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Luka Chuppi

Pretending to be married in order to cohabitate, a small-town couple lands in endless awkward situations to hide the truth from their orthodox families. Pretending to be married in order to cohabitate, a small-town couple lands in endless awkward situations to hide the truth from their orthodox families. Pretending to be married in order to cohabitate, a small-town couple lands in endless awkward situations to hide the truth from their orthodox families.

• Laxman Utekar
• Rohan Shankar
• Kartik Aaryan
• Kriti Sanon
• Aparshakti Khurana
• 135 User reviews
• 14 Critic reviews
• 2 wins & 5 nominations

• Vinod 'Guddu' Shukla

• Rashmi Trivedi

• Abbas Shaikh

• Vishnu Trivedi Ji

• Badriprasad Shukla

• Shakuntala Shukla

• Varun Shukla
• Chikoo Shukla

• Janki Shukla

• Chotu (Babulal's Sidekick)
• Mrs. Srivastava (Neighbour)
• Shrikant Trivedi
• Savitri Trivedi
• Adita Naath
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Abbas : Living in a hotel is not called a live-in relationship. But if you have something else in mind, then hotel is fine.

Rashmi Trivedi : No we don't have anything else in our mind.

Vinod 'Guddu' Shukla : What do you mean?

Rashmi Trivedi : What?

Vinod 'Guddu' Shukla : I mean we will do everything that a husband and wife normally do.

Rashmi Trivedi : Don't get any ideas.

• Soundtracks Poster Lagwa Do Lyrics by Anand Bakshi & Whitenoise Music by Dilip Sen , Sameer Sen & Whitenoise Performed by Mika Singh & Sunanda Sharma

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• Mar 5, 2019
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• March 1, 2019 (India)
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• Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India
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• Maddock Films
• Skywalk Films
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• Mar 3, 2019
• $14,256,199

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• Runtime 2 hours 6 minutes

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Luka Chuppi movie review: Kartik Aaryan, Kriti Sanon's film is an overwritten dummies guide to live-in relationships

In Luka Chuppi, Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Sanon dive into shallow waters, paddling furiously within the whirlpool of a feeble story.

In the 2013 romantic comedy Shuddh Desi Romance, a young couple pretended to be siblings in order to disguise their cohabiting status. In Laxman Utekar ’s version 2019, live-in relationships are not just frowned upon, but discovery of such an arrangement can be humiliating and lead to violence.

In Mathura, the guardians of morality are members of local political party Sanskriti Raksha Manch. The public enemy number one in the region is movie star Nazeem Khan (Abhinav Shukla) whose pro live-in stance is common knowledge. Posters of his blacked out face line the narrow streets.

In this environment, where young couples are being harassed, local television reporter Guddu Shukla (Kartik Aaryan) meets intern Rashmi ( Kriti Sanon ), who has recently returned completed a media course in Delhi.

Guddu, the youngest of three sons, is at loggerheads with his two older brothers and Babulal (Pankaj Tripathi), a lecherous member of the extended family.

Rashmi’s father, Trivedi (Vinay Pathak), has political ambitions as the leader of the Sanskriti Raksha Manch. But despite her father’s hardline, Rashmi tells Guddu that she would like to get to know him better by entering into a live-in arrangement before they decide to marry. Lucky for them, Guddu’s buddy and cameraman Abbas (Aparshakti Khurana) is an ideas-a-minute kind of guy. He manipulates a work assignment in a way that Guddu and Rashmi can now masquerade as a married couple and rent an apartment in Gwalior.

This results in some comical situations with nosy, judgmental neighbours, loved-up scenes of playing house-house and finally, drama. An already shaky script completely unravels after the couple’s ruse is revealed. When their pretense convinces the families and gets a stamp of approval, Guddu and Rashmi suddenly go from being defiant and deliriously happy to guilt-ridden and glum.

Now, with Abbas’s help, but with much interference from Babulal and quite a bit of idiocy of their own, Guddu and Rashmi try to actually get married on the sly.

Rohan Shankar’s script abounds with characters doing dumb things. Had there been a few more layers to the story and character development, one might even have rooted for Guddu and Rashmi. But the only interesting things about them are Aaryan’s hairstyles and pout, and Sanon’s lovely outfits. As actors, they dive into shallow waters, paddling furiously within the whirlpool of a feeble story. The nicest scenes are between the three friends, with Khurana handling the complexities of Abbas’s character with gentleness. It is a contrast to Tripathi who scampers around in colourful costumes like a court jester.

Utekar directs what can best be defined as an overwritten dummies guide to live-in relationships. There is so much drag in this 126-minute film that even the occasional build-up of momentum is punctured by the next chapter of humourless nonsense, such as a bizarre dream sequence with a child getting married and a scene at a temple.

The last word is reserved for Guddu and Rashmi, who unwrap Trivedi’s political opportunism and declare that the youth of India is a vote bank not to be gagged by an outdated moral code. Now if only they had taken this stand 60 minutes sooner.

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Luka Chuppi movie review and release highlights: Kartik Aaryan, Kriti Sanon starrer off to a good start

Luka chuppi movie review and release highlights: here's what celebrities, critics and fans have to say about luka chuppi, starring kartik aaryan, kriti sanon, aparshakti khurana, pankaj tripathi and vinay pathak..

Starring Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Sanon, Luka Chhupi has hit the screens. The film also stars Aparshakti Khurana, Pankaj Tripathi and Vinay Pathak. The romantic comedy is directed by Laxman Utekar and is being produced by Dinesh Vijan’s Maddock Films.

Luka Chuppi’s music has become immensely popular. While some of the tracks of the film are recreated like “Tu Laung Main Elaichi”, “Poster Lagwa Do” and “Coca Cola”, they are still being appreciated by the audience.

The film releases alongside Sushant Singh Rajput and Bhumi Pednekar starrer Sonchiriya.

It was recently announced that Luka Chuppi will not be released in Pakistan following the Pulwama attack. Maddock Films also announced that they will also not release their upcoming films Made in China and Arjun Patiala in Pakistan.

Read all the updates about Luka Chuppi.

"This could have been a fun, sharp film, done right. Instead, we get never-ending scenes of family members yakking, neighbours gossiping, and a few passages between Guddu and Rashmi which are meant to be sensuous and flirtatious (rolling in bed in shorts and Ts, haww, talking of ‘protection’, how forward, double haww). Aaryan and Sanon, in their first pairing, come off standard-issue Bollywood," The Indian Express' film critic Shubhra Gupta wrote in her review of the movie. 

Also read | Luka Chuppi movie review: A wasted opportunity

Film Trade analyst Sumit M Kadel tweeted, "#LukaChuppi is a WINNER. Very well executed Rom-Com film. @TheAaryanKartik @kritisanon performed exceptionally well, Pankaj tripathi delivers an HILARIOUS act. Strong writing & direction makes it very entertaining film for family audience. @MaddockFilms Rating- ????."

Kartik Aaryan posted on his social media account, "#Guddu aur uski #Duniya ab aapki hui ? #6BeegaJameenBharDeteHain ? Had so much fun shooting for the film and thanx to the entire team of Luka-Chuppi and people of #Mathura n #Gwalior ?? #LukaChuppi now in theatres?."

Actor Viineet Kumar tweeted a while ago, "Listening good things about #LukaChuppi Congratulations to the writer @rohanshankar06 director @Laxman10072 & the team. I want to watch it but I have to wait, I am shooting in Mandawa, Rajasthan. Best wishes to @TheAaryanKartik ? @kritisanon @TripathiiPankaj @Aparshakti & team?"

Riteish Deshmukh took to Twitter to post, "Best wishes -@kritisanon, @TheAaryanKartik #DineshVijan & the entire team of #LukaChuppi a great outing at the box office."

Ronit Bose Roy shared on his Twitter account, "Releasing Today. I’m off to watch the movie. All the best @theaaryankartik @kritisanon #DineshVijan maddockfilms pvijan @sharadakarki laxman.utekar #PankajTripathi @Aparshakti…."

Trade guru Taran Adarsh had shared the screen count of the film. "#LukaChuppi screen count... India: 2100+| Overseas: 407 | Worldwide total: 2507+ screens," tweeted Taran.

Tahira Kashyap Khurrana posted on Twitter, "What a fun entertainer! Loved #LukaChuppi some wonderful and rib tickling performances by @Aparshakti @TheAaryanKartik @kritisanon @TripathiiPankaj loved the vibe of the film?."

Varun Sharma tweeted, "All the Very best to the Super team of #LukaChhupi Chakk deyo Fatte!! This one is a Sure Shot biggie.. Absolutely Loved the Film!! Full Powrrrrr!!?? @MaddockFilms @kritisanon @TheAaryanKartik #Dineshvijan #LaxmanUtekar @Aparshakti @TripathiiPankaj #incinemastoday."

"#OneWordReview…#LukaChuppi: WINNER. Rating: ???½ A situational comedy with a message... Relatable premise, clean humour, foot tapping music, loads of entertainment... Superb climax... Kartik Aaryan top notch, Kriti Sanon damn good. Recommended! #LukaChuppiReview," tweeted Trade guru Taran Adarsh.

Rajkummar Rao shared on Twitter, "All the best to the amazing team of #LukkaChuppi and to my brother #DineshVijan. I’m sure it will go really high. Hearing great things about it. Can’t wait to watch it. @MaddockFilms @kritisanon @TheAaryanKartik #LaxmanUtekar @Aparshakti @TripathiiPankaj"

Indian Express' Mimansa Shekhar writes, "If you have waited for a feel-good family entertainer, then Luka Chuppi might quench your thirst. While the film tackles the topic of live-in relationships, it also offers several other subplots and a subtle social message. It explores things like religion, love jihad and ‘let love be’, but without getting preachy even once. It rather projects things with dollops of humour. The film’s USP is its perfect casting."

Sophie Choudry tweeted, "U r beyond lovely in #LukaChuppi @kritisanon not just cos u look so pretty but cos of ur fab performance!And Guddu, the girls & families will fall in love with u. Get set for lots of live in proposals @TheAaryanKartik ?Fab chemistry guys!Congrats on this funny, sweet, mad ride??."

Film trade analyst Girish Johar said, "Luka Chuppi is a colourful film and they have come out with a remix of many popular tracks which I believe has created decent buzz but still the chartbuster song is missing in its album. Nonetheless, awareness levels are quite high. I feel Luka Chuppi should earn somewhere around Rs 5 crore on its opening day.”

Also read | Luka Chuppi box office collection prediction: Kartik Aaryan-Kriti Sanon starrer to earn Rs 5 crore on Day 1

Asked if Luka Chupp will the perception of the society about live-in relationships, Kriti Sanon told indianexpress.com, "We are not trying to preach about live-in. We are just trying to say – live and let live. There are way more important issues in the film. And “let love be” is one of the things. I feel if two people are in love and want to spend their life together, only they should be the ones deciding how their lives should go."

Also read | Doing small-town roles gave me confidence: Kriti Sanon

Film trade analyst Joginder Tuteja wrote on Twitter, "#LukaChuppi - Easy, beeezy, crazy - This one is all around good fun which keeps the humour on right through. Even with a live-in theme, it’s actually a complete family entertainer by @Laxman10072 @MaddockFilms . @TheAaryanKartik is super confident, @kritisanon is perfect????????." 

Mukesh Chhabra posted on Twitter, "What a lovely visual treat to see @kritisanon and @TheAaryanKartik play #LukaChuppi on screen. With their effortless chemistry you won't be able to help but fall in love with these two. #LukaChuppi in Theaters today."

While Kartik Aaryan was last seen in 2018's surprise hit Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety, Kriti Sanon is appearing on the silver screen after a long gap. The actor was last seen in Ashwini Iyer Tiwari's 2017 film Bareilly Ki Barfi. In 2018, Kriti was only seen in a promotional video for the film Stree.

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Luka Chuppi Movie Review: Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Sanon deliver a blockbuster laugh riot

Luka Chuppi, starring Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Sanon, will not blow your mind, but is a good watch if you are looking for something fun this weekend, says our review.

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Laxman Utekar's Luka Chuppi explores the concept of live-in relationships in small-town Mathura and Gwalior, where they are heavily frowned upon. However, despite having top-notch performances and hilarious moments, the film leaves much to be desired as it only manages to scratch the surface.

Guddu Shukla (Kartik Aaryan) is a star reporter at a cable news channel in Mathura. He falls in love with Rashmi Tiwari (Kriti Sanon), an intern and the daughter of the Mathura chief of the Sanskriti Suraksha Manch, a right-wing outfit that takes pride in beating up young lovers and 'upholding Indian culture'. (Anti-Romeo Squad, anyone?)

Despite being two consenting adults in love, Guddu and Rashmi barely manage to sneak in any time together, away from the prying eyes of the moral police. When he proposes marriage, she wants to get to know him properly and suggests a live-in relationship.

Guddu and Rashmi take up a 20-day assignment in Gwalior and decide to live together there. They pretend to be a newly married couple, with Rashmi wearing sindoor and a mangalsutra. Things take a hilarious turn when their families discover them living together and wrongly assume that they are actually married.

Luka Chuppi shows none of the actual challenges of a live-in relationship. Barring a fleeting conversation that Guddu cannot chop onions and Rashmi has an aversion to cleaning toilets, everything is rosy in their paradise.

Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Sanon have an undeniably cute chemistry and deliver competent performances, although they look a bit too slick to be from a small town. However, it is Aparshakti Khurana as Guddu's best friend Abbas who steals the show with his deadpan humour. Unfortunately, Pankaj Tripathi is completely wasted in a trivial role, although he makes the most of it.

Rohan Shankar's writing flounders at times. Even though the dark satire and social commentary is on point at times - take, for instance, Rashmi's father's reaction when he learns that Abbas is a Muslim - the script suffers from some inconsistencies.

From being a spunky woman who is willing to go against society to live with her lover, Rashmi inexplicably transforms into someone who suddenly wants to rush to the altar because she cannot lie to her elders. Her dreams of a career in Delhi are quickly forgotten.

The final sequence of Luka Chuppi is also a tad disappointing. After a lot of build-up, things fall into place a bit too conveniently.

However, Luka Chuppi is filled with hilarious moments, particularly the sequence of the nosy neighbour who spies on Guddu and Rashmi. Each of their unsuccessful attempts to get married also elicit a lot of laughs.

Director Laxman Utekar captures the eccentrities of a small town to perfection and thanks to its crisp run-time, Luka Chuppi hardly has a dull moment.

ALSO READ | Is Kriti Sanon open to live-in relationships? Luka Chuppi actress answers

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Luka Chuppi Reviews

Luka Chuppi is a sexless romp that's inconsistent on which audience it's serving.

Full Review | Apr 5, 2019

Utekar directs what can best be defined as an overwritten dummies guide to live-in relationships.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2019

Even a meme conveys more about live-ins than this logic-defying, unfunny movie.

Full Review | Mar 11, 2019

Watch Luka Chuppi for a talented cast of actors stuck with a half-baked script working very hard to give you some easy giggles.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2019

A contrived comedy about issues that are anything but funny...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2019

Luka Chuppi is led by the least charismatic set of young actors.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2019

...the writing and the treatment is so slack that the intent rises to the surface only occasionally.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 1, 2019

Luka Chuppi isn't quite radical, let alone consistently funny, but the long walk to the altar is far less conservative than it could have been.

Two decades too late.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 1, 2019

Luka Chuppi is a fun ride that never gets too preachy or uncomfortable for the family audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2019

Watch Luka Chuppi for a dose of some good, clean fun -- much needed after all the heavy-duty stuff which has been going around in real life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2019

The film has its moments but you have to wait for them.

It's a light-hearted film with a scattered, almost fickle, storyline, bolstered by good performances from a sturdy cast. While you may not put a ring on this one, you can definitely live with it for a couple of hours of your life.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 28, 2019

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Luka Chuppi movie review: Delivers laughs galore

Updated March 1st, 2019 at 12:22 IST

Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Sanon's starrer Luka Chuppi directed by Laxman Utekar is a laughter riot. Read the movie review here. It is among the finest comedies in recent times that will take you on a laughter ride. ‘Stree’ duo Aparshakti Khurrana and Pankaj Tripathi are brilliant.

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It was around the same time last year that Kartik Aaryan, out of nowhere, delivered a blockbuster Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety. Its super success suddenly made him much sought-after for a slew of romantic comedies that he has been signed on for, first being Luka Chuppi. Kriti Sanon, after numerous masala entertainers, showcased her acting chops in Bareilly Ki Barfi. Does the fresh pair take forward what they achieved with their last film? Read on:

Setting the scene

Living-in is a crime in Mathura after an actor with the Khan surname admits to staying with his girlfriend before marriage. While members of the Sanskriti Raksha Manch headed by Shukla ji (Vinay Pathak) vandalise his posters and blacken his face on them, Guddu (Kartik Aaryan) is a reporter who covers the fury at Khan and the ‘menace’ of a live-in relationship. Shuklaji’s daughter Rashmi (Kriti Sanon) joins Guddu’s news channel for internship and they fall in love. Guddu wants to get married before his elder brother at any cost and proposes to Rashmi. She isn’t keen to accept his ring without knowing him well and suggests living in together. Since the fear of Sanskriti Raksha Manch is spread across, they have no option but to disguise as a married couple in Gwalior to get accommodation for 20 days.

Luka Chuppi is the story of a couple who decide to live-in at a time when it’s a sin to do so in their town. Like the saying goes, 'One lie leads to another', the duo are forced to make false statements one after another to save themselves. Doubt about their living-in starts from a suspecting neighbour who is keen to foil their plan. While the couple tackle her somehow, things take an interesting turn when Guddu’s family members get to know about their ‘marriage.’

Luka Chuppi delivers laughs galore. The true hero of the movie is its brilliant writing. From an interesting plot filled with twists and turns to witty dialogues from star to end, this comedy gives us the laughter medicine throughout its running time of 126 minutes.  

As far as performances are concerned, Kartik does a fine job again, though his dialogue delivery looks odd when he says something aloud. If you don’t get distracted by how gorgeous Kriti is looking, you’ll see she is good in the acting department too. The chemistry of the lead pair in romantic scenes and their comic timing are perfect.

The supporting cast is amazing in the way they literally supported the lead pair. ‘Stree’ duo Aparshakti Khurrana and Pankaj Tripathi carry forward their act from the horror comedy brilliantly and justify their acts in some hilarious scenes. Vinay Pathak and each and every member of the cast are equally good.

Locations of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are captured well. Music, which interestingly features all recreated songs, is apt for the situations. Kudos to director Laxman Utekar for bringing on screen Rohan Shankar’s well-written script beautifully.   

Overall, Luka Chuppi is among the most entertaining comedies in recent times that will take you on a laughter ride. 

Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Kriti Sanon, Aparshakti Khurrana, Pankaj Tripathi, Vinay Pathak

What works: Performances, dialogues, funny situations

What doesn’t: Rushed romance, Rashmi’s (Kriti) ‘guilt’, ‘easy’ climax

Rating: 3.5/5  

Published March 1st, 2019 at 09:12 IST

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Luka Chuppi Movie Review: It’s All About Finding The Missing Story, Sense & Substance!

You can watch luka chuppi with zero expectations and yet there's a great chance you'll get disappointed.

Star Cast: Kartik Aaryan and his annoying made-up dialect, Kriti Sanon’s cuteness (at places), a supremely wasted Pankaj Tripathi, (Why)nay? Pathak, Alka I-Mean Why?, Aparshakti (Yahan) Kyun-aana?

Director: (Sab nahi bana paate movies) – Laxman – Utekar

What’s Good: The basic plot behind making the movie is pretty interesting but you can’t stretch a chewing gum after a point, just the mere presence of Pankaj Tripathi!

What’s Bad: When someone is assigned a job and he/she couldn’t finish it! Luka Chuppi’s job was to entertain me through comedy or the emotional connect, it failed in every sector and I have an issue with those  comedies can’t make me laugh (I am someone who laughs even at the silliest jokes possible)

Loo Break: You will require some real guts to go back in, once you’re out in the happy & beautiful world!

Watch or Not?: In a theater? NO! It’s a movie serving nothing, you can watch it with zero expectations and yet there’s a great chance you’ll get disappointed!

Mathura’s Vinod “Guddu” Shukla is a reporter of a news channel, and its name is as predictable as the basic plot of this film – Mathura Live. He comes from a very ordinary family, having an elder brother unmarried, a crazy uncle and a blackmailing nephew. Guddu meets Rashmi “She doesn’t have a pet name” Trivedi (Kriti Sanon), who wants to be a journalist and gets the job in the same news channel. Rashmi’s father (Vinay Pathak) is a politician who is against the live-in culture and blatantly oppose it publicly.

Guddu and Rashmi, coming from two very different families, fall in love with each other. Guddu, in a heated argument, challenges his elder brother that he will marry first and proposes Rashmi (WOW). Rashmi decides to live-in with Guddu in order to know him better. There start the difficulties and how they keep lying about their relationship status till the end, is what the rest of the story is all about.

Luka Chuppi Movie Review: Script Analysis

Rohan Shankar has penned this script which is ridiculously annoying. I’m not against cheesy rom-coms at all but this movie never settles in one genre. It’s chaotic nonsense leaving you with nothing in the end. Condom jokes, fart jokes, ‘come here I want to hit your face’ jokes, an annoying neighbour aunty and what not? This movie has a lot not going in its favour. After a point of time, I was questioning myself “can it be any more stupid?” (Yes, was the answer I got from the makers).

The dialogue writer goes through the old syllabus to dig out some very outdated jokes which are anything but funny. Yes, Pankaj Tripathi shines just because of his aura and not because of the shoddily written character. Kartik’s brother’s track works in the second half but that’s about it. Some jokes are genuinely funny but in the hoard of unfunny sequences, even a Pankaj Tripathi hams.

Luka Chuppi Movie Review: Star Performance

Kartik Aaryan needs something really bad to redefine himself. He’s just one bad performance away from slipping into oblivion. Not because of his very few misses in the past but because the competition is so high, you just cannot be indistinguishable. He has the style and looks but needs a very strong director to bring out the actor from him. He follows the similar template of acting (the irksome accent being the exception) that he’s been doing since a long time now.

Kriti Sanon, after gifting us such a high in Bareilly Ki Barfi , just let us down with this one. There are no two thoughts about how she looks but her character is so annoyingly sketched, it starts bothering you after a period of time. Every character of the film gets equally worse treatment; none of them for a change, are good. When you’ve actors like Pankaj Tripathi, Vinay Pathak, Alka Amin in your supporting cast, and you decide to squander their talent – may the film be in good hands. Pankaj’s weird clothing style was designed to evoke some laughs, but it didn’t and was ridiculous at the same time.

Luka Chuppi Movie Review: Direction, Music

Laxman Utekar marks his debut with this one and gets gifted by a very lousy script. With a very ordinary attempt at weaving up the story together; Laxman makes sure to cover the basics but few frames remain unintentionally funny. In a sequence where Pankaj catches Kartik red-handedly, we can see a couple just near to the wall, away from each other doing nothing – why? Many such instances pull down the film from being a decent one time watch.

Apart from 5 recreated songs, there are 4 more old songs used with the new music by Tanishk Bagchi. Mannat Noor’s Tu Laung Main Elaachi is ruined using a ton of auto-tune. Ketan Sodha’s background score is welcoming for most of the times, but it irks you too (for example the “hello, hi” BGM whenever the annoying neighbour aunty arrives).

Luka Chuppi Movie Review: The Last Word

All said and done, Luka Chuppi packs in few laughs but there is no major reason why I should recommend this to anyone. If you’re game for, “You’re so cute!”, “Haan, bachpan mein bohot makhhan khaya tha na” kind of dialogues, you can give it a try at your own risk.

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Kyun paise nahi pahunchaye kya inke producers ne… itni badhiya movie thi aisa review likha aur sonchiriya jaisi jhandu movie ko 4 star diye ….. paise mile nahi becharo ko

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Its a very good movie.very neat n clean comedy.i will give .4 stars. Agar apke aise review ayenge to log apka review padna chod denge

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Luka Chuppi Movie Review: Kartik Aaryan And Kriti Sanon's Film Plays Hide-And-Seek With Logic

Luka chuppi movie review: aparshakti khurana's sporadic appearances generate a degree of mirth, as does pankaj tripathi's performance..

Luka Chuppi Movie Review: Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Sanon in a poster (courtesy Instagram)

Cast: Kartik Aaryan, Kriti Sanon, Aparshakti Khurana, Vinay Pathak, Pankaj Tripathi

Director: Laxman Utekar

Rating: 2 Stars (Out Of 5)

A contrived comedy about issues that are anything but funny - the pros and cons of live-in relationships, the role of oppressive conservatism in the lives of young people, and the scourge of moral policing and political expediency - Luka Chuppi , cinematographer-director Laxman Utekar's first Hindi film, plays hide-and-seek with logic and often loses its way. The outcome, without being a total washout, is an unpersuasive romp that falters frequently owing to the superficiality of the central premise and the facile nature of the treatment of a serious theme crying out for more informed satire than scattershot humour.

Lead actors Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Sanon are saddled with the onerous task of breathing life into situations that border on the bizarre. They give it their best shot. But that is hardly enough to drag a well-intentioned film about a small-town couple whose live-in dalliance triggers a series of false moves - aborted marriage attempts, to be precise - that puts the girl's politician-father on a collision course with the boy's extended family.

Aaryan plays a happy-go-lucky Guddu Shukla, the star of a Mathura cable news channel. The character is described by somebody as a "one-take kalakaar " - an allusion probably to the actor's career-defining Pyaar Ka Punchnama monologue.

Guddu's cameraman and best pal is Abbas Sheikh, played with flair by Aparshakti Khurana. The latter's sporadic appearances all through the film generate a degree of mirth, as does Pankaj Tripathi's game efforts to rise above the grossly underwritten role of Guddu's nosey brother-in-law Babulal. Tripathi provides the film's brighter moments, but you cannot help feeling that this outing does no justice to his incredible comic timing.

Luka Chuppi Movie Review: Poster of the film (Courtesy Instagram)

To return to the plot, Guddu's life takes a dramatic turn when Rashmi Trivedi (Sanon), an intern who has just returned to Mathura with a degree in electronic media journalism, refuses to accept his proposal for marriage and instead suggests that they live in for a while before making the final call.

This decision by the pair is presented in the light of what has transpired in the opening moments of Luka Chuppi . A popular movie star Nazeem Khan has stirred a massive controversy over his live-in relationship. Self-appointed guardians of morality from an organization called Sanskriti Raksha Manch, led by Rashni's father Vishnu Prasad Trivedi (Vinay Pathak), have gone on the rampage, attacking young couples and blackening their faces. But Rashmi isn't cowed down.

The romance between Guddu and Rashmi is presented in a slapdash manner. They begin asking each other personal questions as the star reporter and the tyro scour the town to record the opinion of the hoi-polloi on the matter of live-in relationships. One old widow inadvertently plants an idea in Rashmi's mind. It would have been great, the woman says, if I had the luxury of living with my husband-to-be before marriage. I would then have found out that he was a drunkard and bailed out, she adds.

Rashmi takes the widow's sage advice more seriously than is good for her, forcing Guddu's hands to such an extent that he agrees to give the idea a chance. So, on the pretext of a long outstation reporting assignment, he and Rashmi drive down to Gwalior, Abbas in tow. Before they set out, the conventional Hindi movie bidaai song is given a gender-reversed spin, with Guddu bidding his family members an emotional goodbye one by one.

The love nest is soon discovered by Babulal and the entire Shukla clan turns up in the house to check out what's up. Rashmi and Guddu pretend that they are married. Guddu's mom (Alka Amin) turns hysterical, his unmarried elder brother is crestfallen, and his father (Atul Srivastava) is confused out his wits.

Convinced that his daughter is a now a married woman, Rashmi's father is left with no option but to accept Guddu as his son-in-law. For the couple, however, a real wedding is still due and the rest of the film is about how they go about finding a way of get the stamp of religious sanction on their liaison. The resultant misadventures are predictable - every time they try to marry, Guddu finds himself at the receiving end of disapproval from his own family.

Luka Chuppi , to be fair, wears a progressive veneer. It is the heroine who always seems to make the first move although once the couple's live-in hideout is exposed and the two lovers return home the girl seems to lose a bit of agency as she succumbs to the pressure to conform to societal rules, defying the very purpose of her subversive act. That apart, the presence of a selfless Muslim best friend who is always ready to help might have added genuine value to the script had he not been only a sidekick whose identity is no more than just a plot detail to be employed at convenient junctures.

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The film does well to call out the moral police, the flag-bearers of sanskriti. Yeh dharm nahi hai, mudda hai chunaav ke liye (This isn't about religion, it is an electoral issue, the hero says when he is pushed to the wall. That may be a daring statement to make in the present climate, but the impact of the assertion might have been far greater had the depredations of the religious vigilantes not been jettisoned to the background once the comic love story takes centrestage.

Luka Chuppi isn't without its moments, but its downside overwhelms its strengths by a big margin. It offers shallow entertainment at best. Watch the film only if that is good enough for you.

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Movie Review: Luka Chuppi (2019)

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“I go to the gym. I am lean. You speak to me like a machine. You say that you watch Scooby-Dooby Doo. Let it be, Don’t have to say I love you.” — “Coca Cola Tu”, lyrics by Tony Kakkar and Mellow D or a random word generator

The romantic comedy Luka Chuppi (“ Hide and Seek “) tries to appeal to a youthful demographic, but its story is stale.

Small town reporter Guddu (Kartik Aaryan) falls in love at first sight with Rashmi (Kriti Sanon), a new intern at Guddu’s cable station. Rashmi wants to wait on marriage until she’s established her own journalism career in Delhi, but she’s willing to try out a live-in relationship with Guddu first. Traditional Guddu balks at the idea, not least of all because a local conservative Hindu political party — led by Rashmi’s father, Vishnu (Vinay Pathak) — is waging a crusade against couples dating or living together before marriage.

A reporting assignment in another town gives Rashmi and Guddu the chance to cohabitate in secret, at the encouragement of the station’s cameraman, Abbas (Aparshakti Khurana, who was great in Stree ). When their new neighbors get suspicious, the couple pretends that they are already married — a lie that spirals out of control once their families get wind of it.

Luka Chuppi is written in the chauvinistic tradition that insists on having a male “main” character, rather than true co-leads (hence why Aaryan gets first billing in the credits even though Sanon is a bigger star). The story is set in Guddu’s world, populated by his friends, enemies, and extended family. Though Rashmi is from the same town, she’s treated as an outsider, returned from Delhi to a hometown in which she mysteriously knows no one except her father, his toady, and her mother, whose face is covered in every shot save one.

Even on his home turf, Guddu is the least-active participant in the story. Abbas offers almost all the answers to every ridiculous new problem the couple faces while Guddu stares silently. Guddu undergoes very little character growth, written as he is in the mold of Bollywood male protagonists who are inherently flawless to begin. As such, the obstacles on the couple’s path don’t force them to evolve, making the march to their inevitable happy ending feel increasingly ponderous.

Guddu’s position as the story’s fulcrum would be hard to embrace even with a more talented actor in the role, but Aaryan isn’t up to the challenge. He seems unsure what to do with his face, maintaining the same bland expression no matter what reaction is required, and his voice has a strange, hollow affect as well. Aaryan’s whole performance seems like a lackadaisical Akshay Kumar impression.

Aaryan and Sanon have zero chemistry, although she has a delightful rapport with Khurana. When the three are in scenes together, Aaryan is an obvious weak link. It’s a shame that a romance between Rashmi and Abbas is precluded outright by his being Muslim, but Luka Chuppi is clearly a one-issue movie, and interfaith romance isn’t it.

As is his wont, Pankaj Tripathi steals every scene he’s in as Guddu’s tacky, lascivious brother-in-law, Babulal, who wants to mess up Guddu’s relationship with Rashmi. If the movie were nothing but shots of Babulal snooping about in his absurd attire, it would be an improvement.

That still wouldn’t solve the film’s biggest problem, which is that there is zero chance that Guddu and Rashmi will break up once they decide to get together (which Rashmi does out of the blue after a song montage). Luka Chuppi ‘s message is that young people would like their parents to stop freaking out about live-in relationships, but the film’s presentation of the live-in relationship as a trial run for marriage is moot if the subsequent marriage is mandatory — which is why the movie has no narrative tension. Luka Chuppi is a polite request for open-mindedness, not a demand.

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Thank you for your review. Having suffered through this film (this was before I read your review’s criticism), the only tolerable bits I found were when the femal lead actor appeared pretty in a couple of scenes and a play on nostalgia by the filmmakers to insert a well-known soundtrack from “Padosan”, a legendart comedy from way, way back in the day where singer Mr. K. Kumar taught the rest of the assemble how to demonstrate comedic timing in an acting role. For those two things, if I was as generous as your opinion, I would give it a similar rating.

I watched it on Netflix. A student of mine had said she liked it when it was in the theater but it didn’t a lot for me either. I’m glad I didn’t buy the DVD.

I bet watching it with other people in a theater would’ve helped.

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Movie Review: Luka Chuppi

Luka Chuppi Devesh Sharma , Mar 1, 2019, 09:22 IST

Luka chuppi.

Guddu Shukla (Kartik Aaryan) works as a news reporter cum anchor for a cable news channel in Mathura along with his friend Abbas (Aparshakti Khurana), who is his the cameraman. Rashmi Trivedi  (Kriti Sanon) is the daughter of a political head honcho (Vinay Pathak), whose party indulges in moral policing and is staunchly against girls and boys indulging in love before marriage. The concept of live-in relationship in anathema for him. Rashmi, who has done Mass Comm from Delhi is a forward thinking individual. She joins Guddu's channel as an intern and love soon blossoms between them. He wants to marry her but she wants to test the waters first and suggests a live-in relationship. An month-long assignment to Gwalior makes that possible. She puts some sindoor, wears a fake mangalsutra and both pretend to be newlyweds. However, the ever suspicious neighbours, as well as Babulal (Pankaj Tripathy) the brother-in-law of his elder brother, threaten to upset the apple cart. They keep on lying to all and sundry, which ends in them being accepted as a married couple by both sets of families. However, conscience finally bites them and they want to get married for real. Their plans to do so are foiled again and again due to circumstances, leading to one hilarious situation after the other. Director Laxman Utekar and writer Rohan Shankar have kept things simple for this one-line plot. They include as many situational gags as possible but do throw in some social messages as well. The makers have inverted the formula in the sense that Kartik and Kriti don't feel any pangs living together on their own but feel guilty when the family gets involved. There is no major conflict between the lovers as they agree on almost everything. Kartik's family is seen progressive enough to encourage their bahu to continue working and not sit at home. However, since it's a comedy, this is in contrast with their behaviour towards their elder daughter-in-law, who is expected to be a homemaker. There is a underlying hint about the marginalisation of Muslims as well. In fact, one of the most powerful lines in the film is uttered by Aparshakti, who says he's just a Muslim and not some alien belonging to another planet. Kriti's father is shown to be a shrewd politician who is shown to change tracks when he learns that being progressive might win him more votes. He does have a genuine change of heart later, where he asks his ghunghat clad wife to not cover her face -- perhaps for the first time in her married life. It's little insights like these which use humour to offer social commentary, that elevate the film. But by and large it's a non-preachy commercial vehicle designed to entertain. More than anything else, it's the witty dialogue which garners the maximum laughs. The use of old songs to highlight the situation is a clever device as well. One would have loved to see more of Pankaj Tripathy, as he's a hoot as a man obsessed with sex. He majorly ad-libs his way through one corny situation after another without ever crossing the lines of decency. The rest of the supporting cast, be it Atul Srivastava as Guddu's mild mannered father or Vinay Pathak as the dabang politician are on point as well. Kriti Sanon is spontaneous throughout and seems to be finding her feet in comedy, having a gala time of it all in the process. Kartik Aaryan displays wholesome charm and plays his part perfectly. Aparshakti instils the fun with minute shrugs and gestures and keeps it subtle but effective nonetheless.. Laxman Utekar, who has made Marathi films like Tapaal (2014) and Lalbaugchi Rani (2016) before, makes a confident debut in Hindi cinema. The film has been shot well in Mathura and Gwalior, which is incidentally Kartik's hometown. Watch Luka Chuppi for a dose of some good, clean fun -- much needed after all the heavy-duty stuff which has been going around in real life.

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Luka Chuppi review: Pankaj Tripathi is the unlikely victim of this Kartik Aaryan, Kriti Sanon comedy

Luka chuppi movie review: the kartik aaryan, kriti sanon film takes an important topic and squanders it away. the film has its moments but you have to wait for them. rating: 2.5/5..

There is something about Pankaj Tripathi. His presence in a film/web series/advertisement/music video/on a juice stall poster makes you believe that whatever he is a part of will be wholesome and fulsome. You want to order that glass of mix juice because you believe it will be a more honest glass of mix juice. You hope that the political parties don’t find out about this superpower of Pankaj Tripathi’s because who knows how they will use it.

And it is when Luka Chuppi takes Pankaj Tripathi, dresses him up in red trousers, a yellow shirt and green sunglasses; saddles him with a clichéd role and worse dialogues, that you want to give up. Tripathi still manages to carry it off – with great power comes great responsibility, and our actor knows it – but just about.

In the above two paragraphs lies the inherent problem with Luka Chuppi – it takes good material and excellent performers and turns them into caricatures. Sure, it has its moments and the second half is largely enjoyable, but you have to wait for the fun. After a slew of excellent small-town dramas, my expectations are high and my patience thin.

At the heart of the story is the moral policing in India and the refusal of our self-appointed moral guardians to allow any kind of sexual agency to the youth over their own lives. Film actor Nazeem Khan (Abhinav Shukla) becomes the enemy number one of the Sanskriti Raksha Manch – the name is self explanatory – after he accepts that he is in a live-in relationship. They can’t beat up Khan for destroying our sanskriti, so they do the next best thing – attack defenceless lovers in the by-lanes of Mathura.

Heading this organization is Vinay Pathak’s Vishnu Trivedi, whose religious grandstanding is in the hope of winning the upcoming election. Rashmi (Kriti Sanon) is his daughter, who has returned home to Mathura after finishing her journalism course in Delhi. Kartik Aaryan’s Guddu, with his spiked hair and the reputation of being a one-star kalaakar, is the star of the local news channel.

The two soon become a team, joined by Aparshakti Khurana’s Abbas – the channel’s cameraman. The trio scours Mathura -- doing a vox pop of sorts to understand what people largely feel about the divisive topic of live-in relationships; the best comments come from where we least expect it – a man clad in saffron. Love soon blossoms between Kriti and Kartik, but instead of taking the saat pheras, Rashmi wants to test their compatibility via a live-in.

It is left to Abbas to find a way for the young lovers to find a sanctuary outside the confines of a small-town. They head to Gwalior – pronounced ‘Gawalior’, as is the wont in the region -- on the pretext of conducting a journalism project and take an apartment, without telling their families.

The thorn in Guddu’s flesh is his meddlesome relative Babulal (Pankaj Tripathi) who finds his love nest and brings the entire family – parents, brothers, sister-in-law and nephew -- there. A quickly made-up tale of the two being married spirals out of control as Rashmi’s father gets involved. The two find themselves living in Guddu’s family home as a married couple without ever having exchanged vows.

After a staid first half, the second half lifts off as the ensemble cast gets a bigger role to play and the narrative moves away from the love story to various aborted attempts on the part of Kriti and Kartik to get married. If the first half only attempts to give that lived-in feeling that such small-town social dramas thrive on, after the interval there are a few of those shining moments, with the trio of Aparshakti Khurana, Pankaj Tripathi and Vinay Pathak responsible for most.

Kartik is good as the small-time boy who is at the receiving end of a mess he didn’t make. With no misogynistic dialogues (cue Pyar Ka Punchnaama 1, 2 and 3, aka Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety) it is a win-win for all. Kriti gets a backstory to explain her urbane mannerisms; and as an empowered Rashmi who refuses to accept the role society forces in her, she is believable.

The film has a positive message but it takes its own sweet time coming. However, I will take what we are getting in today’s political climate. Aparshakti’s Abbas, who has had enough of everyday religious bias, tells a man, “Alien nahi hu, Muslim hu.” The hypocrisy of vigilante justice in the name of saving our sanskriti is called out, “Yeh dharm nahi hai, mudda hai chunaav ke liye.” An extra half star, just for that.

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Luka Chuppi

Release date: 01 march, 2019, predictometer.

Luka Chuppi Movie

LUKA CHUPPI is the story of a couple living-in with their family. Superstar Nazim Khan (Abhinav Shukla) gets into a controversy when it comes to light that he is living-in with his girlfriend and is unapologetic about it. The moral police come out in full force to protest against ...  his 'indecent' act. One such organisation is Rashtriya Sanskriti Manch and in Mathura, it is led by Vishnu Trivedi (Vinay Pathak). His daughter is Rashmi (Kriti Sanon) and she joins a local news channel after completing her media studies in Delhi. Here she bumps into Guddu (Kartik Aaryan) and both fall in love. After a fight with his elder unmarried brother Vikas (Himanshu Kohli) and brother in law Babulal (Pankaj Tripathi), he decides to tie the knot ASAP. He proposes to Rashmi. She however refuses to marry him so soon and insists on a live-in relationship. Guddu obviously freaks out. However inspired by an idea given by their colleague Abbas (Aparshakti Khurana), they decide to live in when they go on a 20-day assignment at Gwalior, where no one knows them. Hence they could live in without any fear. But in order to get the flat on rent, they pretend to be a married couple. Rashmi also has to go out wearing mangalsutra and apply sindoor . All is going well when Babulal catches them getting cosy in a public place. Assuming they are married, he tells his family about it and they all land up at their pad in Gwalior. What happens next forms the rest of the film.

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