But no. Till the end Sadak 2 behaves like an errant child that insists on embarrassing the guests  who have come home for dinner. The action scenes are laughably clumsy and  the acting , barring  Sanjay Dutt who has a naturally  grieving face,  is amateurish , and that includes seasoned Bengali actors Jisshu Sengupta and  Priyanka Bose. As Alia’s  neurotic parents  they behave like a couple on Bigg Boss hellbent on outdoing each other’s bad behaviour.

Makarand Deshpande as the imposter guru is a howl. Was he closet-funny while pretending to be sinister? In the end he suddenly dons a saree to remind us of Sadashiv Amrapurkar’s  vicious transgender villain in Sadak Part 1.

Alia Bhatt  looks bewildered most of the time, coming alive in her closing monologue on fraudulent  godmen. Both  Dutt and Alia  are suicidal characters, though probably not as much as the makers  of this film. Sadak 2 is  our worst nightmare come true. A  film whose very presence endorses the nepotism debate.