Border 2 Movie Review
on Jan 23, 2026
Cast: Sunny Deol, Varun Dhawan, Diljit Dosanjh, Ahan Shetty, Mona Singh, Sonam Bajwa, Medha Rana, Suniel Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Puneet Issar, Sudesh Berry
Crew:
Written by Sumit Arora, Anurag Singh, Nidhi Dutta
Music by John Stewart Eduri, Anu Malik, Mithoon, Sachet–Parampara, Vishal Mishra, Gurmoh
Cinematography by Anshul Chobey
Editing by Manish More
Directed by Anurag Singh
Produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, J. P. Dutta, Nidhi Dutta
Sunny Deol, Akshaye Khanna and Sunil Shetty starrer Border became a cult classic in Indian Cinema. The movie featured events happened in India-Pakistan 1971 War. In this sequel produced after 29 years, the makers have touched upon parallel events in the same war but decided to cast Varun Dhawan, Diljit Dosanjh and Ahan Shetty in leading roles with Sunny Deol. Border 2 released for 2026 Republic Day Weekend, on 23rd January and let's discuss about the film in detail.
Plot:
Lieutenant Fateh Singh Kelar (Sunny Deol) trains a group of friends Nirmaljeet Singh Sekhon (Diljit Dosanjh), Major Hoshiar Singh Dahiya (Varun Dhawan) and Lieutenant Commander Joseph Noronha (Ahan Shetty), at the National War Academy in 1969. As they go into different departments of Indian Army - Air Force, Territorial Army, Navy, we are taken into their personal lives, establishing the bonds they have forged and how left them behind to fight for the nation.
With Pakistan armies making strategically planned attacks, the three friends become the front-line defence commandars for Indian Army at different places. Their resistence to these attacks is heroic and the makers tried to represent them on screen in an exciting manner. Watch the movie about their incredible sacrificies and patriotic ideals they have established in Indian history.
Analysis:
Sunny Deol is good in the film as always but he is depending more and more on his loud dialogue delivery which was novel in 1997 film. Here, the makers made him go Over The Top all the time without any sort of rhyme or reason. Still, he has a charm to his performance and that's about it. Nothing novel or innovative in using the legend.
Varun Dhawan has tried too hard to please and fit into this world. There are few moments where he really gave his best but they are far too little as he resorted to hamming throughout. Ahan Shetty and Diljit Dosanjh scenes and characters are just too caricaturish. The writing tries too hard to try and remake original Border film style moments on big screen for the sake of nostalgia.
The usage of old songs, the forcible trial to insert the similar kind of emotional beats like the original just make it too lethargic an attempt to watch. Slowly, the movie starts to feel like a glorified school drama that youngsters are looking to pull off with the original film in mind. Each and every scene feels like the narrative is set in stone by the original and they are desperately trying to recreate it rather than find their own tone and story.
Few moments with Sunny Deol work better even in this hurried mess. The final battles have ample heroic moments to touch the patriotic nerve at places but the runtime is too long for those moments to shine bright. Technically, VFX and make-up makes the scenes further artificial taking away from charm of the 1997 film. Overall, the film tries hard to impress and sell the same old story of war about soldiers without bringing anything new to the table, and in a much weaker screenplay.
Bottomline:
Movie tries to play hard on nostalgia bait but falls short of expectations.
Rating: 2.5/5
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