FILM · 2023 · INDIA
Gadar 2
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- #001
The film pays tribute to Amrish Puri and Vivek Shaque in its opening title sequence. Both can be seen in flashback scenes. One scene, created with CGI effects, shows Amrish Puri being hanged.
- #002
Utkarsh Sharma became the first actor to play the child artist in an earlier installment of the same film series and then play the adult role.
- #003
Gadar 2 set a new record for Sunny Deol at the age of 66. He became the first lead actor over 60 to have a film collect 100 crore at the box office.
- #004
It is the sequel to the 2001 Bollywood blockbuster 'Gadar'.
- #005
Set during the 1971 Indo-Pak war, the film takes place 24 years after the events of the first installment.
- #006
The film's writer Shaktimaan revealed that the character Gul Khan, Tara Singh's close Pakistani friend, was based on a man named "Qasi Sahab," who gave his father shelter in his home during communal riots; the stories told to him about Qasi Sahab formed the basis of Gul Khan's character, and his help to Tara Singh is a tribute to the friendship between Qasi Sahab and his father.
- #007
The film was released on 11 August 2023 alongside Akshay Kumar's O My God 2. Rajinikanth's Jailer was released on 10 August 2023. All three films clashed at the ticket revenue and were widely acclaimed.
- #008
It is Sunny Deol's first film to earn 1 billion INR from ticket revenue when not adjusted for inflation. Previously, hit films of his such as GHAYAL (1990), GHATAK (1996), this film's predecessor GADAR (2001) and BORDER (1997) had each grossed over 1.5 billion INR in the domestic box office alone when adjusted for inflation (as of August 2023).
- #009
It is the highest-grossing film of Sunny Deol's career as of August 2023, both adjusted and unadjusted for inflation. Even GADAR, the film's predecessor, earned 4.8 billion INR in cinemas when adjusted for inflation.
- #010
The film was promoted on a giant platform featuring huge cutouts of Sunny Deol in cinemas across the country. In Mumbai, the wall of a building on the Western Express Highway was painted with a giant image of Sunny Deol.
- #011
Utkarsh Sharma makes his comeback after five years since Genius (2018).
- #012
It serves as a comeback vehicle for Sunny Deol, Amisha Patel and Utkarsh Sharma.
- #013
Despite his star fading over the past decade, Sunny Deol received a signing fee of 200 million INR (2.5 million USD) to reprise the role of Tara Singh, and would also receive a certain percentage of the film's box office profit after it was declared an all-time blockbuster at the end of its second week; according to some analysts, his total fee was around 400-450 million INR (6.4-7.2 million USD).
- #014
Responding to how audiences were thrilled that Tara Singh is almost absent for 30 minutes in the first half of the film, director Anil Sharma said the story is about Arjun and Abhimanyu from the epic Mahabharata; when Abhimanyu (Tara Singh) enters the trap, the focus was not on Arjun but on Abhimanyu (Jeete). He aimed to show how the son advances while searching for his father and how he himself falls into the trap. He also felt that people were not bored while waiting to see Tara Singh, which contributed to the film's success.
- #015
The song Main Nikla Gaddi Leke, picturized on Tara Singh and his son Jeete, is sung by Udit and Aditya Narayan, who are father and son in real life as well.
- #016
Manish Wadhwa's character and the film's main antagonist, Major General Hamid Iqbal, was partly inspired by the real-life Pakistan Army officer and accused 1971 war criminal General Tikka Khan. He was General Tikka Khan, said to be responsible for ordering the mass killing of millions of non-Muslims, mostly activists, during the genocide campaign launched by Pakistani military forces in the former East Pakistan and present-day Bangladesh under the code name "Operation Searchlight." He served as the country's Chief of Army Staff before fleeing back to Pakistan and finally entered politics briefly with the centre-left Pakistan People's Party before dying under house arrest.
- #017
Nana Patekar plays the film's narrator. It is the first time Nana Patekar has appeared in a Sunny Deol film.
- #018
For the first time in his 40-year career, Sunny Deol plays a father character.
- #019
Manish Wadhwa, who plays the film's main antagonist Major General Hamid Iqbal, said in an interview, joking about the film's blockbuster success, that he feared people would think he really was a religiously fanatic Pakistani military officer and kill him if they saw him on the street.
- #020
The film begins seventeen years later, in 1971, and ends after Gadar, when Tara Sing fled to India with Sakeena and Jeete in 1954.
- #021
The second Sunny Deol film is set during the 1971 war; the first was BORDER, his 1997 box-office hit.
- #022
Speaking about the film's record-breaking success, SS Rajamouli, who directed the hugely successful BAHUBALI series that won popularity both in India and abroad, commented, "Sunny Paaji's eyes alone had more cruelty and power than my villainous Bhalaldev and the protagonist's physique or courage combined."
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