Key Points
In a fictional small town where happiness eludes everybody except a handful of drifters who are sloshed to the gills at all times of day and night, a hard-drinking man inadvertently sparks an anti-alcohol campaign that, thanks to the women around him, spins out of his control...
Available on Prime Video, Dry Day features Jitendra Kumar, the undisputed poster boy of small-town films and web shows, as the male lead..
He plays a politician's feckless foot soldier, Gannu Kumar, whose pregnant wife Nirmala (Shriya Pilgaonkar) threatens to abort their baby if he does not quit drinking, shape up and find a real job that can sustain a family...
The rest of the cast does its best to inject life into Dry Day, but the meaningless meanderings of Gannu and his gang in the face of the indifference of smooth-talking politician Omvir Singh "Dauji" (Annu Kapoor), their mentor, robs Dry Day of any chance of settling into a steady, meaningful rhythm...
Gannu's fake agitation is inspired by a seasoned anti-corruption campaigner (with shades of a real-life figure from a not-too-distant past) who quips to a man sitting next to him on a protest stage in Delhi, "Naatak hai, enjoy karo."..
