Hindi film industry is pretty huge and there are so many films releasing in a year, however, only a few of them really get to please the audience. The best way to pass off a film with less importance and to target a reasonable amount at the box office is by tagging it with comedy. This again means that you try to be funny and not so serious else try to be seriously funny, there is no middle way out.
Rating: 2/5
Mixing two extreme emotions with romantic lining is something that will never get you enough audience resulting in low business. The saying morning shows the day isn’t really all that wrong. The same is the case with Hastey Hastey. The trailer gives you an idea of how shoddy, the film may be and you get exactly the same.
If the film and the cogs and vines employed in the storyline would have released back in say, 1998, ten years back, the film might have had any chances of surviving the box office. But unfortunately, we are a better audience now and won’t be fooled by this one.
Director Toony, Ramanjit Juneja, definitely get a score with the comedy part but the loose script and shabby storyline fails to make any impression whatsoever. It never means that you need some very good actors to make a film rock the box office, if it were so, then Tashan might have been a huge success. Given a loose story and a pack of good and ok type actors, the film goes for a proper stoning at the box office. Either the good actors are under or overplayed. Either way, it appears shabby.
There are comic scores that are saved due to the hilarious Rajpal Yadav but unfortunately the humor turns up at wrong places and seems out of place. The first part has some good picturesque outdoor locations in the United States that has some appeal but this soon disappears into oblivion in the second part. The director’s first and foremost task is to zero on a story that appeals him, because, if he isn’t convinced how can he please an ever demanding audience!
It is not entirely the writer’s fault that the story fails to convey any message. Rohit Batra was probably not so clear about the plot he was trying to develop. Now, generally, any story requires a certain amount of research to appear realistic or even go for a regular appeal. The patch work in a story can only appear with a clumsy hand which is again true for Hastey Hastey.
The best example of a slapdash work is the scam or the so-called twist in the tale. Call centers are not something people are not aware of now, average Indian now has enough gyaan on a call center as you or me would dicuss about cricket. Showing an LBW, you can’t probably call it a bowled. If you do so, you would be caught. Perhaps Rohit Batra needs to understand this and not repeat it again.
Neel (Jimmy Sheirgill) is a brilliant student studying at Columbia University, struggling to make a career and marry girlfriend Maya (Nisha Rawal). He has a funny roommate Sunny (Rajpal Yadav), a flirtatious man who can’t resist fair skin but is madly in love with a sexy blonde, Tina. While everything seems to be going fine and Maya and Neel are about to tie the knot and settle down in New York, Neel get a chance of a life time to start a call center in India.
The idea seems pretty appealing and Neel lands up in India with sunny by his side to virtualize his dreams. Here he meets another attractive girl named Tanvi (Monishka Gupta). Tanvi is a smart business executive, who has a crush on Neel and after she helps him kick off his call center, she tries to seduce him.
Neel, a one woman man, resists these advances and this starts the misery of his life. An angry and hurt Tanvi plans out a scam and cheats Neel into it. Now, Neel is in a complete soup that sticks and he has to get out of the scam and convince his lady love and retain his honor. This is where you reach after following your heart!
The music by Anu Malik for a change is pleasing to the ear. The sloppy scenes are aided by music which will help you sit through the film.
In the acting scale, Jimmy Shergill needs to be careful for his selection of movies. He has potential but hasn’t been doing all that great at the box office but if you like anyone’s acting the film other than Rajpal Yadav is no doubt Jimmy. Rajpal Yadav didn’t give his best performace but was good and makes you smile in between. There are some talented character artists like Shakti Kapoor and Jawed Sheikh but are underutilized. Upasana Singh should try getting some different roles, she is absolutely tagged in this one. Manoj Joshi is hardly aware of what he is doing in the film.
The two bombshells Nisha Rawal and Monishka Gupta are just pin-up girls with well-endowed cleavages without acting skills.
Over all, wait for it to be telecasted in some channel, looking at the business, the film is expected to do; it will not be distant future!
Rating: 2/5