It will need to have been a troublesome transition for Ayushmann Khurrana from being Bollywood’s poster boy to turning into its Dream Girl. And you need to give it to him for taking such dangers, portraying ‘Pooja’ with out letting it get out of hand. Whether it pays off or not is a unique story. On the face of it, Dream Girl 2 is audacious, unapologetic and entertaining. However, I personally do not wish 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 Girl (2019), brings her again in a extra daring, unabashed and daring avatar. In the primary half, we heard her discuss her means into everybody’s hearts, and the second instalment manifests her right into a residing respiration ‘lady’, stepped out of the phone. But regardless of all of the swag and sass that Ayushmann places on as Pooja, Dress Girl 2 does not hit it out of the park.
The story is okay and nicely supposed. It makes you snort out loud, there are some witty one-liners, intelligent jokes, references to another movies, which typically works and falls flat different occasions. In one 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 take a look at 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 significantly 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 folks’s factor. In the occasions we live, makers should be a bit extra cautious and compassionate whereas writing such insensitive strains.
Back to the story, Dream Girl 2 serves you a buffet of actors — some are masters of performing, some struggling too exhausting on the display and others going utterly wasted. Even if I attempt to not give away the story, simply mentioning this assortment of characters would reveal half the story.
Shaandilyaa takes us by 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 secure future. In a bid to make a fast buck, Karam turns transforms into bar dancer Pooja on recommendation from his father and greatest buddy Smiley (Manjot Singh). But 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 following second, we see Pooja getting married to Shah Rukh. Things preserve getting messier.
But 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. Adding 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. And then begins the comedy of errors.
At a bit of greater than two hours, there’s by no means a boring second in Dream Girl 2. Though that does not imply it’s a joyride from begin to finish. The tempo oscillates from actually quick to actually gradual typically, and writing will get weak at locations when Pooja isn’t being Pooja. However, 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 loads of them, he’s simply gorgeous. From his physique language, make-up to bop strikes and his capability to speak in a female voice, he simply leaves you charmed. I’m glad he by no means makes crossdressing vulgar barring a number of scenes that had been written in a shoddy method, but carried out decently. It won’t be amongst his greatest works, however is certainly difficult by all means. He’s the hero we have largely seen doing movies with a social message and we hoped there could be some shock right here, too.
And then there’s 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 folks.
Manjot is humorous whereas Abhishek will get little or no display time and does not have a lot so as to add. Paresh Rawal, Seema Pahwa and Annu Kapoor lend in a position help to Ayushmann with their veteran acts. Through this evaluation, I wish to attraction to makers to please write higher roles of Vijay Raaj and Rajpal Yadav — they should be reinvented.
Dream Girl 2 is filled with massy humour and its sole intention is to entertain. And it roughly accomplishes that.
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