Param Sundari
Romance Drama Comedy Hindi
In Kerala's picturesque backwaters, a North Indian and South Indian find unexpected love. Their cultural differences spark a hilarious and chaotic romance, full of twists and turns.
| Cast: | Sidharth Malhotra, Janhvi Kapoor, Manjot Singh, Sanjay Kapoor, Inayat Verma, Renji Panicker, Siddhartha Shankar, Anand Manmadhan, |
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| Director: | Tushar Jalota |
| Writer: | Gaurav Mishra, Aarsh Vora, Tushar Jalota |
| Editor: | Manish Pradhan |
| Camera: | Santhana Krishnan Ravichandran |
All Guild Reviews of Param Sundari
Sidharth Malhotra-Janhvi Kapoor film struggles to find both rom and com
The limpid-eyed Janhvi Kapoor tries hard with the Malayali accent, calling attention to the effort, while the chiselled Sidharth Malhotra gets to flaunt his abs. The film, however, doesn't allow its lovers a chance to do any heavy breathing.
Punjabi ‘munda’ meets Malayali ‘penkutti’ in Param Sundari, and everything happens by the numbers. End of story. Wait, there’s 136 minutes of the film, which struggles to find both the rom and the com, from the beginning to the end, finding its feet only towards the last half an hour. By which time Param (Sidharth Malhotra) and Sundari (Janhvi Kapoor) have finished with their meet-cute in a small Kerala town homestay, gone into the long second act which perks up only when such supporting actors Manjot Singh (hero’s BFF) and Renji Panicker (the heroine’s brusque uncle) show up, finally fetching up at their DDLJ moment, where you can see the spark, fleetingly, between the good-looking leads.
Kerala cliches aplenty in this clash-of-cultures comedy
Tushar Jalota's film, starring Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor, dumps a Delhi boy in Kerala and then struggles for laughs
Param Sundari is assemble-your-own-Kerala for dummies. Start with backwaters. Add elephants. Better still: elephants being sung the Malayalam lyrics from ‘Jiya Jale’. Toss in a Mohanlal song. Kalarippayattu. Mohiniyattam. Onam. Ayurveda. Unironic use of ‘god’s own country’. Nurses. Mundus. Red flags. Churches. Boat races. Tushar Jalota’s film hangs its Kerala fetish on the flimsiest of premises. Param (Sidharth Malhotra) is an amiable Delhi failson who keeps launching unsuccessful startups bankrolled by his wealthy father (Sanjay Kapoor). He’s intrigued by a new app called Find Your Soulmate, which matches your unique ‘frequency’ to the one person who’s meant for you. It’s the kind of faux-scientific woo-woo that would set anyone’s alarm bells ringing. Not Param, though, who’s thrilled to learn that his own soulmate is apparently in a small town in Kerala. After informing papa, he sets off to beta test.
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