A small town rebel of a Girl, having a brief stint at the Capital, marrying a straight out of books, perfect gentleman who has termed himself boring!! Tanu weds Manu’s plot does appear as a promising entertainer! And if it is small town rebel then none other than Kanpur can fit the perfect definition of girls with dreams which fit nowhere in the category of “regular and boring”!! Come Tanu and she follows the suit of Babli from our very own “Bunty aur Babli” , right from the patialas, to the short kurtis to the blings. Probably Shaad Ali could not experimental till the Vodka pegs. So does Kangana disappoint? No she doesn’t, in fact it’s a relief to see her in a refreshing role of Tanuja Trivedi . Maybe coz as a viewer I am tired of watching the same yelling, ailing, drug addict repeatedly time and again. At a point I even felt that her baritone matches too much of the yesteryears Hema aka Basanti bringing in the color and vibes as soon as she enters the scene.
Madhavan as Manu is decently boring, the way he has to be. If he got into the character or the character got into him, but he surely is not the same passionate lover whom I recollect from Rehna hai Tere Dil Main. The emotion never reaches the eye and neither does it leaves the impression it should. His act shares screen space with one or the other actors to bring in some life. In short you either search for Deepak Dobriyal or for that matter any co-actor to lift up the scene! Deepak as Pappi “should I display or tell” is naturally inclined in whatever he does best, the dialogues, the face expressions or just a supporting gesture. The surprise of course is Jimmy Shergill, who I could have easily thought was just a repetition of Parmeet Sethi from DDLJ. But he differs and differs with a bang! “kyun tu usski zindagi barbaad karegi” speaks of practical brains and no empty egoistic brawn.
Rajshekhar lends in some brilliant lyrics befitting every mood of the movie;might it be the folklore of a “shaadi ki paltan” traveling in a train, or Mohit Chouhan crooning a romantic number or the excellence of being able to get Wadali Brothers to sing “Rangrez mere”.
The script has its loopholes as it slips at few places like the station scene of retreat and come back. But on and on it’s a cinema pure entertainment.
Watch the movie for three reasons, Kangana, Cinematography and Music!
Its Jugni all the way!!