Sanju Weds Geetha 2 review: Srinagara Kitty and Rachita Ram lead film about rich girl meets poor boy, conflict with family, and a 10-year rags-to-riches plan – a story that’s at least 4 decades old
Last Updated: 04.37 PM, Jan 17, 2025
Sanju Weds Geetha 2 movie story: Geetha (Rachita Ram), the daughter of a business tycoon and aspiring beauty queen, runs into Sanju (Srinagara Kitty) a lowly silk weaver, on her way to a prestigious pageant. She wins the contest clad in a sari he gives her, which represents Karnataka in all its glory. Their budding relationship, though, runs into rough weather, when her father raises objection. The couple decide to strike out on their own, and when faced with more hurdles, make it their life mission to become just as rich, if not more. But then, tragedy strikes.
Sanju Weds Geetha 2 movie review: As I exited the movie hall after enduring director Nagshekar’s ‘spiritual’ sequel to his 2011 film Sanju Weds Geetha, the only reasons I could think of for the movie’s existence was handsome paychecks for the cast and crew and an extended family holiday to Switzerland for most of them.
The film’s basic premise is from a few decades ago, including the class conflict between boy and girl and his rags to riches tale, etc., which is so stale it stinks. Nagshekar does not even spare the loving father-turned-deadly foe trope. Tragedy is a cornerstone of Nagshekar’s films and Sanju Weds Geetha 2 also gets a fair share. This time, though, he wants to kill only one of them. It is at this point that I whipped out my phone for my first google search. You see, she who has grown up amid all the riches in the world, and has had very little exposure to his sericulture work environment has Silicosis, a lung disease for which she needs a transplant. The internet tells me that it’s a condition that largely affects construction and mining workers, who are exposed to silica dust.
A second search did not yield any results if there is a connection between handloom silk weaving and silicosis, but if I understood correctly, that’s the implication. The solution that they come up with is to ‘protect’ weavers by mechanising all the processes and reducing human involvement. No wonder, then, that their fully automated plant doesn’t seem to have any other employees. And here I thought that keeping traditional weaving traditions alive would be by ditching power looms in favour of handloom.
As if all the medical jargon about silicosis was not enough, at one point, Chetan Chandra, who plays her doctor also talks about her battling Alzheimer’s – it’s literally double whammy for her. Even if she gets a lung transplant, which has a life expectancy of 5-10 years, her shrinking brain may just get to her even before that.
But then Sanju says that the lung transplant can go ahead because the “donor has agreed”, which makes her very happy. Apparently, Geetha thinks that it’s like kidney or liver transplant, where the donor can survive with the remaining organ. In my head, I was screaming murder, as I whipped out my phone for yet another internet search – live donor. My understanding – it won’t work for silicosis treatment. But hey, I am not an expert and Nagshekar’s best guess was, probably, that his audience would not go looking for logic like I did.
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The lacklustre story apart, what is also unpardonable is that Kitty and Rachita, two formidable actors, make no effort to give the film even 10% of their acting chops. Rachita’s reaction, or rather the lack of it in the climactic moments was the biggest downer. Or maybe that’s when her Alzheimer’s struck and hence the blank expression. The presence of actors like Sampath, Rangayana Raghu, Sadhu Kokila, Tabla Nani and Ragini Dwivedi does nothing for the film. While most have explainable role – appa, chikkappa, manager/driver, it beats me why Ragini was there – it can’t be for that one shot of her ascending a flight of stairs in a barely-there bodysuit, with the camera lingering on her booty.
It is films like Sanju Weds Geetha 2, and a few other examples, that has one wondering how certain filmmakers find gullible producers time and again and make films that no one but they are proud of. Perhaps if actors stop enabling them, things will be different.
Sanju Weds Geetha 2 movie verdict: Director Nagshekar’s Sanju Weds Geetha 2 has literally nothing noteworthy to mention – it’s utterly dull. It may even put you off eating idly, it certainly did for me.