Dream Girl 2 Movie Review – Filmfare
2.5/5
Karam Singh (Khurrana), a jobless gender-shifting jagrata performer from Mathura, is in love with aspiring lawyer Pari Shrivastava (Ananya Panday). However, as a result of his father, Jagjeet Singh (Annu Kapoor), is as much as his neck in debt and their ancestral house is at risk of falling down, Pari’s father (Manoj Joshi) imposes situations: Discover a job, renovate the home and amass at the very least 25 lakhs in your financial institution stability inside a span of six months, in any other case he’d get the daughter married to another person. Karam’s chaddi buddy Smiley (Manjot Singh), will get him a bar dancer’s job in his Pooja’s avatar at a nightclub owned by Sajan ‘Sona Bhai’ Tiwari (Vijay Raaz). Smiley is head over heels in love with Sakina (Anusha Mishra). Sakina’s father Abu Saleem (Paresh Rawal), makes his personal calls for. He needs his heartbroken son Mohammed Shahrukh (Abhishek Banerjee), to get married first and solely then he’ll permit Smiley to get married. Additionally, he’ll give away 50 lakhs to whoever married his son. Smiley hits upon the concept to get Karam – dressed as Pooja, married to Shahrukh. The opposite twist within the story is that Jumani (Seema Pahwa), Abu Saleem’s sister, who’s married to Sajan, needs to divorce her husband and marry Karam. In the meantime, Karam’s father (Annu Kapoor) has fallen for Jumani and Sajan himself has fallen onerous for Pooja…
Placing the plot to paper was exhausting and it’s no surprise, so to talk, that it seems like director Raaj Shaandilyaa had a troublesome time conserving observe of all of the mayhem. The unique Dream Woman (2019) had one essential gimmick – that its protagonist can change his voice to sound like a woman and makes cash by becoming a member of a ‘friendship chat’ name centre. Right here that primary concept is stretched into ten totally different instructions. The fixed change of equation is complicated. All of it begins wanting compelled after some time and loses its freshness. The director additionally needs to earn brownie factors by giving token nods to gender fluidity and homosexuality. However this isn’t the core facet of the movie, as Badhaai Do or Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan. Ayushmann does have an extended monologue on the finish about center class guys not catching a break but it surely sounds overly apologetic.
The movie has obtained some implausible forged for certain. Asrani, Paresh Rawal, Vijay Raaz, Seema Pahwa, Manoj Joshi, Abhishek Bannerjee et al are rattling positive comedian actors and right here too they’ve their recreation face on however their efforts are stymied by the shortage of a coherent script. Ananya Panday doesn’t have a lot to do, besides to look fairly, which she does fairly properly. The movie rests squarely on Ayushmann Khuranna’s shoulders. He actually extends himself for the function and does all that’s requested of him and much extra. Your coronary heart goes out to him seeing his conviction. However even his heroic efforts aren’t sufficient to save lots of the movie from the morass of unhealthy writing.
Watch the movie if you happen to love leave-your-brains-behind merchandise. Don’t anticipate an excessive amount of from it and also you’ll be positive.
Trailer : Dream Woman 2
Dhaval Roy, August 25, 2023, 1:30 PM IST
2.5/5
Dream Woman 2 story: Karamveer needs to marry his girlfriend, Pari. However he should first fulfil her father’s situation and make Rs 25 lakhs in six months. A simple method out for him is pretending to be a woman and dancing at a bar. Issues take a weird flip when 4 individuals pursue Pooja/Karam for marriage.
Dream Woman 2 evaluate: Director Raaj Shaandilyaa serves this comedy 4 years after the unique Dream Woman, which was pleasant for its quirky set-up and premise. The second outing has the same premise. Karamveer (Ayushmann Khurrana) wants to lift an infinite sum of money shortly if he needs to marry his girlfriend, Pari Shrivastav (Ananya Panday). So, he pretends to be a girl, Pooja, and works as a dancer at Sona Bhai’s (Vijay Raaz) bar. Thereon, the film has little new to supply all through its 133 minutes. Writers Raaj and Naresh Kathooria have tried to crank up the comedy, however the narrative goes haywire and finally ends up as only a mishmash of conditions and characters pursuing one another.
In addition to Sona Bhai, Pooja attracts undesirable consideration from Shoukiya (Rajpal Yadav) as she pretends to be a psychiatrist treating his brother Shahrukh (Abhishek Banerjee), who’s depressed after a breakup. The much-widely spoken challenge of psychological well being may have been handled much more sensitively within the plot, as a substitute, it is left to being known as a ‘wealthy individual’s illness.’ Shahrukh’s father, Abu Saleem (Paresh Rawal), believes marrying Pooja is the remedy, and the household vows to reward her with Rs 50 lakhs for the unison. Amid this, there’s Shahrukh and Shoukiya’s sister Jumani (Seema Pahwa), who falls for Karam whereas his father Jagjit Singh (Annu Kapoor) is in love along with her.
Because the viewer tries to maintain up with the characters’ shenanigans, some tracks are long-drawn, equivalent to when Karam switches between being himself and Pooja. Many comedy scenes come throughout as too compelled, and easily add ot the movie. In comedy movies, dialogues and their comedian timing play a pivotal function in bringing out the laughs, however right here, the one-liners listed below are kitschy and do not at all times land. When making an attempt to persuade Karam to turn into a dance lady, his good friend Smiley (Manjot Singh), pointing to an aged buyer on the dance flooring, says, ‘Shakti nahi bachi par Shakti Kapoor poora bacha hai.’ Whereas songs pop up one after the opposite, the music by Meet Bros and Tanishk Bagchi shouldn’t be memorable, aside from Dil Ka Phone 2.0, a redux of the hit from the film’s first instalment.
Ayushmann Khurrana skillfully switches between taking part in Karam and Pooja’s characters within the movie. He significantly shines within the dance sequences and will get the latkas and jhatkas completely. His knack at pulling off situational comedy exhibits and he owns a few of the finest elements of the movie. Ananya Panday has little scope to carry out, and struggles with consistency in her Braj Bhasha dialogue supply. Annu Kapoor stands out, whereas different actors like Paresh Rawal, Seema Pahwa, Vijay Raaz, Manjot Singh, and Abhishek Banerjee provide commendable assist.
Dream Woman 2 depends on acquainted territory, typically straying into pointless comedic tangents. Regardless of some good performances and moments, the movie falls wanting recreating the quirky allure of its predecessor.
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