Hastey Hastey : Movie Review
Hastey Hastey : Movie Review
30th May 2008 18.30 IST
By Aparajita Ghosh
It’s no laughing matter – to make a gripping romcom. Director Toony tries this in his light-hearted but mawkishly sentimental Hastey Hastey , but fails miserably.
The cheesy punchline ‘Follow Your Heart’ in the film’s posters is just an indication of what’s in store for you. Here’s a story that treats love like it was ten years behind the contemporary times. The tale has a cocktail of comedy, romance and scandal, but none has been dealt with convincingly by the writers. And with a shoddy story in the first place, no director can work miracles unless he happens to be someone with the caliber of a Speilberg, which Toony clearly is not.
The movie stars Jimmy Shergill with newcomers Nisha Rawal and Monishka Gupta.
Neel (Jimmy) is a brilliant student at Columbia University. His pedantic personality and his charming looks have Maya (Nisha), an upper-class Catholic-Indian girl, floored. It is a two-sided love which looks like headed to the altar until Neel’s career ambition gets the better of him.
Sunny (Rajpal Yadav) is Neel’s roommate and a close friend with an incurable inclination towards flirting with girls. Though he flirts, his heart beats only for one girl – a stunning blonde named Tina.
Neel and Maya’s love story is put in limbo when he travels to India to start a call centre. In this initiative he is helped by an enterprising Tanvi (Monishka) who has a crush on Neel. But when Neel rebuffs Tanvi’s advances, she plots revenge. She hatches a conspiracy and Neel finds himself stuck in a scam.
‘Hastey Hastey’ becomes somewhat watchable thanks to Jimmy Shergill and Rajpal Yadav . Though Jimmy’s performance appears half-hearted at places, overall he manages to carry the film on his shoulders. Rajpal Yadav chips in some light moments. Newbie Nisha Rawal and Monishka Gupta have great scope for improvement as far as acting is concerned.
At best, ‘Hastey Hastey’ is a mere timepass flick when you have nothing better to do with your time. There are two good-looking girls in love with a single man. There are sporadic funny moments, thanks to Rajpal Yadav in a triple role. To soothe your eyes there are pleasing shots of foreign locations aplenty, and there is some lilting music as well. But there is hardly any touching, engrossing development in the plot to win your heart.
Rating: *
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Comment by Savvy on 30 May 2008:
must read Taran’s review..Hilarious!!
Comment by AksFilmi on 30 May 2008:
Really savvy jst lemme check dat
Comment by DESI ROCK on 30 May 2008:
aksi filmi
i want to ask one question from you man where r you man
first thing why i have been banned from shout box ????
plz lift the bann
and delete my this comment after reading it
Comment by DESI ROCK on 31 May 2008:
aksi filmi
i want to ask one question from you man where r you man
first thing why i have been banned from shout box ????
plz lift the bann
Comment by Savvy on 31 May 2008:
I really salute his audacity Yaar. The movie stinks like hell and he had the bloody balls to criticize KJo! what the fuck was he thinking? I mean suna to hoga na ke jinke ghar seeshe ke bane hote hai won doosre ko ghar par pathar nehi phekte? And what’s more..he went on to blame the director..duh-uh what a loser. Dude i’d love to read your views on the shitfest. Please put up your own review.
i am waiting for Akshay Shah’s review..bet he wouldn’t give it anything less than 9.5.hahahahaha..LMAO
BTW..is Taran really aware of NG’s existence?
Comment by AksFilmi on 31 May 2008:
Desi Rocks will check if your banned
Comment by AksFilmi on 31 May 2008:
Savvy did you read this one
Taran’s digs on Naachgaana, hastey hastey!
Taran Adarsh’s review of the film, Hastey hastey takes his personal animosity towards Naachgaana founder Rohit Karan Batra to new heights when he writes in the second sentence of his review, “The story idea, credited to one Rohit Batra, is so tacky, so banal, so obsolete, so lifeless that you break into a big yawn 10 minutes into the film”. Naachgaana is a regular bashing ground for all things Taran, but there are balanced voices too. The film may be terrible, but this personal dig is in very poor taste, given Taran Adarsh’s standing in India, regardless of his reviews.
Comment by AksFilmi on 31 May 2008:
& check comments frm a new guy omer,y will taran care abt owner of NG and secondly what else they expect frm hastey hastey
Jst wait if any one frm NG reviews this movie
Comment by AksFilmi on 31 May 2008:
enjoyed reading all comments
“this is tarans frustation from NG success” lolz
Comment by AksFilmi on 31 May 2008:
DESI ROck mail to filmikhabar@gmail.com with your IP ADRESS
Comment by Savvy on 31 May 2008:
NG success?? SURE!!..loooolz
Yes Aks..i did read that..must be some NG member..it was from some blog right?
Yup even i thought so..why would Taran be even bothered about a website?? what freaks man.
Comment by Master on 31 May 2008:
These are the praises for the writer from most of the reviews.
Taran Adarsh, Indiafm
The reason why a majority of films go unnoticed is courtesy the weak storyline first. The story idea, credited to one Rohit Batra, is so tacky, so banal, so obsolete, so lifeless that you break into a big yawn 10 minutes into the film. Seriously, you actually pinch yourself. Are you watching a film produced in 2008? Clearly, the writer is the villain here.
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KK Rai, Stardust
The direction of Toony is seriously handicapped by a weak and outdated script.
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Aparajita Ghosh, Apunkachoice
Here’s a story that treats love like it was ten years behind the contemporary times. The tale has a cocktail of comedy, romance and scandal, but none has been dealt with convincingly by the writers. And with a shoddy story in the first place, no director can work miracles unless he happens to be someone with the caliber of a Speilberg, which Toony clearly is not.
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HANUMANT BHANSALI, Radiosargam
Hastey Hastey – Follow Your Heart is a horrendous flick with no scope of sympathy towards the shabby show of a poor script put together with beauty dolls.
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MovieTalkies
Most films go wrong in their writing department. And that’s exactly where the problem lies for Hastey Hastey as well. The story shows a lack of imagination and originality. And the film’s screenplay and dialogues are not much better either. The comic angle too does not work well as most of the jokes are tasteless. Everything about the film is quite listless beginning from the story and screenplay to the performances. Add to that, the sheer naivety of the plot. The story is put together quite ineptly for it to have the desired effect.
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Rediff
The fault lies more in the script, than in the patchy direction. Some of the dialogues are ridiculous too. Give this film a miss.
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Baradwaj Rangan gives the film 0 rating and calls it very bad.
Comment by Bolami on 31 May 2008:
Everyone makes mistakes…. everyone does crap work. But only the brave and noble at heart will have the courage to stand up to your own mistakes. The weaklings will always try to pass the buck and put the blame on some one else. Exactly what the owner of the most popular film site in the world does. Blames his director for his own poor writing skills. Its pretty amazing to see the level of support and backing Rohit is getting in Naachgaana and while all their ire is targeted at poor Taran. But i wonder how many of them are actually going to see the film in question and support their BFF?? Guess that might be asking too much even from guys who regularly watch shitty-crappy movies and call them masterpieces. We can all at least look forward to an ultra fake, pretentious, sucking up to, review from Akshay.
Comment by AksFilmi on 1 June 2008:
Reply frm great writer is dat hz work was done in 8-9 days,i dont understand anyone will be given 8-9 days for writing any lame story.
Well dats excused made by the writer & many belive those words
Comment by Savvy on 1 June 2008:
No Hastey Hastey in this one!
Hastey Hastey will not leave you rolling in laughter! At the end of it, you will be relieved it is finally over.
The movie starts with a girl in a mini strutting on the streets of New York and we are only treated to side glances. Suddenly, four police cars surround her and she is arrested.
Then you see Maya (Nisha Rawal) disconnecting Neel’s (Jimmy Shergill) phone calls and then even he is arrested. Rajpal Yadav plays Sunny, his best friend, who dresses like a hip-hopper and ‘Dyoood’ is his favouirte way to address best buddy Neel. What is harder to believe is that he is a womanizer! He also gets to peck his firang chick a few times!
So the lousy plot, set in New York, has Neel and Maya, college classmates falling in love while Sunny likes anything with long legs and gets engaged to a blue eyed blonde, Tina. Sunny’s uncle, also played by Rajpal mistakes him to be gay while his father, also played by Yadav is angry that is getting married to a firang. And Maya’s father dislikes Neel. A business opportunity brings Neel to India, against Maya’s wishes to run a call centre with Tanvi (Monishka Gupta). Neel’s new boss is besotted with him and when he refuses her advances, she steals the money and frames him. So, the two are arrested in America.
As far as acting is concerned, Rajpal Yadav and Jimmy Sheirgill (note the change in spelling) have done a decent job, but they are not fit to be college students. Most of Yadav’s dialogues are in English and end with ‘DUDE’! It is such a waste of talent. Both the girls in the movie, Nisha and Monishka do nothing much but wear bright tacky clothes which are a few sizes too small. They would probably fare better as item girls. Jimmy and Nisha also have blondish hair to match with other heads in New York! And Monishka’s red hair is so not happening! What’s up with the blue lenses that the girls are sporting?
The music by Anu Malik is annoying too because there are too many songs that make the movie drag even further and none of them are remarkable. He really needs to get his groove back!
The less said about the story and direction, the better; even the dialogues are cheesy and corny!
The only saving grace of the movie is the location- New York but we have had enough of it in KJo’s Kal Ho Na Ho and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna. What’s more the movie has blatantly lifted the climax of the romantic comedy Serendipity and even a few scenes from our very own KANK and KHNH. How hard a job is it to be original?
This movie is not worth your precious money. It is a better idea to watch Rajpal’s comic roles and Jimmy’s serious movies. Catch beautiful New York and a better movie in Serendipity because it is funnier than Hastey Hastey!
Janhvi Patel, Hill Road Media
Comment by Savvy on 1 June 2008:
Aks..NG is full of ass-lickers. They will obviously take his side.It really is better to have no friends than to have ones like them. He will blame the director, the screenplay, blame it on time but wouldn’t accept his fault. Thats a Bachchanista for you.LMAO..I won’t be surprised if they blame SRK for the movie’s failure..hahahahaha..LOL
Comment by Rohit on 8 July 2008:
Aksfilmi and everyone,
Thanks for all the comments on the HH track.
My feedback:
1) Aks, please email Go Can Films, LLC and ask them why they gave me 8-9 days. I will give you their email address.
2) I was credited the story. The truth is the story was already written, I came in more as a “script doctor”. Here is the link, if you don’t know what it means:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_doctor
Even then, they hired 2 people to write the script. So how much do you think is “mine”.
3) The NG people are supporting me because the Taran’s of the world are bashing the “story” guy and not TWO script-writers.
4) The guy who wrote “Taran’s digs on Naachgaana, hastey hastey!” is not a NG member.
4) The film is so bad that even I don’t want to see it. And I have not even until now.
5) While “writing it”, I told them I don’t want my name on it. I didn’t even put that in my contract. I did this project for quick money.
And as always — thanks for visiting NG!
Hope this helps you loosers,
Rohit
Comment by AksFilmi on 9 July 2008:
Rohit well i dint knew all this,thought u were the scriptwriter,i apology for some of the comments made by if you think they were against you.