Ghayal Once Again comes no where close to the original. We know it is not the 90s anymore but the least that we could have asked for in this sequel was a few good punchlines. Sadly, the film borrows only two characters Ajay Mehra and Joe D’Souza( Om Puri) and somehow both are not enough to save this film. The problem with the film is that it is trying to say too much but show too less. Apparently, the makers wanted to send across a message of women safety but well, it certainly didn’t look that way. A bunch of kids being tracked down at a mall by Bansal’s men, who hit them ruthlessly and the police don’t even intervene was kind of too hard to digest. Showing a man powerful is one thing but him controlling everything so openly is not justified. Also, whatever happened to the good old villain vs hero confrontation scenes, these skype meetings don’t have the desired effect.
Sadly, Ajay’s character too seems quite ‘thanda’ this time. We don’t see him going berserk, yelling at the top of his voice, challenging his opponents. In fact, in this story, it looks like Mehra is one step behind right from the start.
The story truly takes pace towards the end of the first half which is the chase sequence between Bansal’s men and the kids but post that it again goes into a slump.
Bansal’s security men are foreign mercenaries and they talk in weird accents. At one point, the hitman Troy even has a dialogue “Now I am going to kill you”. You can do nothing but laugh at the addition of such an element in the film. Now that’s smart dialogue writing!
The only powerful dialogue that Mehra cracks with a lot of intensity is “Agar hum sach ke saath hai toh jeetne tak haar nai maanni chahiye.”
