Pushpa 2
Priyanka Roy
The Telegraph
The Rule may not offer anything novel, but for lovers of masala movie madness, the film ensures bang for your buck.
Q. Why can’t Miley Cyrus afford to buy Pushpa?
A. ‘Pushpa flower(s) nahin, fire hain.’
This PJ masquerading as a riddle — something which I made up while writing this review — is perhaps as low IQ as it can get. Much like the Pushpa franchise, which thrives on being low IQ, but does one thing pretty much consistently: it serves up, in Silk-speak, what it promises — entertainment, entertainment and more entertainment. Pushpa 2: The Rule, arriving three years after Pushpa: The Rise that became a bona fide pan-India blockbuster and laid the foundation for a big-budget franchise, packs a punch in almost all departments, even going up a notch or two from the first film.
Pushpa 2
Vishal Menon
The Hollywood Reporter India
Allu Arjun's Raging WildFire Gets Doused As Mass Turns Into Melodrama
In its attempt to create a balance between a man who knows no fear and the family man Pushpa has now become, we’re left with a film that is neither flower nor fire.
Sukumar, the writer-director of the Pushpa franchise, is something of a genius when it comes to staging setups and their rewarding payoffs. At certain points in Pushpa 2, you sense how he’s working towards a series of payoffs, some that were set-up in the earlier portions of the first film, which is set 20 years before the events of the sequel. At other points, the payoffs are immediate, giving these scenes an elegant beginning, middle and an end that is so good, they can be developed into standalone short films capable of amassing millions of views.