Tanu Weds Manu Returns (Hindi)
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The most amazing aspect about writer Himanshu Sharma's screenplay is that it takes a road-trip style journey to reach its predictable final destination: a happy ending. Contrary to what you might expect, director Aanand L. Rai and Sharma hardly give any shared screen time to the unhappily married couple, keeping them apart for most of the film's duration. Instead of focusing on petty squabbles between the two, Rai and Sharma use distance and a sense of "if only" and "could have been" to make Tanu and Manu realize what they already knew in their hearts: their love for each other. They smartly evade the honeytrap of telling an inconsequential story between the same two characters by not telling an inconsequential story between the same two characters.
 
That is not to say that the film doesn't follow conventions; it has a boatload of them. You get the typical "mountain out of a molehill" situation; the sudden falling in love; the token jealous loverboy who instigates and prods and probes a fight into an all-out war; the quasi-creepy stalking-in-love scenario; and the compulsory wedding song in a film about weddings (you actually get two here, a happy-drunk and a sad-drunk one).

 

DVD Features:Dolby Digital 5.1,Anamorphic WideScreen,NTSC All Regions, English Subtitles
Cast: R. Madhavan, Kangna Ranaut, Jimmy Shergill, Eijaz Khan, Swara Bhaskar, Deepak Dobriyal, Mohammed Zeeshan, Rajendra Gupta, Navni Parihar, K K Raina, Rajesh Sharma
Director: Aanand L Rai
Producer: Sunil A Lulla, Krishika Lulla
Production Co: Eros International
Music Director: Krsna, Surjrdb-Rdb Rythm Dhol Bass, Tanishk, Vayu
 
Madhavan plays a good Manu and a great Madhavan. He comfortably eases back into his Manu shoes, and provides the film some degree of restraint among over-the-top, screwball characters. Deepak Dobriyal is once again the scene-stealer, delivering an applause-worthy one-liner every time he breathes. As Manu's friend Pappi, he nicely balances out Madhavan's restraint with his high-pitch, high-energy performance. Jimmy Sheirgill too is impressive, although his role is more threatening and less funny. Nevertheless, the film and Sheirgill manage to find humor in Awasthi's plight, with his brides getting highjacked by Manu every single time. Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub is as funny as always in a fringe role. His character might be a bit of a stereotype, but Ayyub's performance definitely isn't.
 
 
Kangana Ranaut, playing two radically opposite characters, only adds to the film's conviction. As a cultured and arrogant Tanu and a down-to-earth Haryanvi athlete, she pulls off both parts with equal flamboyance and endearment. As Tanu, she plays a character that she's inhabited before, but with more exaggerated mean and gray tones. Despite that, she manages to make you care about her, which only helps in you forgiving the hurried transformation in her during the third act. As Kusum, Kangana is a riot. Her adorable act, the extra-large buckteeth and the spot-on Haryanvi accent make her an unusually layered character, as opposed to one dimensional ones that exist in most other double role films. Overall, Kangana is in top-class, 'Queen' mode here and once again steals your heart.
 

 

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