Review of Tanu Weds Manu: Returns (2015) by Reshma S — 10 Aug 2015

This was an engaging and quite funny watch! There's lots of jokes and most work really well and genuinely elicit laughter. The opening is fantastic and its unfortunate that the rest of the movie can't maintain the high of the first ten minutes.

While the first half coasts along well enough, the second half really crumbles as completely unnecessary subplots with an overdose of cliche's and incredibly weak and unconvincing climax spoil the fun.

The saving grace in this scenario is Kangana Ranaut who delivers an absolute knockout performance perfecting the craft of convincingly creating two completely different characters in a double role. Her Haryanvi accent was so perfect that I had to download subtitle's to be able to follow what was being said! A good movie that could have been great if the second half had maintained the wit, boldness and humor of the first.

Enjoyable watch nevertheless!