Written : Rahul Badwelkar, Shazia Iqbal
Produced : Karan Johar, Umesh Kumar Bansal, Adar
Dhadak 2 movie review:
A little group, sitting outside their tiny homes, is swapping stories. The tone is civil, but the matter at hand, clearly hypothetical, is deadly serious– about a group of starving humans turning into cannibals, and a victim who gets devoured. Someone says.
agar Dalit hota toh bach jaata, koi chhoota tak nahin’ (If it was a Dalit, no one would have touched him).
This line hits hard. Or, it should have. But it stays a throwaway, and we don’t really feel the impact as much as we should have and exploitation and the almost inhuman resilience
that a group of Indian citizens have been forced to live with. But in Shazia Iqbal’s ‘Dhadak 2’, we hear it, and before we could absorb the enormous weight of it, it’s gone.I felt the similarly torn while
I watched the film (a spiritual sequel of the 2018 Ishaan Khatter-Jhanvi Kapoor ‘Dhadak’), where it can be seen reaching for emotional highs, and you will it with all your might to get there,
And then along comes another speech-to-camera, another declarative dive, which undermines the moment, and the cumulative drama.
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