Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri’s film Dhadak 2, directed by Shazia Iqbal was released on Friday 1st August 2025. On the opening day it made ₹ 3.5 crore as per Sacnilk. The film represents the society’s current status or structure that separates two intercaste lovers. The film is facing competition with Son of Sardaar 2, Saiyaara and Mahavatar Narsimha. Here is all information like cast, story, review and budget etc. about the film.
Dhadak 2 was released on 1st august 2025. The film clashed with Ajay Devgn’s film, ‘Son of Sardaar 2’. Dhadak 2 is the sequel of ‘Dhadak’, released in 2018. This film is the remake of filmmaker Mari Selvaraj’s 2018 Tamil film ‘Pariyerum Perumal’. It offers a romantic drama with social casteism. The film opened with a ₹ 3.5 crore collection at box office, while its competitor Son of Sardar made ₹ 7.25 crore on its opening day. Dhadak 2 has made 7.25 crore at the box office in 2 days. It is expected that the numbers of the film may increase over the weekends as the film represents real situations. Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri are the main lead characters.
The film is written by Shazia Iqbal and Rahul Badwelkar and directed by Shazia Iqbal. The cast includes Triptii Dimri as vidhi, Siddhant Chaturvedi as Neelesh, Deeksha Joshi, Saurabh Sachdeva, Manjiri Pupala, Vipin Sharma, Dishank Arora, Harish Khanna, Saad Bilgrami, Priyank Tiwari and Zakir Hussain.
Dhadak 2 film story
Dhadak 2 follows Neelesh (Siddhant Chaturvedi) and Vidhi (Triptii Dimri). Neelesh is a bright dalit law student who gets admission in college through caste based quota. While Vidhi is a modern upper caste progressive girl. In college they fall in love with each other. Neelesh faces struggles with society’s structure due to his background.
Their love grows as commonly as dreams, but society doesn’t accept their relationship. When Vidhi invites Neelesh to her cousin’s welding, a problem starts there. Her cousin Ronnie, an upper caste Brahmin, doesn’t like Neelesh because of his background. With the start of small acts of unfairness it turns into serious injustice. Vidhi struggles to stand against her privileged family. The story is about their struggle and the social obligation they receive.
The message through Dhadak 2
The film shows how deeply rooted biases can destroy someone’s dreams, relationships and lives. It builds a powerful climax that reveals deep rooted casteism violence, inequality and injustice in modern India. It’s a modern India era and still some people face inequality and injustice due to casteism. They face problems in schools, colleges and societies to survive. The structure of the caste doesn’t allow them to participate in a society. The film exactly represents the real situation of intercaste lovers and problems they go through.
Dhadak 2 Producers
The Dhadak 2 is produced by Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar, Apurva Mehta and Somen Mishra. The production houses are Dharma production, Zee studios and Cloud 9 pictures.
The Dhadak 2 has received positive reviews from its audience, but it has major competition in the way. Son of Sardaar made 14.75 crore, mahavtar narsiha made 67.95 crore and Saiyaara is also doing best at the box office. Dhadak 2 has to beat these films to be on the top. Audiences have multiple options as four large movies released in the last week of July and the first week of August. Hrithik Roshan and Kiara Advani’s film ‘War 2’ is also coming on 14 August.
