India, Jan. 23 -- In an era dominated by CGI and green screens, nostalgia remains the only special effect money cannot buy. It turns a cinema hall into a time machine, where three notes of a 90s hit can make a stadium full of adults feel ten years old, again. Dhurandhar (2025) tapped into this sentiment effectively with its music recently, and Border 2 takes it several notches higher. Not just through its soundtrack, but by bringing back the original force of nature, Sunny Deol.

Make no mistake though... this film is not a one-trick pony. You may walk in for Sunny paaji and the timeless Sandese Aate Hain, but there is plenty more that keeps you seated through its three-hour-twenty-minute runtime.

Co-produced by JP Dutta, the man who def...