Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff Fall in Love in Romantic Trailer forA Nice Indian Boy(Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Deadpoolactor Karan SoniandJonathan Grofflead a heartwarming new rom-com,A Nice Indian Boy.

Director Roshan Sethi’s film features “comic misunderstandings, frank fights and emotional revelations,” according to a synopsis.

PEOPLE is exclusively debuting the first trailer, centered on the blossoming relationship between Groff’s Jay and Soni’s Naveen.

“My parents are super liberal,” Naveen explains to Jay in the trailer of his mom Megha (Zarna Garg) and dad Archit (Harish Patel). “Just don’t bring up drinking or sex. And no displays of physical affection."

Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff in “A Nice Indian Boy”.Levantine Films

Levantine Films

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Playing Naveen’s “seemingly perfect” sister isSunita Mani. “The Gavaskars are outwardly accepting of Naveen’s sexuality but have never had to confront it in practice,” explains the synopsis. Naveen ends up “caught between who he is with his family and who he is outside of it.”

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PerVariety, Sethi cast his off-screen partner Soni in the film after signing on. “It was probably the most personal thing we’ll get to make,” Soni, 36, told the outlet in October.

Karan Soni, Ali Sethi and Jonathan Groff on Oct. 10, 2024.Manoli Figetakis/Getty

Manoli Figetakis/Getty

“I, immediately from the first take of the first scene, couldn’t believe how familiar it all felt,” Groff, 39, said at the time, admitting he wasn’t familiar with the Bollywood movies that inform the project. “Even though there was a stark difference in culture, it was so heartwarming to see that families are families, no matter what culture you’re in.”

A Nice Indian Boyis in theaters April 4.

source: people.com