‘Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari’ review: Varun Dhawan steals the show

Sunny loves Ananya. Tulsi loves Vikram. Ananya breaks up with Sunny. Vikram breaks up with Tulsi. The families of Ananya and Vikram arrange their marriage. Sunny and Tulsi pose as a couple to rile their exes and thereby win them back.

From this simple, time-tested formula, Shashank Khaitan concocts Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari. Although the Hindi movie doesn’t always pop and crackle, it has old-fashioned romance, many hilarious lines (the dialogue is by Khaitan and Ishita Moitra) and a hero who is able and willing to steer the events.

Sunny Sanskari (Varun Dhawan) is a jeweller’s son with a knack for accurately assessing the value of jewels. But Sunny has been unable to see what is front of him. What he regards as a proper relationship with Ananya (Sanya Malhotra) is a situationship for her.

Tulsi Kumari (Janhvi Kapoor) has been with Vikram (Rohit Saraf) for much longer, but his wealthy family doesn’t care for her. Tulsi is described as middle class but that’s always up for debate, given her bottomless wardrobe and make-up budget.

The pretend couple hopes to turn the blood of their exes green, as Sunny declares, but the 136-minute movie appears to have run out of ideas by the interval itself. How much longer can...

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