Move
over
Stallone
and
Schwarzenegger,
Bollywood’s
beloved
brooder
has
quite
a
few
film
franchises
to
his
credit.
With
Raid
2,
where
Ajay
Devgn
reprises
his
role
as
an
income
tax
hawk
swooping
on
a
defaulter
politician,
the
actor
is
hoping
to
make
another
successful
sequel.
Sukanya
Verma
looks
at
his
series
of
sequel
love.
Raid
Back
in
2018,
Devgn
received
accolades
for
his
rock
solid
portrayal
of
a
no-nonsense
IRS
officer
in
Rajkumar
Gupta’s
levelheaded
drama
about
a
single
man’s
takedown
on
corruption.
Refraining
from
the
usual
dishoom
dishoom,
Raid‘s
biggest
USP
was
its
action
of
brains
over
brawn.
Golmaal:
Fun
Unlimited
It
all
began
with
Rohit
Shetty’s
goofy
friendship
caper where
Devgn,
along
with
a
bunch
of
fellow
pranksters,
find
new
misadventures
to
deal
with
setting
the
stage
for
numerous
Golmaal
movies.
Conning
a
disabled
old
couple
by
pretending
to
be
their
foreign-returned
grandson
sounds
terrible
but
the
lads
and
their
laughs
ensure
it’s
all
hunky
dory
and
happily
ever
after
on
screen
and
at
the
box
office.
Golmaal
Returns
Devgn
is
on
the
receiving
end
of
a
hyper
wife
suspecting
him
of
an
affair
in
the
exaggerated
comedy
of
Shetty’s
unrelated
follow-up.
Throw
in
his
buddies,
their
personal
drama
and
a
mandatory
drag
dressing
scene,
Golmaal’s
low
IQ
entertainer
is
ready
to
roll.
Golmaal
3
Devgn
and
company,
along
with
Kareena
Kapoor
Khan,
enact
a
Khatta
Meetha
rehash
to
power
yet
another
leave-your-brains
aside
brand
of
comedy
that’s
high
on
star
power
but
low
on
comic
punches.
Golmaal
Again
Diwali
ready
audience
was
happy
to
lap
up
the
silly
humour
and
spirited
plot
of
Golmaal
involving
Devgn’s
usual
suspects,
a
ghostbuster
and
a
friendly
ghost
looking
for
justice
in
Shetty’s
‘comedy
of
crackpots’.
Brace
yourself
for
a
fifth
Golmaal,
yes?
Singham
Rohit
Shetty’s
remake
of
Suriya’s
Tamil
blockbuster
—
about
a
daredevil
cop
not
letting
corrupt
politicians
have
their
way
—
turned
out
to
be
tailor-made
for
Devgn’s
scene-chewing
vigour,
paving
the
way
for
his
ambitious
cop
universe.
Singham
Returns
Devgn’s
hot-headed
cop
finds
new
reasons
to
growl
‘Aata
Majhi
Satakli‘
in
the
over-the-top
vigilantism
of
the
sequel
as
the
Singham
franchise
begins
to
take
a
life
of
its
own.
Singham
Again
While
spin-offs
like
Simmba
and
Sooryavanshi,
featuring
cameos
from
Devgn’s
OG
Bajirao
Singham,
cumbersomely
try
to
spring
new
life
in
a
rapidly
losing
steam,
box
office
moolah
generating
machine,
Singham
Again‘s
Ramayana-inspired
storytelling
earns
its
place
among
the
shoddiest
of
2024.
Drishyam
Another
remake,
another
jackpot,
the
mantra
is
not
much
different
for
Devgn’s
Hindi
retelling
of
Mohanlal’s
critically
acclaimed
family
drama
meets
murder
mystery.
Also,
the
charm
of
seeing
the
actor
face-off
an
actress
he
shares
excellent
chemistry
with,
on
and
off
screen,
Tabu
adds
to
the
experience.
Drishyam
2
As
wanting
the
sequel,
also
a
remake
of
Jeethu
Joseph’s
Malayalam
original,
is,
Devgn’s
alibi-equipped
family
man
going
all
out
to
protect
his
family
from
harm’s
way
has
a
fanbase
of
its
own.
No
soon
did
the
makers
of
the
source
announce
their
decision
to
kick
start
a
third
movie,
Devgn
is
ready
to
go
on
floors
with
the
Hindi
version,
simply
titled
Drishyam
3.
De
De
Pyaar
De
Devgn’s
action
hero
takes
a
break
to
engage
in
adult
relationship
tamasha
that
kickstarts
when
he
brings
his
much
younger
girlfriend
home
to
meet
his
parents,
ex-wife
and
kids
causing
friction
of
the
soap
drama
variety.
How’s
that
for
modern
family
mockery?
In
its
sequel
De
De
Pyaar
De
2
to
release
later
this
year,
the
focus
shifts
to
the
current
flame’s
family
and
their
response
to
their
May-December
union.
Son
of
Sardaar
Inspired
by
Telugu
hit,
Maryada
Ramanna,
Son
of
Sardaar
chronicles
the
chaos
that
follows
when
he
falls
in
love
with
a
girl
of
a
rival
clan
baying
for
his
blood.
The
usual
masala
follows.
Except
the
sequel
—
Son
of
Sardaar
2
—
Devgn
is
shooting
for
will
now
see
Mrunal
Thakur
stepping
in
Sonakshi
Sinha’s
shoes
quite
like
Vaani
Kapoor
taking
Ileana
D’Cruz’s
place
in
Raid
2,
proving
sequels
have
little
room
for
leading
ladies.
