'Dream Girl 2' movie review: Nightmare

Director Raaj ShaandilyaaActors Ayushmann Khurrana Ananya Panday Annu KapoorRating 155I guess yoursquod do any shit to grab a hitmdashwhich is alright Including a crossdresser comedy that to be fair wholly borders on the crassmdashnever quite crossing the proverbial line Even as every scenegag stereotypes the living daylights out of every personcommunity throughout the picDream Girl 2 is set in Agra In a way that there is a full lifesized Taj Mahal erected right outside the protagonistrsquos house Which in turn has been seized by creditors because the family in the film canrsquot repay their debts What they do for a living is immaterial to the movieThat the hero needs the money in no time to convince his girlfriendrsquos dad that hersquos no more in the red therefore fit to marry is more important What the married couple will do in life thereafter is nobodyrsquos concern But how will the hero get all that money so soon By turning into a hot woman bardancer in Agra Further remaining a woman to marry a guy for the dowryYes you read that right No I didnrsquot write thismdashthe filmrsquos writers did Hence Ayushmann Khurrana shows up dressed as some sort of a lsquoshayar ki ghazalrsquo Dream Girl 2019 was about him faking a womanrsquos voice seducing men over the phone playing PujaThis mess of a forced sequel is about a Muslim household where the patriarch Paresh Rawal is a man named Abu Salem He has a son called Shah Rukh Abhishek Banerjee who suffers from depression a rich manrsquos disease apparentlymdashever heard of a poor person being depressed Thatrsquos a line in the film Puja now as psychiatrist and wife is the painkillerSo you watch the crossdresser go from singing dancing with stubble on the chest that disappears in the same shot to fending off interested men and dealing with a confused girlfriend Ananya Panday therebySpeaking of Shah Rukh itrsquos like how the movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi 2008 would end if the hero just told his wife he actually has a sixpack no As would this pic if the hero simply confessed to his girl that hersquos playing a woman for the money and for her in the first placeOr why would they not just hire a real woman and split the earnings for Godrsquos sake And who are these men going bananas over Ayushmann as a woman anyway Okay why am I asking so many questionsTo be suremdashno knock on drawingroom nautanki comedy Itrsquos a legit loved genre As are men posing as women with potential for so much funmdashthink Mrs Doubtfire Chachi 420 Tootsiehellip The director Raaj Shaandilyaa Irsquom told worked on Kapil Sharmarsquos sketchcomedy chat show which explains his obsession with crossdressingYoursquove had it as an audience though if the only time you burst into a laugh is when the crossdresser hero finally tells his fake husband that shersquos a he You donrsquot see that moment coming Yoursquore ready for what happens next But they get back to the same heshe routine all over again and the damn joke never ends while you groan endlessly in the hallHowrsquos this film different from its more authentically Haryanvi prequel That from what I recall you didnrsquot have to think about any of the above while the gags piled over gags many landed some didnrsquot Also it had Ayushmann after a series of socially sensitive or incredibly sorted movies Shubh Mangal Saavdhan Andhadhun Article 15 delivering something you didnrsquot expect Besides of course Annu Kapoormdashmaking it the OG playful pair after Vicky Donor 2012It should be the same with this No doubt you can sense Ayushmann pulling out his inner Govinda even when the crossdressing noveltyjoke has worn off The caricatures for characters remain as do random selfreferential onelinersThatrsquos the thing though with a mindless movie or pedestrian humour and why it doesnrsquot merit much dissectionmdashyou either find it really funny or care a sweet f all for whateverrsquos going on Therersquos no accounting for taste and shouldnrsquot be Wouldnrsquot be surprised if you returned from the theatre thinking this was such a laughathon while I wonder if we watched the same pic Being kind

'Dream Girl 2' movie review: Nightmare

Director: Raaj Shaandilyaa
Actors: Ayushmann Khurrana, Ananya Panday, Annu Kapoor
Rating: 1.5/5

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'Dream Girl 2' movie review: Nightmare

Director: Raaj ShaandilyaaActors: Ayushmann Khurrana, Ananya Panday, Annu KapoorRating: 1.5/5

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Director: Raaj Shaandilyaa
Actors: Ayushmann Khurrana, Ananya Panday, Annu Kapoor
Rating: 1.5/5