Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety : Reviews and BO

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Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Movie Review: Go Laugh Your Heart Out!

Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Movie Review Rating: 3.5/5 Stars (Three and a half stars)

Star Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Nushrat Bharucha, Sunny Singh Nijjar, Alok Nath, Virendra Saxena, Deepika Amin, Ayesha Raza, Pawan Chopra, Rajesh Jais

Director: Luv Ranjan

Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Movie ReviewWhat's Good: The fresh concept of bromance vs romance & managing it to execute it without any cliche.

What's Bad: The narrative gets repetitive over a point of time but thankfully due to the presence of great gags you.

Loo Break: Love comedies? Also if you want to know if Kartik Aaryan has a monologue in this, then this is a MUST WATCH for you.

Watch or Not?: Due to excessive laughter, maybe.

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Set in a parallel Pyaar Ka Punchnama zone, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety is a story about two brothers from another mother, Sonu (Kartik Aaryan) Titu (Sunny Singh) and a dosti-mein-daraar' kinda chick Sweety (Nushrat Bharucha). Titu is the susheel' one whereas Sonu is the player knowing in and out of this game called love. The real problem arises when Titu's family starts finding a suitable girl for him.

Sonu, who has been this best friend at every juncture of Titu's life and who has found a family in his parents, is now scared of losing him to a girl. Whereas on another side, the mystery of Sweety being a gold-digger keeps floating around for a long time. Is Sweety what Sonu thinks of her or is it something else cooking amidst Sonu and Sweety. Watch the movie to get answers to your every question.

Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Movie Review

Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Movie Review: Script Analysis

Written by the same duo as Pyaar Ka Punchnama and Pyaar Ka Punchnama 3, Luv Ranjan and Rahul Mody have tried to extend their know-the-girl universe with this one. Don't know how-how but all these three times, they have managed to cook a delicious dish with somewhat similar ingredients.

The concept of bromance vs romance has been tried several times now in Bollywood but none of them is as quirky as this. Having the torch bearer of sanskars Alok Nath by his side, Luv has made the most of him. Also adding the families to the scene, Luv explored a relatively new concept for his kind of films. Yes, the second PKP had a touch of it but with this one, Luv has gone full throttle.

Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Movie Review: Star Performance

Kartik Aaryan is the show stealer and this movie belongs to him. He's in his top form along with his gifted comic timing. Along with his acting he also has looked at his career's hottest & I'm sure girls along with many hilarious moments will also come out having a super-crush on him.

Sunny Singh, for his part, proves why he got this role and not any other guy from past PKP series. He's innocent & hot, being the best combo for many girls out there. His poker-faced presence at times will leave you in splits.

Nushrat Bharucha gets an update from being a simple & sweet girl in PKP series to this badass Sweety in this one. She has the attitude and style living accurately to Ranjan's vision. She has minimal dialogues but surely charms us away with her smile.

The veterans in Alok Nath & Virendra Saxena surely compile as the biggest surprise package of the film. They both are on roll throughout the film and deservingly get the best comical punches. Would love to thank Luv for letting us witness this sassy side of both these actors.

Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Movie Review: Direction, Music

Luv Ranjan is on his way to become the to-go man for comedies. He already has got a rom-com starring Ajay Devgn under his hat which now will be even more awaited. Exploring a different take on love & relationships every time, Luv has mastered this genre. When everyone there's nothing bright left to cover in this particular category, Luv comes and prove everyone wrong.

This is Luv Ranjan's best album till date & the YouTube hits have already declared the same. Minus a couple of forced songs, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety is full with chartbusters. The movie starts with Bom Diggy Bom & ends with Chhote Chhote Peg having few foot-tapping songs in between. Hitesh Sonik's background music is gold & goes well with the screenplay.

Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Movie Review: The Last Word

This is not Pyaar Ka Punchnama but is as entertaining following a similar concept. One entertaining ride with superlative performances by the leading stars as well as supporting cast. Watch this go PURE 24K ENTERTAINMENT!

Three and a half stars!

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Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety' film review: Engaging, funny

Despite its portrayal of women, this Luv Ranjan film wins with its strong cast

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Film: Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety

Director: Luv Ranjan

Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Nushrat Bharucha and Sunny Singh

Stars: 3 out of 5

In director Luv Ranjan's brand of comedy, women are thrown under the bus with glee. Either they are salon-perfect, petty airheads or scheming sociopaths, while men are let off the hook easily, as we saw in his cult comedy series Pyaar Ka Punchnama (PKP).

His latest relationship comedy, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety, doesn't attempt to correct this skewed gender balance and continues to paint (or should we say tarnish) women in those stereotypical broad strokes. But the interesting part is that Ranjan doesn't even pretend to care. If you can make peace with that harsh home truth, then there's a good chance that you would enjoy Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety(SKTKS) tremendously.

This bromance between Sonu and Titu, played by the adorable actors Kartik Aaryan and Sunny Singh, is fairly engaging and funny. They are best mates who grew up together with Aaryan's Sonu being the dominant force in their friendship. He walks around with a saviour complex and is convinced that the wealthy Sunny needs protecting from the manipulative shrews that he gets romantically entangled with.

Enter Sweety Sharma, played by the radiant Nushrat Bharucha, who sweeps Titu off his feet. But is there more to her than meets the eye is the big question.

Sonu is willing to swear on his bouffant hair that things aren't looking up for his bestie and that Sweety isn't as sweet as she claims to be. In his head, she's a vixen who needs to be taken down a peg or two. It's the battle of wills and egos at play here.

What works wonderfully is the collective performance of the actors in this well-cast film. While the seasoned actor Alok Nath endears as the cheeky patriarch, the younger set of actors win you over with their collective charm.

Aaryan, whose claim to instant fame is his lengthy anti-women monologue in the PKP series, exudes an impish charm, which cuts through his conniving nature. He shines in this drama, which required him to pull all stops. Bharucha, as the dazzling she-devil, matches steps with him confidently. Their verbal sparring and their one-upmanship has sizzle as sparks fly between them. It's safe to say that these two mortal enemies on-screen have more heat than her on-screen fiancee, who comes across as a tad insipid. Perhaps his character wasn't as fleshed out as Sonu's.

What's interesting is that director Ranjan has done a splendid job of creating a believable extended family. The supporting actors are given as much attention and spunk as the main trio, which is rare in Hindi films. Titu's quirky family is a riot.

While the comedy moves at a brisk pace, I wish the women weren't painted as vixens. There's no teeth in Sweety's meanness towards the end. But don't let that dissuade you from enjoying a comedy that doesn't take itself too seriously. If you are in the mood for a spirited bromance, then be sure to watch this one.

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Lead actors are the lifeline of #SonuKeTituKiSweety... Kartik Aryan is fantastic, the scene-stealer... Nushrat Bharucha is in terrific form... Sunny Singh nails it with a convincing act... Ishita Raj and Alok Nath are delightful... Music is a big plus point... GO FOR IT. #SKTKS


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#OneWordReview... #SonuKeTituKiSweety: IMPRESSIVE. Rating:- This ROMANCE vs BROMANCE is an absolute joyride... Luv Ranjan gets it right yet again, after #PyaarKaPunchnama and #PyaarKaPunchnama2... #SKTKS

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Getting good reviews... Seems like a good comedy movie..
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I want to see this one. Looks entertaining
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TBH,I totally love this Jodi..Best of luck to the team.
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Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety movie review: Cheap laughs are easy

Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety movie review: Kartik Aaryan, Nushrat Bharucha and Sunny Singh starrer Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety provides some laughs, some of which escape involuntarily. But it also leaves you wondering. Can Ranjan grow up his callow characters?

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Written by Shubhra Gupta | New Delhi | Published: February 23, 2018 7:10 am
Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety reviewSonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety movie review: Luv Ranjan's fourth feature is as simplistic and sexist as it has been right from his first.

Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety movie cast: Kartik Aaryan, Nushrat Bharucha, Sunny Singh, Alok Nath, Deepika Amin, Virendra Saxena
Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety movie director: Luv Ranjan
Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety movie rating: 2 stars

The name of the film may be a bit of a tongue-twister, but there's nothing complicated in the world according to director Luv Ranjan.

His fourth feature is as simplistic and sexist as it has been right from his first: the guys just wanna get laid, the gals are scheming, conniving and silly, and between a toss-up of dosti' and ladki', no prizes for guessing who, or which wins.

No prizes, then, for guessing who laughs the loudest in this comedy, in which Ranjan shows his familiar comedic chops. BFFs Sonu (Aaryan) and Titu (Singh) are cutting a merry swathe through the dating scene (lots of chatter around Tinder, Facebook profiles etc), pulling back just in time when things threaten to turn serious, until there arrives, in their midst, the perfect Miss Sweety (Bharucha).

Sweety cooes and cooks and organizes mata aka jagrans'. Titu is mush. So is Titu's large family, comprising father, mother, grandmother, uncles, retainers etc. Everyone loves Sweety except for Sonu, and right there is your triangleSonu ka Titu yaaa uski Sweety?

There could have been some fun to be had with this little lot, particularly because the actors, especially Aaryan and Singh, are up for it. The supporting cast is first-rate: for once Saxena gets to laugh, and Alok Nath flips a finger, finally, at his pious goody-two-shoes Hum Aapke Hain Koun image, a film Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety references with glee.

But Ranjan is too busy making low-rent jokes about sex' and shaadi' and barbaadi' (the cuss word which starts with a ch' is blipped out but is strewn right through). Bharucha is capable of more, but she's made to narrow her eyes, to the exclusion of all other expressions.

Very occasionally, you get a line which is genuinely funny. A girl on the dance floor says: aur main yahaan backless pehen ke naach rahi hoon', or words to that effect, and you laugh out loud, because there's a kind of knowingness in it. And only a certain kind of Dilli girl would say it.

But soon enough, you are flung right back, drowning in lines which revel in back-slapping, horny bro-code where the guys are the ones to be rescued, and greedy gals need to be shown their place. Yet again, we note with regret, there isn't one single young woman who is, you know, just nice. And not dying to be bedded or wedded.

So yes, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety provides some laughs, some of which escape involuntarily. But it also leaves you wondering. Can Ranjan grow up his callow characters? Of course, he can, because he has the smarts (remember Pyar Ka Punchnama?). Does he really want to? I'm not sure. Sharp comedy of the sexes is the hard stuff. Cheap laughs are easy.

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Review: Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety amuses in fits and starts
February 23, 2018 07:12 IST

A delightful supporting cast rescues an underwhelming film, says Sukanya Verma.

In Luv Ranjan's brand of creativity, misogyny is a movie genre by itself.

Men are lovesick fools better off bonding with members of their tribe whereas women are untrustworthy, scheming, shrews latching on to a guy for his money or merriment.

After the runaway success of his Pyaar Ka Punchnaama series, he uses the same 'bro' versus 'bae' shtick to extract lowbrow laughs in Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety.

Unlike its tongue twister of a title though, the plot is a no-brainer rehash of his favourite theme.

Well-heeled Punju lads, Sonu (Kartik Aaryan) and Titu (Sunny Singh) are best friends and inseparable since kindergarten. In other words, they share a roof, a family and a whole lot of alcohol while drumming on half a dozen Caucasian derrieres.

Titu is a bonehead whose denseness is mistaken for lack of guile.

Sonu, the deceit-sniffing smart-ass, takes it upon himself to keep his doofus pal from harm's way by getting rid of any girl (Ishita Raj) who gets too close for comfort.

But when Titu's marriage is fixed to the sickeningly sweet, er, Sweety (Nushrat Bharucha), Sonu starts to smell a rat.

A woman is incapable of any good unless she has vested interests in Luv Ranjan's worldview. All the more so if it incites a saas-bahu-like friction and game of one-upmanship between Sonu and Sweety.

Ranjan straight out treats their face-offs like the ones you see in desi soap operas. Only this time, it's romance pitted against bromance for no apparent reason except meaningless supremacy.

From what I gathered, Sweety's biggest crime is she's not exactly thrilled about her to-be life partner's round-the-clock dependency on sneaky Sonu. The script judges her unfairly and paints her into a two-faced, manipulative vixen for wanting security or sex.

If her control freak ardour actually had some rationality behind it, the dost-dost-na-raha/pyaar-pyaar-na-raha narrative would still hold some bite.

As things stand, Sweety is little more than a punching bag for the cult of the women-hating brotherhood. And Nushrat Bharucha's sl0-mo simpering hardly helps.

Despite its smothering ideas of both friendship and romance and woeful predictability, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety amuses in fits and starts by virtue of a delightful supporting cast.

It doesn't take much to warm up to the chatter and banter of the whimsical relatives gathered around the pesky titular oafs.

As the expletive hurling, recliner happy, and whisky glugging cronies, Alok Nath and Virendra Saxena throw their sanskari caps out of the window and preach irreverent gyaan like they've practised it.

Next to their boisterous Chandler and Joey-like camaraderie, Sonu and Titu's pale boy bonding stands no chance.

Even where the humour has a potential for slam-dunk, neither Kartik nor Sunny are able to get their feet off the ground and go beyond what's on paper. Against their bland impulses and phony chemistry, the joke either falls flat or doesn't register at all.

Ditto for the melodrama.

The girlfriend outwitting the best friend and vice versa trope too gets tired after a while. Just like the gag with the niggling domestic help.

Pedestrian wit works best around actors who don't just go with the flow, but shape it to suit their comical timing. That's the difference between performers and parrots.

But the underwhelming leads of Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety don't seem to know the difference at all.

Rediff Rating:
**

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'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety' review: The bromance-versus-romance tale is worth every penny


There is something to be said in favour of the spoken word in the movies, or the dialogue as its known. When sharply written, these words can embrace the characters in layers of unvarnished molten gold.

Sure enough the repartees in "Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety" (SKTKS) just roll off the characters' tongues making them sound sassy and sombre even when they are being mean and vicious just because it suits the script's purposes.

And God knows, this film needs no excuse to let the words flow. So full marks to co-writer Rahul Mody and Luv Ranjan for investing the vivacious proceedings with a verbal gusto that I found to be more sparkling in wit and insinuations than the dialogues in any recent film.




SKTKS is the story of the eponymous Titu (Sunny Singh, suitably equanimous) who is a bit of a rich spoilt dullard mithaiwala's son who falls in love with every human being in a skirt, the shorter the better. It takes Titu's BFF Sonu(Kartik Aryan) to rescue Titu from his disastrous relationship crises time after time.

At one point in the slyly silken storytelling Kartik's Sonu tells the manipulative gold digger a story of what he did to a boy in the classroom as a child when that boy troubled Titu.

Clearly this a bromance of extraordinary intensity and Kartik and Sunny Singh specially the former, plays the brothers-born-from-different-mothers with a ferocious fidelity never allowing gay insinuations colour their camaraderie.

Luv Ranjan is very clear in his reading of 'bromantic' relationships. The woman is often a gold-digging manipulative scheming bitch.

Nushrat Bharucha plays the part with relish. It's her ongoing game of oneupmanship with Kartik Aryan's Sonu that gives a thundering heft to the plot, lifting even the sagging episodes (like the pre-marriage bachelor party in Amsterdam which stretches into a blingy binge) to a zestful place filled with sexy sounds and seductive images of from privileged homes where no one has to bother about anything except the next holiday abroad.

Luv Ranjan is terrific at shooting family dynamics during festive times. The wedding-time negotiations, backbiting and meal/alcohol consumption occupy a major part of narrative. There is a kind of compelling clarity to the way Ranjan pins down the inner workings of relationships in joint families about to come together through a marital alliance.

Of course it helps that character actors from Alok Nath (abandoning his bovine image to play a wickedly irreverent grandfather) to Pritam Jaiswal (as an annoyingly efficient house help who is manipulated out of the household) add character to every scene they occupy.

Indeed this is not so much a triangle as a wreck-tangle with every supporting actor egging on the central conflict among a two men who just can't stop loving one another and a woman, who will tear them apart at any cost.

Nushrat Bharucha's deftly enacted Sweety admits at one point she is not the heroine but the villain. So does she get her hero or does she get her comeuppance? The answer my friend, is blowing in the wink.

Tongue lodged firmly in cheek, Luv Ranjan's bromance-versus-romance tale has enough bite to make it one of the most invigorating rom-coms in recent times

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