Tanu breaks her 4 year marriage with Manu sending him into a mental asylum in London & returning back to her home in Kanpur. When Manu also returns back to India, he deliriously serves a divorce notice to Manu & chances upon Kusum, a look-alike of Tanu, and befriends her. When they decide to get married, the fact that Kusum’s alliance prospect is the ex-turned-prospective-lover of Tanu presents itself and opens the Pandora’s box of fidelities in a Punjabi wedding scene!
Language:
Hindi
Running Time:
120 min
Rating:
U/A
Release date:
22 May 2015
Directed by:
Anand L. Rai
Produced by:
Krishika Lulla
Anand L. Rai
Written by:
Himanshu Sharma
Starring:
R. Madhavan
Kangana Ranaut
Jimmy Shergill
Swara Bhaskar
Deepak Dobriyal
Eijaz Khan
Swara Bhaskar
Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub
Music by:
Krsna Solo
Tanishk-Vayu
Shot by:
Chirantan Das
Editing by:
Deepak Seju
Distributed by:
Eros International

What’s Hot

  • Trust Anand L. Rai to fascinate us in bringing life to the stories he directs with a festive canvas brimming with fun, frolic, emotions backed by a fine casting. Himanshu Sharma’s story-line offers a good platform for him to re-create the Tanu Weds Manu magic with the above-said elements.
  • Enough has already been seen and said about the acting prowess of Kangana Ranaut and here, she only presents her case much stronger staying stupendous in her contrasting yet emotional portrayals – those of an ultra-modern Tanu swarming with attitude & Kusum, the confident Haryani college girl with an authentic slang & likeable features.
  • The supporting actors play a huge role in making the bendy screenplay work great. Madhavan plays the perturbed doctor well & so does Jimmy Shergill but the biggest surprise packages are the roles played by Deepak Dobriyal (Pappi) & ‘Raanjhanaa Murari’ fame Zeeshan Ayyub (Chintu). They are responsible if any roofs went down at the screenings (Especially the “You are a good question” & Punjabi wedding scenes)
  • The dialogues hugely drive the film & the humour quotient is kept intact all through, even into the climax. In Krsna Solo’s music, the numbers Move on & Old School Girl are worthy experiments.
  • Art & costumes deserve a mention for presenting the village/city homes & the function atmosphere pretty realistically & Chirantan Das’s cinematography seem to have captured these colourful scenes with content.

What’s Not

  • The film, time and again, keeps shifting its prime focus between Tanu and Manu & loses the hold on the viewer. It scrapes through thanks to the comedy spread across. But then, emotions of characters are the casualty of this approach.
  • One would have loved to see more scenes where the two versions of Kangana are made to battle things out, focusing more on Kusum instead of the sagging marriage-preparatory scenes exploring the confused state of Tanu and Manu.

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Verdict

Verdict Stamp

The challenge of beating expectations with the sequel to a successful film is dealt-with handsomely with an anarchic yet amusing screenplay that works great because of Tanu, Manu, Kusum & the beloved side-kicks accompanying them.