Middle Class Love

Middle Class Love is an Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by  Ratnaa Sinha and based on a script jointly written by  Ratnaa Sinha, Yash Keswani, Sima Agarwal and Suraj Gianani from a story by  Ratnaa Sinha. Produced by Anubhav Sinha under the banner of Benaras Media Works in association with Zee Studios, which also serves as distributor, it stars Eisha Singh, Kavya Thapar and Prit Kamani. The film was theatrically released in India on 16 September 2022.

Plot
A young college boy is frustrated with being stuck in middle-class family mode and decides that love will be the ideal way to get out of it. However, the path to getting rid of middle-class thinking and probing parents isn't as easy as it seems initially.

Cast

 * Eisha Singh as Ashna Tripathi (Ash)
 * Kavya Thapar as Sysha Oberoi
 * Prit Kamani as Yudhishthir Sharma (Yudi)
 * Manoj Pahwa as Sharmaji
 * Sanjay Bishnoi
 * Sapna Sand
 * Omkar Kulkarni as Oshir Pannu

Production
The principal photography of the film started in 2021 in Mussoorie.

Marketing and release
The trailer of the film was released on 7 August 2022. Middle Class Love was released theatrically on 16 September 2022.

The cast promoted the film on The Kapil Sharma Show.

Soundtrack
The film's music is composed by Himesh Reshammiya while lyrics were penned by Himesh Reshammiya, Shabbir Ahmed, Shakeel Azmi and Mayur Puri. The song "Apna Karenge" was composed by Prasanna Suresh and lyrics were written by Spitfire.

Reception
Archika Khurana of Times of India gave 2.5/5 and stated "It's alight and breezy coming-of-age drama". Shubhra Gupta from Indian Express gave it a 2/5 and stated that "Like in most Bollywood movies set in these kinds of ‘schools’, no studying is done, instead the setting is just an excuse for good-looking teenagers to learn life lessons." Sonil Dedhia of News18 rated it 3/5 and stated it "a light-hearted coming-of-age story that every middle class person especially the college going kids would relate to." Subhash K. Jha of Firstpost praised the film stating that "A surprisingly well-packaged, coming-of-age rom-com with a star turn by Prit Kamani."