Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 () is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film. It is a standalone sequel to the 2011 film Pyaar Ka Punchnama. The sequel is directed by Luv Ranjan and produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and Panorama Studios Production. The film stars Kartik Aaryan, Omkar Kapoor, Sunny Singh, Nushrat Bharucha, Ishita Raj Sharma and Sonnalli Seygall. The film was released on 16 October 2015.
Plot
Three bachelors Anshul "Gogo" Sharma (Kartik Aaryan), Siddharth "Sid" Gandotra aka Chauka (Sunny Singh) and Tarun Thakur (Omkar Kapoor) are flatmates and best friends. Gogo falls in love with Ruchika "Chiku" Khanna (Nushrratt Bharuccha); Chauka falls for Supriya Agarwal (Sonnalli Seygall). Thakur begins dating Kusum Singh (Ishita Raj Sharma), and they develop an intimate relationship. Chiku, Supriya and Kusum don't like each other.
Chiku is too close with her friend Sunny, as close as they live together and can even sleep in one bed. Supriya does not have the guts to tell her family about Chauka and introduces him as just another common friend to them which irks him. Her dad looks for a groom for her, and even asks Chauka to help him, which complicates matters. Kusum is too cautious about money: she insists everyone, despite of relationship with another, should only spends his own money. But then starts using Thakur's money to fulfill her many needs and wants.
The three men become too tired to solve the issues in their own love stories, leading to their girlfriends willing to help solve those problems. Chiku drives Sunny out of her house; Supriya finally tells her father that she loves Siddharth and wants to marry him, but gets firmly rejected; Kusum also agrees not to care that much about money. Kusum reveals to Thakur that her pregnancy test reports are negative, but expresses herself as willing to start a family if Thakur supports her financially.
Despite the effort of the three boys and the three girls, the problems remain: after Chiku drives Sunny out of her house, Gogo accidentally hears her flatmates telling her that she should break up with Gogo and be in love with Sunny, as they all think she and Sunny are the real deal; Supriya runs away from home and meets Siddharth and spends the night with him. Her father arrives there the next morning with police. He accuses Siddharth of taking Supriya away from her house against her will. Supriya, who always does not have the guts to oppose her father, supports her father's claim and testifies against Siddharth. It plays in Siddharth's favour however as he breaks up with Supriya, thereby saving his life from being ruined. Thakur resigns and starts his own website, encouraged by Kusum. However, Kusum refuses to financially support Thakur's plan even if it will benefit them both if it succeeds.
Finally, the three boys all give up their love for feeling desperate. Gogo breaks up with Chiku while saying "I love you" and he says he learns from her that those three words are cheapest words. Siddharth breaks up with Supriya in police station right after she testifies against him. Thakur breaks up with Kusum and tells her she should return over 850,000 rupees that he spent on her, as according to her life rules that she doesn't like taking favours from anyone.
The film ends by showing all three men single, happy and enjoying each other's company, at the phone with their mother.
Cast
Kartik Aaryan as Anshul 'Gogo' Sharma aka Anshu
Omkar Kapoor as Tarun Thakur
Sunny Singh as Siddharth 'Sid' Gandotra / Chauka
Nushrat Bharucha as Ruchika 'Chiku' Khanna
Ishita Raj Sharma as Kusum Singh
Sonnalli Seygall as Supriya Randhawa
Sharat Saxena as Rakesh Randhawa, Supriya's father
Mona Ambegaonkar as Mrs. Randhawa, Supriya's mother
Manvir Singh as Sunny
Rumana Molla as Ruchi
Karishma Sharma as Tina
Prakhar Shukla as Chiku's best friend
Rajan as a Gift Delivery Man
Soundtrack
The music for Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 has been composed by Shaarib-Toshi, Hitesh Sonik and Luv Ranjan. The music rights are acquired by Zee Music Company.
Reception
Some critics enjoyed the comedy.
Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave the movie 3 stars describing the movie as "The film is funnier than the prequel." He notes that "It’s in the last act that the film throws away any pretence of humor and adopts an especially spiteful tone that’s reminiscent of the earlier film. Until this point the jokes were consistently funny and the stereotyping seldom mean-spirited."