Heropanti 2

About the film

Heropanti 2 (transl. Heroic antics 2) is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Ahmed Khan, written by Rajat Arora and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under the banner of Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. The film serves as a spiritual sequel to the 2014 film Heropanti. It stars Tiger Shroff, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Tara Sutaria.

It was released on 29 April 2022 to negative reviews from critics, with criticism towards the story, screenplay, direction, and the cast performances, especially of the lead pair, emerging as a box-office bomb.

Plot

RJ is an innocent young man who lives with his mother Hema in Yorkshire and works as a bouncer in a bar. RJ leaves for a job interview where Inaaya, a self-made millionaire from the gaming industry, sees RJ and alleges that he is her ex-boyfriend Babloo Ranawat. RJ makes it clear that he doesn't know her at all. However, Inaaya's suspicion turns out to be true. Babloo was an infamous hacker recruited by CBI officer Azaad Khan, who offers him a handsome reward to help them in thwarting the plans of Laila, who is a psychopathic magician and cyber-criminal. Laila has designed an app which steals the data of the users and also usurps the money from their bank accounts.

Babloo infiltrates Laila's gang by wooing Laila's sister Inaaya and begins into getting a good impression of Laila and also gets lured by the money offered by him and betrays Azaad, but soon realizes that the latter is achieving to destroy lives when he meets an ambulance driver's wife Hema where he learns that her husband had saved money for his grandson's education and their dreams, but learns that their bank account had been hacked and the money went missing. Due to this, the driver committed suicide. Due to guilt, Babloo rejoins Azaad and subdues the henchmen and destroys the app's transaction. He fakes his identity as RJ and leaves to start a new life along with his adopted mother Hema.

In the present day, Laila learns that Babloo is hiding in Yorkshire and sends his men to nab him, but Babloo subdues them and fakes his death again. Babloo reveals to Inaaya about Laila's crimes, who joins him in the fight. Babloo leaves for Egypt, Russia and China where Laila had established his crime syndicate and kills the syndicate members. Babloo and Inaaya leaves for Heathrow Airport to receive Hema (Hema had left Bablu to visit Kedar Ghat, India). Laila orders his henchmen to kidnap Babloo's mother and Laila challenges Babloo to stop the extraction of money by throwing various challenges. Babloo overcomes various challenges where he defeats Laila and stops the extraction and leaves with Inaaya and Hema. Humiliated by the defeat, Laila commits suicide. 6 months later, Babloo, Inaaya and Babloo's mother are living in Vietnam where a mission awaits for Babloo.

Production

Principal photography began in the first week of June 2021. and first schedule was wrapped up in October 2021.

Soundtrack

The film's music was composed by A.R. Rahman with lyrics written by Mehboob.

The song "Whistle Baja 2.0" was recreated by A.R. Rahman from the track "Whistle Baja" from 2014 film Heropanti which was sung by Manj Musik, Nindy Kaur, Raftaar and written by Raftaar.

Reception

Heropanti 2 earned ₹6.50 crore at the domestic box office on its opening day. On the second day, the film collected ₹5.50 crore. On the third day, the film collected ₹4 crore, taking total domestic weekend collection to ₹16 crore.

As of 12 May 2022 the film had a gross collection of ₹29.11 crore in India and ₹6.02 crore overseas, for a worldwide gross collection of ₹35.13 crore.

Heropanti 2 received negative reviews from critics and audience.

Release

Heropanti 2 was released theatrically on 29 April 2022.

The film was premiered on Amazon Prime Video from 27 May 2022.

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