Tanu Weds Manu (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #25 extract: Tanu Weds Manu (2011)



A pretty horrible romance, one that confusingly attempts to draw parallels between itself and Hindu mythology, which mistakes love for attraction, stupidity for naivety, patience for fear, guilt for compassion and hope for weakness. This is the troubling consequence of overly melodramatic romances; one partner is too weak and needs to grow a spine and the other is a malicious fool who does not deserve them. Tropes and lazy writing, however, insist that all that is clearly wrong with characters can be fixed by one magical realisation or revelatory stand - which is in fact true to a certain extent, but if characters are as faulted as they are in this movie, mere realisation is not going to cut it; its going to take action and significant change over time from both partners. 
All in all, sometimes letting the nice guy finish last is the merciful thing to, especially if he’s running the wrong race. Twisting fantasies that scream malice and failure into romance that apparently exudes ‘truth’ and what is 'right’ is a truly terrible blunder. 
P.S. The poster and tagline say it all. The obnoxious woman drags the weak moron, and below: “Celebrate a perfect mismatch”. What on Earth are they trying to sell with this?

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