Anurag Kashyap is all praises for Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri’s Dhadak 2 as he called the film “a punch in the gut”. Anurag said that his driver who had gone to see the film along with him wept at the end of it. An adaptation of the Tamil film, Pariyerum Perumal, Dhadak 2 marks the directorial debut of Shazia Iqbal
Taking to Instagram, Anurag wrote a long note praising the film. “In what is the most searing mainstream debut that I have seen in a very very long time Shazia Iqbal holds a mirror to us of what India really is outside of our bubble that we live in,” he said, lauding the cinematography and performances of Siddhant and Triptii.
He added, “The film captures the conversation that we avoid on a day-to-day basis. This is what mainstream cinema was meant to be, and this is what great filmmakers like Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, KA Abbas, BR Chopra, Yash Chopra and so many used to do. We forgot to make mainstream films of social relevance. They got relegated to independent art house cinema.”
Anurag said that Dhadak 2 is a “mainstream adaptation” of Pariyerum Perumal that "doesn’t lose the essence". “Dhadak 2 is a punch in the gut. My driver who went with me wept at the end of it and hasn’t stopped talking since. An extremely brave and powerful film from Dharma. See it for yourself. I won’t say much.”
Dhadak 2 has been produced by Karan Johar, Umesh Kumar Bansal, Adar Poonawalla, Apoorva Mehta, Meenu Aroraa, Somen Mishra, and Pragati Deshmukh under the banners of Dharma Productions, Zee Studios, and Cloud 9 Pictures.
CE's review of the film reads, "It's good that director Shazia Iqbal and producers Dharma Productions avoid making the film a frame-by-frame copy. The film is re-aligned if not exactly reimagined. While Pariyerum… was more of a bildungsroman, Dhadak 2 is a love story."
