We were under the impression we left the angry-cop genre films as we moved into the new millennium. The ones we were getting, like in Gangaajal, seemed to be tethered to law and order, however heroically. Rohit Shetty brought it back, and how. Trademark dialogues (“Aata Majhi Satakli”) and action sequences became so entertaining, that with every new film being added to the franchise, we wondered what new thing will the Shetty-Devgn synergy come up with this time. It’s something we rarely do, and for action films, rarer so.
In the first installment we saw him chase down the eve teasing gundas, getting off a speeding vehicle, standing rooted, and that’s that. No questions needed, all answers given. (He would do this again in Simmba; truly a lot of Devgn’s oeuvre is self-referential because he now dabbles in universes, not characters.)
