Chhorii 2 Review: Terrible Cash Grab is Forgettable at Best

In this Prime Video Hindi horror film, Sakshi faces the unjust practices of a superstitious cult once again as they abduct her seven-year-old daughter to sacrifice. Fighting the horrors that women are subjected to every day, she must do whatever it takes to stand up to societal prejudices and a dangerous enemy who threatens to destroy everyone she holds dear.

The film has a runtime of 133 minutes.

Chhorii 2 Review

Nushrratt Bharuccha returns with a sequel to the 2021 Prime Video film Chhorii that created a special place in the hearts of viewers. Lauded for its impactful storyline and fantastic performances, the film set itself apart for its discussions surrounding female foeticide in a way that is both accessible and extremely horrifying. The way the original mixed the social impact with the horror elements made it memorable, especially thanks to how nuanced the story was.

Unfortunately for its legacy, Chhorii 2 is your classic cash grab, which forgets everything that it once was and delivers a shallow, half-baked interpretation of child marriage and forces us to watch 2+ hours of people screaming and jump scares that do nothing for anyone. Jump scares are the last things that will come to people’s minds when they tune in to watch a horror movie in 2025 because of how irrelevant they have become, and this Prime Video sequel is a mess and a half that has nothing significant to say.

The story follows Sakshi once again as she is bringing up her daughter as a single mother. The young girl suffers from a rare disorder that makes her allergic to the sun, but despite this, she lives a happy and fulfilled life. Of course, she is abducted by her father and his culty villagers who try to sacrifice her to gain brownie points from the “village head”. The latter part of the story is unimportant because the film is basically about women breaking the cycle of patriarchy that brainwashes them to abuse other women. That’s a novel concept, and one that I can get behind, but the execution is so terrible that it makes you question your sanity many times throughout the film’s runtime.

The biggest problem with this film is that it takes itself too seriously despite everything that is shown being laughable. The terrible and unnecessary special effects make this a laughable enterprise, one that is riddled with plot holes and cliches. The horror elements shift from being grounded in reality to supernatural, diluting the impact that it should’ve had. Child marriage in itself is a horrifying concept, one that will generate goosebumps for any sane viewer. But to add Daasi Maa’s “dark energy” to the mix that bobbles up and down sometimes is just so stupid that it’s almost insulting.

There are also other issues here — the film starts with a hefty rundown of whatever happened in the first film, and the shameless and unimaginative exposition dump is nothing short of eye-roll worthy. There is absolutely no mystery because everyone in the film must break down every little thing that comes to their mind instead of leaving it to the audience’s interpretation. The social messaging is also a little murky here and comes up only towards the end, focusing instead on packing as many screaming Daasi Maa-s as possible up until that point in a desperate attempt to scare viewers.

Chhorii 2 has good performances, especially from Nushrratt Bharuccha, who brings an emotional punch as a mother trying to save her young daughter. Soha Ali Khan is also fine, but her character is one-dimensional and hollow, added just to introduce a bad guy to blame instead of a woman who was also taken advantage of at some point. Gashmeer Mahajani is here… for some reason. His character delivers the exposition dump and then stops existing for long stretches. That makes sense because his inspector has nothing to do.

Final Thoughts

Chhorii 2 is terrible. Instead of making an impactful and scary film about child marriage and the cycle of abuse that many women face and then put forward, it focuses on the wrong thing for far too long. The last stretch has some of the actual horrifying bits, but it comes in a little too late, and by then our ears have given up thanks to the incessant screaming for the past 1+ hours.

Also Read: Amazon Prime’s Chhorii Review: Nushrratt Bharuccha is Impressive in the Sinister Tale