Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019)

★ 5.6 2h 1m IMDb

Sweety has to contend with her over-enthusiastic family that wants her to get married but the ultimate truth is that her love might not find acceptance in her family and society.

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga

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Cast

Sonam Kapoor Ahuja
Sonam Kapoor Ahuja as Sweety Chaudhary Age 40 · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Sonam Kapoor is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films and daughter of actor Anil Kapoor. Kapoor studied theatre and arts at the United World College of South East Asia in Singapore. She was...
Anil Kapoor
Anil Kapoor as Balbir Chaudhary Age 69 · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Living in a Chawl in Tilak Nagar, Punjabi-speaking Anil was born in 1959 to Surinder and Nirmal aka Suchitra Kapoor. He has an elder brother, Boney, a sister, Reena, and a younger brother, Sanjay. His...
Juhi Chawla Mehta
Juhi Chawla Mehta as Chatro Age 58 · Ludhiana, Punjab, India Juhi Chawla (born 13 November 1967) is an Indian actress, film producer and television presenter. After being crowned as the winner of the Miss India beauty contest in 1984, Chawla pursued an acting...
Rajkummar Rao
Rajkummar Rao as Sahil Mirza Age 41 · Gurgaon, Haryana, India Rajkummar Rao Yadav is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films. Rao has established a career in Hindi cinema and is the recipient of a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award from three nomination...
Abdul Quadir Amin
Abdul Quadir Amin as Varun Age 43 · Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India Abdul Quadir Amin is an actor and assistant director known for Luck By Chance (2009), Student of the Year (2012), Talaash (2012), Bombay Talkies (2013) and Dil Dhadakne Do (2015). He entered Bollywood...
Regina Cassandra
Regina Cassandra as Kuhu Age 37 · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Regina Cassandra is an Indian film actress appearing in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada films. She started anchoring when she was nine for Splash, a kids' channel and then moved on to work in commercials..

Audience Reviews

badelf 6/10 Oct 31, 2025
"Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga" deserves credit for bringing LGBTQ+ representation to mainstream Bollywood at a pivotal cultural moment (2019 is when homosexuality was technically decriminalized). The film works well on a technical level—solid acting from the entire cast, good pacing that keeps the narrative moving, and confident use of Bollywood's storytelling conventions. At 6/10, it's a competent film that tackles important ground.

The meta-theatrical structure is effective, employing Shakespeare's play-within-a-play technique to explore both the power of storytelling and the importance of writing from a place of truth. The playwright character's journey toward authentic expression mirrors Sweety's own struggle for self-acceptance, creating a thoughtful parallel.

However, the film's most glaring failure is one of courage. The lesbian protagonists never kiss—not once. Compare this to "Late Marriage," which featured an explicit 10-minute heterosexual sex scene without hesitation. Both films explore the identical social construct: who controls the protagonist's life, tradition or the individual? Yet the films approach intimacy with vastly different levels of integrity. It's unfortunate that director Shelly Chopra Dhar, working with such groundbreaking subject matter, didn't have the courage to make a stronger, more honest statement. The result is progress, yes, but progress that stops short of true authenticity.

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