Review Of Tanu Weds Manu Returns

In 2011 an almost unknown director Anand L Rai made a film that changes the convention of regular Hindi film heroine with the funny bindaas character of Tanuja Trivedi. The film was a sleeper hit. Now after four years when they are back with the sequel by this time Anad L Rai is no more an unknown director and Kangna Ranaut is now at par with the big Bollywood heroines. So obviously there is more expectations with the film and the good news is this actually fulfills all the expectations as it is better than its prequel.

Like a true sequel it starts with the point from where the first movie was ended which was

marriage of Tanu(Kangna Ranaut) and Manu (R. Madhavan). Then the story moves forward four years and it shows how the post marital life of Tanu and Manu is not so happy. They are going through a bad phase of post marital life which turns out so bad that the situation goes to divorce. In this moment both of them gets separated and try to find some refreshment in their monotonous life. While Tanu tries to patch up with her ex-lover Raja Awashthi(Jimmy Shergil) , Manu finds a young haryanvi college student Datto (Kangna Ranaut) who is a look alike of Tanu with a small change in teeth setting and hair style. 
The situation becomes more complicated when Manu falls in love once gain and decides to marry with Datto. Now Tanu wants to go back to her husband while , her husband Manu

wants to move on with Datto and it creates a love triangle.  What happens at the end is a bit predictable but still its engaging.
There are other interesting characters too who are back from the first part like Manu and Tanu's parents and their friends Jassi(Eizaz Khan) , Payel(Swara Bhaskara) and Puppy Jee(Deepak Dobriyal). All of them adds more interest to the drama along with new added characters like Chintu (Mohd. Zeeshan Ayub).

The screenplay written by Himangshu Sharama is a winner once again. The small town background and the characters are very much interesting. The story unfolds very well and adds too much humor in the first half. The second half looks a bit stretched specially because of too much songs still it does not dampen the spirit of the film because by that time the audience is already in love with the characters. 
The dialogues written by Sharma are extraordinary, its hilarious and keeps the story interesting. 

As a director Anand L Rai has done an excellent job. His story telling is very engaging and all the characters have been presented superbly so that all of them will be loved by the audiences. 

Among the star cast every one is superb but who steals the show is none other than the queen of Bollywood Kangana Ranaut. It is one of the finest job in Bollywood by any actor

in a double role. The way she has portrayed the characters of Tanu and Datto will make you speechless. Both the characters are so distinct in mannerism , body language, dialogue delivery that it never looks like a single actress has played both the characters. While the old charming Tanu is still endearing its Datto the national level athlete from Haryana who will make you fall in love with her.
R. Madhavan has under played the character of Dr. Manu Sharma very well. His character ranges from a frustrated husband too a confused lover and he has portrayed all the emotions perfectly.
Another actor who deserves a special mention is Deepak Dobriyal  as Puppy jee the sidekick of Manu. His comic timing is just superb. Every time he comes on screen he brings laughter  on audience's faces.  Jimmy Shergil is also impressive as Raja Awashthi. his punch lines have solid impression.

The music is not so strong here. Only song that works is "Banno" , the rest of the songs are just okay. And it has to be said there is a overdose of songs in second half which makes the film look a bit stretched in last few minutes, so the songs do not work much in the movie.

Among the technical team who deserves special mention are Hemal Kothari for his sharp editing , Chirantan Das for the superb camera work and Wasiq Khan for his authentic production design.The costumes for Kangna, designed by Reza Shariffi is stylish and goes very well with the character.

Overall it is an engaging film about post marital relationship with lots of humor and some emotional moments. Go and have fun with the gang of wonderful actors lead by Miss Ranaut in her two avatars.