Much like its 2012 predecessor, Punit Malhotra’s “Student of the Year 2” has har...
” has hardly any bearing on reality. The film is set in an alternate world that bears no resemblance to any college or school in India. This is a world where looks reign supreme, while talent counts for nothing and hard work matters when it comes to pumping iron in the gym.
The girls look like blown-up versions of Barbie dolls, with their straight hair and their perfectly made-up faces bereft of expression, while the male lead is depicted as an all-achieving superhuman who can do no wrong. This is a film where 5-year-olds are obsessed with getting six-pack abs and boys wouldn’t dream of riding pink bikes – a film where regressive and traditional masculine and feminine roles are reinforced.
“Student of the Year 2” is unabashedly a film about pretty people pretending to have problems, and solving them, but even this is done in such a banal manner that it hardly manages to entertain.
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