Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari Cast/Actors: Varun Dhawan, Janhvi Kapoor, Sanya Malhotra, Rohit Saraf, Maniesh Paul and Akshay Oberoi
Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari Director: Shashank Khaitan
Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari Production House: Dharma Productions and Mentor Disciple Entertainment
Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari Movie Release Date: 2 October 2025
Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari Movie Available On: Theatrical Release (likely to be released on Netflix OTT Platform)
Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari Released/Available In Languages: Hindi
Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari Movie Runtime: 2h 15m
Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari Critic Movie Review:
What are the items you would look for in a new Shashank Khaitan film?
Let’s tick them off.
A story like a ray of sunshine: X
If only Khaitan and company had a plot as long as their title, there might’ve been a smidgeon of a story out there. But Sunny Sanskari (Varun Dhawan) and Tulsi Kumari (Janhvi Kapoor) teaming up and self-inviting themselves to the wedding of their respective former lovers is about as garden fresh as a joint family in a Barjatya movie.
The background: Sunny’s rich girlfriend Ananya (Sanya Malhotra) has dumped him to marry rich boy Vikram (Rohit Saraf) who has dumped Tulsi, his girlfriend of twelve years, because his mom and his older brother Param (Akshay Oberoi) bullied him to. So, Sunny and teacher Tulsi fly to Jaipur to mess up the grand wedding celebrations and reclaim their partners.
Laugh. You’re supposed to crack up at the very thought of how Sunny and Tulsi are going to sing, dance, get drunk and fool everybody around.
A twist in the plot: X
The very title is a dead giveaway of who’s going to end up with who.
A crackling screenplay: X
When the banner is Dharma Productions, festivities, mehndi, sangeet and designer threads are permanents. But Kuku (Maniesh Paul), an annoying wedding planner who says, “You’ve touched my chest” instead of heart, and Sunny’s sidekick Bantu (Abhinav Sharma) waking up to find themselves hugging each other, are hardly hilarious add-ons. Wearisome jabs at entertainment include a drunken scene where the lead four crawl on their knees, Sunny spews lines like “Nisha in the wrong disha”, the word “awkward” crops up a dozen times, Sunny and Tulsi dance like SRK-Kajol in “Suraj hua maddam” to make their ex-es jealous, grown men pee in the swimming pool and grown women have a cleavage battle in the restroom. Khaitan and co-writer Ishita Moitra, take a break, please.
Great dance moves to super music: X
With an opulent wedding as the oft-used backdrop, there’s a dance a minute. But despite half a dozen names in the music department, you don’t take back a single tune or any piece of choreography. ‘Bijuria’ is fairly comforting only because it’s a familiar old Sonu Nigam number.
Well intended social messaging: X
Tulsi’s dad dropping the line, “You can live without a ladka but you cannot live without your self-respect”, Sunny’s serious conversations on gender identity in a marriage and his “Kundali and bio-data don’t make a match” topped with a punch at upper class snootiness, are as flat as the paper on which Khaitan wrote his film.
Flawless performances: X
Although Varun Dhawan has his moments like replicating SRK’s dressing room monologue in Chak De! India, he is more misplaced energy than an all-round entertainer. Janhvi Kapoor’s big, wide eyes and jutting chest and hips are getting to be too repetitive.
Watch or Not? Dharma Productions needs to go back to the drawing board to come up with watchable fare.
Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari Movie Review Score Rating: 2 out of 5 (i.e. 2/5)
Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari Official Trailer:
Credits: Dharma Productions
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