Daadi Ki Shaadi Cast/Actors: Neetu Kapoor, Kapil Sharma, Riddhima Kapoor Sahni (debut), Sadia Khateeb, R. Sarathkumar, Yograj Singh, Tejaswini Kolhapure and others
Daadi Ki Shaadi Director: Ashish R. Mohan
Daadi Ki Shaadi Production House: RTake Studios, BeingU Studios, and Shimla Talkies Production
Daadi Ki Shaadi Release Date: May 8, 2026
Daadi Ki Shaadi Available On: Theatrical Release
Daadi Ki Shaadi Released/Available In Languages: Hindi
Daadi Ki Shaadi Runtime: 2h 30m
Daadi Ki Shaadi Movie Review:
It’s a strange family.
Granddaughter Kannu (Sadia Khateeb) is in the midst of her roka with Tony Kalra (Kapil Sharma) who’d yearned for her from a distance in their college days. Maybe that’s where the comedy lies – that 45-year-old Kapil and 28-year-old Sadia went to college at the same time.
Overlook that amusing part of their crackle-less relationship as chaos descends.
Kannu’s dadi Vimla (Neetu Kapoor) has posted on social media that she’s getting married.
Fiancé-to-be Tony and his big joint Kalra family won’t stand for such a scandal.
As for the Ahujas, they gang up to visit dadi in Shimla to stop her from becoming the family embarrassment. Don’t wait and ask why none of Kannu’s close relatives, dadi included, knew that she was getting officially betrothed.
Early in the film, writer-director Ashish R. Mohan and his writing team of Bunty Rathore and Saahil S Sharma, reveal that dadi’s social media post was an auto-correct muff-up, she’s not getting married. But wait. She and her cackle of Shimla friends carry on the charade if that means getting the family together for a while.
Okay? Not okay. Col Theeran Devrajan (R. Sarath Kumar from the south industry) strides in as the new daddy to Vimla’s three grownup kids with spouses like Romal (Tejaswini Kolhapure) that are either cribbing all the time or missing in action like Sunaina’s (Riddhima Kapoor Sahni’s) mystery husband. In that strange setup, dadi’s daughter Sunaina doesn’t even rate a mention by anybody until she suddenly turns up.
Tony’s part in the Ahuja family non-drama is to mess it up further. Without evoking even a smile from the viewer.
At the core of the mess is a message that an ageing single parent is lonely and that families must make time for them. But what a circuitous route to take to make that one point which Hindi cinema has made time and again, even long before Ravi Chopra’s Baghban did it effectively in 2003.
It would’ve been so much more original if the messaging was that a dadi too is entitled to move on and find happiness for herself. But alas.
During a squabble over the dining table that’s supposed to show how each offspring has kept account of the financial contribution he/she has made to dadi’s life, it is unwittingly revealed that the family has indeed taken care of her all along. Except for the eternal grouse of time spent with dadi.
Whatever Ashish Mohan meant to convey gets lost in his tiresome storytelling with dadi wearing one hurt expression all through and a series of flashbacks to bring on wistful sighs.
Briefly, you also wonder why a well-preserved dadi who can sing, dance and prance around, can’t busy herself with a life that’s a bit more positive than self-pitying loneliness. With room for music that could range from peppy to painful, composer Gulraj Singh doesn’t rise to the occasion by striking a single memorable note.
Kapil Sharma was never hero material. Neetu Kapoor who has sparkled in the past is a shadow of the actress she once was. Riddhima’s debut is as brief and as bland as that of a scheming sister-in-law in an Ektaa Kapoor serial.
Daadi Ki Shaadi – Watch Or Not?: Wait for it to stream on an OTT platform.
Daadi Ki Shaadi Movie Review Score Rating: 1.5 out of 5 (i.e. 1.5/5)
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