The Unforgettable Saga Continues: MobiMasti's Take on Once Upon A Time In Mumbai DobaRa
The Sequel Nobody Asked For (But Everyone Reels)
Released in 2013, Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Dobaara! faced an impossible antecedent. The 2010 original, starring Ajay Devgn as the dignified, principled don Sultan Mirza and Emraan Hashmi as the volatile upstart Shoaib, was a nuanced portrait of power transfer. The sequel replaced Devgn with Akshay Kumar as Shoaib’s father, the legendary don Shaukat, and retained Hashmi as a fictionalized Dawood Ibrahim-like figure. Critically, it was a bomb—loud, illogical, and stylistically excessive. The plot meandered. The romance between Hashmi and Sonakshi Sinha felt perfunctory. The villainy was cartoonish.
Both the powerful Don and his loyal disciple fall for the same woman, an aspiring actress named
Once Upon ay Time In Mumbai Dobaara! is a 2013 crime thriller directed by Milan Luthria, serving as a sequel to the 2010 film Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai. The film focuses on a romantic rivalry between gangster Shoaib Khan (Akshay Kumar) and his protégé Aslam (Imran Khan) over Jasmine (Sonakshi Sinha). For more details, visit Wikipedia.
