Anshuman Jha’s Lakadbaggha 2 – The Monkey Business | Indian Movie News
Lakadbaggha 2 – The Monkey Business, the extremely anticipated sequel to the animal-lover vigilante motion movie Lakadbaggha, may have its World Premiere at the Razor Reel Flanders Film Fest in Bruges, Belgium, where it has been formally chosen as half of the competition’s 2026 programme. The Razor Reel programming workforce found the movie at Marché du Film at Cannes 2026, where the movie’s uncooked motion, worldwide martial arts language and environmental core stood out as the ingredients of a potential Indian style franchise with global appeal.
The movie brings together an worldwide ensemble led by Chinese martial arts star Sunny Pang, recognized for Headshot and Netflix’s Havoc reverse Tom Hardy, alongside Thai martial arts icon Dan Chupong, recognized globally for Ong Bak. The Indian solid options acclaimed performers Adil Hussain, Sarah Jane Dias, Vikram Kochar and Anshuman Jha, who reprises his function as animal-lover vigilante Arjun Bakshi.
Patrick Van Hauwaert, Festival Director said, (*2*)
Directed by Anshuman Jha, Lakadbaggha 2 – The Monkey Business marks Jha’s return behind the digital camera following Lord Curzon Ki Haveli, while also bringing him back to the character and world he originated with the first Lakadbaggha.
The sequel expands the franchise geographically and stylistically, combining an Indian vigilante narrative with the motion vocabulary of Asian martial arts. The movie also marks an India–Indonesia co-manufacturing, additional widening the franchise’s worldwide footprint.
At its coronary heart, however, stays an animal.
The movie’s choice at Razor Reel also represents an fascinating evolution for the franchise, from an unconventional Indian vigilante story centred around an animal lover into an worldwide motion spectacle that brings together martial arts performers and actors from India and across Asia. The first movie of the franchise had opened at the Kolkata International Film Festival and had its International premiere at SAIFF New York profitable Jha the Best Actor honours in 2023.
Anshuman Jha, actor cum filmmaker Said, “Animals are going extinct because humanity is going extinct. Lakadbaggha was always an unusual film for India — an animal lover who becomes a vigilante – a love letter to dogs. With Lakadbaggha 2: The Monkey Business, we wanted to take that world much further and create an action film that could speak to audiences in India and beyond – it’s our love letter to the environment with the endangered Yaki Monkey at its centre. To know that their population has fallen from nearly 50,000 in 1990 to fewer than 5,000 today is devastating. We wanted to tell that story through a genre that can travel across borders, action.”
He added, “There have been several action and martial arts films in Razor Reel’s history, but to have the festival welcome an Indian martial arts film for the first time makes this selection particularly meaningful. We hope the film opens another door for Indian action cinema internationally.”
With its mixture of Indian vigilante mythology, animal welfare, Asian martial arts and an worldwide motion ensemble, Lakadbaggha 2 – The Monkey Business goals to take the franchise into a distinctly global style space.
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