Tanu Weds Manu

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Tanu Weds Manu is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy drama by Aanand L. Rai, and produced by Shailesh R Singh. It stars R. Madhavan, Kangana Ranaut, Jimmy Sheirgill, Eijaz Khan, Swara Bhaskar and Deepak Dobriyal. The story of the film has been written by Himanshu Sharma, music is directed by Krsna Solo and the lyrics penned by Rajshekhar.

PLOT

Manoj Kumar Sharma alias Manu is an NRI doctor living in London. He comes to India to find an Indian bride and get married. His parents have already short-listed some girls for him to meet, and they, along with his friend Pappi take him to Kanpur to meet Tanuja Trivedi alias Tanu. After they land in Kanpur, Manu was beat up by some goons at the rail station. Tanu’s mother tells that Tanu is having a fever and had just taken sleeping pills. Manu takes a look at sleeping Tanu and falls in love. He agree to the marriage and both the families decide to go on a pilgrimage and seek the blessings of God before the engagement.

During the train journey, Tanu tells Manu that she had intentionally taken sleeping pills to fall asleep, to avoid meeting him. She tells him that she loves someone else and had also had a tatoo of his name on her body written ‘awasthi’ She demands that Manu should now reject her. Manu is extremely disappointed because he likes her immensely, but he dutifully does the decent thing. Weeks pass, and he meets several prospective girls from suitable families, one of them is Ayushi Awasthi, whose brother is Raja Awasthi who pleads Manu to marry his sister. Manu agrees that Ayushi is very nice but says he is ‘helpless’ and cannot marry her as he is in love with another girl. Raja understands something is amiss and respects Manu for being honest.

Later at home Manu declares he would rather not get married now, and expresses his wish to leave for London. But Pappi informs him about the wedding of another school best friend Jassi and they travel to Punjab to attend it. Upon arriving, Manu finds out that Tanu is also attending the wedding, and that she is best friend of Payal, Jassi’s bride-to-be. Tanu and Manu gets along well and their parents arrive at the wedding.

Tanu thinks that Manu has called them up and is trying to reestablish their cancelled wedding connection. She is upset. This causes tension among her, Manu, Jassi and Payal; feeling guilty, Manu decides to leave. But Tanu comes to the rail station to stop him and tells him she is on the verge of eloping, that she and her lover are going to get secretly married in a registrar’s office, and then present her parents with a fait accompli. She asks him to stay till the wedding.

Manu is heartbroken and leaves back to Chandigarh, he meets Raja and comes to know Raja is getting married and Tanu is in fact his girlfriend. Raja and Tanu goes to marriage registrar’s office. But their marriage could not be registered because of time constraint and no pen. Though Manu has a pen, he does not offer. Manu convinces Tanu’s parents for the marriage of Tanu and Raja.

While wedding shopping, Manu confesses to Tanu that he was in love with her all along and he in fact, had brought a pen to the registrar’s office but hid it intentionally. Raja learns about Manu and Tanu and fights with Tanu. Tanu confesses she has feelings for Manu. Raja is angry, and demands Tanu still marries him declaring that a months of fulfilling her wifely duties will make her forget everything. She is torn and emotional, and pulling Manu aside she demands to clearly know whether he loves her or not. Manu does so. Tanu, relieved and elated, decides to marry Manu, not Raja.

Raja arrives with a wedding procession at the wedding of Tanu and Manu. Raja brandishes a gun and creates a scene. Manu however refuses to be scared and begins reasoning with Raja. Raja aims the gun and almost pulls the trigger, but thinks better of it in the end. He says no one wants him to marry Tanu, not even his mother has given him her blessings for it. He then reminds Manu of the promise he had made to him, and he decides to honor his promise, and tells Tanu he might be many things, but he is not a betrayer. Raja sacrifices his love and he claims that he loves Tanu so for her happiness he leaves as the proceedings for Tanu and Manu’s wedding starts once more.