This film can't be called as love story in any true meaning. Because the lead characters in this film are mere caricatures, created by Anand L Rai, who eventually are forced to get married only to end the film. Manu (Madhavan) returns to India, on behest of his parents, to get married. On his way to meet a girl for match, he gets ambushed. Just like in a Video game, he gets up, tidy himself and goes to meet the girl. In a bizarre matchmaking meet, he sees Tanu (Kangna) who is actually in no condition to meet him & falls asleep without even uttering a word. He is smitten by her beauty and plants a kiss on her cheeks and also takes a picture of her (WHEN SHE IS LYING UNCONSCIOUS).. Insteadling of telling her family that he wants to talk to her after she wakes up, he tells them that he likes her. (Note that he didn't even have a conversation with her). The next day, Tanu ABUSES him and tells him that she already has a boyfriend and she doesn't want to marry him (Manu). So, Manu cancels his marriage. When Manu attends his friend's marriage, he accidentally meets Tanu, who happens to be the bride's BFF. Throughout the rest of the film, Manu keeps growing sweet on Tanu. Any rational girl would understand his feelings. But not Tanu. When Tanu's BFF tells her that Manu loves her a lot and he's leaving, Tanu runs to meet him only to tell him that her boyfriend, Raja (Jimmy Shergill) is going to come come the next day and unapologetically requests him to stay until she gets married. WTF? Why should she run to invite a man (who is in love with her) to her marriage. Isn't she matured enough to understand that it further breaks his heart? Manu somehow stays. He even shamelessly goes to register office, as a witness, with Tanu and Raja. There....A ridiculous thing happens. Ironically, the marriage won't take place because the concerned officer's Pen's Ink Expires. LOL. They search for another pen but couldn't find one. Manu, though having a Pen, lies that he doesn't have any. The next day, Tanu asks Manu to tell how he feels about her. Manu confesses his feelings for her. Before he could finish, Raja takes her away, as he comes to Know about Manu through his confidant (Ravi Kishan). Raja tells her that he feels no different than a MONKEY. Yeah! You heard it right! Tanu also says the same & the scene cuts. Next day, Tanu takes Manu into her room and asks him whether he loves her. (Wait, Doesn't she know about it by the way he behaved throughout. Ok. Didn't she hear him confessing in the previous day?). He says "Yes". She replies "How could I know if you don't tell me?". (Does the director took audiences for fools? Just asking). That evening... Both Manu and Raja get ready as grooms. And when they confront Raja aims a revolver at Manu & tells him that he'd shoot him if he marries Manu. He, then, as directed by Anand L Rai, delivers some Prepostorous lines. In the beginning of the film, Manu refuses to marry Raja's sister as she has a disfuntional hand. Somehow it doesn't have any relevance to the film as Raja tells Manu that he's a good man and backs off. Tanu and Manu gets married. I seriously couldn't understand why Manu wants to marry Tanu, even when she was so mean to him? She never cared for him at all. And eventually when she simply choose to marry him over her boyfriend, Can't he think that the same can happen to him later?

The only thing that I liked about this film is Deepak Dobriyal. His comic timing is brilliant.

Despite the film's incredible success, I personally found it to be a simple film with nothing but overused clichés of Hindi cinema. A mess made for theatres, suitable as television serial, though has splendid actors in it, falls short because of it's boring screenplay.

Just because you take a bakwaas bollywood film, remove all of it's cringe parts, and make a Desi film out of it with Desi music filling incessantly, doesn't make your film award deserving. It was rather disappointing.

I'm not Indian, but I like old Bollywood films, and sometimes I make the mistake of watching modern ones. Of course I'm missing subtleties, as I'm relying on subtitles, but I see from other reviews that I'm not the only one who found Tanu thoroughly unpleasant and the romance beyond unbelievable.

There seems to be a sort of role reversal going on, where the girl is the one sowing her wild oats. But just in time for her to settle down and be tamed by marriage (the traditional scenario for the red-blooded male), a decent, virginal guy, with a prestigious job in London, appears and is inexplicably smitten by her.

He's a poor judge of character all round, as he becomes pally with her current squeeze, although the script is signalling to the audience very clearly that the guy is a bad lot.

I can only imagine that the success of the film means that it has somehow caught the zeitgeist in middle-class India. There is some demographic rooting for Tanu as an ideal modern woman.