Monday, February 10, 2014

Hasee to Phasee

Hasee to Phasee starring Parineeti Chopra and Siddharth Malhotra, is Vinil Mathews directorial debut into features.
Vinil who is known to have created magic with brands like Cadbury and Airtel , was roped in by Phantom to direct the story written by Harshvardhan Kulkarni.

Nikhil (Sidharth) a struggling business man is in love with Karishma (Adah) who is an aspiring actress (yawn).
Meeta (Parineeti) is Karishma’s estranged sister who ran away from the family and is a bit delirious and addicted to various pills.

To try and weave some sort of a story around the three – Meeta returns back after 7 yrs to attend Karishma’s wedding. Karishma in turn entrusts her sisters responsibility onto Nikhil, she doesn’t want Meeta anywhere close to the family thinking it may ruin the wedding preparations, considering the circumstances under which Meeta last left.

Nikhil starts baby sitting an eccentric Meeta, who keeps oscillating between longing to get one glance of her father and at every other opportunity suggesting that he (Nikhil) should break up with the sister and marry her instead (poker faced)

Thus continues a mindless charade between wedding preparations and baby sitting the sister.
I was honestly looking forward to this movie because the promo’s promised Parineeti in a different avatar, Sidharth in a more than ‘flexing the jaw line’ kind of contribution, but alas, all I kept doing was trying to find a reason to stay cause every movie deserves that much, I feel.  

Their plates did have a different menu to offer, but an inconsistency in the characters and direction, average cinematography and not thought through story line overshadowed the credit they deserved. 

Amar Mangrulkar is the only saving grace in the film.  Zehnaseeb and Ishq Bulaava are two of my favorites from the album.


If anyone figures out the connection between the story and the title, call me!