The same old story wrapped in a new blanket
By: Arfa Bijali
Tags: Review, Movie Review, Movies, Bollywood, Spoilers

“Between the best friend and the girlfriend, the girlfriend always triumphs”

From LtoR: Titu (Sunny Singh), Sweety (Nushrat Bharucha), and Sonu (Kartik Aryan)

Sonu Ke Titu ki Sweety, a movie that had released in the year 2018, whose banger music kept falling on my ears, and yet I never took the initiative of watching the movie assuming that the story might be repetitive.

Around came 2020 and brought with it Covid-19 and quarantine which resulted in people binge-watching shows they never would have gone for if it would have been their normal life going on.

As I was running out of things to watch and this movie kept popping in front of me, I thought, why not? Thus, I sat for two whole hours as I took the movie in along with its sinister monotonous old saw.

The Plot

Sonu (Kartik Aryan) is the savior of his best friend since childhood, Titu (Sunny Singh). When I say savior, I mean Sonu saves Titu from his catastrophic relationships by giving him a choice — either Sonu or his girlfriend. Titu always chooses his best friend over his girlfriend because — “friendship goals”.

Skipping six months ahead, Titu’s family has found him a bride — Sweety (Nushrat Bharucha), who is too good to be true and Sonu finds that fishy because as we all know, nobody is perfect and she sure as hell was not “Nobody”.

Try as he may to bring out Sweety’s true colors in front of Titu and the rest of the family, Sweety always has something up her sleeve which puts all of Sonu’s plans down the gutter.

Finally, Sonu gives up and accepts Sweety as his sister-in-law only to find out that he had been right all along and that Sweety indeed is not as good as she portrays herself to be.

The tug-of-war to win Titu over starts and both try their best. Friend or girlfriend, who will stay and who will go?

Sweety confidently tells Sonu that between a best friend and a girlfriend, the girlfriend always wins but little does she know about the depth of friendship between Sonu and Titu.

After I asked myself several times ‘What will Titu do?’, I finally get a satiating answer at the end when Sonu plays his ace — the choice — Me or her. Conclusively, true friendship triumphs and all is well.

What was new?

We always see brides running away, leaving the groom standing at the altar or Grooms running away; like the case in this movie and that is where the movie usually ends showing the lead protagonists happy in their new life.

However, the aftermath of this is never shown, as in, how did this affect the families of the said people? Who paid for the wedding arrangements, and the catering and the band?

Gratefully it was shown in this movie and I found that comical yet sensible like Sonu asking Titu if everyone left the wedding hall as soon as he left to which Titu replies that he didn’t know because if he had turned around to check, it would have killed his swag.

I used to wonder about this too.

Also, the role of Alok Nath who plays Titu’s grandfather, Ghasitaram, was unforeseen. Where we have grown to see Alok Nath always playing the cultured, traditional and sensible father, I found it a little strange to see him in a role that was opposite of that. Nevertheless, he did his job really well and that is commendable.

Perpetual Cast

Bollywood is overflowing with so many good actors (old and new) and yet Luv Ranjan’s movies have the same cast with the same kind of roles.

The cast is the same as the one in Pyar ka Punchnama and even the roles in this movie Sonu Ke Titu ki Sweety are more or less the same.

Nushrat Bharucha always plays the manipulative gold digger. I am so used to seeing her in this role that I had a hard time digesting her role as a sensible girl in the movie Dream Girl.

Ishita Raj Sharma (Pihu) and Sonalli Seygall (cameo) are also seen in this movie who were also among the main cast of Pyaar ka Punchnama 1 and 2.

If they were so hellbent on having the same cast, they might as well have cast Divyendu Sharma who played Liquid in Pyaar ka Punchnama for the role of Titu instead of Sunny Singh. In doing so the movie would have worked even better in my opinion.

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After watching three movies with the same storyline and the same cast by the same producer, I am looking forward to seeing a bromance shortly in Bollywood. Hope that will have a different cast as well as a different storyline.