If we talk about sequels of movies that got released in Bollywood, not many fared as well as the originals did. Sadly Ab Tak Chappan 2, which is the sequel of Ab Tak Chappan (that came in 2004), too meets the same fate. A whole lot of factors are to be blamed for its debacle. But one of the primary reasons for its failure this time around is because it is outdated, apart from an unimaginative plotline. The movie is said to be inspired by the life of real life encounter specialist Daya Naik. There have been better cop dramas earlier too. Ten years back when Shimit Amin had directed Ab Tak Chappan, there was a nice intensity to the direction to go with a fairly good script. But this time around, the script looks very unconvincing. The characters too in this movie seem to be sketchily written, for instance the character of Gul Panag as the crime reporter. Other veteran actors like Mohan Agashe and Dilip Prabhavalkar too got wasted, they got nothing much to do.
The story starts from where it had ended in the 1st part, following the life of encounter specialist Sadhu Agashe (played by Nana Patekar) of Mumbai Crime Branch. n Ever since his wife was shot, he has been leading a peaceful life with his son in a small village in Goa, after having left the police department and his dreaded past behind. He now spends time in fishing, cooking, playing marbles with the village children. Meanwhile in Mumbai since crime graph has been on a high once again, the politicians want Sadhu to be reinstated into the Police force and so he is brought back from oblivion to re-establish the rule of law. He refuses to rejoin the force but then relents when his son encourages him to take up the task once again. As soon as he rejoins the force, he goes about his business by activating his old trusted informers and reliable sources. There is also a fellow policeman played by Ashutosh Rana) who isn't too happy to see Nana Patekar back into the police force because he felt that had he not been there, that post would have gone to him. So he always looks out for an opportunity to hinder his Sadhu's mission.
The plotline actually looked very odd because what we were expecting from Patekar's character was to see him killing criminals and pumping bullets. But what we got instead were just warnings sounded out by him to them as well as to his corrupt colleagues. Also there were times when i felt as if Nana Patekar looked disinterested. Then his son gets killed by shooters which leaves him totally devastated. While looking out for his killers, he comes across a shocking truth that Jagirdar (played by Vikram Gokhale) had in fact got the CM killed so that he could take that position. So Sadhu kills him in full public view and remains unrepentant about it. Ab Tak Chappan 2 actually looked like a pointless film to me.
