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By Jennifer Green
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Sweet, feel-good romcom has some drinking, kissing.
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Wedding Season
What's the Story?
Asha (Pallavi Sharda) is an intelligent and successful young economist whose parents (played by Veena Sood and Rizwan Manji) are eager to see her get married as WEDDING SEASON approaches. They set her up with Ravi (Suraj Sharma), whose mother -- like Asha's -- concocted his online dating profile. The two don't hit it off, but on a second encounter they realize they can fend off the meddling moms and anxious aunties for the season by pretending to be a couple. What they don't anticipate is that they might actually fall in love.
Is It Any Good?
This romantic comedy feels like a throwback to My Big Fat Greek Wedding-style productions aimed at a family audience. Wedding Season is sweet and easy to digest, and it leaves audiences feeling good. Though the Indian diaspora setting adds a colorful layer of cultural details, some aspects feel overly exaggerated, like the mother's meddling or the sister's fiancé, who tries way too hard to adapt Indian customs and language (a final sword-wielding scene is just weird).
Other elements are predictable, like the parents coming around to their grown children's perspective or the many clues dropped about one character's secret wealth. As an aside, it's disappointing that male characters so often have to be positioned as more attractive because they have money. Though the premise has been done before, this film will find an audience. Expect little, and the story and its amenable cast will entertain.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about some of the characteristics of the Indian American community seen in Wedding Season.
What do you think of the idea of arranged marriages? Do you think they can work? Do you know any examples?
Asha works to secure micro-loans for women in underdeveloped areas. How does she convince the investors to get involved?
Movie Details
- On DVD or streaming : August 4, 2022
- Cast : Pallavi Sharda , Arianna Afsar , Suraj Sharma
- Director : Tom Dey
- Inclusion Information : Female Movie Writer(s)
- Studio : Netflix
- Genre : Romance
- Topics : Family Stories ( Siblings ) , Friendship
- Run time : 99 minutes
- MPAA rating :
- Last updated : September 29, 2025
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