Hasee Toh Phasee
U/A: Romcom
Director: Vinil Mathew
Cast: Parineeti Chopra, Siddharth Malhotra

Every once in a while comes along a film where the character actor stays with you longer than the protagonists, no matter how much screen space they have managed to get. In Hasee Toh Phasee, it is Manoj Joshi, who plays Meeta’s (Parineeti Chopra) ambitious Gujarati businessman father. Very rarely do you see a combination of a character so evolved and an actor bringing it to life with such ease. I challenge you not to remember your own father and shed a tear or two in the scene where he defends his daughter’s individuality in front of his unreasonable and pragmatic brother (Sameer Khakhar). This scene is the highlight of the film. It is as if debut director Vinil Mathew is defending the female protagonist of his film for being so refreshingly different from the ones you get to see in Hindi films that you want to blink again and again (just like Meeta does) to know if it’s for real.

Parineeti Chopra and Siddharth Malhotra in Hasee Toh Phasee