


He wants to grow old with Titu, like Titu’s grandfather Ghasitaram (Alok Nath) and his best friend Lalu (Virendra Saxena). Sonu wants his bromance with Titu to retain its innocence and purity. The caustic screenplay by Ranjan and Rahul Mody mines its humour from Sonu’s mounting exasperation at Titu’s willing seduction. At its most basic, it involves shutting women out.

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Sonu’s protectiveness is explained as brotherly love, and his concern is characteristic of the code of honour that binds real men. Is Sonu unknowingly in love with Titu, and does his protective attitude conceal repressed ardour for the friend he has known since kindergarten? This could have been an interesting direction for the film to take, but Ranjan is too orthodox for such subversions. In this latest trench report of the battle of the sexes, it is best friend versus the bride-to-be – a twist on the age-old love triangle and the other ancient war between women and their daughters-in-law, with every bit of the pettiness, bitterness and nastiness. Nobody shares Sonu’s belief that Sweety is a virago in disguise, which he concludes based on his instincts. Sweety works at a non-profit for children, looks out for Titu’s waistline and his every need, and appears to be the ideal catch. Since Sweety is played by Nushrat Bharucha, who was ball-buster extraordinaire in Ranjan’s romcons, it follows that she is too good to be true. After Titu’s latest heartbreak, which follows his attempt to browse through his girlfriend’s Tinder account, he is believed to have been cured, but then he ruins everything by agreeing to an arranged marriage with Sweety. Sonu is a confirmed bachelor who has been protecting his childhood friend Titu (Sunny Singh) from shallow romance his entire life. In a meta-touch, Sonu is played by Kartik Aaryan, the flag-bearer of meninism in the Pyaar Ka Punchnama movies. Of the two male leads in Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety, only Sonu seems to have absorbed the emasculation warning present in Ranjan’s films. If only nature could figure out a way for men to be born without having to deal with women, the world would be a better place. Women are suitable only as mothers and extended family members. Manipulated and pushed to the limit by feminine wiles, the men in both the films concluded that mankind was an altogether better category than humankind.
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His breakout movie Pyaar Ka Punchnama (2011) and its 2015 sequel featured young men who were subjected to the emotional cruelties that only women are seemingly capable of.

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