While the light-hearted romantic comedy drama is one of the most loved films among the new generation, both the lead stars celebrated this special moment on social media. Yup, if the film gets your undivided attention it's because Parineeti won't let us look away.Sidharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra starrer Hasee Toh Phasee is celebrating 7 years of release today. She irons out all the rough spots in the storytelling, hides all the wrinkles in the jaded plot and makes her character seem far more empathetic than it would have been in a lesser actress' hands. No matter how you look at it, the film and every rich resplendent moment in it, belongs to Parineeti Chopra. To me this is more a father-daughter drama than a loverboy-wackogirl rom-com. Mohan Joshi as the bride Adah Sharma and the bride's sister Parineeti Chopra's father gives a first-rate performance. One doesn't see the actor identify with his character's wayward entrepreneurship and his sudden discovery of a protective warmth towards the zany girl who jumps in to his life. He struggles to subjugate his innate vanity and look sincere in his space. Siddharth Malhotra seems more taken up with putting his best profile forward on screen. Parineeti again proves herself one of the finest actresses of our times. It's definitely not easy to play a wacko with such steadfast empathy. It's like watching decent people on pot and on the potty all the time.īut then there is Parineeti Chopra, so wonderfully articulate even as she grapples to command the gibberish grammarof her character's screwed-up personality.
And you wish there wasn't so much stress on catching the characters in a constant condition of quirkiness. You wish the film's setting and festive mood had been less cliched. You wish the editing would have been tighter. There are many sluggish moments in the storytelling. While there are too many songs popping up here there and every-wail, the "Zehnaseeb" track that shows up at the climax adds just the right flavour and fervor to the proceedings. Several episodes are done without the prop of a background score. The longish sequence where Nikhil takes Parineeti outside her home so she can get a glimpse of her estranged father, or that moment when Nikhil picks her up from a dingy guest house.these are bravely written scenes. Nonetheless there is so much here that just warms up the inner-most spaces in our hearts. They must have sounded engaging on paper, though. Many sequences such as the one where Parineeti takes a brood of old wedding guests through a wild walk through the bustling lanes of Delhi, lose their warmth in translation. The characters in this darkly humorous tale of misfits and other adventurers steadily remain within the realm of the believable even the situations handed over to them by the uneven but effective script wobble dangerously out of control. Luckily for Nikhil and for the audience Karishma, as played by the sweetly believable Adah Sharma, is not a rich bitch like the hero's embarrassing fiancee in this weeks other release Babloo Happy Hai. Nikhil(Siddharth Malhotra) is about to marry Ms Money. So here's the the all-too-familiar scenario. Though the surface mood of the film is skittish and cheeky, "Hasee Toh Phasee" is an unmistakably somber study of dysfunctionality as seen during a time of tremendous festivity. Set during a Gujarati wedding between two souls who are not meant to be together, the film at heart is not a comedy at all.unless you think a grown-up girl who is locked up for hours in a room peeing in her pants is funny.so I wonder why it was promoted as one!
The good news is, there is no runaway bride in "Hasee Toh Phasee". "I promise I won't run away.Life-time guarantee," Parineeti Chopra, as the zany fey and mad Meeta tells Siddharth Malhotra in a beautifully written and directed sequence in an empty bus.Īb bus bhi karo! How many more commercial Indian films are going to be set in the Great Big Fat Indian Wedding? And really, after Kareena Kapoor in Imtiaz Ali's "Jab We Met", Kangna Ranaut in Aanand Rai's "Tanu Weds Manu" and Katrina Kaif in "Mere Brother Ki Shaadi", there's nothing runaway brides can do to shock us any more. She is certifiably wacko, eats toothpaste, hobnobs with foreign powers, steals from her father, talks Mandarin and bluntly asks her sister's fiance to marry her. Film: "Hasee Toh Phasee" Cast: Parineeti Chopra, Siddharth Malhotra, Adah Sharma Director: Vinil Mathew Rating: ****
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