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This is a sequel that offers a vivid, vibrant, dramatic, savagely tragic and unexpectedly funny story with a cast full of powerful performances. Â It is a story of modern politics and the dynamics of human relationships trapped in an eerie game of one-upmanship within a feudal mindset.Â
As if the world of politics is a refuge, these one-time princes of pre-Independent India try desperately to redeem their lost pride and dignity by running for public office. Alas, it turns out there isn’t much to be redeemed after all, and the characters populating and copulating throughout are emptied-out by their own ambitions.
A delicious sequel, it is as hilarious as it is shocking and sobering. Perhaps one of the most memorable performances is that of the slimy politician caught watching porn on his laptop first thing in the morning even as he is visited in his office by a goon masquerading as a journalist. While the self-important politician’s predicament is funny and disgusting all at once, his hypocrisy raises the more sobering issue about a country’s attempts at governing itself that is anything but funny.
Watch it for the powerful performances, the unabashed splendor and old-world charm of the culture and times of the nawabs that lingers to this day, and for the often mysterious, bizarre and inexplicable ways of the human condition.
For my review of the first movie by the same name two years ago, see:Â http://smritidisaac.com/2012/07/10/saheb-biwi-aur-gangster-2011/
