[2] The film stars Sanya Malhotra and Abhimanyu Dassani as the titular characters, a newly-wed couple, who were forced to live apart due to a unique job prospect and struggles with the problems arise from their long-distance marriage.

[4] The film received mixed review from critics and audiences, who appreciated the performances and chemistry of Dassani and Malhotra, the musical score and soundtrack, setting, location picturisation and cinematography, but criticised the slow-paced and lengthy narration.

Tech graduate, who is uninterested in pursuing his father's saree business, and is determined to work in the Information technology sector.

On his first day of Internship, Sundar learns that the company exclusively hires single employees leading him to pretend to be unmarried; hence, Meenakshi can't move with him.

Sundar sends Meenakshi a video message apologizing and letting her know how much she means to him and how much he misses her, but due to low wifi connection, she is not able to view it.

[8][9] On 25 November 2020, the aforementioned project was later titled as Meenakshi Sundareshwar, with Abhimanyu Dassani and Sanya Malhotra in the leading roles.

[14][15] He worked as an assistant director in the romantic-comedy film Hasee Toh Phasee (2014), produced by Johar's Dharma Productions and also co-ordinated visual effects for Ra.One (2011) and Vishwaroopam (2013).

[29] Hiren Kotwani from The Times of India gave the film 3 stars out of 5 and stated "Director Vivek Soni has taken the road less travelled by opting for a subject like this, on long-distance relationships, and how the protagonists enjoy the few ups and cope with the many downs.

And after that, it looks like the makers were in a hurry to resolve the conflict and quickly arrive at a solution before time runs out [...] Discounting the dragging parts, Meenakshi Sundareshwar is worth a watch for it's [sic] hatke subject of long-distance marriage, Sanya and Abhimanyu's effective performances, Justin Prabhakaran's fabulous soundtrack, and the right southern flavour for this Madurai and Bangalore based story.

"[30] Shubhra Gupta from The Indian Express gave 2.5 stars out of 5 and said, "The film is not interested in either satirizing or sending up the whole arranged marriage thing.

"[31] Editor-in-chief of The Hindu, Anuj Kumar, wrote that "It is a kind of film that won't keep you awake but provides talk-points for dinner table discussion [...] Had it been mounted as a comedy, we would have played along but here, the conceit and self-awareness are hard to ignore.

"[32] Saibal Chatterjee from NDTV gave the film 2.5 stars (out of 5) and stated that "Meenakshi Sundareshwar would not have, like its two principal characters, needed either divine intervention or the love of Rajinikanth for its marriage of intention and execution to work, if the writing eschewed the laboured pre-climactic twists and demonstrated greater flair.

"[33] Anna M. M. Vetticad of Firstpost gave two stars out of five and wrote, "Meenakshi Sundareshwar has many of its nuts and bolts in place, but is lost to poor writing and to direction that confuses uneventfulness with realism, made worse by the inexorable running time.

But if this film's aim was to romanticise tradition, then its lack of energy and spark makes it a really bad ad for arranged marriages.

[36] Sukanya Verma, in her review for Rediff.com gave three stars saying, "Meenakshi Sundareshwar is a Basu Chatterjee slice-of-life packaged in a glossy ad film whose source of heart are its two genuinely likeable leads".

[37] In contrast, giving a rating of one-and-a-half stars out of five, Stutee Ghosh from The Quint, called it as a "snooze fest" and further wrote, "The most frustrating thing about Meenakshi Sundareshwar is that we keep waiting for something to happen and nothing ever does.

Soni's determination to whip up complications where there are none and craft outlandish scenes that mean nothing in the larger scheme of things add to the discomfort.

But further said that "the storyline doesn't offer any reason as to why in a film set in Madurai, the heart of Tamil Nadu, South Indian characters are speaking in Hindi".

[32] A reviewer from Sify, called the film as a "modern and regressive" for the stereotypical portrayal and further went on to say "while you applaud Sanya Malhotra's name leading the credits (rightly so), you feel disappointed at the same old trope presented in a shiny, new wrapper".

[40] Avinash Ramachandran, a Chennai-based reviewer from Cinema Express, also criticised the stereotypes, but praised the other aspects, which made the film "having the potential to be a take on traditional relationships finding its standing in the modern way of life".

[47] Vandana Menon of ThePrint also stated it as "onslaught of stereotypes about South India", further saying, "It's a film about Tamil culture made by non-South Indians, who are extremely focused on convincing you otherwise.

The writer went on to say that beyond Rajinikanth, filter coffee, Jigarthanda and people wearing Kanchipuram silk saris, Tamil Nadu is a lot more and has been since several years.