Anupama Chopra reviews Ginny Wedss Sunny 2, the muddled romance from writer-director Prasshant Jha that pairs a failed wrestler from Rishikesh with a cool working girl from New Delhi. Avinash Tiwary plays Sunny, a man who runs a store called Pehlwan Craft House but lies about being an educated entrepreneur, while Medha Shankr plays Ginny, who downplays her achievements and pretends to be uneducated to win him over. Lillette Dubey — unforgettable as Jazz in Kal Ho Naa Ho more than 20 years ago — returns as the modern Bollywood mom, handholding her daughter through a broken engagement, sleepovers, and eventually a marriage that unravels within days of a deeply strange wedding night.
Anupama unpacks why Prasshant Jha's debut never lands — the whiplash-inducing blend of tired Bollywood cliches and wannabe ideas about the new Indian woman, the harebrained plot that even capable actors can't rise above, the relentless background music, and the puzzling decision to brand this as a spiritual sequel to the 2020 Vikrant Massey-Yami Gautam Dhar film when nothing connects. She finds a small spark in Sunny's friend Rudal, who gets the handful of good lines, but wonders why neither lead thought to do a basic Google or Instagram search before walking down the aisle. Watch the full review for the THR India bottomline.
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