Badhaai Do 2022 movies review

Badhaai Do (transl. Felicitations Due) is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film written by Suman Adhikary and Akshat Ghildial, and directed by Harshavardhan Kulkarni. The film is produced by Junglee Pictures, and serves as a spiritual sequel of the 2018 film Badhaai Ho. It stars Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar as a couple in a lavender marriage. The principal photography began on 5 January 2021 in Dehradun. Badhaai Do was theatrically released on 11 February 2022.

Shardul Thakur is a police officer whose widowed mother worries about his marriage. On the other hand, Suman Singh aka Sumi is a physical education teacher who meets a person on a lesbian dating app. The person from the app requests Sumi to meet her in a cafe for which she agrees.

On reaching the cafe, Sumi realizes that she was chatting with a boy all these days. Afraid Sumi leaves the place but the boy continues following her and keeps on threatening her about her sexual orientation.

Fed up with his blackmails Sumi reports it to Shardul who works in a women’s police station. Shardul meets Sumi and tells her that the boy from the dating app has been warned. He immediately asks Sumi to marry him, saying that he is gay himself. He wants to marry her only to get free from their family’s pressure on them to get married. Sumi accepts the deal and they both get married.

They go on a honeymoon where Shardul introduces his boyfriend Kabir to Sumi. She feels happy seeing both of them having a good bond. After returning from the trip, Shardul and Sumi move into a police quarter. Later, Sumi gets to know Rimjhim who works in a hospital. They go out on a date, where Rimjhim opens up about being rejected by her family for being a lesbian. They start a relationship immediately after, and eventually fall for each other. Eventually, Rimjhim moves into Sumi’s room. When Shardul’s superior’s wife questions them about Rimjhim they brush off it saying that she is their cousin.

Meanwhile, Shardul gets to know that Kabir is just passing time with him and is not really in love with him. He feels devastated and days pass when he finally finds Guru Narayan, a queer South Indian lawyer (his exact sexuality is left ambiguous and up for interpretation throughout the movie). He immediately takes a liking to Shardul while the latter is controlling the mob during a gay pride parade. They both like each other and start dating shortly after, post a period of casual flirtation.