Hasee Toh Phasee
Starring: Sidharth Malhotra, Parineeti Chopra, Adah Sharma
Rated: 6.5/10
There is nothing usual about this love story — it is neither overly cute, nor overly romantic, nor even a cohesive tale of two hearts. By normal romcom standards too, this might just as well been recommended to a correctional facility.
Yet, it is a delightful tale of two strange people meeting each other in stranger circumstances, and then meeting again after seven years in much more bizarre circumstances.
A regular but good looking guy not wanting to do anything right with his life (like becoming an IPS officer as his father would have wanted), is marrying a pretty Gujju babe but comes across the bride’s crazy runaway sister who has returned to script another heist on her beloved father. And when things happen, they happen as haphazardly as they should, coming from a girl who is a top physics scientist with a drug addiction, speaking in Chinese and going into staccato trances as and when.
Yes, it is crazy but it is also all about Parineeti Chopra’s excellent histrionics and her vivacious presence. Sidharth is good too but only as a side dish in a mount by an equally chalk-and-cheese pair of producers. Anything from an Anurag Kashyap-Karan Johar get-together has to be hilarious and unsettling. And this one is exactly that, hence a must-see.