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”

  7. Along with the mental health thing, I would cut the China thing. It can still be getting her PhD and borrowing from a dodgy investor, but making it China just distracts me.

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  8. I think Karishma has a totally legit complaint right now and really does feel bad. But their dynamic is always her getting angry and him winning her back, not a sincere emotion of her feeling sad and him caring for her. So we get to see the difference between a bad superficial pattern of behavior, and a real understanding.

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    • No, I don’t think so. I think just a bad young relationship that has gotten stuck in bad patterns. It would be different if we saw her going on an insulting belittling spree at him, but it’s really just a roll of the eyes and insisting he do better.

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        • Hmmm. I don’t think so. Because the thing with emotionally abusive relationships is that it is about trying to tie the person to you all the time by making them feel weak and stupid. I think Karisma is constantly trying to drive him away. If he left, hse wouldn’t follow. I think if they got married, she would just increase her efforts to force him away until she finally cheated on him/stole his money/did something to end it once and for all.

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          • Did we ever come to a conclusion as to why she’s doing that? That doesn’t sit right in my brain

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          • I think because she can sense the relationship is ultimately flawed. He’s always trying so hard, he obviously doesn’t trust her to just love him, and so on and so forth. I think she felt obligated to be with him because he did a literally song and dance to impress her at the start, and she feels obligated to stay with him because he keeps making over the top gestures. But she never is quite sure if she actually wants him or vice versa.

            Actually, I think Sid fits the pattern of emotional abuse much better. Not that his character actually is abusive! But with a girlfriend who has it all together, who you think is so much better than you, who you are afraid to lose, that’s when you mgiht turn abusive. Instead, he has just turned totally passive and afraid.

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  15. I know I said I wouldn’t, but I’ve been thinking about the pill thing. I think maybe the problem is that it is upside down? If it was that she had run out of pills because she was traveling, and she had to trick and barter to get enough, and when she was OFF her pills, her behavior was erratic, that would make much more sense.

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    • Yes. The pills making her erratic is one of my biggest problems with this movie. If she was erratic without the pills, I would have been okay with it. I would have been even okay with her not liking to take the pills because while they stabalize her moods, they make her foggy and don’t allow her to think as clearly about her thesis/project.

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      • My main problem with the pill thing is that she takes them because she can’t handle her emotions. I’ve noticed that she takes them after any stressful moment, whether it has to do with her project or something really minor. That’s the one thing I wish the movie had explored more and resolved.

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  21. Also, I love that she just wants to see her dad, and he is willing to make a fool out of himself so she can get one glimse of her dad. Sooo darn romantic!

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  22. Pari is so literal, she’s definitely on the spectrum. I can totally see her falling in love with Sid because he doesn’t placate her and actually takes an interest in her well being without pitying her.

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  24. Bam! there is Pari directly addressing what we’ve all been saying about their relationship. She knows he will never leave her. And she will guarantee never to leave him. And all the messy human emotions that bother him don’t bother her, she just says “marry me”.

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  31. One thing with this montage, it has to be staying up all night and talking in jeans, because it has to contrast with Karishma where he had the “perfect” first meeting and so on. So it can’t be a big dance number or singing to each other or anything like that.

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  34. OMG I just can’t get over these two. Spending all night just talking and flirting. Coming home at suntrise. All during wedding festivities. It’s perfection!

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  35. Okay, good parelalism, this is the same as the opening when everyone was yelling at her and she wasn’t sure how to react, and then her Dad took her aside and talked calmly to her and she was able to solve the problem.

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  36. So, to distract, good qualities of a Sid movie:
    – Good hair
    – Dorkiness
    – A dance number in which he spectacularly fails but has a blast
    – Heart eyes
    – Fierce loyalty to the heroine
    – At least one shirtless scene

    Anything else?

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