“Haathi Ghoda Paalki, Jai Kanhaiya Laal Ki“, we would scream as the day would start with the room filled with flowers and mom would make garlands and the smell of sweets would blend perfectly with the fragrance already present. Schools used to give us the privilege to sleep a little extra that day but who wanted to! Janmashtami, it used to be!
The evening was the most awaited part of the day. In Delhi, scenes from Krishna’s life were enacted and portrayed on streets. Children would dress up as Krishna and Radha and as other various characters. Scenes from Mahabharata would adorn the street. Such colours and vibrance put altogether for Krishna’s birthday! Too much fun! Icecreams, Chole Bhature, Gol Gappe, Balloons; your every minute delighted with something or the other. Krishna sitting with Ray Ban while Radha would be sipping her Coco Cola. Gathered crowd only to swing the cradle of baby Krishna idol (that’s where I actually understood the phrase “never give up”)…
…and here I am sitting in my office, deadlines to kill; face resting on the palm; looking at the clock ticking and gazing outside the window (I have a huge ass window) … I wish I could have been a part of the parade back at home.
I was on a daily routine of googling stuff, and as far as I remember, I started with Parineeti Chopra and God knows how I ended up searching baby elephants! Did you know that elephants are so civilized and value their family so much, that they not only bury their loved ones and give a proper funeral but also avenge their death (if applicable)! No doubt they are so intelligent. They have also been proved to be ultimate babysitters (THAT’S IT! my babies are gonna grow up among elephants). And.. and aren’t they so cute! Humongous ball of love, oh-so-cute! I just couldn’t help sharing a few. So, yeah, enjoy!
Her love for Ranveer Singh is truly impeccable. Here Aarushi Dayal, this one goes for you. I hope one day you find him and eat him. Till then happy ogling! LOL!
I still didn’t get why the title of this movie was ‘Hasee toh Phasee‘ when the story line was not even revolving around it much. It was rather on drugs, Big fat shaadi, polymers and everybody seemed crorepati (well, typical KJo movies, eh?). Well, the story line was quite simple, nothing much to rack your brains into, but rather it focused on much more simpler things of life (now I know that wrapping a wet towel around your tummy can cut down your hunger craving). The dialogues were pretty interesting (“Tum Oxygen ho aur main double Hydrogen, humari chemistry ekdum paani k jaise hai“)
Yes, the story revolves around an intelligent-weird-girl-speaking-chinese-and-eating-pills-because-of-sansanahatt-and-ghabrahatt-and-some-hatt-hatt-in-her-body and a guy-who-is-scared-to-dump-his-gf-who-dumped-her-oh-so-many-times.
The story starts with young Meeta (Parineeti Chopra) locking the door with a nada and it becomes a bawaal because everyone gets locked out and only her pappa appreciates her hoshiyaari while she gets beaten up by her mother. In the parallel universe, a young boy Nikhil (Siddharth Malhotra) opens the door with his tactics to watch his favorite movie which his IPS officer papa forbids him to watch.
17 years hence, they both meet in Meeta’s sister Deeksha’s marriage from where Meeta eventually escapes after robbing her dad (because she had to do some R&D) helped by Nikhil. Next time lap, after 7 years, Nikhil is about to marry Karishma (Meeta’s sister whom he had an affair for 7 years after seeing her at Deeksha’s marriage). Now obviously, when the heroine is zinda, how can he get married to Karishma?! So here enters our heroine, Meeta! She is now on pills which makes her do stupid expressions (actually those weird expressions rather looked forcible acting). She is forbidden to meet her pappa (after the robbery, her dad had an heart attack). Both the star-casts spend some cute moments which will make you go awww. She sings a ‘Punjabi‘ song when she belongs to a ‘Gujju’ family, but then after learning Chinese, Punjabi would be bai-haath ka khel, I believe. Eventually Nikhil finds out that she is here to, well, rob her pappa again. Her polymer project (she makes a ball which goes ping pong ‘until stopped by an external force’) needs money and she thought robbing her dad is the last hope because its against her oosool to rob anyone else, but she rather goes up to her dad and things get sorted out (enriched emotional drama and dialogues). And after all the drama, our darling Meeta gets along with Nikhil (the end was pretty much predictable)!
Why you should watch it?
Of course it stars Parineeti Chopra and Siddharth Malhotra. The cuteness overflowing will make you go awwwwww! The songs are nice (I’ve been listening to the jukebox since morning – on repeat). In short, I would say you would not regret the movie* at least I did not.
*bhai! go and watch it on your risk. If you are into rom-com and emotional stuff, you’ll like it.
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