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FILM REVIEW: Dream Girl 2

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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