Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety


Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed and co-produced by Luv Ranjan. Starring Kartik Aaryan, Nushrat Bharucha and Sunny Singh Nijjar, it also features Alok Nath and Ishita Raj Sharma in supporting roles and Sonnalli Seygall in cameo. The film marks the fourth collaboration between Ranjan, Aaryan and Bharucha as well as the third time Singh and Sharma collaborate with them. Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety was released in India on 23 February 2018. It went onto become commercially successful.

Plot

A desolate Titu is grief-stricken because his girlfriend Pihu refuses to talk to him. Sonu, his best friend, tells him that she is not meant for him, as Titu is loving and caring while Pihu is possessive and callous. Sonu gives an ultimatum to Titu to choose between Pihu and him and Titu chooses his best friend. Six months after his breakup, Titu's family tells him that a family has shown interest in getting him married to their daughter Sweety. He agrees to meet Sweety and they instantly hit it off. Sweety is extremely caring, sensitive, and clever and is seemingly the 'ideal partner'. Sonu finds this very fishy, though he admits to Titu that she seems nice but he can't really say whether or not the two should marry just yet.
He later finds out that Sweety was in fact going to marry another man named Rahul but that did not work out as she became dominating, possessive, and once even got drunk and created a scene in Goa. He reveals this to the family, who question Sweety regarding the same and she tells her version of the story in which she does not seem to be at fault. Titu tells Sonu that she had told him all of this in the first meeting itself and he did not want the family to know about all of this. On the night of the engagement, Sonu begins warming up to the idea of Titu and Sweety's wedding. However, Sweety reveals that she in fact is a gold digger and challenges him that she will throw him out of Titu's life and home very soon. Sonu confides in his grandfathers Ghasitaram and Lalu about the revelation. They bet between themselves to see if Sonu can save Titu from Sweety.
Titu is now engaged to Sweety and this brings a lot of compromises for Sonu who was earlier used to living a bachelor's life. Sweety changes their care-taker, she walks in on Sonu making out with a girl. She also manipulates the family members and Titu into buying and naming a house after her and Titu. She turns the house into a vegetarian household and controls Ghasitaram by threatening to reveal his dirty lies to Dadi. Sonu foresees Titu's imminent downfall and to protect him he plans a bachelor party for Titu at Amsterdam, where he arranges his ex-girlfriend Pihu to "accidentally" run into them after convincing her that Titu is still in love with her and he wants to help them get back together. They return to India along with Pihu and Sonu is happy to see a bothered Sweety after witnessing the growing closeness between Titu and Pihu. But Sweety reveals the truth to Pihu that it was in fact Sonu who broke Titu and Pihu up in the first place and that Sonu is using her. At this point, Titu is visibly angry with Sonu.
He once again confides with Ghasitaram and Lalu and they volunteer to sort the situation but Sonu interjects saying his best friend should decide for himself. Sonu helps prepare for the wedding, dances in the Baraat but during the garland ceremony, he makes a final attempt and gives Titu the ultimatum again to choose between him and Sweety and walks away from the wedding, crying. Sweety attempts to turn the tide but Titu, in a fit of epiphany, reveals to Sweety that this is barely the second time he has ever seen Sonu cry, first time being three days after his mother's death, when he was thirteen. Hence, Sonu's tears reveal that he is a lot more to Titu and firmly announces that if it is between Sonu or her, it will always be his best friend. The scene switches to Sweety standing in the mandap and coming to terms that her malicious tactics cannot always work.
After the narrow escape, Sonu, Titu, Ghasitaram, and Lalu are seen sitting and drinking by the pool, whilst Sonu discusses his own marriage plans, to the disgust of others.

Cast

Development

Luv Ranjan made the announcement about the film through his official Twitter account on 6 December 2016. The shooting for the film began on 12 December 2016 while the title of the film was officially announced by Kartik Aaryan, Nushrat Bharucha and Sunny Singh through a YouTube video on 16 June 2017. The official trailer of the film was launched on 20 December 2017.

Filming

The shooting of the film has been done in Delhi, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, Noida, Mumbai, Rishikesh and Georgia. The shooting of the film in Ghaziabad has been done in Rajnagar Sector 5 at CA Rishi Kapoor's House. The shooting of this movie has also been done in Gurugram DLF CyberHub. Some of the scenes were shot in Noida at Mahagun Moderne and Mahagun Marvella.

Soundtrack

The music of the film has been composed by Rochak Kohli, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Amaal Mallik, Guru Randhawa, Zack Knight, Saurabh-Vaibhav and Rajat Nagpal while lyrics have been penned by Kumaar, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Swapnil Tiwari, Zack Knight, Guru Randhawa, Singhsta and Oye Sheraa. The score is composed by Hitesh Sonik. The video of the first song, Dil Chori, which is a remake of the Hans Raj Hans's song "Dil Chori Sada Ho Gaya" was released on YouTube on 26 December 2017. This song marks the comeback of Yo Yo Honey Singh after two years of suffering from bipolar disorder. The second song titled as Subah Subah which is sung by Arijit Singh, Prakriti Kakar and Amaal Mallik was released on 3 January 2018. The third song to be released was Chhote Chhote Peg, which is a remake of the Hans Raj Hans's song Dil Tote Tote Ho Gaya from the movie Bichhoo, which is sung by Yo Yo Honey Singh, Neha Kakkar and Navraj Hans was released on 18 January 2018.
The fourth song, Bom Diggy Diggy, which is a party song, is a remake of the 2017 Punjabi-English song "Bom Diggy" by British-Pakistani singer Zack Knight and British-Indian singer Jasmin Walia, and the chorus samples a Bengali folk song. The song was released on 8 February 2018. The music album of the film was released by T-Series on 14 February 2018 on Valentines Day.

Box office

Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety collected 156.46 crore worldwide.

India

In India, Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety grossed 6.42 crore nett on its opening day. It earned and 10.81 crore in its next two days respectively, taking total opening weekend collection to 26.57 crore. It managed to hold in working days, subsequently collecting 45.94 crore in its first week. The film grossed and in its second and third week respectively, thus having a three weeks total of 93.64 crore. Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety entered the 100 Crore Club in its fourth week on 25th day and collected 8.88 crore in that week. It ran for a total of 63 days in cinemas and collected 4.25 crore, 1.69 crore, 0.37 crore, 0.10 crore and 0.02 crore in its fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth week respectively, thus taking its total nett lifetime collection to 108.95 crore in India. Box Office India declared Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety a blockbuster. The gross collection of the film in India is 139.46 crore.

Reception

While some commentators praised the humour, some were critical of the misogynistic plot. On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval score of 40% based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10.
Rajeev Masand of CNN-News18 gave the film a rating of 3 out of 5 and said that, "Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety has a strange kind of earnestness in its juvenile ambitions. I was uncomfortable with its decidedly women-bashing stand, but I enjoyed the film’s silly, relentless humor." Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave the film 2 stars out of 5; she wrote that the film was "breezey enough", and provides some laughs, some of which escape involuntarily. She responded negatively to the film's misogyny: "Luv Ranjan's fourth feature is as simplistic and sexist as it has been right from his first." She was also critical of the performances of the central duo of Singh and Aaryan. Renuka Vyavahare of The Times of India gave the film a rating of 3.5 out of 5 saying that, "Despite its misogynistic nature, Ranjan’s lighthearted approach to counter gender stereotypes in modern relationships makes his take fascinating." Sweta Kausal of Hindustan Times gave the film a rating of 1 out of 5 and said that, "Nushrat Barucha, Karthik Aryan and Sunny Singh return in an unfunny tale with misogyny as its reigning feature." Sameeksha of News18 gave the film a rating of 1.5 out of 5 saying that, "the film is a great entertainer in the anti-women genre, but sadly for Ranjan, it is not a proper category yet and thus the film deserved to called a sexist, 'eye-roll' worthy ride which will leave you frustrated and angry by the end of it.". IMDB Rating: 7.1/10

Awards and nominations