Star Forged: Sidharth Malhotra, Janhvi Kapoor, Renji Panicker, Siddhartha Shankar, Manjot Singh, Sanjay Kapoor, Inayat Verma.
Director: Tushar Jalota
What’s Good: The nice feel-good atmosphere and the synergistic chemistry between the lead pair.
What’s Unhealthy: The script is inconsistently paced.
Bathroom Break: A degree or two within the second half.
Watch or Not?: I assume an total sure!
Language: Hindi
Accessible On: Theatrical launch
Runtime: 136 Minutes
Consumer Ranking:
Param (Sidharth Malhotra) is an formidable Delhi brat and the reason for his money-bag father (Sanjay Kapoor)’s woes. After his father refuses to waste extra of his hard-earned cash on his nugatory ‘enterprise’ endeavours, in a last-ditch try, Param decides to again an app designed by a person named Shekhar (Abhishek Banerjee) that can discover the proper soulmate for all.
His father, nonetheless, will again him this time provided that the app works for the only Param himself! And so, Param enters his profile. The match discovered is Sundari (Janhvi Kapoor), who runs a homestay in far-off Kerala. Param, out of desperation to get his dad’s monetary backing and grow to be a bigwig himself, heads straight to Kerala alongside along with his crony Juggi (Manjot Singh).
After interacting with Sundari, he falls head over heels in love along with her. However there are a number of points. Bother looms even because the app designer vanishes and Param feels responsible of “utilizing” Sundari, who has begun to reciprocate his love.
Param Sundari Film Overview: Script Evaluation
Gaurav Mishra, Aarsh Vora, and Tushar Jalota have written the script. The movie is inconsistently paced and will have been a crisp minus-2-hour watch as an alternative of the current size of 136 minutes. There are components which are clearly stretched, and the movie strikes from excessive to low to excessive to low to excessive—and so forth.
The primary 20 to half-hour or so within the Kerala part are completely amusing and completely entertaining—Sundari’s introduction to the viewers and Param, her exchanges with Param in her residence, Param’s morning jog (hilarious!), and the parantha sequence with a Malayalam phrase which means the alternative of what one would assume, all work nicely. The ring-and-elephant sequence can be a riveting watch.
The script then strikes into the church sequence, which can appeal to brickbats because it may have been completely eschewed for one thing extra logical, smart, and healthful. If a innocent scene in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge 30 years in the past raised hackles from a piece of the group, I can nicely think about what this one can, particularly because it may have been simply modified by way of the placement. The writing there additionally leans in the direction of the routine and the humdrum.
After which the tropes start! Sundari tells her backstory, which reveals that her dream is one thing completely completely different from internet hosting the homestay out of monetary necessity. There may be additionally a childhood buddy, Venu (Siddhartha Shankar), who’s—after innumerable films because the Nineties and past—the fallacious man in the fitting place.
Sundari’s self-sacrificing mode and Param’s obduracy in being open about his emotions all contribute to the movie’s descent into routine, with an airport sequence including to the stretched proceedings. All this leaves solely the cultural variations between Kerala and Punjab because the novelty. Some particular conditions and the very formulaic use of the character of a attractive nurse additionally deliver down the allure of what may have been a recent drama.
That mentioned, the tip appears a bit abrupt total, however it has components of wackiness as nicely, like Param climbing a coconut tree for a purpose. A few sequences, probably not novel, work, like the way in which Sundari’s youthful sister talks candidly along with her about her life.
Param Sundari Film Overview: Star Efficiency
Janhvi Kapoor is superb but once more as Sundari. Her routine sequences additionally work due to her innate sincerity and allure, which is nice as a result of her characterization doesn’t, within the closing evaluation, have a lot meat. Sidharth Malhotra has by no means seemed higher and is equally honest as his heroine, however he may nonetheless have labored on the function as an alternative of making an attempt to be Shah Rukh Khan but once more!
That co-stars at all times have an effect on your efficiency for the higher or worse is proved but once more by the truth that Sidharth is least convincing in his scenes with Sanjay Kapoor as his dad. Kapoor is the largest downer on this movie, and he’s clearly miscast. His expressions, dialogues, and physique language expose his extreme limitations as an actor, and one can solely thank the writers that his function is sort of transient!
Manjot Singh is efficient as Param’s inseparable buddy, and Renji Panicker as Bhargavan Nair could be very convincing. Siddhartha Shankar, as his son, Venu, is low-key however good. All the opposite actors taking part in Keralites impress, and so does Inayat Verma as Sundari’s sister.
Param Sundari Film Overview: Path, Music
Director Tushar Jalota’s maiden effort reveals his rawness within the tempo and scripting (he’s additionally one of many writers). He facilitates a terrific mounting, and Santhana Krishnan Ravichandran’s cinematography is magical. Manini Mishra and Sharanya Menon do a standout job of the manufacturing design, although Manish Pradhan’s modifying may have been significantly better.
Sachin-Jigar’s music is alright, however has little shelf-value. Pardesiya, with its robust A.R. Rahman hangover, is the perfect observe, adopted by Chand Kaagaz. It’s in these two songs and Solar Mere Yaar Ve that Amitabh Bhattacharya’s lyrics stand tall.
Param Sundari Film Overview: The Final Phrase
In case you are taking a look at a lighthearted two hours-plus of movie-watching, this one is for you. If it really works on the box-office (as I think it’ll), it’ll deliver again extra of the ‘feel-good-romance-with-no-villains’ mush that we used to get within the a long time passed by.
Three stars!
Param Sundari Trailer
Param Sundari launched on 29 August, 2025.
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