Meenakshi Sundareshwar (2021) User Reviews

Very boring poorly scripted movie!

[UmeshAditya · 6/10 · 6 November 2021]

Very boring poorly scripted movie! It's all about long distance relationship in an arranged marriage trying to make marriage work. This app isn't accepting any ratings below 6 currently while rating. What a cheap strategy!

My ratings 3/10.

Post marriage uneasy period of adjustment

[madanmarwah · 6/10 · 7 November 2021]

A newly wed south Indian couple is forced to carry on a long distance relationship as hubby has to move from orthodox temple town Madurai to a happening, modern cyber city Bengaluru. The sweet nothings through the lap top does not help to keep the relationship live. There are the usual strict elder males and curious aunties. To make things worse, the IT firm in the big bad Bengaluru city where our hero( Abimanyu Dasani) works, accepts only bachelors due to heavy and time sensitive work load. ( The super strict boss makes this amply clear in his speech to the rookies). The new bride ( Sanya Malhotra) makes unsuccessful efforts to join him and soon the misunderstandings and the friction begin. When the communication between them breaks down he ruefully says that "communication is like oxygen in a relationship".

This movie is a case of post marriage slow burn and uneasy period of adjustment which at times tests the patience of audience with its slow pace, sweetness and excessive simplicity. Yes excessive sweetness and simplicity can be a pain at times. The movie focusses a bit too much on the orthodox south Indian family and the atmosphere of the sleepy temple town of Madurai to a point of distraction. The narrative is painfully slow most of the time and the misery of the confused, timid ,and awkward couple does not help in any way. (At times it looks like an idli- sambar mix gone wrong.) The good point of the movie is the pleasing display of romance between a pretty heroine and a handsome shy hero, both trying desperately to make the marriage work. The aspect of Sanya being a crazy and diehard fan of Rajnikanth is shown very well. The movie has lovely music and excellent cinematography which brings out Madurai beautifully.

A Delightful Watch!

[mayankshukla1404 · 7/10 · 21 November 2021]

Meenakshi Sundareshwar is a sweet and charming film with the concept of arranged marriages and long distance relationships in the background. The refreshing treatment and southern setting of the film is what sets it apart from the rest in the same genre.

The lead pair of Sanya Malhotra and Abhimanyu Dassani are such a delight to watch. Sanya just lits up the screen every time she appears in the film. Abhimanyu's innocence is adorable. The film has also got some lovely music. All in all this one is recommended for all the romance lovers as it has its heart in the right place.

Nice soft and light movie

[abhinavranjan-71993 · 9/10 · 18 November 2021]

Kudos to the new comer and the team of Meenakshi Sundareshwar. It was a very nice light movie to watch. This movie was reminding me of 2 States, though there is no similarity in story but the sweet grip of the movie keep us holding to go till end :)

Great performances, Sweet relationship but.....

[Biswas_ · 7/10 · 6 November 2021]

This film is about Meenakshi and Sunder whose cute happy marriage life gets affected when Sunder shifts alone to a new city for his job.

Lets come to the point.

GOOD :-

1. Brilliant performances. Both Sanya and Abhi look very nice and have made sure their interactions don't get boring and their conversations are sweet . I really loved that part when Meenakshi was talking to Sunder's dress that was so sweet.

2. Humor wherever present works well.

3. Music works well with the film.

Now the NEGATIVES:-

N number of flaws/no-sense scenes --> First, how bizzare was the way the leads got engaged . Mtlb kuch bhi? Second, There is a song in a train that looked cringy . Tamils singing a pure Hindi song is the last thing i see in a Tamil background film. Third, who TF makes a person sit under a dangerous fan just to watch it fall on him? Fourth, bachelors like Sunder living in an apartment that looks like some CEO's apartments. How man? Fifth, Meenakshi randomly starting to dance on the road, stuff like this happens only in films.

Overall, sweet couple relation but bogged down by so many flaws and inconsistencies that cant be ignored at all however can be given a one time watch.

BE BTECH,'s BSC (College and After College student)

[saharsh-narayan-977-471615 · 10/10 · 19 November 2021]

Meenakshi Sundareshwar is a must watch for 90's kids. The ambience will relate you of Malgudi days, chanting, mantras and vedic temples will take you to your childhood days. What boys family does before going to girls family. Life before and after marriage. Fun part :- Ghar - Ghar, Doctor- Doctor and Chor-Police 😉 ... Refraining myself from sharing spoilers.

Engineers life in bangalore! That is all, I can share.

PLEASE GO & WATCH.....

Perfect movie for newly wed couples

[Sovik_Das · 7/10 · 5 November 2021]

Great movie. Great cast. Full of romance and comedy. Must watch movie for all newly married couples. Enjoy the movie. Sanya Malhotra was superb. Only negative point is that it could have been a little crisp and shorter.

Madurai - Bangalore!

[vihangadulaj97 · 10/10 · 21 November 2021]

Meenakshi Sundareshwar is a story of a long distance relationship, of a husband and wife, Sundareshwar and Meenakshi. Story was nice. Best part of this movie is, I would to say it's scenic beauty and simplicity. The background and the scene locations were so beautifully added keeping in mind the traditions and culture of the people living in South India. I would call this picture a visual treat. Apart from this, the combination of English and Tamil, I guess made the picture more interesting and easy to connect.

South Indians got it wrong

[mogarg · 6/10 · 16 November 2021]

I see too many people complaining about the movie not being true to South India - please just stop it. Bollywood/Hollywood basically any film maker is never going to showcase a place exactly how it is - they are trying to make a movie, bring their own perspective, characters and vision to it. They are not making a documentary. If you want culture represented accurately, go to a Museum or pickup a Book or go watch a play. Also, the fact that the actors speak or don't speak a particular language makes zero difference in the movie. Stop with your politics.

That being said, why the movie doesn't work is simply because the script sucks. Plain and simple. There's really not a lot going on in the story. Sanya's amazing acting and the brilliant visuals hide the fact that this is a very badly written movie with various scenes bound together incoherently. The script seems like it was inspired over a Whatsapp chat by some uncles trying to pass time.

The concept of long distance relationships and family is not explored well starting with the underlying premise - "Only single people are allowed to work in my company." Well not only is that not legal, there's no way you can ever enforce that. So completely illogical to begin with. Secondly, the fact that we can't stay together in Bangalore because family members might drop by makes zero sense either. If they drop by as they just did later in the movie, you just go home to see them after office. What's the problem with that? How would they really know? Simple to solve problems are brought up repeatedly and the characters just foolishly roll with it with no conflict at all.

Overall, 10/10 for Sanya's acting, 10/10 for visuals, 10/10 for the concept, but 0/10 for the script and that's what kills the movie for me.

A long distance rom-com with no sense.

[akhil027 · 1/10 · 9 November 2021]

Long distance relationships aren't hard for Indians. Here, people wait years to meet their loved ones. This was only Banglore and Madurai. A 7 hour bus trip is all that's needed for their relationship to work. But they kind of want to use the Hollywood story of long distance relationships in India.

And the language is disrespectful to any sane person. It's a story about two person from Tamil Nadu. But all of them speaks Hindi and broken Tamil every now and then. I don't know why bollywood keeps doing this. But stop trying to show Tamil culture if you don't know anything about it. At least don't cast non Tamilians as Tamilians. Even if you do, get a dubbing artist to give voice for them instead of making them speak a language when they can't. And stop using Rajinikanth. Just stop.

There were some good moments in the movie, but overall, it's cringey.

Worth watching

[yaminigupta-26006 · 10/10 · 5 November 2021]

One of the best movie. Sanya's acting is brilliant. Great movie. Great the story line. Must watch ones. Worth watching. Entire cast has done a great job.

The storyline is too good, except some bugs

[pranay-29845 · 7/10 · 17 November 2021]

I have given it 7 star only because they have put some scenes in their film that are unbelievable. In this 21st century, do you guys really that there is company which only allows singles to work i their company and that too in Bangalore. There is a girl next to you who is your wife and you are not having physical relationship with her beacuse you need to do packing. Comeon guys you should have come with some believe to reasons . Dont consider us fools.

Misleading reviews

[ayusht-05021 · 2/10 · 8 November 2021]

Its a fun ride which derailed very fast. As usual Sanya Malhotra killed her role, so did abhimanyu dasani but the script was so lazy and sluggish that you will start losing your nerve. Bollywood needs better love stories than this, I am just angry on the fake reviews.

Mixed curry

[santosh0535 · 6/10 · 4 December 2021]

Started off well.. Sanya looks beautiful yet different in saree attire.. conversations are soo innocent.. Watched in Tamil language(I am Telugu person) to get some nativity in the movie but something lacking in the movie.. also Hindi songs in the movie are sooo irritating.. narration feels little dragging.. pinch of propaganda to leave family business and become a slave to corporate culture.. who the hell put the condition to have only bachelor employees!! Well cinema ended with a happy note and "They lived happily ever after" kinda ending..

Fantastic first half, but the second half disappoints.

[Perspicuity1 · 8/10 · 26 November 2021]

It feels like the writers either ran out of time or got replaced after writing half the film. The first half has been created with a lot of love, but the second half it seems was written with a confused state of mind, that didn't know what to do with the characters. There is a lot of humour and innocence in the first half of the film, I just wish the writers had carried on with that tone throughout the film and not taken the path of that pointless conflict between Meenakshi and Sundareshwar. The first half of the film has wacky humour and the events that unfold have a very sweet taste to them, but for some mysterious reason, the writers and director decided to add bitterness into the second half. I can understand that it's not possible for the bond between a newlywed couple, who are unable to spend time together, to be very strong, but the way they behave in the latter half of the film was almost childish. In the first half of the film, we see that Meenakshi is bonding really well with her husband's family, while in the second half she starts feeling alienated, so much so that she ends up having a showdown with the elders of the family......why did the story take this direction? More importantly, why did the writers feel that doing this would make the film better? The truth is that the movie just became a convoluted mess in the second half and it was all completely unnecessary. The ending of the film comes out of the blue and almost feels abrupt.

As far as acting is concerned, the entire cast has performed really well, but Sanya Malhotra outshines everyone else. Be it the shy and innocent girl at the beginning of the film, or the infuriated girl towards the end, Sanya Malhotra has portrayed every single emotion with perfection. Abhimanyu Dassani's role doesn't have a lot of scope, but he does come across as believable.

The cinematography as well as the music of the film is excellent. Although the background music by Justin Prabhakaran seems heavily inspired by Harris Jayaraj's Minnale (2001) and Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein (2001), the songs are quite good, specially 'Tu Yahin Hai' and 'Tittar Bittar'.

I would still recommend everyone to watch this film just for its fantastic first half. Meenakshi Sundareshwar could have been a way better film if the writers did not have a change of heart after the first half.

Good romantic movie

[laceup-96849 · 7/10 · 15 November 2021]

Ignore the stereotype of South Indians overall its a good romantic movie which I can relate to, the story was little frustrating though but overall its a great movie true very typical.

Sweet simple Love story

[carikkybhartia · 9/10 · 4 December 2021]

If you want to spend quality time with your WAGs then just take a Popcorn or nachos with hit coffee or tea, get insid ethe blanket on bed or couch and start watching this sweet simple Love story and you will just have a smile and some laughter throughout the movie.

It will also give you genuine reasons to think about and a very good message of our current situation where we know mobile phones more than our partners and loved ones and their moods, likes and dislikes and then we need to trust them and our feelings more than the trends and others.

Also a message to passionate youth to keep on believing in your dreams and make efforts to achieve them and to parents to encourage their kids and have trust on them rather then on your own wishes and dreams for them.

A must watch... Acting, direction and story are all very good...

Could have been a really good film

[Raj_B_1 · 7/10 · 15 November 2021]

I would give 10/10 for the acting, cinematography, music and the first half of the film. 2nd half lacks pace and becomes a bit boring. Abhimanyu and Sanya are really good and make this a watchable film.

Too boring movie. Wasted my 2 hrs. Dont trust fake reviews

[sndpkumar · 4/10 · 6 November 2021]

Nothing good about the movie except the locations. Its too boring . Same old relationship arguments with no good screenplay and direction.

The reviews with 10 are totally fake. It doesn't deserve more than 5 for sure .Cant trust imdb also now a days .

Really Amazing

[eshakbag · 10/10 · 7 November 2021]

Really this movie has won everyone's heart. What would you guys like to say about this, there has never been a better movie than this, really it is very wonderful, you guys must watch it.

Sunday Time Pass

[reiya-32720 · 6/10 · 14 November 2021]

This Vivek Soni movie tries very hard to ring the right chords and partially achieves it also but still it seems boring and places , the girl has acted Well but the movie misses the punch.

A Sunday if you have nothing else to do you can watch it ideally between 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm slot.

Stereotyped, awkward, patriarchal and much more, please read below

[ar-reviews · 1/10 · 8 November 2021]

I am going to list down everything wrong with the movie: 1. The state of Tamil Nadu speaks the language of Tamil. Its extremely offensive to portray Tamilians using Hindi as their first language. Netflix needs to understand the politics of North India's push to make Hindi the national language and South India's fight against it, it has been going on for half a decade.

2. All the rooms in Tamil Nadu are lit up in a sepia tint, even software companies. Also all ladies in Tamil Nadu wears traditional with flowers in the hair. Even interviewers in software companies. Height of stereotyping by Johar and party.

3. This is a celebration of the arranged marriage culture. The boy's family end up going to the wrong girl's house, they are trying to leave when they realized their mistake. But an old uncle blows a conch shell and announces the marriage is fixed. Everyone is happy, nobody bothered to ask the couple for consent.

4. Seems a large family does not understand young couples have sex, everyone walks into bedroom and a cute music is played. What is cute about sex illiteracy?

5. The patriarch (boy's dad) announces decisions all through the movie, everyone falls in line, it's considered normal apparently.

6. The boy gets a job at a company where they employs only bachelors. Seems girlfriends are also not allowed. Apparently this is also normal according to the makers of this movie.

7. The protagonist has the brilliant idea of sharing a quarter whiskey between 3 people by making each take a small sip, look at the stars and shake their torso. Have been drinking for a good long time, its news to me.

Beyond this I stopped paying attention and started playing with my phone. I am sure I missed a lot of juicy bits.

Beautiful, Must watch

[ashishbhandari-82258 · 8/10 · 5 November 2021]

I am amazed to watch this beautiful movie. Some kissing scenes, otherwise film can be watched with family. There is a new age romance,long distance relationship , feel of pure and divine love with extraordinary flavour of music. Movie's pace might bore you for a while but trust me , you won't feel bad for that. So so beautiful movie. Must watch.

Sweet and Salty

[akumehra · 7/10 · 7 November 2021]

A very sweet movie which is enjoyable for an old soul who doesn't agree with the Tinder gen. Enjoy the simplicity of Madhurai and performances. Truly refreshing. The film starts to dwindle slightly in the second half but certainly enjoyable for home viewing.

A sweet love story

[alekhyabanerjee · 10/10 · 5 November 2021]

I am not a fan of love stories but this one made me a fan of the leads wish to see them in more films together A good music and story with a average screen play there can be a bit improvement in the direction part but as the story and screen play was top notch thus i gave it 10 stars.