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Raid 2

Name: Raid 2
Director: Raj Kumar Gupta
Genre: Thriller
Released: 2025-05-01
Rating: 2
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Riteish Deshmukh, Vaani Kapoor, Rajat Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla

Directed by Raj Kumar Gupta

TezScore40/100 Unfavourable reception Unfavourable Early coverage · 1 scored of 2 Indian-media reviews How TezScore works IMDb 6.6/10 Rotten Tomatoes 29%

138 min 1 May 2025

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Synopsis

Raid 2

Set 7 years after the previous films, in 1988 Indian Revenue Service Officer Amay Patnaik, an honest and daring officer who has seized over ₹4200 crores in his raids, gets transferred for the 74th time to the fictional town of Bhoj in Madhya Pradesh, where he tracks another white-collar criminal, Manohar Dhankar alias Dada Manohar Bhai, a corrupt politician, on his 75th raid. Later as Amay Patnaik tries to find the black money hidden by Dada Manohar Bhai during his raid, he gets suspended in the process. Later, after his suspension gets revoked, he continues to pursue Dada Manohar Bhai with the help of his Income Tax team, and lawyer Devinder Gehlot, who files a PIL against Dada Manohar Bhai to bring to light financial irregularities in his organization. This forces Dada Manohar Bhai to offer lawyer Gehlot INR 5 crore as bribe. It turns out that lawyer Gehlot had filed the PIL after being prodded by Amay Patnaik. When Dada Manohar Bhai offers the bribe in cash, Gehlot presents that money as evidence in court, which prompts the court to issue an order to probe financial irregularities in Dada Manohar Bhai's organization. Amay Patnaik then finds out that Dada Manohar Bhai had built a facade around him of a do gooder, when he was actually a conniving criminal who used to take advantage of vulnerable girls in return for giving them government jobs and going as far as using their names to buy benami property in their names as a means to launder black money.

Director: Raj Kumar Gupta
Release: 1 May 2025
Run time: 138 min
Language: Hindi

Cast & crew

Ajay Devgn Cast

Riteish Deshmukh Cast

Vaani Kapoor Cast

Rajat Kapoor Cast

Saurabh Shukla Cast

Supriya Pathak Cast

Amit Sial Cast

Brijendra Kala Cast

Yashpal Sharma Cast

Govind Namdeo Cast

Ritika Shroti Cast AV Avijit Dutt Cast

Raj Kumar Gupta Director, Writer RI Ritesh Shah Writer

Bhushan Kumar Producer

Krishan Kumar Producer AB Abhishek Pathak Producer

Reviews

Indian-media reviews, grouped by reception.

Critics' consensus

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Across 2 available source-linked Indian-media reviews for Raid 2, reception is unfavourable. The scored review is 40/100.

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Reception Order

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Lensmenreviews Aswin Bharadwaj

2025-05-03

Raid 2 definitely looks like a compromised product that has been intervened by the studio to make it a package in the era of Pushpa. There is a pointless Tamannah Bhatia item number in the movie. There are two song sequences featuring the family of Amay Patnaik, which was blended fairly into the narrative but still for the sake of selling an album. And at the end of the movie, we have a Honey Singh song featuring him and Jacqueline Fernandez. The ironic part is that even though the film has all these new songs, the most effective one that blends with the narrative is the original “Black” song composed by Amit Trivedi. Other than the scaling up of the raid, there isn’t much change here on an idea level. They are trying to make this one look like the toughest operation in Amay Patnaik’s professional life.

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The Indian Express Shubhra Gupta

★★★★★ ★★★★★ 2/5 2025-05-01

But despite these attempts, the film is wrapped in such a strong whiff of sameness — massive castle-like bastion guarded by lathi-wearing goons, convoys of official cars criss-crossing large empty spaces, heavy dialogue delivery, blaring background music — that the first half comes off entirely superfluous: why take so much time in a set-up when we know Amay and his habits already? Criss-cross sandals, collared shirts, check. Doughty and dour, check. Slo-mo walk leading his flock, haan bhai haan, wohich.

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