Race 2

The story continues from the previous film.

A robbery takes place and European printing plates are stolen. Ranvir Singh (Saif Ali Khan) goes to a casino owner, Vikram Thapar (Rajesh Khattar), claiming to have been behind the robbery. He offers Thapar €1.5 billion in counterfeit currency in exchange for €500 million real banknotes. Thapar agrees and borrows the €500 million from ex street-fighter and billionaire gangster Armaan Malik (John Abraham). It is then revealed that Ranvir never stole the printing plates, and was conning Thapar. Now, unable to return Armaan's money, Thapar is forced to give Armaan control of five casinos that he owns in Istanbul, Turkey.

The con is a plan that Ranvir made a week earlier with Armaan, who he met through Robert "RD" D'Costa (Anil Kapoor) and his dim-witted assistant Cherry (Ameesha Patel). Ranvir gives Armaan ownership of Thapar's casinos in exchange for a 10% commission. The two become friends and business partners.

Ranvir meets Armaan's half-sister Aleena (Deepika Padukone) and develops a romantic affair with her. Aleena is revealed to be Armaan's 50% shareholder and constant partner in crime.

A glamorous and stylish lady, Omisha (Jacqueline Fernandez) is introduced as Armaan's girlfriend. Ranvir sees a picture of his deceased wife Sonia (Bipasha Basu) in Omisha's wallet and he begins to woo her in order to gain her confidence. His real plan is to bankrupt Armaan because Armaan and Thapar were responsible for Sonia's death. Omisha tells him that she is Sonia's sister.

Ranvir plans to steal the Shroud of Turin and sell it to Armaan. After that, he will steal both the shroud and Armaan's billions of dollars. However, RD, who is afraid of Armaan, betrays Ranvir and tells Armaan the truth. Armaan asks Godfather Anza (Aditya Pancholi) to give 15 billion euros as an investment. However, Armaan has to win a fight with fighter Typhoon. Aleena reveals Armaan was the one who planted a bomb in her car to kill her, and decides to help Ranvir. Ranvir steals the shroud while Armaan wins his fight with Typhoon.

During the celebration, Aleena poisons Ranvir's glass. As he slowly dies, Armaan reveals that thanks to RD, he knew his plan and Aleena was never on Ranvir's side. Omisha is also on Armaan's side and is not Sonia's sister. After Ranvir dies, Armaan and Omisha retrieve the shroud and leave in their private jet. There, Armaan points his gun at Aleena, revealing that he'd been planning to kill her to take her share of the money. Suddenly, Ranvir crashes through the wall; Aleena never poisoned his drink. Aleena tells Armaan that she is on Ranvir's side, knowing Armaan was trying to kill her. Ranvir reveals that RD never betrayed him; he himself told RD to inform Armaan of the real plan to make Armaan think he was ahead of Ranvir.

Ranvir and Armaan have a lengthy fight in the plane. Armaan tells Ranvir that he killed Sonia because she fled with his money. He shoots the pilot and all the parachutes, escaping with Omisha and leaving Ranvir and Aleena to die in the resulting plane crash. However, the two manage to escape using Armaan's car, which floats on four attached parachutes.

Armaan and Omisha hand over the shroud to Godfather Anza. On inspection, it is revealed to be fake. When Anza asks for his Bearer bonds, they are also fake. Armaan is forced to hand over his properties, including cars, casinos and yachts, in place of the money, while Omisha dumps him for Anza. Bankrupt, Armaan vows vengeance on Ranvir, who had planned this from the beginning.

In the end, Ranvir visits Sonia's grave and gives RD his share. When RD asks about the real shroud, he reveals that he never stole it and it is still in the Church. Aleena had switched the real Bearer Bonds when he and Armaan were fighting on the plane. RD says that he does not want to risk his life again and makes Ranvir promise to never meet him again. Ranvir warns RD that promises are made to be broken.

• Anil Kapoor as Robert D'Costa (RD) – Ranveer's friend
• Saif Ali Khan as Ranveer Singh – Sonia's husband; Aleena's love interest and RD's friend main protagonist
• Deepika Padukone as Aleena Malik – Armaan's half sister, Ranveer's love interest.
• John Abraham as Armaan Malik- Aleena's half brother, Omisha's boyfriend, Vikram's friend main antagonist
• Jacqueline Fernandez as Omisha – Armaan's girlfriend
• Ameesha Patel as Cherry – RD's assistant.
• Aditya Pancholi as Godfather Anza
• Rajesh Khattar as Vikram Thappar – Armaan's friend.
• Bipasha Basu as Sonia Singh – Ranveer's wife. She is killed by Armaan and Vikram.

After the success of Race (2008), Ramesh Taurani registered Race 2 as a title and Abbas-Mustan said that they would go ahead with a sequel "if we get a script in place which is even better than the original."[4] The screenplay was written by Shiraz Ahmed who also wrote Race. Saif Ali Khan and Anil Kapoor were the first to sign on in November 2009 and were reported to be the only returning cast members from the first film.[5] In June 2010, John Abraham was signed on to play the antagonist and Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra were approached to co-star opposite Khan and Abraham respectively.[6][7] However, Kapoor turned down the role as she didn't want her pairing with Khan to get repetitive; Chopra opted out due to scheduling conflicts.[8] It was also rumoured that Asin had been shortlisted to star alongside Khan; however Padukone was cast.[9] In December 2010, Sonakshi Sinha was cast as a replacement for Kapoor.[10] Chitrangda Singh was approached for a role opposite Anil Kapoor in May 2011 but eventually dropped out for unspecified reasons.[11] Ameesha Patel and Mallika Sherawat were considered for that same role, but it ultimately went to Patel.[12][13]

The film's shooting was set to begin on 5 October 2011 but was postponed to accommodate Deepika Padukone's dates causing scheduling conflicts with Sonakshi Sinha.[15] Sinha's dates conflicted with her filming schedule for Dabangg 2 (2012), forcing her to drop out. In October 2011, Jacqueline Fernandez who had opted out of Krrish 3 and Raaz 3 was cast as a replacement for Sinha.[16] Shortly afterwards, it was announced that Bipasha Basu would be reprising her role as Sonia in a cameo appearance and continuing to be Khan's love interest. Despite rumours suggesting that Basu would be sharing screen space with ex-boyfriend John Abraham for the first time after their break-up, Abraham denied this. Reports have said that after this statement was said Abraham then told Saif that he didn't want to work with Basu in the first place.[17][18][19] Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, the largest of Sunni clerics in India, urged PM Manmohan Singh to stop their publication and display of Race 2 posters that featured verses from the Quran.[20]

The soundtrack of Race 2 which is composed by Pritam, features nine tracks, with four remix versions an unplugged version and a mashup of all the tracks. It was released on 11 January 2013. The film score is composed by Salim-Sulaiman and Sunny M.R.

The songs "Lat Lag Gayee", "Be Intehaan" and "Party on My Mind" became extremely popular and were declared as chartbusters. The song "Lat Lag Gayee" was choreographed by Karishma Chavan

Race 2 was released in 3200 screens in India; it is the third biggest release ever for a Hindi film after Ek Tha Tiger (3300 screens) and Dabangg 2 (3700 screens).[31][32] Race 2 was released in more than 50 countries, including US, UK, Gulf, Australia, Pakistan as well as non-traditional markets like Maldives, East Timor, Myanmar, Morocco and Vietnam (with as many as seven screens).[33] The film had a simultaneous release in Morocco in four to five screens, including theatres in Casablanca and Marrakech.[34] Race 2 is subtitled in Arabic, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, and Dutch.[35][36]

Madhureeta Mukherjee of Times of India rated the film 3 out of 5, while commenting "Heists, hot-babes, roulette, raging cars, gizmos and gags – Director duo, Abbas-Mustan have thrown in everything with pompous grandeur, save for a riveting plot that shocks or stuns."[37] Rubina A Khan of The First Post gave it 3 out of 5 stars, adding, "Race 2 delivers what it promises – good looking ensemble cast, exotic locations, cars, bomb squads, revenge, lust and love, a couple of good music tracks and, most importantly, a plot which unravels at a thrilling pace."[38] Shivesh Kumar of IndiaWeekly awarded the movie 3 out of 5 stars.[39]

Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave 2.5 out of 5 stars and said "The writing isn't watertight, the film lacks a hit score, the climax is far from effective and overall, Race 2 pales in comparison to Race."[40] Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN awarded it a score of 2.5 out of 5 while commenting "The film has no intellectual pretensions; its only ambition is to offer a good time. In that, it mostly succeeds."[41] Anupama Chopra of Hindustantimes gave 2 out of 5, reviewing, "Race 2 is essentially a big-budget cartoon in which coolness is all. The director duo Abbas-Mustan have no pretensions about what they are making – full-on masala with a dash of revenge, a slice of heist and characters who are either strutting their chiseled bodies in slow motion or betraying each other."[42] Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave it a score of 1.5 out of 5 and feels "This is a wreck of a movie strictly for action junkies who might be looking for a feverish two-and-a-half-hour ride that is far more giddy than heady."[43]

After making two successful films, makers planned the third Installment of this series. Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Kangana Raunat, Lara Dutta and Shradda Kapoor will be seen in the next part And Abbas-Mustan will return again in the next part of this film. Saif Ali Khan and Anil Kapoor will reprise as Ranveer Singh and Robert “D” Costa like their past 2 films while these 4 new characters will star in the next sequel.

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• Race 2 at Box Office Mojo
• Race 2 at Rotten Tomatoes