SOTY 2 taps the silliness of youth,not the soul. The sad part is that it doesn't seem to own any regrets about the same.
The 2019 batch of aimless and silly students who devote precious portions of their time exclusively to gyms, dance floors and pl...
Colin Firth, an English actor rightly remarks, " We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place too often and I think you've got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not just to repeat the first one." Student of the Year (1) was a delightful drizzle though not a riveting rain filled with thunder and lightning. The Second batch that doesn't even inspire a breeze ,let alone venturing courageously into an extra mile is an unnecessary and utterly uninteresting venture into St.Teresa that had closed its admissions long ago. With the reopening, the fantasy college's cut off isn't surprisingly low but shockingly so. Couldn't disagree regarding this point from the rich and lonely Shreya who tries all she could in outlining ambitiousness and what is it that she calls? Oh! Yeah.....Love!- St.Teresa's standards have indeed steeped low, Shreya.
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The second batch fills the walls of the college with an acute sense of regret that at least their seniors were a lot better - in emotion, essence and pursuits. In short, they had a life. The 2019 batch of aimless and silly students who devote precious portions of their time exclusively to gyms, dance floors and playgrounds are going to be proudly held at the receiving end of exhausted St.Teresa's words :' This is the worst batch I've ever seen in my entire life!' Student of the Year 2 is an underwhelming account of an ostensible underdog with lousy aspirations. The boy from Pishori pursues St.Teresa not with aspirations but a doltish ambiguousness guided by love. In seven years, the merit and scholarship quota of Teresa has hugely shrunk that Rohan is the only middle-class student of the year. The not-so- credibly built class conflicts of Teresa find its fragile focus on Rohan Sachdev and the college he hails from ,Pishorilal Chamandas. The economic tension lacks any empathy and essential enhancing set-up. Rohan and his peers lack nothing significant and necessary in comparison to the relatively richer muscular guys led by Manav -the snooty and arrogant. Of course, the Pishori boys are portrayed to be devoid of vanity that here is exclusively attached to the rich folks as if it is their birth right.
Coming back to Shreya's birthday, she is the only one who gets to shoulder a comparatively better character arc. She begins with arrogance, contempt and moves towards redemption and achievement. Not that her character is perfect but just that it comes with lesser and forgivable flaws while considering those of the rest. She flounders in finding her way through but guess what? She does it, unlike her peers.
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