Special Ops 2 Review: Global Clutter & A Tech War

Special Ops 2 Cast/Actors: Kay Kay Menon, Karan Tacker, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Vinay Pathak, Prakash Raj, Arif Zakaria, Tata Roy Chowdhury, Revathi Pillai, Gautami Kapoor, Saiyami Kher, Shikha Talsania, Dalip Tahil, Muzammil Ibrahim & Others

Special Ops 2 Director: Neeraj Pandey And Shivam Nair

Special Ops 2 Production House: Friday Storytellers

Special Ops 2 Release Date: Streaming from 18th July, 2025

Special Ops 2 Available On: JioHotstar OTT Platform

Special Ops 2 Released/Available In Languages: Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi & Bengali

Special Ops 2 Number Of Episodes: 7

Special Ops 2 Episode Duration: 50 Minutes (Approx Each Episode)

Special Ops 2 Critic Review:

New Delhi. Nepal. Rawalpindi. Budapest. Slovakia. Serbia. Vienna. Georgia. Dominican Republic. Athens.

Himmat Singh (Kay Kay Menon) has his network spread out all over, there are mutually beneficial trade-offs with Pakistani agents and China, Russia take turns under the spotlight with an Indian-origin psychopath who calls himself a global citizen with no loyalty to any country.

Neeraj Panday and Shivam Nair who direct different episodes, update the spy game. It’s no longer about bombs being set off by terrorists from across the border. The world of technology is more insidious.

When Dr Piyush Bhargav (Arif Zakaria), a brilliant tech-savvy scientist, is nabbed in Budapest and agent Vinod Shekhawat (Tata Roy Chowdhury) is killed back home in a shopping mall, Himmat Singh orchestrates action that zig-zags cities and continents.

With hints of romance between agents and several characters and situations cluttering the episodes, a few stories stand out. Himmat Singh’s personal life gets its moments. There’s a particularly tender scene between him and daughter Pari (Revathi Pillai) while wife Saroj (Gautami Kapoor) wrings her hands helplessly as an onlooker.

The escape of Dholakia, a financial embezzler (who speaks to a heavyweight “Motabhai” politician) from safe lands abroad, and why Balasubramiam (Prakash Raj) wants Himmat to give priority to his arrest, bears resemblance to real-life characters like Nirav Modi and a run on a bank where customers can’t get their hands on their own money. The gradual unfolding of Balasubramiam’s story and why Himmat takes his calls is neatly written in.

Main antagonist Sudhir Awasthi (Tahir Raj Bhasin) alias The Collector, with identities and operations too smart to be traced, has a wacko story of his own, childhood thrown in. He is at least a different sort of villain.

Long-drawn-out chases and hand-to-hand combats in different situations in different spots get a bit dizzy, sometimes making it tough to identify which agent is doing what and where. Add Delhi cop Abbas (Vinay Pathak) and a traitor high up in the Indian government who Himmat must find and neutralise with a red herring or two strewn around, for the plot to complicate.

But, apart from Himmat’s personal life, his workplace ultimately builds up into two major parallel tracks. Bring back Dholakia who’s somewhere without an extradition treaty, the clock’s ticking as Balasubramiam has issued Himmat an ultimatum. Simultaneously, get Awasthi and foil his plans to digitally destroy India. The term OPI digital system crops up.

Despite the chaos, Neeraj Pandey and team manage to slip in a line like a hawala guy called Suleiman vowing on the heads of his “two wives and four children”, a female agent (Saiyami Kher) ready to take on dogs that make a male agent tremble, another agent (Shikha Talsania) whose husband is curious about where his seemingly homemaker-wife is off to, the Uighur issue and Bhargav the scientist being transported under the nose of a trained agent, to add spice to the narration.

After all this, at the end, it’s just another day at work for Himmat Singh.

The varied cast does its job but it is veterans Kay Kay Menon and Prakash Raj who still emerge the strongest with their sheer screen presence and control over the craft.

Special Ops 2 – Watch Or Not?: Cut the clutter and there’s quite a bit of adventure in store for fans of Himmat Singh.

Special Ops 2 Review Score Rating: 3 out of 5 (i.e. 3/5)

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