You may want to forget the movie, but how will you ever forget the characters, their small town mentality but big hearts, where they believe in Jaan Jaye Par Vacahan Na Jaaye even though Ladki Chali Jaaye. Tanu Weds Manu isn’t a Band Baaja Baraat where you cant help but get transported into the shadi Mubarak mode. Infact it is a film replete with complex human behavior but despite its underlying emotions, Tanu Weds Manu allows us our share of fun with its colourful characters.

So Tanu Weds Manu is about love at first sight with the first girl you meet in an arranged set up even though she is drunk. You want to marry her even though you are London returned and know that half her family looks straight out of a reality TV show and the other half from a saas bahu soap opera.

We love the small towns with their narrow roads, overcrowded with rickshaws and their high dilapidated roofs. We love the people, with their dilphek attitude, where they would do anything for their friends.

But despite all this Tanu weds Manu happens for us in bits and pieces. But those bits are delectable. And the winners of the movie are its characters. We love Pappi who when asked his name, promptly says leke batau ya deke. Tanu’s desperate parents too are endearing as are Jassi and Payal.

The movie is out and out Kangana Ranaut film. We just love her. She drinks like a fish, rolls joints and smokes up, abuses almost at all times and will not marry any guy her father picks for her. Infact she will get the name of her boyfriend tattooed on her chest in a week but will only marry him if she can elope with him else there is no fun. She sings, dances, makes merry, runs away from home every now and then and thinks her best friends wedding is incomplete if she wont get drunk and puke.

The actress has always been a powerhouse of talent, her only failing remaining her small town accent and not so effortless English but she just sails through in the film. Madhavan, on other hand seems a tad bit thanda and too bechara. You wonder why at the end of it she really falls for him. Do opposites really attract? Jimmy Shergill is fabulous. It’s like the director made this movie to shows us how well these three under played actors could perform.

Now you might find the film a little bit of a drag, a little repetitive and very predicable. So if you can deal with all that for the sake of some fun and see a powerhouse of talent being revealed, go to the movies.