Meenakshi Sundareshwar (2021)
At the heart of this potential meme-fest is a love story that works in fits and starts. The spirited and confident Meenakshi (Sanya Malhotra) marries the dull and diffident Sundareshwar (Abhimanyu Dassani). It’s a union on par with the gods Parvati and Shiva, to whom the famous temple in Madurai is dedicated, declares one character.
Alas, the match between the beauty and the bore, the Rajinikanth fan and the movie hater, the reader of novels and the devotee of coding is halted before it can get fully underway. A workplace complication tears the couple apart. He moves to Bengaluru, where he struggles to prove himself and deal with a tyrannical boss (Sukhesh Arora). She stays behind in Madurai and tries to convince herself that she is having fun.
