SMcritic Tanu weds Manu was a low budget surprise box office hit in India that probably was unexpected even for the directors. It does have some merits to it's credit though.1. The setting is of course the film's strongest point. North Indian middle class family setting well supported by the ambiance and cinematography. The train ride, the rooftops of houses and the gully's everything adds to the rustic beauty of the movie. 2. The supporting characters especially Madhavan's friend who acts pretty convincing as well as Kangana's best friend who actually acted way better than the heroine herself.The story in itself is beyond believable so definitely one is not expected to use logic. If you are also wondering why opposites always attract in Bollywood movies, that's because no one really shows what happens later on. I would have really liked to see how a nerdy, soft spoken overly polished NRI can peacefully coexist with a a loud ,foul mouthed rebel with absolutely no cause or conviction girl. However, one is not to think of this and enjoy the movie. Of course, he is madly in love with her after seeing her pass out and later hearing her cuss and swear. It proves again and again that in arranged marriages beauty still prevails. The story progression is pretty good although it's hard to understand where Kangana is coming from or why she is the way she is..or actually why Madhavan does what he does. But then again..forget logic...Nevertheless the movie has a certain charm that cannot be missed. You still enjoy and identify with the smaller moments in the movie. Jimmy Shergill who is one of the supporting characters gives more attention to his role than needed. Everyone else is good where they are. Kangana does the loud mouthed part very convincingly , falls flat where subtlety is required. The songs are exceptionally good and very appropriate..beautifully sung.If you enjoy simple narratives and love stories you may actually enjoy the movie.

Avinash Patalay The promos were indeed eye-catching but the way it raked "moolah" at the box-office indeed took the entire industry by surprise. The constituents of "Tanu Weds Manu" is its honesty and down to earth treatment. The screenplay makes the proceedings believable and add to that a script which is very much a spoken language making the audience to instantly connect. √ Maddy:: A much awaited deserving solo hit which hopefully should translate into bagging some interesting projects. BTW - Manu Sharma being a engineer-cum-doctor in London served no purpose to the actual plot. And yes, a natural performance indeed.√ Kangana:: The rebellious character "Tanu "with a mind of her own has been borrowed from many (recently Ms. Padukone in "Break Ke Baad"). Now that the movie is a hit, Kangana surely has added the feather to her cap. No doubt she has given her honest best but it showed that she was over- doing it. Perhaps it would have been natural had Anushka or Deepika were brought on board.√ Deepak Dobrial:: A waste of talent. Ended up being a side-kick while I was hoping his character would leave a lasting impact.√ Ravi Kishen:: Good diversion at the beginning but ended up with a special appearance. √ Jimmy Shergill:: Good "tough guy" performance (and would have certainly helped to pour in the audience from Punjab). √ K K Raina, Rajendra Gupta & Navni Parihar:: Lend adequate support.Songs went on to become popular after the movie churned good numbers. "Tanu Weds Manu" certainly deserves one time watch.

ak-greymatter It is one of the movies which makes you understand and appreciate a lot of movies which you earlier thought to be just average. it would have taken exemplary courage to make such a horrible, unwatchable,irritating,pathetic movie. if we look at the plot, it revolves around a Uk based doctor who has come back to India to get married. He falls in love(at first sight) with a cigarette smoking , foul mouthed slut who refuses to marry him. And after lots of meaningless twists and turns finally convince her to abandon her boyfriend and marry him. Now if you ask why i rate this movie 1/10, the reasons are a follows. 1. I failed to understand(or the movie fails to make us understand) why out of all the other girls he chose to fall in love with this slut. 2. kangana ranaut is one of the worst actress in history of bollywood. 3. script is pathetic. 4. a lot of times you end up wondering where is the story going.Overall I would not recommend this movie to anyone . go watch the ceiling instead..it'll be more worthy of your time.

a_chopra After a series of boring movies like 'Yeh Saali Zindagi', '7 Khoon Maaf', 'Patiala House' etc. this is a very soothing light mood entertaining movie. Kangana looks beautiful and has acted as wonderful as ever in a chirpy naughty spoiled lass' role. Madhavan's role is of no meat except being a goody goody and low profile. Deepak Dobrial & Swara Bhaskar have done their roles very well. Jimi Shergill is good as a typical educated goon of UP. His character needed a little more emphasis. As his muscle-man, Ravikishan has got a tiny role too. The best part is that most characters are shown enjoying old Hindi melodious songs repeatedly in the movie, a trend now for quite sometime, because the new songs have nothing but trash! After Bunty&Babli and Tashan, once again the story is focused on Kanpur! Climax is tasteless and could have been better.However, the movie has got much of a regional touch of UP and at the best a Hindi state touch and will not be much appreciated by big town or English medium audience of India who live here but dream of west emulating every prank of theirs.The goodness of any movie are damped by 2 things these days- horrid shouts and shrieks in the name of music with jarring noise in husky, feeble male voices with an overdose of Punjabi & Sufi music. This movies avoids it to great extent still Sufi boredom background shout (song) is there as a deterrent to the tempo of the movie. The second bad thing is poor projection by theaters these days to save electric power they use low voltage which casts a dark spell on the screen killing the joy. Even so called multiplexes do this mean practice.