Unfunny, unoriginal, unsweety
Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Direction:Luv Ranjan Actors: Nushrat Barucha, Karthik Aryan, Sunny Singh Rating:
Bollywood films often begin with a disclaimer that the story and characters in the film have no connection with any real person or incidents. I wish the disclaimer was 100% true for Luv Ranjan’s Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety. Here’s a young guy with no clue what he wants in life; a childhood friend who turns into Lalita Pawar-style mom-in-law every time he spots a girl near his friend; and a woman who claims to be ‘chalu’ but seems more like a bahu of a Sooraj Barjatya film. Have you met or heard of similar characters in real life? I haven’t.
Luv Ranjan, of Pyaar Ka Punchnama fame, is back with his team of actors, Nushrat Bharucha, Kartik Aaryan and Sunny Singh. This time it’s a story of a girlfriend and a friend fighting over the ‘possession’ of a man. The film opens with Kartik, aka Sonu, delivering a Pyaar Ka Punchnamastyle speech; only he is talking about the illogical demands of a client.
With a few more throwbacks to Ranjan’s films, we find out that Sonu runs an event company and his friend, Titu (Singh), hooks up with all the wrong girls and doesn’t realise they are fooling him. He only has Sonu to save him.
Enter Sweety (Bharucha), via the arranged marriage route, and Sonu’s life is shaken. Not only is he insecure of ‘losing’ his friend, he believes Sweety is too good to be true. From pulling an ex into the fight to manipulating family members, Sonu does goes through the whole saas-bahu tug-o-war to separate Sweety from Titu. The script reeks of misogyny that even the two Pyaar Ka Punchnama films didn’t bring together. If there’s anything fresh or slightly entertaining, it is the pairing of Alok Nath and Virendra Saxena. The Pyaar Ka Punchnama films worked because they were relatable. Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety doesn’t have that, nor is it funny.