New Delhi:Mounted on a grand scale but filmed largely in and around real military locations and installations, Border 2 is a longer, brighter, and more ballistic and variegated replica of the original war drama released in 1997. In tone and texture, however, it isn't the same.

The surface sheen of Border 2 reflects the significant distance that Mumbai's commercial cinema has travelled in terms of filmmaking technique in the 28-year interregnum. It is bolder and louder than Border could ever have been given the times in which it was envisaged and executed.

Yet, all things considered, Border 2 is essentialaly an extension of what the JP Dutta-directed blockbuster, one of the biggest Mumbai hits of the 1990s, brought to the screen - men at war.

The veteran actor is in his elements, pressing everything he has at his disposal into the service of this patriotism-fuelled exercise designed primarily to remind Indians of the glory that the three arms of the defence forces brought to the nation in a war that it waged within the first quarter century of its Independence.

The strongest support for the lead actor comes from Diljit Dosanjh, who dons the garb of Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, posthumous recipient of the Paramvir Chakra after the 1971 India-Pakistan war.

Source:Ndtv