the plot when you are least expecting it to. All these elements work very well for the second installment of Khuda Hafiz.
Magnificently shot by cinematographer Jitan Harmeet Singh with the climax in Egypt scoring a super testosterone high, the movie, moves surely and violently beyond the law when the film’s hero Sameer reaches his breaking point. The first major action sequence in the courtyard of a prison with heavy rains pelting down on the pounding fists, is so perfectly choreographed it feels almost illusory and yet so like an spontaneous eruption of pent-up violence. Kudos for that one scene.
Danish Hussain is brilliant as an influential jail inmate. Jammwal plays an unhinged man on a mission with a focused performance. Sheeba Chadha is magnificent and central to the plot. These actors create magic on screen and you just get hooked on the edge of your seat.
A surprise package delivered with aplomb and precision when you were not expecting it at all!
We recommend it.
