Wedding Season

Wedding Season is a 2022 romantic comedy centered on Asha, a driven Indian American woman who has just broken off her engagement and left behind a banking career for a fresh start in New Jersey. Instead of celebrating her independence, she finds herself under constant family pressure to settle down during a stretch of nonstop weddings. When her parents set her up with Ravi, whose family has had the same idea, their awkward first date goes nowhere. To get some breathing room from relentless matchmaking, Asha and Ravi agree to fake-date through wedding season. What begins as a practical arrangement turns into a lively, increasingly sincere connection as they navigate family expectations, cultural traditions, and their own ideas about love and success. (netflix.com)

Reception for Wedding Season was generally positive, though critics often noted that it stays close to familiar rom-com formulas. Rotten Tomatoes lists the film at 88% on the Tomatometer, with a 66% Popcornmeter, suggesting stronger critical than audience enthusiasm overall. Metacritic gives it a 57/100 from 5 critics, which points to mixed or average reviews. Some reviewers felt the movie worked best when it leaned into the chemistry of Pallavi Sharda and Suraj Sharma; Variety praised the romance as genuinely effective, and Rotten Tomatoes' critic consensus highlighted how well the leads click. The Guardian called it a pleasant if cliched Netflix romcom and placed it on the better end of the platform's breezy, formula-driven comedies. At the same time, The New York Times was more skeptical, describing it as mostly flavorless. Audience reactions were more divided, with some viewers finding it charming and others criticizing its predictable structure and take on family pressure. IMDb's 6.3/10 lines up with that middle-ground response. (rottentomatoes.com)