Kathmandu, July 1 -- What is the point of making a two-hour-and-thirty-minute film when it can be described in three sentences, through three characters and even within a three-minute TikTok video?

'Cocktail 2' is loud, colourful, yet immeasurably shallow. While the film is effortlessly forgettable, it does leave a mark on the cinematic understanding that, despite being visually vibrant with commendable fashion, art direction, music and cinematography, if a film lacks the layers of emotional and human experience, it simply does not matter.

This triangle love story, impeccably forced and marred by relational insecurities and affairs, evokes the paradox of cinema's true meaning for this generation of filmmakers. If even one per cent of th...