

Saif and John have their ‘ishtyle’ moments as well thanks to some good styling and scenes which give them a larger-than-life positioning.Īll the lead players have more shades of black than white and things like one-upmanship, betrayal, changing sides etc. Deepika Padukone, Jacqueline Fernandez and Ameesha Patel keep the men company in their sizzling costumes. ‘Race 2’ has Saif Ali Khan and John Abraham as the lead players with Anil Kapoor playing the cop with questionable virtues. It also gets predictably unpredictable, like the earlier ‘Race’. Shiraz Ahmed has written the movie which is basically a game of revenge and calculating moves set in the backdrop of casinos and billions of money.

So director duo Abbas Mustan’s ‘Race 2’ is a loyal follow-up to the earlier ‘Race’ with the aforementioned Hollywood elements like eye-catching locations, nicely executed action scenes, bikini babes, macho lead men and rich production standards. ‘Race 2’ falls in the latter category and we already have the earlier ‘Race’ template which is filled with twists, turns and unpredictable happenings. One is the South Indian style mass masala movie and the other is the so-called slick and stylish Hollywood style action movie. There are two templates that Bollywood has been following religiously over the past few years.
