Updated On: 02 August, 2025 10:56 PM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Both families are upper-caste. Caste-sameness being, usually, the starting point for Hindu arranged marriages, anyway

(From left) Triptii Dimri and Siddhant Chaturvedi in ‘Dhadak 2’
An instructive scene in Dhadak 2 is when two families are in the drawing room, discussing ‘rishta’ (marriage), for the heroine’s sister, on one side.
Both families are upper-caste. Caste-sameness being, usually, the starting point for Hindu arranged marriages, anyway.
During their chat, it turns out, the boy’s family eats meat. They’re Maithil brahmins. Among whom, as with brahmins across eastern India, meat-eating is common.