Vadh 2 Movie Review | Anupama Chopra | THR India

Anupama Chopra reviews Vadh 2 for The Hollywood Reporter India. The film is a spiritual sequel — same lead actors Neena Gupta and Sanjay Mishra, same character names, but an entirely new story. This time, Shambhunath is a prison guard and Manju is a prisoner serving a 28-year sentence. Their unlikely, tender relationship forms the emotional core of a film that once again explores murder with a moral angle. Writer-director Jaspal Singh Sandhu expands the scale from the lean original, setting the action largely inside a prison with many more players.

While Vadh 2 doesn’t quite match the first film’s depth and propulsion — the villain is less effective and the pacing gets sluggish in places — Jaspal creates enough twists to keep you engaged. The real intrigue isn’t the murder itself but who did it and whether they can get away with it. Neena and Sanjay bring warmth and gravity to every scene, and there’s something genuinely thrilling about a franchise built around two sixty-plus actors.