Student of the Year 2 Movie Review: Critics Are Not Impressed With This Tiger Shroff, Ananya Panday and Tara Sutaria Film

Karan Johar's Student of the Year 2, featuring the new batch of students (Tiger Shroff along with debutants Tara Sutaria and Ananya Pandey) has finally released. The film is helmed by Punit Malhotra under Karan Johar's Dharma Productions, and also star Aditya Seal in a prominent role. The film is expected to collect around Rs 10 to Rs 12 crore on opening day and it has decent start already with a 20% occupancy in the morning show as per Box-office India reports.

While the film may get a boost in its opening weekend, thanks to Tiger Shroff's fan-base and Karan Johar's clout, SOTY2 has been getting some bad reviews. Like Dharma's last movie, Kalank, even Student of the Year 2 has not managed to impress the critics

TOI (3/5 stars) -

"Tiger Shroff pretty much carries the film on his well-toned shoulders, and his sweet boy charm works for the part. His strengths are showcased with skill and attention – whether he is dancing like a dream, running on the tracks (the camera accentuating his muscles and sinew in close-ups), playing kabaddi or flipping in the air and landing with a blow. While film’s leading ladies Tara and Ananya are glammed up to the T and flaunt the best designer wear that money can buy, their roles aren’t tailored to perfection."

Hindustan Times (1.5/5 Stars) -

"The spine of the story comes from the still-refreshing JJWS, as mentioned, but here the college rivalries feel hollow throughout. This is largely because the boy, Rohan, played by Shroff, isn’t allowed to put a foot wrong. Ananya Pandey, who takes a poorly written character the super-rich brat who sobs into her birthday cake. he atrociously fit Gul Panag shows up as a sports coach allegedly horny for fitness, but by the climax shakes her head as if unable to bear these childish shenanigans in the guise of sport."

FirstPost (1.5/5 Stars) -

"The irrelevance of the women is further underlined by the fact that Student of the Year is a battle between eight colleges, of which we know at least two to be co-ed, yet the competitions shown are all for boys alone. The girls are not even in contention. To analyse SOTY 2 primarily on the basis of its gender apathy would be to take it too seriously though. What it ought to be judged on are its blandness, triteness and poor casting. Cliché is piled on cliché in this unoriginal screenplay."

News18 (2.5/5 Stars) - 

"For most part the story covers the major preoccupations of the young and the restless—romance, rivalry and then some more. Except that unlike the new-age slice-of-life delights like Pyaar Ka Punchnama that we have witnessed in recent times, SOTY settles for broad strokes rather than filling in defining details that could have taken the series a notch higher."

Scroll.in (2/5 Stars) - 

"A glammed-up version of Mansoor Khan’s Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992), Student of the Year 2 is a bit more grounded in reality. The main sport is the earthy discipline of kabbadi, rather than athletics, and the annual competition between the students of St Teresa has now gone inter-school. But the stakes remain high as the middle-class Rohan (Tiger Shroff) takes on the wealthy Manav (Aditya Seal), the overachieving son of one of the school’s trustees."

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