

This body is filled with generic Bollywood escapism into emotionalism, including sappy songs. Only the body remains, which is the least alluring part. Unfortunately, the filmmakers here stripped "A Star Is Born" of all of its self-reflexive intelligence, as well as the superior innovations in production-leaving merely the plot and reworked scenes. Even the Hindi language here is comprised of many borrowings from English.

("Aashiqui 2," itself, by the way, was also remade-in Telugu as "Nee Jathaga Nenundali" (2014).) "Aashiqui 2," however is a combination of two traditions, of Bollywood and Hollywood.

I'm sure there've been more than two of those, too. In India, a sequel may not mean the same thing it does in Hollywood, apparently, as the title of "Aashiqui 2" would suggest that it's a continuation of the narrative from "Aashiqui" (1990), but it's not instead, this is another remake of a familiar Hollywood scenario, "A Star Is Born" (made in 1937, 19 before being once again remade in 2018), while supposedly being a repetition of the themes of the first "Aashiqui," which seems to merely mean that it's another romantic musical.
