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The movie has a nice concept, in which multiple weapons (astras) were obtained by sages in the past, and they used their astras to tame the strongest of them, the Brahmastra, and formed a secret society to protect the world from unleashing the Brahmastra. The story of the movie is about the protagonist, who finds himself as a center point of a conflict to unleash the Brahmastra. The problem with the movie is that it is executed poorly. The love story between Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, which is central to the plot, is unconvincing and shallow. The writing in the movie and the dialogues were also poor. The songs in the movie are nice, but out of place and seemed to be forced into the movie instead of being a natural part of it. Alia Bhatt's acting is irritating, and her constant uttering of the protagonist's name (Shiva) has become a meme. Some of the special effects in the movie, especially the fire animations, were comical. There were a couple of Easter eggs in the movie tha...

The original Judwaa  is considered to be a classic. It is a movie that I had not watched, since I had watched the original Telugu movie it was based on. The Nagarjuna starrer was a cult classic and huge hit back then. The movie was entertaining, funny, had good acting, great music, and was very well paced. The movie however has some tropes in it that were somehow considered to be acceptable back then, but are considered to be problematic in the current environment.  When I began to watch Judwaa 2, it became obvious in the first scene itself that although the movie was made to sound as a sequel, it was the exact same remake of the 1997 movie starring Salman Khan. Although remakes are fine, the movie does not even attempt to modernize the tropes in the older movie. It is still somehow appropriate to show the protagonist as having an issue where his hand starts to uncontrollably shake at the sight of a lady's backside, and it is considered to not be a problem when he proceeds to...