Race 2
Race 2 | |
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Directed by | Abbas–Mustan |
Written by | Kiran Kotrial Shiraz Ahmed |
Produced by | Ramesh S. Taurani |
Starring | Saif Ali Khan John Abraham Deepika Padukone Anil Kapoor Jacqueline Fernandez Ameesha Patel Bipasha Basu |
Narrated by | Anil Kapoor |
Cinematography | Ravi Yadav |
Edited by | Hussain A. Burmawala |
Music by | Songs: Pritam Yo Yo Honey Singh Background Score: Salim–Sulaiman |
Production company | |
Distributed by | UTV Motion Pictures |
Release dates | 25 January 2013 (India) 26 January 2013 (Worldwide) |
Running time | 150 minutes |
Countries | India Turkey |
Language | Hindi |
Budget | ₹94 crore |
Box office | ₹173.36 crore[1] |
Race 2 is a 2013 Indian
Made on a budget of ₹94 crore,[2] Race 2 was released on 25 January (India) and 26 January (Worldwide). The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics and audience. It grossed ₹173.36 crore worldwide and was deemed as a "Hit".[1]
Plot
In Cyprus, a contract killer blasts a yellow Lamborghini Gallardo by shooting it's fuel tank.
Few months later, a robbery takes place and European printing plates are stolen. Ranvir Singh meets a casino owner, Vikram Thapar, claiming he stole the plates. He offers Thapar €1500 million in
Ranvir and Armaan planned the whole scam. They met through Ranveer's childhood friend Inspector Robert "RD" D'Costa. Ranvir delivers Thapar's casinos for €500 million to Armaan by taking 10% from it. Ranvir meets Armaan's younger sister Aleena, and gradually becomes attracted to her.
Ranvir sees a picture of his deceased wife Sonia in Armaan's girlfriend Omisha's wallet and begins to woo her in order to gain her confidence. Ranvir reveals to RD that he is trying to bankrupt Armaan because Armaan and Thapar were responsible for Sonia's death.
In a flashback, Ranvir and a pregnant Sonia are in Cyprus. Sonia's sister Tanya calls them to meet her in Bangkok. On the way, Ranvir tells Sonia that he wants to transfer some savings from the bank. Unaware of an assassin lurking around, Ranvir asks her to sit in the car as he heads to the bank. The assassin successfully shoots the car's fuel tank (the Lamborghini blasting scene at the beginning of the film), and Sonia dies. Ranvir chased the assassin and killed him. Omisha tells him that she is Sonia's sister, Tanya Martin. It is revealed she isn’t Sonia’s sister but Armaan's girlfriend and it was a ploy by Armaan who knew Ranvir’s true intentions.
Ranvir schemes to steal the Shroud of Turin and sell it to Armaan. After that, he will steal both the shroud and Armaan's wealth. However, RD, who is afraid of Armaan, betrays Ranvir and tells the truth to Armaan. Armaan gives 15 billion euros to his old friend, godfather Anza, as an investment.
Aleena reveals Armaan planted a bomb in her car to kill her, and decides to help Ranvir. Ranvir steals the shroud. During the celebration, Aleena poisons Ranvir. As he slowly dies, Armaan reveals he knew his plan and Aleena was never on Ranvir's side. After Ranvir dies, Armaan and Omisha retrieve the
Ranvir and Armaan fight in the aircraft. Armaan tells Ranvir that he killed Sonia because she fled away with his money. He shoots the pilot and escapes with Omisha through a parachute, leaving Ranvir and Aleena to die in the resulting plane crash. However, they manage to escape by using Armaan's car, which has four attached parachutes. Armaan and Omisha hand over the shroud to Anza. On inspection, it is revealed to be fake. When Anza asks for his bearer bonds, they are also fake. Ranvir calls Armaan and taunts him that he was penniless now. It is also revealed that Anza is secretly helping Ranvir and Armaan is forced to hand over his properties, while Omisha dumps him for Anza. Armaan vows vengeance on Ranvir.
Ranvir visits Sonia's grave with Aleena and gives RD his share of money. When RD asks about the real shroud, he reveals that he never stole the shroud; it is still in the church. Aleena had switched the real bearer bonds while he and Armaan were fighting on the plane. RD admits that he does not want to risk his life again and makes Ranvir promise in jest to never meet him again.
Ranvir and Aleena leave Turkey for an unknown location.
Cast
- Anil Kapoor as Inspector Robert D'Costa a.k.a "RD", Ranvir's childhood friend.
- Saif Ali Khan as Ranvir Singh
- John Abraham as Armaan Malik, Aleena Malik’s brother.
- Deepika Padukone as Aleena Malik, Armaan's step-sister and Ranvir's partner.
- Jacqueline Fernandez as Omisha, Armaan's partner. (voice dubbed by Mona Ghosh Shetty)
- Bipasha Basu as Sonia, Ranvir's wife (guest appearance)
- Ameesha Patel as Cherry, RD's assistant
- Aditya Pancholi as "Godfather" Anza, Armaan's friend.
- Rajesh Khattar as Vikram Thapar, Armaan's partner.
Production and casting
After the success of
"The expectations from Race 2 are humongous and we plan to make it bigger and better than the first part."
—Taurani on Race 2[13]
The film's shooting was set to begin on 5 October 2011 but was postponed to accommodate Deepika Padukone's dates causing scheduling conflicts with Sonakshi Sinha.
Filming
The first Indian schedule began on 5 November 2011 in Mumbai for 15 days, wrapping up on 20 November.[20] Meanwhile, Sanjay Dutt was in talks to join the cast, but he dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.[21][22] The second schedule commenced on 23 January 2012 in Mumbai. Padukone dropped out within six days because the film was always being rescheduled.[23]
Race 2's producer Ramesh Taurani released a statement to the media deeming Padukone's behaviour as "unethical, unprofessional and unacceptable".[24] Also, it was reported that Asin was offered the role to replace Padukone, although it has been rumoured that she declined the offer, thus avoiding any controversies regarding her and Kapoor.[25] However, Padukone and Taurani agreed on a settlement after much negotiation and the filming continued as planned.[26] Fernandez, Abraham and Padukone joined the cast in May at Istanbul for the third schedule. On 7 October 2012, the shooting was completed. The Mardan Palace in Turkey was the setting for many scenes where it was shown as the home of Padukone and Abraham's characters.[27]
Soundtrack
The soundtrack of Race 2 which is composed by Pritam and Yo Yo Honey Singh features 10 tracks, with four remix versions an unplugged version and a mashup of all the tracks. It was released on 10 November 2012. The film score is composed by Salim–Sulaiman.
The songs "Lat Lag Gayee", "Be Intehaan," and "Party on My Mind" became extremely popular and were declared as chartbusters. The song "Lat Lag Gayee" was choreographed by Karishma Chavan.
Track listing
All tracks are written by
Reception
The soundtrack received positive critical reception. IBN Live gave it 4/5 stars saying, "Race 2's soundtrack is racy to the core. In a nutshell, the album is bound to be a hit. Let's just hope the movie is as good as the soundtrack is!" Shresht Poddar, of Score magazine, gave the album 3/5 stars saying, "Personally, as a standalone album with no biases, it is enjoyable, but it could have done with better lyrics. The tracks are foot-tapping, and they would appeal to the masses. But if you compare it to Race, the album undoubtedly falls flat."[29]
Release
Race 2 was released in 3200 screens in India; it is the third biggest release ever for a Hindi film after
Critical reception
Race 2 received mixed to positive reviews from critics and audience. While its cast performance, cinematography, visualisation, technical aspects, songs, background scores and direction received critical acclaim, its writing, plot and humours received criticism and most of the critics states that it's not that much as its first part.
Madhureeta Mukherjee of
Taran Adarsh of
Box office
India
Race 2 had what Box Office India called a "solid opening" at multiplexes and single screens with occupancy of around 60%–70%.[31] The film had a very good opening day, netting ₹15.12 crore (US$1.9 million).[1] It showed good growth in its second day, collecting approximately ₹20.7 crore (US$2.6 million) nett and ₹15.55 crore (US$1.9 million) on third day.[1] Race 2 did well on its first weekend by collecting around ₹51.35 crore (US$6.4 million) nett.[1]
The film managed to do well and netted around ₹76.1 crore (US$9.5 million) in its first week.[1] Race 2 went on to collect a total gross of ₹139.51 crore (US$17 million) in India with a worldwide gross business of ₹173.36 crore (US$22 million).[1]
Overseas
Race 2 had a good opening in overseas with approximately ₹75.0 million (US$940,000) the opening weekend.[43] Race 2 grossed approximately $5.5 million overseas in ten days.[44] After grossing $6 million in 17 days overseas, the film was declared a hit by Box Office India.[45] Race 2 recorded similar figures in overseas markets like its prequel.[46] Moreover, it recorded the highest ever collection in Pakistan for any Bollywood film with an amount of $775,000 beating Don 2 which netted $675,000. Its final business in the overseas market is around $6.5 million.[47][48]
Game
Race 2, a
Sequel
After making two successful films, makers planned the third Installment of this series, which is unrelated to the first two films and will feature a whole new star cast, with the exception of
Notes
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External links
- Race 2 at Bollywood Hungama
- Race 2 at IMDb
- Race 2 at Box Office Mojo
- Race 2 at Rotten Tomatoes