Story: The comedy follows Jassi (Ajay Devgn), who pretends to be a war hero to help a young woman impress her boyfriend’s family and win their approval for marriage.Review: Director Vijay Kumar Arora’s film follows Jassi, who finally joins his wife (Neeru Bajwa) in the UK after waiting 13 years for his visa. However, his joy is short‑lived when she asks him for a divorce. After a chance encounter with Rabia (Mrunal Thakur), who runs a wedding dance troupe and has been cheated out of her money by her husband, Danish (Chunky Panday), Jassi stays with her, her friends, and her stepdaughter as a tenant. In a bizarre turn of events, he ends up pretending to be Rabia’s husband and a decorated colonel to help get her stepdaughter married. The farce grows trickier as he must keep up the act to protect himself from the would‑be groom’s dangerous father, Raja (Ravi Kishan), who looks down upon both dancers and Pakistanis — which Rabia and her friends happen to be. The rest of the film follows Raja’s brothers, Titu (Vindu Dara Singh) and Tony (Mukul Dev), who are suspicious of Jassi, as they try to expose his bluff while he continually outsmarts them.The slapstick comedy written by Jagdeep Singh Sidhu and Mohit Jain is a standalone sequel to 2012’s Son of Sardaar. With a thin storyline, the first half has some entertaining moments; one of them being Raja and his brothers Tony (Mukul Dev) and Tittu (Vindu Dara Singh) visiting the family to finalise the wedding, where Jassi recreates the scene from Border and plays all three parts originally portrayed by Sunny Deol, Suniel Shetty, and Jackie Shroff. However, as the story progresses, the narrative loses steam. It becomes overstuffed with over-the-top tracks where much of the comedy misses the mark — like Jassi watching Raja’s aged Russian stepmom pole dance. Routine song-and-dance sequences further drag on without advancing the plot. The climax is convoluted, predictable, and over‑dramatisedAjay Devgn is convincing as the endearing and guileless Sardar, shining in both comedy and emotional scenes. Mrunal Thakur, as the fiery and outgoing Rabia, holds her own. Ravi Kishan, Mukul Dev, and Vindu Dara Singh share good onscreen chemistry with their comic timing. Deepak Dobriyal and Sanjay Mishra, however, remain underutilised, with characterisations that fall short of their talent.This is an exaggerated mass entertainer that may appeal only to fans of the genre.
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