‘Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari’ movie review: Varun Dhawan makes this frivolous festive fare watchable

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Janhvi Kapoor and Varun Dhawan successful  a inactive  from ‘Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari’

Janhvi Kapoor and Varun Dhawan successful a inactive from ‘Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari’ | Photo Credit: Dharma Productions

Out of Karan Johar’s young proteges, I find Shashank Khaitan’s dependable the astir influential successful taking the Kuch Kuch Hota Hai speech forward. Film aft film, helium creates the representation of the young upper-middle-class Punjabi/ Marwari younker caught betwixt the values inherited from the household and what the Internet defines arsenic modern.

If Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania felt fresh, Badrinath Ki Dulhania was an engaging follow-up. This Dussera, helium repeats the template by creating a crippled that is fundamentally a transverse betwixt his erstwhile 2 occurrence stories. If Humpty won implicit a miss who was already engaged, Badrinath had to shed his patriarchal outlook to triumph implicit his love. Here, Sunny (Varun) and Tulsi (Janhvi) are candidates rejected successful love. When they determine to clang into the wedding of their ex-partners, Ananya (Sanya) and Vikram (Rohit), they observe that successful this crippled of ‘match the following,’ determination is immoderate magnetic transportation betwixt them arsenic well. As sparks fly, chaos ensues, patriarchal mindsets travel to the fore, and the rom-com gets a semblance of life.

Rohit Saraf and Sanya Malhotra successful  a inactive  from ‘Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari’

Rohit Saraf and Sanya Malhotra successful a inactive from ‘Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari’ | Photo Credit: Dharma Productions

Mounted arsenic a amusive outing for the festive play and an unabashed advertisement for the big, abdominous Indian wedding industry, determination is nary constituent looking for nuance successful storytelling oregon detailing successful characterisation. Still, betwixt the jokes and jibes, Khaitan and co-writer Ishita Moitra connection immoderate penetration into the caput of the ‘I emotion myself’ procreation and the contours of modern-day relationships, wherever the contiguous is often compromised for the obtuse thought of a harmless future, arsenic envisioned by the family.

Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari (Hindi)

Director: Shashank Khaitan

Cast: Varun Dhawan, Janhvi Kapoor, Sanya Malhotra, Rohit Saraf, Akshay Oberoi

Runtime: 134 minutes

Storyline: When Sunny and Tulsi gatecrash the wedding of their ex-lovers, sparks fly.

Early successful the film, successful a azygous country appearance, seasoned Salim Arif sets the code erstwhile helium imparts an important acquisition connected the worth of self-respect successful love. There is simply a speech of preserving a girl’s individuality successful crossing implicit to a affluent family, and determination is simply a soundless but pointed remark connected the unit of enhancing the cleavage successful the Instagram world.

After the misfire called Baby John, Varun Dhawan finds his mojo backmost connected the acquainted turf wherever helium gets to play a modern-day mentation of Govinda. A seemingly flippant, mischievous middle-class lad with the bosom of gold, Sunny is tailor-made by Khaitan for Varun. He chews the scenery, plays to the gallery, and is the lifeline of the film, keeping the wafer-thin crippled afloat.

Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor successful  a inactive  from ‘Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari’

Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor successful a inactive from ‘Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari’ | Photo Credit: Dharma Productions

The sincere Sanya Malhotra is miscast successful a movie fueled by clickbait dialogues. Perhaps her sedate beingness makes Janhvi Kapoor look bubblier than she really is. No replacement of Alia Bhatt, but Janhvi is not arsenic atrocious arsenic Tulsi, a emblematic Bollywood prototype who sheds the girl-next-door representation and transforms into a glamorous diva to request attention. Her dialog transportation is inactive a enactment successful progress, but aft Homebound, she erstwhile again earnestly conveys the interior turmoil of a quality that is not afloat fleshed out.

However, the infinitesimal you spot Rohit, you cognize that helium is going to beryllium the 3rd oregon 4th space successful the emotion story. The crippled points and punchlines enactment similar an algorithm wherever the enactment formed intervenes with automatic precision. The songs are not arsenic catchy arsenic the erstwhile iterations of Khaitan’s emotion stories, but still, it is simply a benignant of movie that you don’t caput if idiosyncratic other is paying for the ticket.

Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari is presently playing successful theatres.

Published - October 02, 2025 05:40 p.m. IST

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