Movie Name: Tanu Weds Manu
Star Cast: R. Madhavan, Kangna Ranaut, Jimmy Shergill, Eijaz Khan
Director: Anand Rai
Producer: Shailesh Singh, Vinod Bachchan
Music Directer: Krashana Sarkar
Genre: Romantic comedy
Story: Manu ( R. Madhavan), a guy from Delhi who is a doctor in London comes to meet Tanu ( Kangna) in Kanpur to get hitched in an arranged marriage. While Manu falls in love with Tanu at first sight, the girl is dead against arranged marriage. The film explores how the two handle each other and whether their chemistry clicks off at the end or not.
Story Treatment: The film is a romantic comedy and is not just a wedding. It has mixed emotions, humor, romance and complex relationships. The characterization is perfect as Tanu is strong and rebellious and Manu is silent and rational. The plot may give you a feel of ‘Jab We Met’, though the performances and storyline is quite underrated.
Review: Tanu Weds Manu starts as a crisp witty comedy, but strangely looses its grip by the end. The climax is stretching, unrealistic and boring. Though an unlikely pair, but chemistry is surely missing between the two. The ‘tedha raasta’ to marriage is neither appealing nor interesting.
Star Cast: Tanuja Trivedi aka Tanu plays the role of a carefree wild small town girl who has her own values and is against arranged marriages. Kangna looks beautiful, but fails to perform as a girl who lives by her own rules. Her accent and carefree performance gets bit too overboard. She is best with her psychopath character. Madhavan as the dutiful and loyal lover plays his part well. Though from time to time his simplicity and homeliness is bit too annoying, specially when he has lived 12 long years alone in London. Jimmy shergill does his cameo performance convincingly. Kangna could have said ‘yes’to him and not dumped him for no reasons as there is still a spark between them.
Star Cast: Tanuja Trivedi aka Tanu plays the role of a carefree wild small town girl who has her own values and is against arranged marriages. Kangna looks beautiful, but fails to perform as a girl who lives by her own rules. Her accent and carefree performance gets bit too overboard. She is best with her psychopath character. Madhavan as the dutiful and loyal lover plays his part well. Though from time to time his simplicity and homeliness is bit too annoying, specially when he has lived 12 long years alone in London. Jimmy shergill does his cameo performance convincingly. Kangna could have said ‘yes’to him and not dumped him for no reasons as there is still a spark between them.
Director: Director Anand Rai tried to make a seedhi saadhi love story with bit of twists and turns. The casting is unique, but the concept of marriage and love between diverse personalities is nothing new in bollywood. What you may like is the different flavour of small cities like Lucknow, Kanpur, Punjab that he has weaved in the story.
Dialogues/ cinematography/ Music-Dialogues are humorous and you can have a hearty laugh. A strange mix of UP and dialect gives the movie and the characters a real touch. Nothing noteworthy about camera work.Though the extreme close-ups made Kangna’s lips look bit too artificial. The music is fresh and will surely force music buffs tap their feet. You can’t stop grooving to ‘Kadi Sadi Gali’ as you move around narrow alleys of Punjab.
Dialogues/ cinematography/ Music-Dialogues are humorous and you can have a hearty laugh. A strange mix of UP and dialect gives the movie and the characters a real touch. Nothing noteworthy about camera work.Though the extreme close-ups made Kangna’s lips look bit too artificial. The music is fresh and will surely force music buffs tap their feet. You can’t stop grooving to ‘Kadi Sadi Gali’ as you move around narrow alleys of Punjab.
Ups and downs: Two most unlikely stars come together for the first time, watch out for their chemistry. If there is a shaadi coming up and you want some songs for sangeet, go for the peppy shaadi songs in Tanu weds Manu. Nothing new, but if you have nothing else to do this weekend, go for it, otherwise you can give it a miss.
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