Dream Girl 2 movie review: Ayushmann Khurrana is the best thing – Hindustan Times

It should have been a tough transition for Ayushmann Khurrana from being Bollywood’s poster boy to turning into its Dream Lady. And it’s a must to give it to him for taking such dangers, portraying ‘Pooja’ with out letting it get out of hand. Whether or not it pays off or not is a distinct story. On the face of it, Dream Lady 2 is audacious, unapologetic and entertaining. Nevertheless, I personally do not prefer to devalue a movie by calling it a slapstick or no-brainer. One should use their mind even when laughing.

Director Raaj Shaandilyaa, after he launched Pooja in Dream Lady (2019), brings her again in a extra daring, unabashed and daring avatar. Within the first half, we heard her discuss her method into everybody’s hearts, and the second instalment manifests her right into a dwelling respiratory ‘lady’, stepped out of the phone. However regardless of all of the swag and sass that Ayushmann places on as Pooja, Gown Lady 2 does not hit it out of the park.

The story is ok and nicely supposed. It makes you chuckle out loud, there are some witty one-liners, intelligent jokes, references to another movies, which typically works and falls flat different occasions. In a single scene, we hear Ananya say, ‘Mujhe dancing, singing aur portray ka kitna shaunk hai’ and also you’re immediately reminded of younger Anjali from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. In one other scene, a personality throws a being pregnant check package from the balcony, and it lands proper in somebody’s lap, identical to Raj and Simran’s image flies into Babuji Amrish Puri’s lap?

The one dialogue that I notably discovered problematic was when an individual says, ‘Yeh ameer hai… tune kabhi kisi gareeb ko melancholy mein dekha hai’ implying that psychological well being is a wealthy individuals’s factor. Within the occasions we live, makers must be a bit extra cautious and compassionate whereas writing such insensitive strains.

Again to the story, Dream Lady 2 serves you a buffet of actors — some are masters of appearing, some struggling too onerous on the display screen and others going utterly wasted. Even when I attempt to not give away the story, simply mentioning this assortment of characters would reveal half the story.

Shaandilyaa takes us by means of the story of Karamveer aka Karam disguised as Pooja (Ayushmann), who desires to marry Pari (Ananya Panday) however her father (Manoj Joshi) has one situation. Karam should repay his father Jagjit Singh’s (Annu Kapoor) loans, have a chunky financial institution stability and a steady future. In a bid to make a fast buck, Karam turns transforms into bar dancer Pooja on recommendation from his father and greatest good friend Smiley (Manjot Singh). However that is not sufficient. In parallel world, Smiley desires to marry Sakina, daughter of a Muslim patriarch (Paresh Rawal), who first desires his depressed son Shah Rukh (Abhishek Bannerjee) to get married for. Surprisingly, with out explaining a lot, Smiley convinces Karam to show right into a intercourse psychiatrist and the subsequent second, we see Pooja getting married to Shah Rukh. Issues hold getting messier.

However wait, there’s extra! Bar proprietor Sona Bhaiya (Vijay Raaj) additionally desires to marry Pooja, as does a random financial institution official (Ranjan Ranjan Raj) who hasn’t even seen her but. Including extra to the insanity are some over-the-top characters together with Sakina’s adopted brother (Rajpal Yadav) and grandfather (Asrani) and a thrice-married aunt Jumani (Seema Pahwa) who falls for Karam, whereas his father Jagjit lusts for her. After which begins the comedy of errors.

At a bit of greater than two hours, there may be by no means a boring second in Dream Lady 2. Although that does not imply it’s a joyride from begin to finish. The tempo oscillates from actually quick to actually sluggish typically, and writing will get weak at locations when Pooja shouldn’t be being Pooja. Nevertheless, by no means to an extent that it lulls you to sleep. Shaandilyaa has co-written the story with Naresh Kathooria, staying in slapstick territory always.

One factor that is still a delight all through is Ayushmann — whether or not as Karam or Pooja — he is too good to be true. In his parts as Pooja, and fortunately there’s quite a lot of them, he’s simply beautiful. From his physique language, make-up to bounce strikes and his potential to speak in a female voice, he simply leaves you charmed. I am glad he by no means makes crossdressing vulgar barring just a few scenes that have been written in a shoddy method, but carried out decently. It may not be amongst his greatest works, however is certainly difficult by all means. He is the hero we have principally seen doing movies with a social message and we hoped there could be some shock right here, too.

After which there may be Ananya Panday. I genuinely really feel unhappy for her, because it appears Raaj Shaandilyaa by no means gave her one thing that brings out the actor in her. With little or no to do within the movie, she finally ends up having an prolonged cameo-like look, and stays a mix of Mathura-meets-South Bombay. Guess it is time she will get to play an intense function in a darkish thriller or one thing meatier that can click on with individuals.

Manjot is humorous whereas Abhishek will get little or no display screen time and does not have a lot so as to add. Paresh Rawal, Seema Pahwa and Annu Kapoor lend in a position assist to Ayushmann with their veteran acts. By means of this evaluate, I need to enchantment to makers to please write higher roles of Vijay Raaj and Rajpal Yadav — they must be reinvented.

Dream Lady 2 is filled with massy humour and its sole intention is to entertain. And it kind of accomplishes that.