Story
Rocky Bhai (Yash) takes over the ownership of KGF and eliminates whoever opposes from the board. Adhira (Sanjay Dutt) who is presumed dead, enters the field and starts to threaten Rocky’s business. Rocky intensifies gold mining. An officer (Rao Ramesh) starts investigating Rocky and KGF. A new prime minister starts troubling Rocky. Rest of the story is all about how Rocky negates all these people to achieve his mother’s goal.
Artists Performance
Yash looks damn stylish as Rocky. He maintained the same swag he had delivered in chapter one. It’s a cult character and Yash makes it one of the memorable characters on the Indian screen. Srinidhi Shetty got an important role compared to chapter one and she justifies it. Sanjay Dutt whose character is modeled after Vikings looks menacing with and delivers excellent performance. Rao Ramesh is superb as an officer chasing Rocky. Raveena Tandon does a gritty role of the prime minister and is apt for the role. Ayyappa Sharma is pretty good as the commander at KGF. Archana Jois who played the role of Rocky’s mother excels again. All other actors are cast aptly.
Technical departments
Story - screenplay - direction: KGF Chapter 1 is about how an orphan ends up becoming the boss of KGF. Second chapter starts with Rocky - the boss trying to expand the empire amid threats from various directions. Since, we had a taste of characterization and orientation in chapter one, it doesn’t need a minute for us to travel with the narration of the director with great comfort from the first scene of the part 2. The director has established KGF as the biggest illegal business in India and pitted Rocky against the prime minister of India. Hence, the canvas becomes huge. Prashant Neel who has the ability of elevating heroism out of minute things, comes up with such a large canvas and pens superb scenes that elevates heroism..
1. Madmax - Fury Road’ kind of road rage sequence.
2. Rocky’s international trip followed by a deal.
3. The scene of introducing Kalashnikov to KGF to fight against the might of Adhira.
4. Terrorizing the police station for seizing just a gold bar weighing 400 grams.
5. Indulging in extreme luxury in the papad scene (I can see the influence of Narcos here where Pablo Escobar burns bundles of cash in the fireplace to generate heat for his boy).
6. First interaction between PM and Rocky.
7. ‘Scarface’ kind of a shootout at the parliament.
Despite making a few scenes as a tribute to a few Hollywood classics, Neel narrates the film in his own style and makes elevation scenes and songs an integral part of the story's progression. The entire story of Chapter 2 is shown as a mother's dream as it starts with mother and ends with mother’s words. It's a clever idea to wrap such a mass film as fulfilment of a mother's dream. Screenplay of the film is good. Prashant Neel has aced the craft of direction.
Other departments: Cinematography by Bhuvan Gowda is outstanding along with the color grading. Framing and movement of the camera is used to enhance the magnitude of the film. The rustic texture to the visuals contributes to authenticity. Music by Ravi Basrur is excellent. The background music is seamlessly integrated with the scenes and camera movements to give maximum effect. Editing by Ujwal Kulkarni is sharp. Dialogues create a fabulous impact. Production design by Shiva Kumar deserves a special mention. The KGF city is created with a lot of detailing. Production values by Homebale films are super grand.
Analysis: Chapter 1 of KGF gives us the orientation of the film and sets us some expectations about KGF Chapter 2. If KGF1 starts at zero and ends at 100 for the hero's character, KGF2 starts at 100 and ends at 100. Hence, there is no scope for growth/arc in the character of Rocky in KGF2. Director Prashanth Neel does his job commendably by writing an interesting screenplay and feeding the audiences with what they came to the theaters for. There are several adrenaline-rushing elevation scenes. All of them are executed to perfection. KGF2 has a complete Hollywood texture to it in terms of action sequences, music, dialogues, production design and cinematography. The violence level is excessive in this film. There is no scope for logic in a film like KGF and it’s unnecessary to discuss about logic as the director convinces us to believe in heroism so thoroughly that you believe those scenes. If you like KGF1, you will end up liking KGF2 more. Go and watch it!
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