How Aanand L Rai quietly became the most important name in Hindi romance
What separates his filmography from anything else working in this space is that no two films occupied the same emotional territory, or told the same story. The crowded lanes of Benaras in Raanjhanaa carried a completely different weight from the Kanpur shown in Tanu Weds Manu, which sat in an entirely different register from the fractured domesticity of Tanu Weds Manu Returns, which also bore no resemblance to the Punjab of Manmarziyaan.