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Dhadak 2 Movie Review: Caste as case study, isn’t it?

Both families are upper-caste. Caste-sameness being, usually, the starting point for Hindu arranged marriages, anyway

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(From left) Triptii Dimri and Siddhant Chaturvedi in ‘Dhadak 2’

(From left) Triptii Dimri and Siddhant Chaturvedi in ‘Dhadak 2’

Film: Dhadak 2
U/A: Romantic, drama
Director: Shazia Iqbal
Cast: Siddhant Chaturvedi, Triptii Dimri
Rating: 3 stars

An instructive scene in Dhadak 2 is when two families are in the drawing room, discussing ‘rishta’ (marriage), for the heroine’s sister, on one side. 

Both families are upper-caste. Caste-sameness being, usually, the starting point for Hindu arranged marriages, anyway.

During their chat, it turns out, the boy’s family eats meat. They’re Maithil brahmins. Among whom, as with brahmins across eastern India, meat-eating is common. 

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