{"id":138603,"date":"2023-08-25T22:52:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=138603"},"modified":"2023-09-28T23:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:26:13","slug":"dream-girl-2-review-ayushmann-khurrana-rescues-a-stale-plot-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/movies\/dream-girl-2-review-ayushmann-khurrana-rescues-a-stale-plot-sequel","title":{"rendered":"Dream Girl 2 Review: Ayushmann Khurrana Rescues A Stale Plot Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">MapsOfIndia.com\/MyIndia.in Rating: 3\/5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Director<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">: Raaj Shaandilyaa<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Plot<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The story revolves around Karam (Ayushmann), a Mathura resident who falls in love with Pari (Ananya Panday). To marry her, Pari&#8217;s father wants Karam to improve his financial performance. Karan&#8217;s debt-ridden father Jagjit (Annu Kapoor) and friend Smiley (Manjot Singh) support him in becoming and doing tasks of &#8216;Pooja&#8217; \u2014 first as a bar dancer, then as a psychiatrist to Shah Rukh (Abhishek Banerjee), who must be married before his sister Sakina with Smiley as per Abu Salim (Paresh Rawal).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In exchange for money and for Smiley&#8217;s sake, Pooja gets married to Shahrukh. Things turn messier when multiple people, like a bank official (Ranjan Ranjan Raj) to Sona Bhaiya (Vijay Raaz), wish to marry Pooja. The cast includes Asrani, Rajpal Yadav, Seema Pahwa, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Performances<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ayushmann is outstanding, while Ananya looks beautiful but needs to share better chemistry with him as an average direction from Raaj makes it. Most of its actors are the same and fine in performing. Manjot manages to get the audience hooked with the delivery of dialogue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2023\/08\/IMG_20230826_000043-188x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2023\/08\/IMG_20230826_000043-188x250.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2023\/08\/IMG_20230826_000043-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2023\/08\/IMG_20230826_000043-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2023\/08\/IMG_20230826_000043-368x490.jpg 368w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2023\/08\/IMG_20230826_000043-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2023\/08\/IMG_20230826_000043-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2023\/08\/IMG_20230826_000043-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2023\/08\/IMG_20230826_000043-1068x1424.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2023\/08\/IMG_20230826_000043-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2023\/08\/IMG_20230826_000043-315x420.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Analysis<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The trending &#8216;Ek Mod Aaya&#8217; song excerpt in a scene makes it more lively but an effort not to include something original. The cinematography is up to the mark. There is a subtle attempt to support the LGBTQ community when Shah Rukh comes out as gay, and Karam later states, &#8220;Love is Love, man.&#8221; The grim side of the film has a dialogue: &#8220;Yeh ameer hai&#8230; tune kabhi kisi gareeb ko depression mein dekha hai&#8217; referring to mental health is only rich people&#8217;s thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DREAM GIRL 2 -OFFICIAL TRAILER | Ayushmann K | Ananya P | Ektaa K | Raaj S | In Cinemas 25th August\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dlC1tNsr-n8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Verdict<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Raaj brought the usual storyline with no freshness and just the required laughter. The end of the scene is similar to its first part, where cops arrive, and Karam reveals to those who fell in love with her that he is Pooja. It doesn&#8217;t add a new perspective and follows the path of a predictable plot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The film seems fruitful for Ayushmann over the last three years, where it earned more on the first day of the release than his previous ones, whereas it will only affect Ananya&#8217;s career a little, considering the quirky nature of the film.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MapsOfIndia.com\/MyIndia.in Rating: 3\/5 Director: Raaj Shaandilyaa Plot The story revolves around Karam (Ayushmann), a Mathura resident who falls in love with Pari (Ananya Panday). To marry her, Pari&#8217;s father wants Karam to improve his financial performance. Karan&#8217;s debt-ridden father Jagjit (Annu Kapoor) and friend Smiley (Manjot Singh) support him in becoming and doing tasks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21815,"featured_media":138630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12190,12202,10028,11411,9,66],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-138603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-actors","8":"category-blog","9":"category-bollywood","10":"category-entertainment","11":"category-movies","12":"category-reviews"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138603"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141192,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138603\/revisions\/141192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}