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Originally posted by: KochurShaakBata
There was this interview of Kangana with Masand last night. She said that the theme of TWM2 is to show if someone gets a tamed version of his spouse, will he choose her or the original version who is different from him and that's why the film needed a double role. I found that to be a beautiful theme, didn't really see the film like that.
It's a beautiful interview. Love all her answers.
#TanuWedsManu2 has got good opening of average 30/35% all over India as expected. But film has strong advance booking for evening shows.
Kanpur wali teekhi mirch' Tanu is back. So is Manu, the bheegi billi' from London. Four years back, in Tanu Weds Manu', they met, sparred, and mated. Now, they are still together, but the marriage has become more a rattle of guns than a bed of roses.
Will the strife cause permanent fissures, or is it just a temporary fork in the road? Tanu and Manu step apart to see what they see, and we get a sequel which is better than the original.
This time around Rai invests more in his characters, and he wins the sweepstakes just with his lead actress. Tanu's fieriness gets more heft, as the girl who is not ready to be woman, the woman who wants to be girl again. She is a bundle of contradictory impulses, a spitfire in one moment, a soft ball of mush in the other. And Kangana Ranaut plays it beautifully, mixing up the familiar with the new.
Delivering freshness is always the challenge in a sequel. We've met the principal characters before. R Madhavan is still effectively restrained as Manu, who is still the sedate guy he used to be, but this time given a little more to do, especially after he bumps into a Tanu look-alike Datto (Kangana Ranauat, in a double role).
Tanu, meanwhile, is back doing what she does best: rousing tempers, creating a ruckus, being a pest: what saves her, and the film, which keeps veering off to give its leading lady too many chances to play the curly-haired wild child, is that she can't quite hide her hurt and the pain.
Datto is the pixie-cut' sporty Haryanvi lass in tracks-and-tees, accompanied by a heavy Jat accent, and heavy-set relatives. She is as different from Tanu as she can be, and yet, something about her tugs at Manu, and the film takes an unexpected direction from here on.
And that brings us to the less satisfactory aspect of the film. The plot is more a series of contrivances than an organically grown whole, and much of it wants to be played for laughs. There are some really funny lines too which feel true, but many of them are thrown away just for effect. And yes, some of what Tanu does, and says, is very clearly done to shock: you hear the word jhand', and you gasp and you laugh.
That takes away from the charm of this kind of film which is brave enough to give us characters that are not instantly likeable, and can be downright annoying. Tanu is irritatingly capricious: she wants to be able to keep changing her mind, and it's always someone else's responsibility to sort out the mess. Datto is cute and nave, and sometimes speaks so thickly you can barely understand her.
Manu's best friend Pappi (Deepak Dobriyal, excellent) gets the most dispensable dilwale-dulhaniya-lene-jayenege' strand in the film, but manages to generate wholesale laughter. Tanu's former beau Raja (Jimmy Shergill) is the fly in the ointment again, and you want him to have a whole story of his own. Mohammed Zeeshan Ayub shows up as a canny fellow who develops feelings for Tanu, and has a couple of uproarious moments: these are actors enjoying their parts, and making the film enjoyable for us.
That is what Tanu Weds Manu Returns' is, ultimately, a film that is enjoyable despite its occasional slides into message-y territory: Rajesh Sharma, as the progressive' brother of Datto, gets to deliver a speech on female empowerment; Swara Bhaskar has a nice alive bit about a woman making a tough choice, though you do wish it didn't have to come down to a male acceptance of it. And for a girl who wants everything on her own terms, Tanu's desperate desire for, and succumbing to, a conventional end feels like it was done to up the feel-good factor.
But these things do not weigh things down because we are too busy watching an actress stride through its ups and downs, earning each scene, and the film. I would buy a ticket for Kangana Ranaut.
Star Cast: Kangana Ranaut, R. Madhavan, Deepak Dobriyal, Jimmy Shergill, Rajesh Sharma, Swara Bhaskar, Mohammad Zeeshan Ayub, Rajendra Gupta, Navnee Parihar, Eizaj Khan, K K Raina
Director: Anand L Rai
(3/5 stars)
Tanu Weds Manu Returns had a very good opening in North and was good in most other places. Overall the initial is strong. North India multiplexes had the best opening of the year ahead of Gabbar Is Back. The Delhi NCR area is excellent as theatres in places like Gurgaon which don't open normally record strong occupancies till later in the day were 50% plus for morning shows.
Despite on lesser screens than Gabbar Is Back it could record the top first day figures in the North. East Punjab will be best bet as the Delhi/UP total may be let down by figures in UP where opening was much less than Gabbar Is Back. Mumbai, Rajasthan and CI also opened well.
The opening is average in a couple of circuits like Nizam / Andhra and West Bengal but the film is not the sort that has to score universally to succeed. The film should record the highest initial for a heroine orientated film though being a sequel it had an upper hand compared to other heroine orientated films which got solid day one numbers like a Mary Kom and Heroine.
Fri, May 22, 2015
Tanu Weds Manu Returns
Director: Anand L Rai
Actors: Kangana Ranaut, R Madhavan
Rating: ****
Pretty much all romances or romantic comedies (rom-coms) end with the girl getting together with the boy finally. Do movies tell us what happens thereafter? The joke is they do. It's called a po*n film!
More plausibly, the Raj and Simrans of the world get married. Few years hence, like most married couples, they probably start dealing with each others' natural idiosyncrasies as the heady fragrance of love begins to wear off. Now who the hell wants to watch that picture for escapist entertainment? Well, this movie deals with precisely that.
This sequel starts off four years after Tanu (thoroughly boisterous) wed Manu (Madhavan; gently under-stated) in the first part of this film that was a full-on desi, arranged-marriage round-robin rom-com. The couple, now settled in London, has had it with each other since. They don't have kids, which makes things simpler.
In less conservative societies, instant separation would be an easy option. According to his father, Manu has three choices before him. He could stay on in the marriage still, as most do. He could remain alone for the rest of his life, if he likes. Or he could find another woman. But what are the chances that (second) marriage would turn out any differently? This is a common argument made against divorces in general. This film is set in small-town India"like Anand L Rai's realistically placed, majestically picturised prequel.
Raanjhanaa (2013), the film that Rai directed after Tanu Weds Manu (2011), was equally remarkably set in Banaras. It was an excuse to bring back on screen the popular 80s/'90s theme of the romantic hero being the demented yet much loved stalker of the street. I found it quite hard to hajam. I'm told audiences adored Dhanush in the lead role.
This film returns to another old chestnut of popular Hindi cinema"the "double role". And yes, since you must know, here's the choice that the husband Manu decides to finally exercise, given that his marriage isn't working anymore. He falls for another woman, who looks exactly like his current wife.
This new character Datto is a "sports quota" Delhi University student from a Haryanvi village. For her, men are either brothers or competition (on the sports field). Tanu on the other hand plays the field (of another kind). She is more the sensuous type. Looks apart (they even share the same mole below the jawline, which is often concealed, and sometimes not), the two lead characters are nothing like each other.
Almost like a chameleon, Kangana Ranaut plays the double role as if she was part of two separate movies. Undoubtedly she's up for massive acclaim this time on again. Her part in Queen had touched a certain unknown raw nerve, especially among female audiences, to make it the most talked about performance of 2014. She had played a surprisingly nave middleclass Delhi girl who goes off alone on a maiden trip to Europe.
The character Datto here is infinitely more earthy and believable. As is the film that perfectly captures the sounds and smell of north India in the winters. We travel to a Haryana village riven by caste politics, besides Chamanganj in Kanpur, where everyone pokes their nose into each others' lives, and the idyllic campus of Delhi's Ramjas college.
The authenticity in the writing (Himanshu Sharma) is perhaps the reason practically all the actors in the film (most notably Deepak Dobriyal) leave a mark. The wit and repartee is absolutely top class.
Is this film about post-marriage issues a mainstream escapist fantasy still? Oh yes. It's a complete mad-cap, rom-com romp. Manu starts off being diagnosed as clinically insane.
The more real story belongs to his father, who lives in a home with his perennially nagging wife as the background score. The old man cracks husband-wife jokes. It is the most popular genre of humour in India. Observations and asides like these"and there are so many"lift this film to an altogether another level. I haven't laughed so much in a while.
http://www.abplive.in/author/mayankshekhar/2015/05/22/article595072.ece/Two-queens-and-an-ace-of-a-script-up-their-sleeve
What makes @aanandlrai a terrific director is his ability to show things as they are, doesn't show the pretty picture #TanuWedsManuReturns
Cancel plans, reschedule meetings. Just go to the nearest cinema hall, watch #TanuWedsManuReturns now. Thanks @ActorMadhavan @aanandlrai
Effortless performance by @ActorMadhavan, #KanganaRanaut; amazing dialogues, rich script makes #TanuWedsManuReturns a must watch!
Seems like a good start and advance booking Hopefully it will sustain a good run in its re release...
https://www.indiaforums.com/article/kangana-ranaut-set-to-juggle-two-major-sequels-as-queen-2-tanu-weds-manu-3-get-rolling_226563
https://youtu.be/IcMUB8qY-qo?si=pnHVTju0p3v3eFzX
https://www.indiaforums.com/article/opinion-the-shaadi-sequel-no-one-asked-for-but-could-it-surprise-us_222103
Has any one seen this movie...
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