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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
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BOLLYWOOD SONU KE TITU KI SWEETY
EDITOR'S PICK
'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety': Luv Ranjan's wreck-tangle is wickedly funny
(Review By Subhash K. Jha ; Rating: **** ½)
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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