Cast: Siddarth Malhotra, Parineeti Chopra, Adah Sharma,
Manoj Joshi.
Director: Vinil Mathew
Length: 2.20hours approximately
Its said when you make love-stories, you don’t cast actor
and actress, rather you cast chemistry. HASEE TOH PHASEE legitimatized this
quote and how! This film is colossal example of how emotionally strong a film
can shape if the characters are well developed. HASEE TOH PHASEE serves you two
leads who are struggling at every path of life.
What keeps the film tight is the humor. Comedy is sharp
business here and most of jokes cracks up from hilarious situation that the
screenplay throws at our love birds. And what strikes the chord is that the
narration is not episodic. It doesn’t pay heed to comedy and romance in two
different halves. The film blossoms with rib-roaring gags and alternately
transforms into a light, buoyant bonding of love. The writer here has done an
excellent work by trespassing through various routine love-issues of young
generation. Mark that sequence just prior to intermission where the guy gives a
note-speech on break-up to which our heroine dismisses immediately. It’s a
humorous scene but we know it’s a truth.
Although HASEE TOH PHASEE took its comedy business too
seriously. Some scenes are dragged a lot and humor falls flat, like the one in
first hour where Parineeti takes half dozen people to shop in a known shopping
area of Mumbai. Also the whole bunch of relatives in the film has given some
comic shade which did pull the film’s run-time and couldn’t help the film. But
yes, one can forgive some minor negatives for that monumentally laughathon CID
spoof which will leave you in splits.
The music nicely grooms with the moments. “Ishq Bulawa”
although a forgettable song but displays how beautiful life is. Watch that song
in the film to know what I mean! The songs are alright, with “Zehnaseeb” being
beautifully placed in the film. Vinil Mathew as a director surprises. There are
lot of feelings in the film which aren’t manifested in the viewer’s head.
Instead, they are just left and unsaid and for us to feel. It’s a masterstroke
from the writers as well as the executor.
It becomes difficult to fathom with the fact that an actress
who was partially uncomfortable in his first film, has gathered so much
confidence for his next film. SIddarth Malhotra infuses subtlety and charm in
his role. He makes his character believable and likeable. But it’s Parineeti
Chopra who never shies away from playing the unusual enigmatic part who makes
you moist-eyed at-least twice and tickles your bones for numerous times. She is
so charming in her character that you are heart-felt. It’s a performance that
surely can win many hearts. This actress has a long, long, long way to go!
HASEE TOH PHASEE grabs your attention from the beginning.
Yes the dragged scenes do shake the entire healthy momentum created, but yet,
in totality, I thoroughly enjoyed the film for what it is. It is not the usual
rom-com that is churned and that you will realize as the film unfolds. Don’t
miss it.
Rating- 3.5/5
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