Film: “Yamla Pagla Deewana 2″
Cast: Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Neha Sharma, and Christina Akheeva
Director: Sangeeth Sivan
Rating: 
It is very painful to see the iconic Dharmendra, who has acted in several comedies evergreen during its glory days, it is reduced to a mere shadow of his former self parody brand totally affected in this sad parody comedy disguised.
If you are one of those who thought that the first segment of this franchise farce was painful and laborious, and then wait to see what he has in store the result. Appears “Yamla Pagla Deewana” decidedly desirable compared to its sequel.
“Yamla Pagla Deewana 2″ (YPD 2) is larger on canvas, more ambitious in terms of cultural leaps made from Punjab to London. But in the end what we are left looking at is a vehicle for bringing the Deols together gone terribly mad.
It would be an exercise in futility, if not impossible, to describe the plot or the characters too cartoonish italics. Suffice to say that the saga farce takes the three main characters forward in the same moral balance as the first film. The father Dharmendra (God bless his amiable screen persona) and the youngest son Bobby are rogues certifiable. The eldest son Sunny turban is upright and meaningless.
From this starting point, the film enters and exits a laborious mass of episodes, each more intense and laborious than the last. There is no single ‘Laugh Out Loud’ moment throughout the long process of stretching in two hours and 40 minutes of a story that wastes the talents of one of the most famous families of Bollywood film.
Director Sangeeth Sivan believes in packaging process with so many events and as much noise as possible. Everyone is running all the time looking for laughter. In the process, talented actors like Anupam Kher, Annu Kapoor and Gulshan Grover supports are reduced to dark.
That’s fine. This is intended as a vehicle to celebrate the Deols collective fame. But where is the spark and spirit to enhance the atmosphere of celebration? As a joke he loses his shot horribly, YPD2 follows and in the development of a joke that never got a laugh in the first place.
While it is tragic to see Dharmendra and Sunny Deol trying so hard to milk the material without joy for a few laughs, it’s even more heartbreaking to find our cinema boisterous confuse genuine humor gags.
Ah, yes, the two lead actresses are easy on the eyes. Some relief to offset the relentless sonic assault. Torture transparent.