Tushar Jalota’s ‘Param Sundari’, with Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor, sets a low bar and clears it comfortably

The film is a rom-com about the culture clash between a Punjabi man and a Malayali woman. It might have been better off trying to tell its own story instead of constantly paying homage to older movies. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.

Sidharth Malhotra is Param, and he’s trying to make an app that will make him as rich as his father. A developer suggests something that will help people find their soulmate. When Param asks his father for money, the man says he needs proof of concept. How does Param prove that the app works? By testing it on himself, of course. His data is fed into the app, and it’s a perfect match with Sundari (Janhvi Kapoor). She runs a homestay in Kerala. There’s a great romantic premise here for our tech-obsessed times: Can an app do something that’s traditionally the heart’s domain? Can something as intangible as love be defined by crunching numbers on a laptop? Is science going to take over this area, too? Is this film an extension of a new breed of sci-fi Hindi cinema that marries humanity and technology, like last year’s Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya, where Shahid Kapoor fell in love with a robot?

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