Dream Girl 2 Review – A Wannabe Dream Comedy Turned Into An Almost Nightmare

Ayushmann Khurrana is back as Pooja in Raaj Shandilyaa’s Dream Girl 2. The idea of gender-bending comedy hasn’t been explored to its core in Bollywood. The last full-fledged attempts in my memory are Aunty No. 1 and Chachi 420—both heavily inspired by Hollywood movies. Good-looking cross-dressing comedies like “Tootsie” (1982) and “Mrs. Doubtfire” (1993) never made it to my must-see list, but they have been quite noticeable for this category. Erst Lubitsch introduced me to the idea of gender-bending comedy way back in time with his silent flick, “I don’t Want To Be A Man” (1918). But my best memory of this theme takes me to Billy Wilder’s “Some Like It Hot” (1960), and I don’t think any film can ever replace it. Dream Girl is in the same category if you talk about the similarities, but as a film, it’s hundreds of miles away. You show me that film again today, and it would still be better and far more modern than DG 2. The idea has to look fresh, and it should be wrapped in organic laughter. That’s how you make a cult film. Dream Girl 1 had that freshness because we never had any female-caller film, and it was a perfect entertainer for the mobile era. The film wasn’t anything great or extraordinary enough to get a mandatory sequel, and it didn’t even become a brand. Yet, some money-loaded minds in Bollywood have that urge to make a sequel to a box office hit, and so we have Dream Girl 2. This Raaj Shandilyaa comedy has comedy, but it’s terribly outdated and badly written. Those 130 minutes never turn into a headache, and that’s the biggest Thanksgiving. Rest assured, you are in for some hysterical one-liners from Shahrukh and Suniel Shetty to Shilpa Shetty, as well as lots of filmy-style lines and spoofs.