Storyline : The biggest franchise of Bollywood returns with Student Of The Year 2 starring the incredible Tiger Shroff and introducing – Tara and Ananya. Friendship, sportsmanship, love, companionship – it’s all in for the Student Of The Year.The world has moved on in the seven years since the kitschy college caper Student Of The Year launched the careers of Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra. The actors in the follow-up are a fresh bunch led by Tiger Shroff, but the concoction is firmly rooted in the past. It is exasperatingly stale and unabashedly trashier. Student Of The Year 2 is so last decade in its thinking and packaging that sitting through it is akin to straying into a Bollywood time warp.

The film is bookended by a harping on a ‘schoolwala love’ between the hero and one of the female protagonists – is this progression or regression from the ishq wala love syndrome? – and a Hook-up song (with Alia) that plays along with the closing credits – a variation on the ‘break-up song’ from another Karan Johar production. Like its predecessor, Student Of The Year 2 rides on peppy party numbers, rough-and-ready retro remixes and a plot that revels in unapologetic puerility. There isn’t a single moment in the film that could be described as passable. It sets the bar very low and makes no attempt to hide that fact.