Wedding Season is a 2022 Romantic Comedy directed by Tom Dey.
Asha Maurya (Pallavi Sharda) is a young economist working for a microfinance company whose mother despairs over her new job and broken engagement. Suneeta forces Asha to go to dates and attend weddings among the New Jersey Indian-American community. One such date is Ravi Shah (Suraj Sharma), a casual genius whose parents are also pressuring him to find a wife. Asha convinces Ravi to pretend to date her until wedding season ends to get the community off their backs.
Supporting actors include Rizwan Manji, Veena Sood, and Arianna Afsar as Asha's family, and Manoj Sood and Sonia Dhillon Tully as Ravi's parents.
The film was released on Netflix on August 4, 2022. Not to be confused with the show of the same name that premiered a month later.
Tropes:
- Blatant Lies: Lines from Asha's online dating profileare juxtaposed over scenes that make it clear they're total lies. For example, it claims that she lives a quiet life at night (partying at a nightclub) and is a great chef (making a mess in the kitchen).
- Book Ends: The film opens with Asha's mother making an online dating profile for her that's full of Blatant Lies in the hopes she'll find a man, something that Asha is not happy with when she discovers it. At the end, Asha narrates the online dating profile, but this time it's an ironic wink as she enjoys her life with Ravi.
- Calling the Old Man Out: In the film's final act, Ravi yells at his parents for not bothering to hide their disappointment in him for never going back to college and "fixing" his life, pleading with them to acknowledge that their son is right in front of him.
- Elite School Means Elite Brain: One of Ravi's big selling points is that he went to MIT at sixteen. He actually dropped out and is now a rich DJ.
- Maligned Mixed Marriage: One of the weddings Ravi and Asha attend is an interfaith Hindu-Muslim one, and it's mentioned that their parents were so against it they didn't even show up.
- My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: The white Nick's attempts at learning Hindi are disastrous, including telling Priya she is a "dead onion" and he is a "thin banana" at their wedding.
- Not What It Looks Like: Asha mistakes Ravi having dinner with a woman as him having moved on from her. It turns out that that was his cousin.
- Right Behind Me: At the first wedding seen Priya makes fun of Ravi just as Ravi approaches them.
- Romantic Fake–Real Turn: Ravi and Asha fake a relationship before developing genuine feelings for each other.
- Technical Euphemism:Nick: I am not snooping. I am collecting information on him without him knowing.
- Teen Genius: Ravi is established as intelligent when his dating profile says he is the youngest Indian-American winner of the National Spelling Bee and that he went to MIT at sixteen.
