Director - Ram Sharan Pathak
Cast - Pradeep Khadka/ Aslesha Thakuri/ Santosh Sen
The surprise hit of 2015 Prem Geet returns with nothing in coherence to its sequel beyond the title of the movie.
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Off to reconcile with her proud ancestry, Geet (Aslesha Thakuri) takes off from Burma on a flight that lands her in Kathmandu. The job of picking her up from the airport falls on the lap of apathetic Prem (Pradeep Khadka). At first he wants to rid himself of Geet immediately but happenstance and his peer's and parents' insistence has them quite intermingled in each other's company. He takes her to Murma, a quaint and quiet village on the outskirts of the picturesque Rara Lake. Here Geet picks up a handfull of dirt and a sentimental artifact that her grandmother has left safeguarded in the hollow of a huge tree.
"How is that thing so brand new after all these years?" commented Vivek Sir on it. I gotta say I agree.
Immediately, Geet has to leave for Burma. Meanwhile Prem gets stuck on an elevator at a shopping mall when he goes to buy her a rose as a parting gift. So he's unable to confess his burgeoning love or see an expectant Geet off at the airport. The intermission kicks in with the image of an agonized Prem and an apprehensive Geet.
The rest of the story is how Prem flies off to Thailand with the backing of some imprudent motivation from his new-age parents.
"How are parents so cool in movies?" Vivek sir mused, probably pondering over his own parents' reaction in such a situation.
The rest of the movie plays out in a stereotypical sequence of how Prem puts his life on the line to get his love back against an undefeatable adversary in the form of Angat (Santosh Sen), a professional Martial artist up until a novel, somewhat unpredictable ending.
The ending is by far the most refreshing and rational one I've seen in Nepali movies, and thereby thoroughly satisfying.
The director perhaps could have spent a few minutes exploring the lifestyle of people of Murma village but he at least tries to salvage it some by keeping Prem's training sequence at the end to a tolerable spell; so that is a positive aspect. The film promotes itself to be a novel love story but that statement is hardly justified by anything other than the ending. Rara lake and Burma look spectacular and whoever the fuck was the costume stylist needs a special commendation but the movie leaves a lot to be desired in the way of a coherent soul and decent acting from the leads.
Prem Geet 2 is twice as good looking in presentation department as Prem Geet and half as bad in terms of engaging and crisis-ridden storytelling.
