He trains her to become the Nightingale of India she shines while he stays her shadow sometimes sober, mostly stoned. But when he meets budding singer Aarohi (Shraddha), his heart finds a new beat and his crumbling life finds a cause. Like Rahul Jaykar (Aditya) discovers once basking in a ‘ rockstar’ like status, but soon losing it to alcohol, addiction and self-deprecation. It sometimes vrooms and then goes sputter, the fuel of celebdom often running out. Again! Retelling the celebrity story that stardom ain’t an easy ride. In a restrobar, where she croons and he swoons.
But the blitzkrieg of stardom makes, breaks and shakes their love story. The plot is constantly weighed down by painfully mundane conversations (at one point, a lovestruck RJ is told by his dad over the phone, ‘When son is in love, father just knows.’) and fails to justify the developments in the story.Story: A fading singing sensation finds new purpose in life when he falls in love with a talented singing aspirant. Suri clearly had a hard time establishing the premise and fleshing out his characters. The story pretty much goes downhill from there with increasing tension in the protagonists’ fragile relationship, which is not to say that the beginning boasts of any flashes of brilliance. It does replicate the original’s musical success to some extent but that’s where the link between the two films ends.Īditya plays Rahul Jaykar (RJ) - an erstwhile star singer with a drinking problem - who spots a girl (Shraddha Kapoor, as Aarohi Keshav Shirke) singing in a quaint little beer bar in Goa and convinces her to come back to Mumbai with promises of helping her become a successful playback singer in the Hindi film industry.īack in Mumbai, the duo falls in love following a random turn of events and has a hard time coping with Aarohi’s success and RJ’s escalating alcoholism. Going by the dictionary definition, a sequel means, ‘A published, broadcast or recorded work that continues the story or develops the theme of an earlier one’ or, ‘something that takes place after or as a result of an earlier event.’Īashiqui 2, starring Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor, is neither. I wasn’t sure how Mohit Suri’s Aashiqui 2 qualified to be called a sequel to Mahesh Bhatt’s 1990 hit romance film starring Rahul Roy and Anu Agarwal, so I looked up the word.
In Aashiqui 2, what probably started as an interesting story idea - troubled artists, dynamics in a relationship - eventually got buried under the debris of random motifs from previous hits delivered by the Bhatt camp, writes Nishi Tiwari.
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