Review of Aashiqui 2 (2013) by Ameer A — 06 Feb 2018

This Indian movie is about untreated depression, which ends up in a suicide. The Urdu word "Aashiqui" means "Showing love for someone". If that was the case, then the whole movie was quite ironic since there was no love shown, rather hatred for self and for someone you claim to love by following it through a coward act of suicide. Leaving your loved ones at the mercy of a world without you, by choice.

It took me 5 years to finally bring myself to watch a movie that has been so successful at box office and popular, especially among the youth. When something is this popular, I usually don't watch it right away as I seem to give it some time to gather enough reviews. Its like reading a product's reviews before actually being the "first victim" of any such product.

Watching this movie was quite depressing and many times, I just wanted to turn it off right in the middle. But each time, an awesome music will stop me. It has great songs, playback singers and simply amazing musical production. IMHO, probably the only reason this movie became so popular is its music and songs. Beyond that, a complete failure at everything. I do want to give credit to the acting but something inside me stops from doing that only out of my frustration at the movie scriptwriters.

Probably a classic example of how a good music and a good acting can save a potentially terrible movie plot. I strongly recommend you to NOT watch it as I will NEVER watch it again.