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Quick Facts
- Theatrical Release
- 8 May 2026
- Director
- Ashish R. Mohan
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 2h 30m
Storyline
A grandmother makes an innocent but damaging mistake when she posts something carelessly on social media. Her post deeply upsets her children and their families, and it threatens to ruin her granddaughter's wedding—the biggest celebration the whole family has been looking forward to and planning for months. Now everyone has to come together and quickly figure out how to fix the damage before it becomes too serious and completely ruins what should be a special and happy day.
“Grandma went viral. The wedding went wrong.”
Film Details
150Minutes
HindiLanguage
UCertificate
Release Date8 May 2026
Original Titleदादी की शादी
Parental Guide
Violence
Low
Language
Low
Sex / Nudity
Mild
Drugs
Mild
Intensity
Low
Vibe & Tags
Mood
funnyemotionaluplifting
Themes
familyidentitylove
Tonewhimsical
Pacingfast-paced
Complexitymoderate
Audiencefamily
Best Withfamily
Violence1
Emotion3
Humor4
Rewatchability3
Cast & Crew
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Yograj SinghActor
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Aditi MittalActor
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Vidhaan SharmaActor
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R. SarathkumarActor
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Mark NutkinsCrew
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#7D
Deepak DuttaActor
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Sadia KhateebActor
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Flora JacobActor
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#10J
Jitender HoodaActor
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Tejaswini KolhapureActor
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Ashish R. MohanDirector
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Shraddha AgrawalCrew
→Trivia
- The title 'Daadi Ki Shaadi' is a playful Hindi rhyme that literally means 'Grandmother's Wedding,' hinting that the social media mishap may spark unexpected romantic chaos for the family matriarch herself.
- The film taps into a very contemporary anxiety in Indian middle-class families — the moment a grandparent discovers social media and starts posting without filters — making its central conflict immediately relatable to urban multiplex audiences.
- Director Ashish R. Mohan chose the family comedy genre to explore a generational fault line: older parents who sacrificed their own desires for their children now finding a second voice, often to their children's embarrassment.
- Hindi cinema has a long tradition of joint-family comedies where one elder's decision upends the entire household, and 'Daadi Ki Shaadi' updates that template by placing a smartphone at the centre of the chaos.
- The film's premise reflects a growing trend in mainstream Hindi cinema — stories that centre characters over 60 as protagonists with agency, not merely as supportive grandparents waiting in the background.
- A wedding subplot serves as a classic pressure cooker in Indian family dramas, because a pending shaadi raises the stakes for every social misstep and amplifies family politics to comedic extremes.
- The comedy-drama-family genre combination signals a deliberate attempt to appeal across age groups in one cinema outing — grandparents, parents, and young adults can each find their own character to root for.

