In a high-rise somewhere in Mumbai, Varun Dhawan wakes up to play the middle-class goofball with an exaggerated, ambiguous accent. This could be behind-the-scenes of ‘Humpty Sharma ki Dulhania’ (2014), ‘Badrinath ki Dulhania’ (2017), or the latest fever dream: 2025’s ‘Sunny Sanskari ki Tulsi Kumari’.

Credit where due: Dhawan has truly mastered the art of the charismatic but reckless simple man infected with the love bug — shirt optional, dance mandatory. And therein lies the Hamartia: over a decade after ‘Humpty’, Shashank Khaitan’s new film feels frozen in time, swapping in misplaced Gen-Z slang for actual narrative growth.

Sunny, son of self-diagnosed “middle-class” diamond traders with an opulent store, stages a full ‘Baahubali’-inspired proposal to his girlfriend Ananya (Sanya Malhot

See Full Page