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Indian Express
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The trouble with films busy working on their look is that they forget about plotting. KGF 2 swings haphazardly between the past and the present.


Yash and Neel bring the thunder, but weak writing dulls the roar.
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Critical reception for KGF Chapter 2 is mixed, with scores ranging widely and opinion divided on its merits. Director Prashanth Neel and lead actor Yash receive consistent praise for delivering high-octane action sequences, visceral elevation moments, and a distinctive visual style that blends Hollywood motifs with masala sensibilities. However, a significant portion of critics found the film hobbled by weak writing, a disorganized screenplay, repetitive storytelling from the first installment, and underdeveloped or absent female characters.
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The trouble with films busy working on their look is that they forget about plotting. KGF 2 swings haphazardly between the past and the present.
Film review
The film belongs as much to filmmaker Prashanth Neel as it does to Yash. Both of them have managed to create a brutal tale of raw machismo with a hint at a third chapter.
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Director Prashanth Neel's KGF: Chapter 2 starring Yash, Sanjay Dutt and Raveena Tandon is a paisa-vasool action entertainer. With several goosebumps-inducing build-up scenes, the film is a worthy sequel to KGF: Chapter 1.
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KGF Chapter 2 has all the pages filled with hype and elevations in bold, but the story only in very few lines in a small font. The director simply repeated the same template here in the second part, except that his best elevations remained in the previous part, and most of the plots and plans by Rocky Bhai in this chapter could be anticipated.
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Prashanth Neel's 'ambition' overrides his 'story-telling' and that's the biggest issue of his script. But beneath all the screams and boisterous BGM, one important thing gets suppressed and rarely gets a chance to flourish – intriguing storytelling.
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Problems galore but dhishoom-dhishoom on point and dialogues that you'll be repeating for months. One can most certainly call this puerile that's what it effectively is. Yash taking on Sanjay Dutt and Raveena Tandon who are all having a ball of a time here, is worth the ticket price.
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KGF Chapter 2 is far better than KGF 1 writing-wise, and the ideation is way better too. Prashanth Neel, Yash hit it out of the park with this testosterone-filled sequel.
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With a screenplay that was all over the place, characters getting introduced at a pace faster than a meteoroid's crash, and a story that picked up only post-interval, I was a bit lost too early on in the film.
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K.G.F: Chapter 2 is a delirious cinematic experience that works only if you partake in its madness, though it suffers from leanness in writing, tiring narration, and a near-complete absence of effective women characters. While Prashanth Neel's marriage of Hollywood motifs with masala flourishes remains powerful, the film repeats all the flat and derivative problems of the first part without offering anything substantially new.
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Despite a few shortcomings, the film is audacious enough to suspend disbelief and take us on an emotional journey. KGF 2 is certainly worth all the hype and leaves you wanting much more, including the possibility of a third installment.
Credits
YashRaja Krishnappa Bairya 'Rocky'
Sanjay DuttAdheera
Raveena TandonRamika Sen
Srinidhi ShettyReena
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Rao RameshKanneganti Raghavan
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