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Wednesday, 12 February 2014

#Hasee Toh Phasee,... Lekin Aap Hasee Toh Kyun?



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Before I even begin , I must first tell you how I even ended up watching this movie. I woke up, one Sunday morning to have been texted by 5 people about how awesome the movie was. I just had to go watch it and boy did I get lucky with getting tickets on the first Sunday of release.  I sat on my seat waiting for that “Wow” moment which never happened to me. I thought perhaps I was too left- brained than the folks who recommended it or perhaps too insensitive in always trying to make sense out of things
I am not going to say here that I was bored to death. Well I wasn’t and I will tell you why-  the eccentric expressions of Parineeti kept my mind in a constant delirium trying to figure what her character was like. Even up to the end of the movie I couldn’t really figure her character out.  Parineeti plays the female protagonist (Meeta) who is so very intelligent, yet she is mocked at and literally driven out of her family for wanting to get a Phd. Her family by the way , has crores of rupees but will judge her for having short hair and being a geek, so she steals from her Dad and goes absconding for years. Meanwhile, she does have a hot sister(Karishma) who is allowed to act in TV serials and marry below her!!(Nikhil)...Now how is this fair? and for the geeky feminist in me this feels like “Ghoar Apraadh” .
Now coming back to the quirky Meeta, let me tell you this – in the start of the movie I thought she was boyish and geeky, somewhere in the middle I thought she was perhaps autistic or had a neurological disorder but then,  by the end of the movie it felt like she had separation anxiety. Surprisingly, during the song and dance numbers she was so sane and normal that it felt like the song was not a part of the movie. Now any guy will fall for a girl like that in the song, so it explains that Nikhil falls for her and dumps Karishma . Well how insensitive I wonder, love of 7 years evaporates in one song and dance sequence. It didn’t matter then that the girl ate 5 tubes of toothpaste, and was living on anti-depressants to solve her neurotic issues (hmm…), all you had to do was to dance with her or fix her blouse, and you are in love, really?. On the other hand poor Karishma who is actually being loving towards her sister and practical towards her fiancĂ© is considered to be meany woman just because wants her fiancĂ© to pay her Dad back for the debts he has incurred. I think the story really lacked a solid screenplay and character sketch
Yes! I was still quite entertained I must say, every scene Parineeti (Meeta) was weird in a different way and gave me enough brain work and laughter. Siddharat Malhotra (Nikhil) in his white shirts with sleeves pulled up was a total hit amongst the girls who would stop screaming in the theatre!! So that was entertainment too.. I must say watch and tell me what you think about it. For this movie I really have to know key hasee toh kyun?

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