"Hasee Toh Phasee" - Watch Out For Parineeti Chopra

Film: "Hasee Toh Phasee"; Cast: Parineeti Chopra, Siddharth Malhotra, Adah Sharma; Director: Vinil Mathew; Rating: ****

She is certifiably wacko, eats toothpaste, hobnobs with foreign powers, steals from her father, talks Mandarin and bluntly asks her sister's fiance to marry her.

"I promise I won't run away...Life-time guarantee," Parineeti Chopra, as the zany fey and mad Meeta tells Siddharth Malhotra in a beautifully written and directed sequence in an empty bus.

Ab bus bhi karo! How many more commercial Indian films are going to be set in the Great Big Fat Indian Wedding? And really, after Kareena Kapoor in Imtiaz Ali's "Jab We Met", Kangna Ranaut in Aanand Rai's "Tanu Weds Manu" and Katrina Kaif in "Mere Brother Ki Shaadi" , there's nothing runaway brides can do to shock us any more...

So wait, don't go away. The good news is, there is no runaway bride in "Hasee Toh Phasee". But don't break into a Bhangra as yet. Because there is a runaway bridegroom.

Set during a Gujarati wedding between two souls who are not meant to be together, the film at heart is not a comedy at all...unless you think a grown-up girl who is locked up for hours in a room peeing in her pants is funny....so I wonder why it was promoted as one!

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