'Rajput, a fine actor, tries far too hard to play the boyish cad, behaving like a Ranveer Singh fan hopped up on sugar. Raabta was based on reincarnation theme.(Image courtesy: Instagram) Here's what I said in my review: Producer Dinesh Vijan's directorial debut casts Sushant Singh Rajput and Kriti Sanon, two people who have chemistry, and gives them obnoxious halfwits to play before taking us into their past life, which looks like a weak Game Of Thrones masquerade. Yet, every time the genre appears to have faded away, it annoyingly comes back to life - and makes all the same mistakes. The reincarnation drama, a hackneyed staple of Hindi cinema, needs to be done away with. So he does still get to slap - just without eyewitnesses.' The new film has chosen not to drop this ghastly impulse, but instead this time we cut away instead of showing the point of impact, focussing instead on horrified reactions and cheeky grins. Karisma Kapoor and Rambha felt Khan's palm frequently through the film, and at one point the two women even bent over on purpose in order to tell the twins apart. One of the Salmans - tragically, the one named Raja - had a hand that started quivering whenever any woman bent over, and he was compelled, almost magnetically, to thwack her bottom. 'In case you don't remember, this posterior fixation was a big part of the original film. (Image courtesy: Instagram) Here's what I said in my review: Judwaa 2 is a remake of Salman Khan's 1997 film. Everyone involved in this remake deserves a spanking. Twenty years after the rollicking Judwaa, the remake decides to continue what 'worked' in the film and make sure it has a 'loveable' hero who just can't resist a woman's bottom. I can simply declare that its too spoofy to feel like a drama and too mournful to be funny.' Is it an anti-deforestation public service film, telling us not to chop down trees because resident ghosts need a place to stay? Is it trying to inform us that places we consider monuments to tragedy are nice places to hug by moonlight? Is it a warning to engaged women who conduct their pre-wedding courtship largely on Skype, that most men are disappointing offline? I have no earthly clue.

'Watching the film I wondered what it was trying to preach, since - like a bad street-play - it is too self-serious and portentous to not have a moral.

Phillauri was produced by Anushka Sharma.

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