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Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai review
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Filmi Score
Mixed
12 reviews
43
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Critics call it a dated, recycled David Dhawan comedy with thin jokes and offensive body-shaming humor, though most credit Varun Dhawan's committed performance for keeping it watchable as mindless timepass.
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Summary
Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai (2026, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 43 from 12 critic reviews, is rated 16+ by Filmi (CBFC: U/A 16+), and streams on ZEE5 in India.
When Jass leaves his marriage over conflicting priorities, a new romance abroad is upended by shocking revelations, forcing him to confront love, loyalty, and the true meaning of commitment.
Where to watchAvailability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.
Box office collection
₹$≈ at ₹88/$, as of 26 Oct 2026
₹74.83 CrWorldwide gross in 82 days
India gross₹60.73 Cr
Overseas gross₹14.10 Cr
As of 26 Aug 2026 · Sacnilk
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Cast & crew
Cast
Directed by David Dhawan · written by Yunus Sajawal & Farhad Samji · music Tanishk Bagchi & Rony Ajnali & Gill Machhrai & Raju Singh & Javed-Mohsin & Akshay & IP Singh & White Noise Collectives
David DhawanDirector
Yunus SajawalWriter
Farhad SamjiWriter
Tanishk BagchiMusic
Rony AjnaliMusic
Gill MachhraiMusic
Raju SinghMusic
Javed-MohsinMusic
AkshayMusic
IP SinghMusic
White Noise CollectivesMusic
Ayananka BoseCinematography
Ritesh SoniEditing
Varun DhawanLead
Mrunal Thakur
Pooja Hegde
Maniesh Paul
Chunky Panday
Jimmy Shergill
Mouni Roy
Rakesh Bedi
Ayesha Raza Mishra
Kubbra Sait
Rajesh Kumar
Ali Asgar
Full crew
Production designRajat Poddar · Parijat Poddar
CostumeAki Narula · Samidha Wangnoo
ChoreographyRemo D'Souza · Bosco Martis · Vijay Ganguly
LyricsVayu · Mohsin Shaikh · Gill Machhrai · Rony Ajnali · IP Singh
ActionSunil Rodrigues
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Summary
When Jass leaves his marriage over conflicting priorities, a new romance abroad is upended by shocking revelations, forcing him to confront love, loyalty, and the true meaning of commitment.
Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai (2026, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 43 from 12 critic reviews, is rated 16+ by Filmi (CBFC: U/A 16+), and streams on ZEE5 in India.
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What the critics said
12 reviews · the critic’s own number where they gave one
Five of 12 · the critic’s own number where they gave one
Rajiv Vijayakar · 5 Jun 2026
Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai Movie Review: David Dhawan’s Film Is Pregnant With Entertainment Ft. Varun Dhawan, Mrunal Thakur & Pooja Hegde! Read it there →
Published · 3.5/5
Filmi’s reading 70
70
Deeksha Sharma · YouTube, Hindi · rating spoken aloud · 5 Jun 2026
2/5, said on camera. Published nowhere. Watch it there →
Stated in video
Filmi’s reading 62
40
Archika Khurana · 5 Jun 2026
Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai Movie Review: Varun Dhawan’s energy keeps this comedy afloat Read it there →
Published · 2.5/5
Filmi’s reading 60
50
Devesh Sharma · 5 Jun 2026
Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai Review: David Dhawan's Last Hurrah | Filmfare.com Read it there →
Published · 3.0/5
Filmi’s reading 50
60
Yogi · YouTube, Hindi · rating spoken aloud · 5 Jun 2026
2.5/5, said on camera. Published nowhere. Watch it there →
Stated in video
Filmi’s reading 48
50
Sreeju Sudhakaran · 5 Jun 2026
Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai Review: David Dhawan Recycles Himself! Read it there →
Published · 2/5
Filmi’s reading 42
40
Anmol Jamwal · YouTube · transcript read · 5 Jun 2026
Varun Dhawan's self-aware silliness carries an enjoyable first half, but the film nosedives after the interval into outdated comedy tropes,… Watch it there →
Derived by Filmi
32
Shubhra Gupta · 5 Jun 2026
Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai movie review: David Dhawan’s 90s-style comedy is plain cringe Read it there →
Published · 1.5/5
Filmi’s reading 28
30
Nandini Ramnath · 5 Jun 2026
Ramnath finds the film tired and stale, recycling old Dhawan tropes and dated values, kept afloat only by Varun Dhawan's committed energy while… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
25
Unni Narayanan · YouTube, Malayalam · transcript read · 10 Jun 2026
Unni tears the film apart scene by scene as derivative, poorly conceived and often offensive (body-shaming, glorified infidelity), states outright… Watch it there →
Derived by Filmi
14
Suchin Mehrotra · 5 Jun 2026
Mehrotra excoriates the film as a lazily written, offensive relic that barely raises a laugh, calling Varun Dhawan's performance 'fundamentally… Read it there →
Derived by Filmi
12
How this number was made. We read every review and derive a 0–100 reading from each — including where the critic printed a number, which stays first on its row, because it’s theirs. The Filmi Score is the mean of 12 readings; 8 of those rows also carry the critic’s own rating, shown beside ours. Rubric v2.1, computed 26 Oct 2026. Any critic can ask us to remove a derived reading.
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Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai: quick answers
Box office, where to watch and what critics said — from the same data as the page.
What is Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai's box office collection?
Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai has a box office collection of ₹74.83 Cr worldwide (gross), made up of ₹60.73 Cr India gross and ₹14.10 Cr overseas gross. Figures are Sacnilk's, as of 26 Aug 2026, day 82. Grosses are contested in India, and money never feeds the Filmi Score.
How much has Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai collected at the box office?
Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai has collected ₹74.83 Cr worldwide in 82 days, as of 26 Aug 2026, according to Sacnilk.
Where can I watch Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai?
Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai is streaming on OTT: ZEE5 (India). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai?
Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai has a Filmi Score of 43 (Mixed), the mean of 12 readings of critic reviews, one per review. Readings run from 12 (The Quint) to 76 (Bollywood Hungama). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
What readers say
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