Hasee Toh Phasee (Hindi)

Hasee Toh Phasee

Director:
Vinil Matthew

Writer:
 Harshavardhan Kulkarni (story), Harshavardhan Kulkarni (dialogue),

Ratings:
The film has an overall ratings of 6.7 which points a good film

Releasing date:
Feb 7, 2014

Recommendation:
Recommended film (as time pass)

Story:

            Spread across Mumbai over a decade, the film is about the relationship between the quirky, rebellious Meeta (Parineeti Chopra), and the mischievous Nikhil (Sidharth Malhotra) struggling with their respective families to fit in. Nikhil bumps into Meeta on the occasion of her sister Deeksha's wedding while Meeta is on the run. He falls in love with Meeta's sister Karishma on the same day. The film jumps to the eve of Nikhil and Karishma's engagement. Karishma's wealthy father, Devesh Solanki, does not approve of Nikhil as he finds him to be a lackadaisical young man. On the day of his engagement, Nikhil promises Karishma that he will prove himself to be worthy of her within the next seven days. Nikhil is re-introduced to Meeta by Karishma and is instructed to put her up in a hotel. Nikhil recognizes Meeta. In an attempt to please Karishma he decides to keep Meeta in the flat above his own house, with his crazy extended family. During the course of Meeta's stay at Nikhil's house

Review:

        Nikhil (Siddharth Malhotra) is the odd man out in his family having his own way of building his life. So is Meeta (Parineeti Chopra) with an aberrant behavior but with a mind of a genius. Nikhil attends a wedding and he meets Meeta, when she is running away from her abode. At the wedding, he falls in love with Karishma, who is also Meeta's sister. After 7 years, Nikhil and Karishma finally get engaged. Meeta returns but is kept away from the family by Karishma, and Nikhil befriends her. The rest of the story is how the equations change with the situations.

The story-line at the highest layer seems to be wafer-thin. However the writing takes us deeper into the complexity of the situations making a strong connect with the audience. Of course, there is some cinematic liberty taken, but the majority was a laudable dealing. The humor is very natural, and tickles you with its funny moments. Every scene between Siddharth and Parineetha were flawlessly written. A couple of scenes might even leave you moist-eyed. Such is the impact. Kudos to Harshavardhan Kulkarni for his writing and Vinil Mathws for the execution.

Parineethi Chopra is simply taking big leaps repeatedly with every movie she does! She is extra-ordinarily brilliant. There is a thin line between acting as a retard and playing a character that has an aberrant behavior and presentation. She understands that thin line so well. A slot is reserved for her in the Best Actor (Female) in all the award functions next year. Siddharth Malhotra is a revelation! A mature performance indeed. The entire ensemble greatly complemented the leads, namely Adah Sharma and Manoj Joshi .

Cinematography was good, and so were the melody tracks composed by Vishal-Shekar. A minor drawback of the movie is its length. A trimmed version without some unnecessary tracks would have helped.