Tiger shroff has a likeable quality about him, but his facial muscles remain more or less stationary throughout student of the year 2, which I suppose could be deemed appropriate considering that the plot itself has not moved since sidharth malhotra and varun dhawan battled it out over a trohpy and alia bhatt in student of the year in 2012. The squel pretends to be about two girls and a boy well he played by Shroff who cannot act to save his life or a film.
Student of the year 2 is centred around the very middle class Rohan Sachdev ( Shroff) star athlete of the low brow pishorilal chamandas college and his rivalry with the very wealthy Manav Singh Randhawa ( Aditya Seal) of the snooty saint teresa college not far away. When Rohan beats Manav unexpectedly in a track event the stage is set for clash in their personal and student lives culminating in the annual dignity cup tournament between the colleges of dehradun and mussoorie that will also decide the winner of the student of the year trophy.
You know women mean even less to student of the year 2 than they did to student of the year 1 when the bad guy promises the good guy that at the end of the contest he will have the trophy on one arm and the latters gf on the other and his attitude echoes the attitude of the film itself which treats their female collegeamtes as prizes to be won and lost nothing more. The irrelevance of the women is further underlined by the fact that student of the year is a battle between eight colleges of which we know at least two to be co-ed yet the competitions shown are all for boys alone. The girls are not even in contention.
To analyse student of the year 2 primarily on the basis of its gender apathy would be to take it too seriously though. What it ought to be judge on are its blandness, triteness and poor casting.
The rich as the evil ones.
The middle class as guileless, largely good and at worst, misled by the rich.
Loneliness in an upper class family contrasted with warmth in middle class family and community life.
Glamorous perfectly made up girls in tiny clothes.
Enviably slim female waistlines and legs perennially on display.
Boys with muscular perfectly sculpted bodies.