Shashank Khaitan’s Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari delivers exactly what its title telegraphs: a brightly packaged, emotionally vacant Bollywood confection that prioritizes wedding-pageant spectacle over storytelling.
The film follows jewellery heir Sunny (Varun Dhawan), who partners with Tulsi (Janhvi Kapoor) to disrupt the arranged marriage of their exes. What could have been a sharp romantic comedy instead becomes a decorative parade through Udaipur’s palaces and an exhausting rotation of sangeets and Holi sequences.
Khaitan, who previously refreshed familiar tropes in films like Badrinath Ki Dulhania, appears content with recycling them here. The plot feels mechanically assembled, with character motivations sketched in broad, unconvincing strokes. Scenes drift between lavish set pieces, connected by a soundtrack eager to compensate for the thin emotional thread.
The cast works earnestly against the film’s glossy inertia. Dhawan brings his trademark sincerity to several truth-bomb moments, while Kapoor matches his energy with an infectious, lively performance. Sanya Malhotra and Rohit Saraf, as the other couple, bring a fleeting authenticity to underwritten roles, although their screen time remains limited.
Visually, the film is undeniably sumptuous. Every frame gleams with designer lehengas and meticulous production design. Yet this very opulence becomes numbing, reducing human relationships to background elements in a sprawling, over-produced wedding album.
Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari ultimately plays like Bollywood comfort food: safe, familiar, and instantly forgettable. It offers pretty surfaces and little more, a reheated formula missing the emotional spice that might have made it resonate.
