"Tanu Weds Manu" is based on the age-old belief that marriages are made in heaven. It is a love story of two completely opposite people -- Tanu and Manu. Manu is a seedha saadha Doctor from London. Intelligent, temperate and from a respectable family, the perfect groom which every parent wants for their daughter. Family pressure leads him to Kanpur to meet Tanu the quintessential small town girl who has studied in Delhi.