Friday WatchAlong: Hasee Toh Phasee! For Courtney’s Birthday! 3pm Chicago Time

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Happy Friday! Yaaaaaaay, a movie!!!!! I am in an unairconditioned lake house with a fan aimed right on me, so this movie has to distract me from how hot I am (temperature, not appearance).

Hasee Toh Phasee! It’s on Netflix, it’s super cute, it’s a wee bit objectionable with mental health but we will ignore that because Sid M is adorable.

At 3pm Chicago time I will put up an “and PLAY” comment and we will all go along from there!

317 thoughts on “Friday WatchAlong: Hasee Toh Phasee! For Courtney’s Birthday! 3pm Chicago Time”

  29. Okay, might as well start the discussion now, what is up with Sid’s character? The film clearly has an idea of him but I keep missing it. Is it that his parents decided he was the “bad” kid and his brother was the “good” kid and therefore he fell into superficial charm instead of doing what he really wanted to do? Is it that this girlfriend trapped him in a life where he had to keep faking it to keep her happy?

    I get the general idea that he is a handsome charming young man who is hiding a dorkball inside and Pari gives him permission to be a dork. But why did he start hiding the dork to begin with?

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    • I think he is always trying to please people and doesn’t think he is good enough because that is what he has always been told since childhood. As a child, you see him try to be himself. But because he is not good at school like his brother, his other cleverness is not appreciated. He is the “bad” kid that has try to please his parents. He goes from that to meeting a girl who is a “model-type” and wants a “hero-type” husband. Again, he feels like he is not good enough. He can never be himself, because just being himself is not good enough for anyone around him. At the same time he is trying to please everyone around him.

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  30. Pari I grasp if I just ignore the weird mental health thing that doesn’t quite work. She is abnormally smart, and her father is abnormally smart, and therefore he is the only one that really gets how she sees the world and appreciates her. She also seems to be on the spectrum slightly? That part I think is well done, she sees the world in a very clear and logical way which includes not understanding how her family could be angry with her but still love her.

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    • Yeah the mental health stuff I have to actively ignore because it is really bothersome. But forgetting all that, I completely agree. She is like many of my sister’s friends who went a ivy-league technology school. She is understands technology and thinks in very technical terms. She can understand other people’s emotions but from a distance. She doesn’t internalize their emotions.

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      • Seeing the start with her Dad is so important. Because we see that she can relate to her father, and enjoys relating to him, but most other people just don’t understand her. It’s not that she doesn’t feel or care, it’s just a very rare person where she can make that connection.

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        • It also shows the difference in their confidence. Pari might be shunned by most of her family but she grew up always loved, adored, and understood by her dad. Her dad encouraged her to be herself and excel in her interests. Sid never had that.

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  32. Idk why I’m getting vibes that Karishma has been emotionally manipulating Sid and he’s too sweet and loving to realize it. Why she’s doing it, I don’t know. Again, too distracted.

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    • I think she’s doing it because that is their dynamic from the start. She challenged him, and he lived up to it. So now they are in the habit of her constantly testing him and him constantly striving. I think maybe she subconsciously knows he doesn’t really love her and therefore keeps trying to push him away? But instead he keeps making himself miserable by doing things?

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      • They definitely feel like one of those couples who stay together out of habit rather than real love because they’ve been together for so long. I’ve always thought Sid’s character might be a creature of habit like that, who stays in an obviously miserable situation because it’s familiar, and he’s too scared to risk leaving and going into something unknown or starting something new. Averse to change and all that. Could make sense if Pari’s character is also a bit unpredictable.

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  33. I wish this movie did a better job with the sister relationship. I don’t think they do a bad job, but it’s not a good job either, it’s just acceptable. What is up with this? Why did she invite Pari?

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      • But remember, Pari was exiled from the family. Her sister is sticking her neck out to invite her, and now to hide her in a hotel without anyone else knowing. WHY????

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          • Yes, but why? What was the big idea in inviting her? Did she miss her sister? Did she think the rest of the family missed her? Did she just never think she would show up?

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          • Obligation, partly most likely out of sisterly affection, thinking she might not show, but it would be good to invite her anyway. Also, maybe as a way for the family to come together for her special day. And hiding her to keep her safe until it was the right time.

            Just throwing ideas here as to why.

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        • Well, she assigned Sid to watch over her. Maybe this is another kind of test? If she’s worried about his sense of stability and responsibility, maybe keeping her estranged sister a secret is her last test, and if he can do it, she’ll know he’s right for her/the family? I haven’t been paying the closest attention, sorry if all my responses don’t make much sense.

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          • Yupp. She has her family members’ cell phone numbers, I would assume. She also seems like she has eidectic memory. So i can see that.

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    • It’s also interesting because he screws up so much with Pari compared to the rest of his family where he is trying so hard! Yet, he makes up with Pari and its all good. No judgement.

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      • Maybe it’s because Pari actually needs him? Versus everyone else in the family who he is constantly trying to please because they don’t REALLY need him.

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        • And also, Pari isn’t as emotional as he is. It allows him to just explore his emotions without worrying about hers.

          For Pari, she has never really been cared for by anyone by her dad, so when she finds another person who just gets her, lets her be (without abusing her), and more importantly, does things like making sure she isn’t hungry or staying in a crappy place – she likes that his actions show he cares of her in these little unassuming ways and she falls in love.

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      • Karishma is clearly putting much more pressure on him than Pari is. This scene right now, she yells at him when he makes something that she considers a mistake, while he thought he was doing the right thing. Maybe because he was looking out for someone who wasn’t Karishma.

        Whereas with Pari, if something similar happened, she wouldn’t have such an emotional reaction. She’d brush it off, or even because she’s so logical, she’d work on fixing it rather than reprimanding him. With Pari, there isn’t a consequence if he screws up, but with Karishma, there is.

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    • Yea, it’s strange. Maybe they didn’t want it to bother with the title cards of the names. I mean, Talaash has the same thing. No title song subtitles, but the rest are subtitled.

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  39. Someone on YouTube talks a lot about how, in her opinion, the best romances are “puzzle pieces”. This is such a good example of that. Pari is more logical and sensible, whereas Sid is more feeling and emotional. He believes the hiccup superstitions without evidence, especially if it doesn’t work when he thinks of Karishma, whereas Pari immediately goes medical.

    God, I love them.

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    • I love these kinds of romances, a la Ancient Greek style, that the person is split in half and their other half is in the other person. So when they unite, in body and soul, they become a whole human being. Like in this, with Sid being more feeling, and Pari being more logical. They can work separately but need each other for balance.

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  41. They really missed a chance of naming Pari’s character Kareena, since her sister is named Karishma. I bet they thought of it in the writing sessions but threw it out because it would be too much.

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  43. Yeah, this really feels like Karishma is emotionally manipulating Sid to test his loyalty. She’s tasked him with these two major things, hiding her sister and getting this money, as final proof of if he’s marriage material or not.

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    • Pari also pretty much took the entire initiative in the plot. She has a goal, is the one who called Karishma and sets everything in motion, and she pursues Sid first. She also probably changes the most throughout the movie, her relationship to her family and to herself. Pari is the real hero of this movie.

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        • Pari needs the mental and financial support, Sid needs the financial support a little too, but mostly the emotional support. I feel like we said the same thing about A Gentleman, where all Sid wanted in that movie too was love.

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      • Yes!!! That is one of my favrorite things in this movie. She gets to do all the hero like things and he gets to do all the heroine like things. And they can only do so with each other. For the rest of the world, he is too emotional, and she is too independent. They don’t fit the “traditional” “boy” “girl” mold.

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  50. I know we still have more than half way to go, but so far, this has been one of my favorite watchalongs because we all take this movie so seriously. I am enjoying everyone’s take on the littlest things in this movie!

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    • This is one of those SOTY style movies where it’s a glossy romantic comedy, but there’s a lot of nuggets of deeper stuff thrown in. Unlike SOTY though, this movie actually works to flesh them out.
      And also, we get to thirst over Sid.

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