This dream girl should’ve stayed a dream Cast: Ayushman Khurrana, Ananya Pandey, Annu Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Vijay Raaz, Rajpal Yadav, ...
This dream girl should’ve stayed a dream
Cast:
Ayushman Khurrana, Ananya Pandey, Annu Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Vijay Raaz, Rajpal
Yadav, Manoj Joshi, Asrani
Rating:
2/5
Whilst Dream Girl was slightly good, Dream Girl 2 is nothing but the same gags thrown around for two hours and 14 minutes that seem like four hours. Dream Girl had something to say, Dream Girl 2 has nothing to say. Dream Girl 2 is what you can call a cash grab, a film that tries to earn money from the success of the first film.
Karam, a small-town boy from Mathura, is struggling every
day to pay his father’s debt, who has borrowed money from nearly everyone on
the planet. On the other hand, he is deeply in love with Pari, whose father has
kept some conditions to marry her. To make ends meet and fulfill those conditions,
Karam turns into Pooja, creating wild chaos and a comedy of errors.
There’s
still a stigma enveloping the idea of cross-dressing in India, and it’s funny
because Indians try to be woke all the time and then walk into a theatre and
laugh at a man cross-dressing. Dream Girl 2 throws around the same gag a
million times and beats it to death, making the film unwatchable at
times.
How does an actor who’s known to do films on important
topics end up in Dream Girl 2? The writing is poor, the exposition is even poorer,
the jokes seem to be of the standard of Indian Idol, and the character arcs are
null and void. It’s so overstuffed that it’s overwhelming at times. Even the
songs are bad.
Some of the jokes land while others feel unapologetically
unfunny. The performances are okay. Ayushmann Khurrana is obviously the
highlight. Annu Kapoor is bad with Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav, and Vijay Raaz underused.
Ananya Pandey is average.
Dream Girl 2 is a film full of gags that feel like they
were written by a five-year-old.
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