Ameya Vinod Khopkar Entertainment and Skylink Entertainment’s De Dhakka 2 (Marathi; UA) is a sequel to De Dhakka.
In the first part, Makarand Jadhav (Makarand Anaspure) had made an automobile part which saved fuel cost. By selling it to an automobile company, Jadhav had become very rich.
In this part, the prime minister of United Kingdom invites Jadhav to England to felicitate him for his invention. Although the PM sends tickets for only two persons, Jadhav takes seven more people at his own cost and even buys out the hotel in England, when it shuns them as there’s no booking for the additional seven persons.
In England, fraudster Neeraj Dedhiya (Vidyadhar Joshi) tries to defraud Makarand Jadhav. After that, he hires hitman Babbar Lahori (Mahesh Manjrekar) to kill all the nine people. Meanwhile, Jadhav is fearful that Dedhiya would have them arrested while Dedhiya fears that Jadhav would have him (Dedhiya) arrested.
What happens ultimately?
Mahesh Manjrekar has written a story that is quite ridiculous. For one, Neeraj Dedhiya is shown to be a multi-millionaire but his greed for more money makes him do something (coax Makarand Jadhav’s brother-in-law to record a statement to the effect that Jadhav had stolen the automobile part from Dedhiya) which even a freak would not do! And after doing that, Dedhiya leaves the kidnapped brother-in-law at a place where even a blind man could locate him, what to talk of Jadhav! Further, Makarand Jadhav fears Dedhiya in spite of not having done anything wrong. Dedhiya fears Jadhav after committing a fraud. In other words, both are scared of each other!! What does that mean? Babbar Lahori letting Jadhav and his team — whom he has been contracted to kill — go scot-free for a flimsy reason (not being revealed here) is kiddish, to say the least. All in all, Manjrekar assumes that the audiences are donkeys with no brains. Ganesh Matkari’s dialogues are so-so.
Makarand Anaspure does well as Makarand Jadhav. Siddharth Jadhav does a fair job as Makarand’s brother-in-law, Dhanaji. Vidyadhar Joshi makes a mark as Neeraj Dedhiya. Shivaji Satam performs ably in the role of Makarand’s father, Suryabhan Jadhav. Medha Manjrekar is good as Makarand’s wife, Sumati. Mahesh Manjrekar makes his mark as Babbar Lahori. Saksham Kulkarni acts well as Makarand’s son, Kisna. In the role of Makarand’s daughter, Gauri Ingawale lends decent support. Sanjay Khapre is okay as Hemlya. Pravin Tarde makes his presence felt as Mallesh Vijaywada, aide of Neeraj Dedhiya. Anand Ingle is alright in a double role — police officer Bobby and lawyer Sunny. Bharti Achrekar makes her presence felt in a tiny role.
Mahesh Manjrekar and Sudesh Manjrekar’s direction is routine. The duo is unable to camouflage the defects in the script. Hitesh Modak’s music is average. Lyrics are okay. Karan B. Rawat’s cinematography is appealing. The foreign locations have been captured well. Prashant Rane’s production designing is of a good standard. Editing (by Satish Padal and Nilesh Gawand) is quite sharp.
On the whole, De Dhakka 2 is an unworthy successor of De Dhakka. Even otherwise, the sequel will not get much audience patronage. Flop.
Released on 5-8-’22 at Plaza (daily 3 shows) and other cinemas of Bombay thru Filmastra Studios. Publicity: good. Opening: dull.