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. The script judges her unfairly and paints her into a two-faced, manipulative vixen for wanting security or sex. Only this time, it’s romance pitted against bromance for no apparent reason except meaningless supremacy.įrom 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. Ranjan straight out treats their face-offs like the ones you see in desi soap operas. All the more so if it incites a saas-bahu-like friction and game of one-upmanship between Sonu and Sweety. 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.Ī woman is incapable of any good unless she has vested interests in Luv Ranjan’s worldview. In other words, they share a roof, a family and a whole lot of alcohol while drumming on half a dozen Caucasian derrieres.
Well-heeled Punju lads, Sonu (Kartik Aaryan) and Titu (Sunny Singh) are best friends and inseparable since kindergarten. 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.Īfter 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.
He needs to jilt his bride and his best friend.In Luv Ranjan’s brand of creativity, misogyny is a movie genre by itself. But by the time of the wedding, I wasn’t cheering for any of these characters, except perhaps Titu. My conflicted feelings come from the fact that I did find much humour in this movie and the completely packed theatre I was in seemed to feel the same way. It seems obvious that Luv Ranjan has no love for women or the men who allow themselves to be beholden to them.
And it’s hard to cheer for Sonu when one of his big victories in the film is abusing and humiliating his household help (hired by Sweety), a man who literally sleeps on his kitchen floor. And this villain goes a step too far for a movie that is meant to be a rowdy comedy, with Sweety even using sex to manipulate the pitiful Titu (another character with no distinct personality whatsoever). I don’t mind seeing a film with a female villain, but it seems out female villains must suffer from the same total lack of individuality and personality that our heroines do. Even other women in the movie serve primarily to destroy their husbands fun by insisting that they give up smoking or eat nutritiously. She is just simply bad, which to me paints a picture in which all women are merely foils and villains in the lives of men. It turns out that Sweety really is a conniving witch and, what’s worse, she’s given no motive to be so. I thought that surely he would see that the root of his insecurity lay in himself and that he and his friend needed to work out how their relationship would change in the future. During the first half of the movie I often enjoyed the antics of the obviously immature Sonu has he plotted ways to out his friend’s fiancee. “Sonu ke Titu ki Sweety” centres on the story of a man (Sonu) who is convinced that his best friend (Titu) is being tricked into marriage by the too-good-to-be-true Sweety. But the same discomfort I had watching those films crept in to “Sonu.” This is the thought I had while leaving the theatre after watching “Sonu ke Titu ki Seeety.” It’s writer and director, the aforementioned Ranjan, also wrote and directed the successful “Pyaar ka Punchnaama” and “Pyaar ka Punchnama 2”, movies which are also about the ways in which women can change a man’s life.