Hasee to Phasee

Director: Vinil Matthew

Rating: 8/10               

I was waiting for this day-literally! The day ONE different movie came out of the ever productive Indian film industry, which had something a sensible film viewer could enjoy as well as appreciate.

Obsessed with love stories, as Bollywood generally is, here's perhaps one of the VERY VERY few romantic comedies that completely negate the gender stereotypes world over.

For the first time, there's a romantic comedy which is REALLY comic-so, funny that you will die laughing, and so different it's almost refreshing!

I am sure anyone who watched this movie will not fail to notice that for the first time, the leading male actor is not depicted as a sex-maniac, lecherous, womaniser or a commitment phobic moron. Also, here, in Nikhil (Sidharth Malhotra), we have a boy, who believes in maintaining a relationship, despite compromises and is determined to make it through a lifetime commitment with his longtime girlfriend, despite having fallen for another. 

In Meeta (Parineeti Chopra), we have a female protagonist after my own heart. Obsessed with her studies, her research and making a difference in the world with her knowledge, we have, as opposed to Karan Johar's typical heroines, a girl, whose dreams are beyond the comfort of home and hearth, a steady boyfriend, lots of clothes and gooey over romantic things. 

However, the thing I liked the most in this movie, that for the first time in its history, the Indian cinema gave some credit to men and acknowledged the fact that a man can be attracted to simplicity, too, instead of ostentatious sexuality, winsome gestures instead of seductive charms and brains and a vision instead of beauty. 

A terrific improvement in the course of a love-story by making the characters more life-like than dreamy, more realistic than perfect makes this movie totally worth watching! If this movie cannot create magic, I cannot think of any other that will.

I'm docking off two stars because I am still waiting for Bollywood to become more realistic and there are certain things, which are still very cliched, especially the way the movie ends, but other than that, so not meant to be missed!