Hasee toh Phasee

 Hasee toh Phasee

 

Spread across Mumbai,overadecadethefilm is about the relationship betweenthequirky, rebelliousMeeta(ParineetiChopra), and the mischievous Nikhil(Sidharth Malhotra) struggling with theirrespectivefamilies to fit in. Nikhil bumps into Meeta on the occasion of her sister Deeksha’s wedding while Meeta is on the run. He fallsin lovewith Meeta’s sisterKarishma on thesameday.

Thefilm jumpstotheeveofNikhilandKarishma’sengagement.Karishma’swealthyfather, Devesh Solanki, does not approve of Nikhil as he finds him to be a lackadaisical young man.Onthedayofhisengagement,NikhilpromisesKarishmathat hewillprovehimselftobe worthyofherwithinthenextsevendays.

Nikhilis re-introducedtoMeetabyKarishmaandisinstructedtoputher upinahotel.NikhilrecognizesMeeta. In an attempt to please Karishmahe decides to keep Meeta in the flat above his own house, with his crazy extended family. During the course of Meeta’s stay at Nikhil’s house, they comeclosetoeachotherandopenuptoeachother.

Inthemidstofthisconfusion,thetruthofrelationshipsisunfolded;thestrengthof unions istestedandlovetriumphs.

Sidharth Malhotra / Parineeti Chopra / Adah Sharma / Manoj Joshi&Sharat Saxena

DHARMA Productions presents
A PHANTOM Production

HASEE TOH PHASEE
Choreography –Remo D’Souza / Bosco& Caesar/Ahmed Khan
Line Producer –Nancy Nisa Beso
Sound Design – Subash Sahoo
Casting Director – Mukesh Chhabra
Production Design – Aditya Kanwar
Costume Design – Divya and Nidhi Gambhir
Visual Promotions – Aditya Warrior& Team
Publicity Design – Brain on Rent
Marketing – Siddharth Kadam, Varun Gupta, Azeem Dayani & Giriraj Lakhotia

1^st Assistant Director – Aditya Basu
2nd Assistant Director–Pranay Meshram
Second 2^nd asst Director – Mrinalini Jain
3^rd Asst Director – Raunaq David
Script and Continuity Supervisor - Heeral Gandhi
ProductionCo ordinator – Dyuti Geete
Unit Production Manager - Satish Mane 
Production - Niraj Kr. Pandey, Navin Bajaj, Trishank Goswami, Amit Rai, Ajaz, Satish Pandey
Production Accounts – Anurag Mathur, Nikunj Bagdi, Tushar Patel, Kamlakar, Babli Sharma, Rakesh Pradhan, Sanjay
Director’s Assistant – Vivek Soni
Associate Producer – Ranjan Singh, Vivek B Agrawal

Cinematography – Sanu John Varughese
Story & Screenplay – Harshavardhan Kulkarni
Dialogue – Anurag Kashyap,Harshavardhan Kulkarni,Purva Naresh & Vinil Mathew
Editor – Shweta Venkat Mathew
Associate Editor – Nitesh Bhatia

Lyrics – Amitabh Bhattacharya& Kumaar
Music – Vishal and Shekhar
Background Music – Amar Mangrulkar
Executive Producer – Dipa De Motwane
Co-Producer – Apoorva Mehta
Produced by – Karan Johar, Vikas Bahl, Vikramaditya Motwane & Anurag Kashyap
Directed by – Vinil Mathew

CHARACTER SKETCHES –Hasee Toh Phasee

Meeta (Parineeti Chopra): Quirky and unpredictable, Meeta is a free-spirited girl, a misfit in her rich, traditional Gujarati family, despite the indulgence of her father Devesh. Extremely intelligent, she is a chemical engineer from IIT and doctorate from ZHEJIANG University in China.  She sees life in a logical analytical manner and is not weighed down by emotional consideration or baggage. She is passionate about her work and is driven to meet her goal, even if she achieves it in her own eccentric way. Nikhil brings a balance to her life and releases her pent up emotions revealing her more humane side.
Nikhil (Sidharth Malhotra)  : Nikhil is an optimist willing to do anything to make things work, even if his heart is not in it. He is a free-wheeler, pressured to confirm to the expectations of those around him. Though mischievous, he is extremely righteous and is struggling to cope with the expectations of his fiancé Karishma. Meeta helps Nikhil reclaim his life and frees him from the drudgery of living a life for others at the expense of his own happiness.
Karishma (Adah Sharma) : She is most attractive of the sisters. She is a top T.V actress and frequently motivates Nikhil to achieve his goals. She is an extremely emotional person for whom self-respect, dignity and propriety are important.
Devesh (Manoj Joshi) : He is the smartest of the Solanki Brothers. The family Saree business has grown 10 fold because of his efforts. He is critical of Nikhil and Meeta's relationship and his biggest weakness is Meeta.
S.B Bharadwaj (Sharat Saxena) :  Has previously served as DIG of narcotics. The now retired officer is a consultant on the Naxalites. He is disciplinarian and everyone except his wife is scared of him.
DIRECTOR’S NOTE

Over time our expectations out of a relationship get lowered, held together by the comfort of habit and the fear of it breaking apart. Wehave to adjust, accommodate, and work on the relationship to make it work.  Really??? Love can’t be a chore.It should be cucking frazy!held together not by compromise but by sizzling chemistry.
Meeta is double hydrogen and Nikhil is oxygen- their chemistry flows like water.   The story is an insane ride of how,destiny brings these two misfits together over a story that spans 7 years and 7 days. Meeta is a brilliant overachiever, a polymer engineer, who under medication, that she has self prescribed , displays curious symptoms including  kleptomaniac tendencies. Nikhil is an underachiever (at least that’s what everybody makes him feel like) crushed under the stress of repeatedly proving himself,  as a good son, friend, boyfriend etc.  Due to a peculiar turn of events, the two irreverent souls get entwined and end up changing each other’s lives and destiny.
The film observes people and happily discovers that there are no normal people in this world and that under the veneer of normalcy, everybody is whacked out. The world is indeed cuckin frazy J
-Vinil Mathew