Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai Trailer: It Is Mouni Roy's 'Mother' Entry That Has Us Most Curious*

Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai Trailer: It Is Mouni Roy's 'Mother' Entry That Has Us Most Curious*

The trailer of Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai released today and it has all the signatures of a David Dhawan comic caper done right. Varun Dhawan's character tangled between Mrunal Thakur and Pooja Hegde’s, mistaken identities, romantic chaos dialled up to maximum and the kind of escalating absurdity that only a Dhawan production knows how to engineer. And then, quietly, comes Mouni Roy. Cast as Varun's fake mother in full Nirupa Roy-inspired glory, she is brought in as the supposed solution to his mounting mess. The catch, which the trailer lets you arrive at yourself, is that she looks precisely his age, and the comedy writes itself from there on. And yet somehow, she makes it funnier than you expect.

The Nirupa Roy reference is not incidental. It is a deliberate wink at an entire cinematic legacy, played here for laughs but requiring its own kind of commitment to land. The fact that David Dhawan trusted Mouni with that joke, and that she carries it with such easy conviction, says something about how the film sees her. She is not playing the glamorous outsider in this world. She is fully, gleefully in on it. And that willingness to be genuinely funny, to lean into the absurdity that is not always logical, is what makes her presence in this trailer quietly compelling rather than just decorative.

It is an interesting contrast too, arriving as it does fresh off Mouni's Cannes 2026 outing with Rahhat Shah Kazmi's Bombay Stories, where she played the deeply serious and emotionally demanding role of Sharifan in an Indo-American production rooted in the literary world of Saadat Hasan Manto. Between Bombay Stories and Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai, 2026 is quietly building a very interesting case for the range that Mouni Roy possesses.