Movie Review: Tanu Weds Manu
Returns
In recent years, many movies have
tried their best showing woman protagonist flaunting the attitude showing the
Feminism shades where the woman protagonist drinks, abuses, tries to be a
tomboy, etc. They have tried showing the ‘modern Indian urban girl’ who gives a
damn to others and lives a carefree life. ‘Tanu Weds Manu Returns’ belongs to
the same genre but with some deeper meaning of modernism. This movie, unlike part
I, give more emphasize towards the definition of love and relationship.
Tanu gets married to Manu. But
their marriage results into Manu going into mental asylum (which is inconvincible).
Tanu, in order to forget her husband, comes to her native town. Manu was later
released by Pappi, his closer friend and his family. The marriage is on the
verge of divorce. Tanu finds her previous love Raja Avasthi and is busy spending
time with him, while love between Manu and a Tanu’s look-a-like Datto, a
university going athlete blooms. When Tanu comes to know about their marriage,
she gets devastated, and what happens in the end is a typical Bollywood movie.
This movie will be remembered for
its screenplay where watch what goes in the front ground as well as you are
concerned about the background actions. The cinematographer has captured Datto
and Tanu’s feelings in every frame. It is excellent in the song ‘Banno Tera
Swagger’ where slow motion technique is used superbly to show the colours.
Music by Krsna Solo and Tanishk Vayu plays an important part in making the film
look different.
This movie is all about Kangana
Ranaut. She plays both Tanu and Datto with sheer perfection. Audience likes
Datto more than Tanu, because she is more practical. Tanu is the reflection of
blind feminism, over freedom, and fake modernism where she gives no damn even
to her husband. On the other hand, Datto knows what feminism, modernism is. She
knows the value of Manu’s love for her. This is the best movie so far by
Kangana. R Madhvan is a genuine actor. He knows where to act and how. He doesn’t
underplay the character knowing that it is all about Kangana Ranaut. On the
other hand, he shines equally like Kangana when both are there on the screen.
Deepak Dobrial as Pappi is the show stealer. The theatre actor excels in every
frame with his comic timings. Jimmy Shergil, Swara Bhaskar, Mohammad Zeeshan,
and everyone have done their best.
But the real hero of the film is
director Anand L Rai. Tanu weds Manu has some shades of its previous movie Raanjhana.
The dialogues, the attitude of the characters all is nicely woven by the
director.
This wedding shouldn’t be missed
if you love Bollywood.
