Now, unable to return Armaan's money, Thapar is forced to return the control of five casinos that Armaan given to him in Istanbul, Turkey. It is then revealed that Ranvir never stole the printing plates, and was badly cheating Thapar. Thapar agrees and borrows the €500 million from his best friend, ex street-fighter and influential don Armaan Malik ( John Abraham), who is the leader of powerful Turkish Mafia. He offers Thapar €1.5 billion in counterfeit currency in exchange for €500 million in real banknotes. Businessman Ranvir Singh ( Saif Ali Khan) goes to a casino owner, Vikram Thapar ( Rajesh Khattar), claiming to have been behind the robbery. The story continues from the previous film.Ī robbery takes place, and European printing plates are stolen. It grossed ₹180 worldwide and was deemed a "Super hit", according to Box Office India. The film opened to highly positive reviews from audience and mixed-to-positive reviews from critics, with praise for its story, dialogue, exotic locations, luxury cars, action sequences, music, background track and performance of the cast, but criticized for the screenplay, unwanted scenes and visual effects. Made on a budget of ₹94 crore, Race 2 was released on 25 January 2013 (India) and 26 January 2013 (Worldwide).
The music of the film is composed by Pritam, Yo Yo Honey Singh and Salim–Sulaiman.
A sequel to the 2008 film, Race and the second installment of the Race film series, the film has an ensemble cast starring Saif Ali Khan, Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Jacqueline Fernandez and Ameesha Patel in lead roles while Bipasha Basu, Aditya Pancholi and Rajesh Khattar are featured in supporting roles. Taurani under the Tips Industries Limited banner, with UTV Motion Pictures serving as distributor and presenter. Race 2 is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language Action Crime Thriller Film directed by Abbas-Mustan and written by Kiran Kotrial and Shiraz Ahmed.