GHAYAL ONCE AGAIN

GHAYAL ONCE AGAIN: is a 2016 Indian action film directed by Sunny Deol featuring Sunny Deol, Soha Ali Khan, Om Puri, Shivam Patil, Aanchal Munjal, Rishabh Arora, Diana Khan, Narendra Jha.The sequel to the 1990 super hit Ghayal.

PLOT: 26 years later after Ghayal, despite the fact that Ajay(Sunny) gets released from the jail, he still gets haunted by the flashes of the years gone by in his life,is going through treatment under DR. Riya(Sofa). Ajay, who now is the chief of a news agency named 'Satyakaam', fights for every bit of the truth through his newspaper.Meanwhile, Ajay's close friend Joe D'souza (Om Puri), who is a retired DCP turned an active RTI activist gets killed by the business tycoon Raj Bansal (Narendra Jha)'s short tempered son in a fit of rage. Unknowingly, the whole incident accidentally gets captured in the camera that belongs to Anushka (Aanchal Munjal), who is best friends with Rohan (Shivam Patil), Zoya (Daina Khan) and Varun (Rishabh Arora). And when Raj Bansal gets to know about the secret video tape, he tells his henchmen to eliminate the four children as they pose extreme danger to him and well as to the image of his gigantic empire.So all the four students are in danger.Ajay is the only one to stand between the bad guys and the innocent do-gooders.The rest of the film is about How Ajay saves those students & how he punishes the culprit who killed Joe.

PERFORMANCES: Sunny as a actor,does a sincere attempt & as a director, does a better than decent job. He manages to keep the plot believable and keep you involved in the goings on.Soha Ali Khan, who plays his doctor/love interest, doesn't get to do much while the four kids have done a decent job.Narendra Jha has put in an honest effort, but he lacks the menacing aura that the late Amrish Puri as Balwant Rai could project with a mere glance.

MUSIC: composed by Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy is no great show

What separates Ghayal Once Again from most other Bollywood franchises is that it is a genuine sequel to the 1990 super hit Ghayal and takes off from where the previous film left.Though not as emotionally engaging as the original, the sequel delivers what it promises on the action front. Skilfully shot, elaborate nail-biting chase sequences in the train and the mall leave you glued to your seats, gasping for breath. Heavy-duty fist fights are equally gripping but the helicopter actions scenes could have been either avoided or done in a better fashion.Poor work of CGI.

The biggest letdown in the film is absence of Sunny Deol's elements of trademark action and hard-hitting dialogues.

Overall,Ghayal Once Again is one time watch film.