Saturday, February 24, 2018
Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety
Fear Of Women
Luv Ranjan made two Pyar Ka Punchnama films, that were
anti-women rants, so one would expect he got his inexplicable misogyny out of
his system. But no, there’s a third, Sonu
Ke Titu Ki Sweety, in which a man tries to save is best buddy from women,
who are, without exception nasty and manipulative. If they are not, then there are too good to
be true, and to be dumped anyway.
The “needs”, says Sonu (Kartik
Aaryan) to Titu (Sunny Singh) can be fulfilled by any of the hundreds of girls
looking for no-string affairs. Titu is
the softie who needs to be protected from controlling vixens, according to the childhood
friend, who lives in the vast home of the Sharmas who made their fortune from mithai. Sonu has no family of his own,
and the two young men seem to have no other friends either, apart from each
other. So Sonu and Titu can hook and
chuck girls, but girls with a past are “chalu.”
All this, perhaps to explain, that they are not gay. Just like Titu’s granddad Ghaseetaram (Alok
Nath) and is best buddy Lalu (Virendra Saxena) are not. Lalu is the rakhi
brother of Ghaseeta’s wife, and has been quietly absorbed into the family and
made a partner in the business. They spend their time drinking on the terrace,
Ghaseeta has done his duty by producing a son, who has produced son, and that’s all what women are good for. That, and as sex objects, who are seen
shaking their bottoms in the song Bom
Diggy Diggy.
Sonu has just extricated the bawling
Titu from a doomed romance with Pihu (Ishta Raj), when Titu’s family arranges
his marriage to Sweety (Nushrat Bharucha), a butter-won’t-melt-in-her-mouth
kind of girl, who gets Sonu’s hackles up. He can’t find any flaws in her, which
to him means she is fake. You are expected to believe that Sweety is a bitch,
because she stymies all attempts by Sonu to get Titu to break up with her.. But
Sonu is not seen as a monster, when he plays dirty, for no reason but that he
is afraid of losing a friend and becoming a Lalu sort of bachelor uncle
everyone makes fun of and pities.
It is a shallow film about moronic
characters, so it is happy to coast along on easy laughs, when Sonu and Sweety go
to war. Actually, they are a perfect match. The film has some gags as funny as
cliched mother-in-law jokes, but Ranjan’s only agenda is to diss women, and they
will probably laugh the loudest just to show their Titu-like boyfriends that they
are such good sports. The next film should be about Sonu (and other characters played by Kartik Aaryan in Ranjan’s films), being sent to the shrink. Kuchh to gadbad hai.
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