"Hasee Toh Phasee" - Watch Out For Parineeti Chopra

By siliconindia | Friday, 07 February 2014, 13:29 Hrs

The longish sequence where Nikhil takes Parineeti outside her home so she can get a glimpse of her estranged father, or that moment when Nikhil picks her up from a dingy guest house...these are bravely written scenes.

The director is not afraid of silences. Several episodes are done without the prop of a background score. While there are too many songs popping up here there and every-wail, the "Zehnaseeb" track that shows up at the climax adds just the right flavour and fervor to the proceedings.

There are many sluggish moments in the storytelling. You wish the editing would have been tighter. You wish the film's setting and festive mood had been less cliched. And you wish there wasn't so much stress on catching the characters in a constant condition of quirkiness. It's like watching decent people on pot and on the potty all the time.

But then there is Parineeti Chopra, so wonderfully articulate even as she grapples to command the gibberish grammarof her character's screwed-up personality. It's definitely not easy to play a wacko with such steadfast empathy. Parineeti again proves herself one of the finest actresses of our times.