Param Sundari celebrates love and connection beyond digital algorithms
Film explores romance, digital love, and genuine emotional connection
Hyderabad: In a world where love is filtered through screens and swipes, ‘Param Sundari’ is a romance about the beauty of listening to your heart. When love is measured by compatibility ratings and prescribed by dating apps, the film gently reminds us that no algorithm or AI or modern app, can quantify chemistry, timing, or genuine connection.
Director Tushar Jalota’s feature isn’t just a film, it’s a warm, beating heart projected onto the screen. Though, the film takes the traditional opposites-attract route of a North-meets-South love story, with a little help of an app, but it’s elevated by a warm screenplay, a sizzling central couple, and a soundtrack that brims with emotion.
The storyline revolves around Param (Sidharth Malhotra), a tech-savvy, smooth Delhi businessman who has dreams of investing in a slick app for meeting your “soul-mate.” When Param’s dad (Sanjay Kapoor), tired of his shenanigans, dares him to use his own app to find a soulmate in a month, we’re introduced to Sundari (Janhvi Kapoor), a down-to-earth and feisty Malayali woman whose warmth and authenticity cannot be programmed into boxes.
What follows is a snappy and surprisingly profound examination of digital love versus true feeling. Something that started over an app, soon turns into one adorable mess of emotions, love, fait,h and heart, which certainly cannot be controlled, only felt!
Actor Sidharth Malhotra adds charisma, perfect comic timing, and surprising emotional depth to Param. But it is Janhvi Kapoor who truly steals the show with the most powerful performance of her career to date as Sundari.
The supporting cast adds texture and charm, Sanjay Kapoor with his impeccable comic timing and effortless charm, brings laugh-out-loud moments just when things get intense. Manjot Singh is hilarious, Inayat Verma is a scene-stealer, and Renji Panicker and Siddhartha Shankar bring sincerity to Sundari’s world.
The film is visually stunning, from the concrete gloss of Delhi’s start-up scene to the lush, unfiltered beauty of Kerala’s backwaters, the film travels a physical and emotional distance.
Produced by Dinesh Vijan under Maddock Films, the beauty of the film lies in how honestly it reflects a generation that’s gotten a little too comfortable outsourcing love to algorithms.
