Director: Anand L Rai
Producer: Mukesh Talreja
Written by: Himanshu Sharma
Producer: Mukesh Talreja
Written by: Himanshu Sharma
Cast: Rajendra Gupta, Ravi Kishan, Madhavan, K.K. Raina, Jimmy Shergill, Eijaz Khan, Deepak Dobriyal, Kangana Ranaut, Swara Bhaskar and others
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Language: Hindi
Release date and status: Released on Feb 25, 2011
Language: Hindi
Release date and status: Released on Feb 25, 2011
Tanu and Manu are chalk and cheese, literally. He’s almost a chalky deadweight with no discernable personality and she is cheesiest heroine one could ever concoct! The NRI Manu must approve of the rishta with Tanu even while she’s asleep. ‘She has a fever and is on sleeping tablets’ her mother informs Manu, while extended families wait outside to hear the verdict. Nobody tells Manu that the girl is drunk, stoned and on sleeping tablets. And how should he know, he’s only a doctor!
So Manu says ‘yes’(!!!), and the families rejoice by making a trip to thank ‘mataji’ in Vaishnodevi. In the sleeper class of a train, packed with extras from Jab We Met & Band Baja Baraat, Tanu (who is finally awake) tells Manu that she is in love with someone else, and cant stand the boring NRI!! As if that revelation weren’t enough, the girl even puffs at a cigarette while blowing expletives at the bespectacled boy.
Manu is dejected, not because he is ashamed of having wanted to marry a girl who talks like a foul mouthed fisherwoman on a bad fishing day, but because he has fallen in love with the sleeping beauty. Sadly, his kiss never wakes her up from a ghastly acting attack!
How Tanu rejects Manu, then meets him again to almost fall in love with him, then rejects him again because she must marry someone else, but cant stand the new groom--because she actually loves Manu, forms the crux of this excruciating ‘weird–ass’ wedding video. The characters are a mess, and they all seem terribly confused.
Dear Kangana, smoking several spliffs, getting drunk at the drop of a groom and speaking in strange garbled speech (that we will now classify as Martian or Ranautian) does not a character make. Tanu is a brat that one cannot feel any affection for, and she never redeems herself.
Madhavan, what were you thinking? Your character doesn’t have a spine.
Like a door mat, Manu takes the shit meted out to him in the name of love? Not once does Manu take matters into his own hands. Why would a girl want to marry a loser who one minute ago was professing his love for her, and the next minute was taking her shopping for her wedding with some other guy ??!!? The fact that she looks like a cross between an extra terrestrial and Pamela Anderson only makes things worse.
The only redeeming factor in this psycho baraat is actor Deepak Dobriyal, who plays Manu’s best friend Pappi. Dobriyal, who was launched in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Omkara, playes small town guy ‘Pappi’ with superb comic timing and a refreshing twinkle in his eye. If you do watch the film, watch out for the jai mata di scene where the boys must chant the goddesses name while Manu tells Pappi about the ‘shocking’ true nature of Tanu. Dobriyal does his best to hold up this wedding blunder, but in vain.
The icing on this wobbly wedding cake is its climax scene, where two grooms land up with two sets of baraati’s. The scene prepares you for a showdown, but leaves you with a headache.
Watch the 14 songs of Hum Aapke Hain Kaun instead of this deranged marriage!
So Manu says ‘yes’(!!!), and the families rejoice by making a trip to thank ‘mataji’ in Vaishnodevi. In the sleeper class of a train, packed with extras from Jab We Met & Band Baja Baraat, Tanu (who is finally awake) tells Manu that she is in love with someone else, and cant stand the boring NRI!! As if that revelation weren’t enough, the girl even puffs at a cigarette while blowing expletives at the bespectacled boy.
Manu is dejected, not because he is ashamed of having wanted to marry a girl who talks like a foul mouthed fisherwoman on a bad fishing day, but because he has fallen in love with the sleeping beauty. Sadly, his kiss never wakes her up from a ghastly acting attack!
How Tanu rejects Manu, then meets him again to almost fall in love with him, then rejects him again because she must marry someone else, but cant stand the new groom--because she actually loves Manu, forms the crux of this excruciating ‘weird–ass’ wedding video. The characters are a mess, and they all seem terribly confused.
Dear Kangana, smoking several spliffs, getting drunk at the drop of a groom and speaking in strange garbled speech (that we will now classify as Martian or Ranautian) does not a character make. Tanu is a brat that one cannot feel any affection for, and she never redeems herself.
Madhavan, what were you thinking? Your character doesn’t have a spine.
Like a door mat, Manu takes the shit meted out to him in the name of love? Not once does Manu take matters into his own hands. Why would a girl want to marry a loser who one minute ago was professing his love for her, and the next minute was taking her shopping for her wedding with some other guy ??!!? The fact that she looks like a cross between an extra terrestrial and Pamela Anderson only makes things worse.
The only redeeming factor in this psycho baraat is actor Deepak Dobriyal, who plays Manu’s best friend Pappi. Dobriyal, who was launched in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Omkara, playes small town guy ‘Pappi’ with superb comic timing and a refreshing twinkle in his eye. If you do watch the film, watch out for the jai mata di scene where the boys must chant the goddesses name while Manu tells Pappi about the ‘shocking’ true nature of Tanu. Dobriyal does his best to hold up this wedding blunder, but in vain.
The icing on this wobbly wedding cake is its climax scene, where two grooms land up with two sets of baraati’s. The scene prepares you for a showdown, but leaves you with a headache.
Watch the 14 songs of Hum Aapke Hain Kaun instead of this deranged marriage!