Hindi Movie Review Hasee Toh Phasee - Cast & Crew

The bubbly actress, born on 22nd October 1988, landed in the film industry quite accidently. The aspiring investment banker, who holds a triple honours degree, joined the Bollywood bandwagon as a public relations consultant with ‘Yash Raj Films’ and not as an actor.

Adah Sharma is an Indian actress and a model. She got popular for her role in Bollywood horror movie “1920”. She has also worked in some Telugu movies and a few ad films. Adah Sharma was born in Palakkad, Kerela on 11 May 1989 and brought up in Mumbai, Maharastra. She belongs to a non-film background, to a Tamil Brahmin family. She went to Auxilium Convent School in Pali, Mumbai for early education. She was very clear on career front and decided to become an actress when she was in class 10th. She had already learned to write Bhagwad Gita at the tender age of three. She completed her graduation in Kathak, from Gopi Krishna’s dance academy. She is a dancer since her age of three.

Vinil Mathew, the ad-filmmaker was born in the year 1997. But later, he transformed him as an independent and total filmmaker. He directed Hasee Toh Phasee. He was an excellent ad filmmaker, to establish himself as a director was a challenging task indeed. When he was in school in New Delhi, he had seen Mani Ratnam's Roja and was impressed with Santosh Sivan’s cinematography work. 

Karan Johar is one among the top ten celebrities in the Indian cinema, who is popular in almost all the important fields in the cinema. He was born in the year 1974 in Mumbai to Yash Johar and Hiroo Johar. This man is a multi talented personality, who shines in the field of direction, screenplay writing, producing, costume designing and acting. He has also worked as host in the television industry. Karan Johar is a graduate in Commerce, who studied in H. R. College of Commerce and Economics. He is also a post graduate degree holder in French. His debut to the film industry started as an assistant director in the film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. After three years, he made his directorial debut through Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, a film with Sharukh, Salman, Kajol and Rani. This was a block buster hit and Karan Johar reached fame in his first movie, itself. This film won the National Award for the Best Entertainment Film. It has also bagged eight Awards from Filmfare including the Best Director and Screen Play. Kabhie Kushi Kabhi Gham, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, My Name Is Khan, Student Of The year and Gippi are the films directed by Karan Johar. He has produced many hit films including Kal Ho Na Ho, Wake Up Sid and I Hate Love Stories. Karan Johar has also acted in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, apart from his assistant direction. He has also performed as a costume designed for the popular celebrities like Sharukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Amitabh Bachchan. Koffee With Karan was the popular show hosted by Karan Johar, which made him popular among the TV audience. This program got aired for four seasons till 2014. He was also a part of the show Jalak Dikhhla Jaa, judging the participants along with Madhuri Dixit.

Vikas Bahl (Born 1971) is an Indian film producer, screenwriter, and director recognized for his work mainly in Hindi Cinema. He produces films under Phantom Films and was the ex-chief of UTV Spot Boy. So far, he has achieved three National Film Awards and one Filmfare Award. Bahl hails from Lajpat Nagar, Delhi. His father worked in the Indian Oil Corporation. He graduated from Ramjas College, Delhi. Then he moved to Mumbai and obtained his MBA degree from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS).

Vikramaditya Motwane is a film producer, writer, and director. He was born on 6th December 1976. He married Ishika Mohan, the photographer. He started his career as an assistant to the director Sanjay Leela Bhansali; he worked with him for the films ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’ (1999) and ‘Devdas’ (2002). He was the choreographer for the songs of the film ‘Paanch’ (2003). He made his directional debut with the film ‘Udaan’ (2010) under Anurag Kashyap Films; the film was acclaimed on all platforms, among the seven awards it received in Filmfare awards included ‘Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie’; it was also selected at 2010 Cannes Film Festival in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ to compete.. He also bagged the Best Director Award at Star Screen Awards. His second directional film was ‘Lootera’ (2013).

Born on 10th September 1972, Anurag Kashyap has established himself in Bollywood as a prominent director, producer, and screenwriter while even giving acting a try.  A born and raised Uttar Pradeshi, Kashyap had keen interest in science and aimed to become a scientist. In an interview Anurag said that he had no dreams of going into the film industry and had all hopes of pursuing Zoology. He went on to say, this all changed in 1993 after he watched Bicycle Thieves, an Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The film inspired him enough to give us becoming a scientist and move to Dehli to become a filmmaker.    

Anurag got his first chance in the industry as a screenwriter for Auto Narayan when the initial script by Subramaniam was not working and Anurag was given a chance to rewrite it. He then wrote the screenplay for Jayate, a Hansal Mehta film, which was never released. Ram Gopal Varma was impressed by Anurag’s work in Auto Narayan and signed him for the screenplay and dialogue for his thriller, Satya. The film was critically acclaimed as one of the best crime, gangster movie of Bollywood. He then dabbled with production after some time with his director debut in Paanch. The movie faced trouble with the certification board due to the content not being suitable for all.  In 2012, he took on two ambitious movies in Gangs of Wasseypur 1 and 2, which received numerous awards and outstanding reviews. He recently produced and directed Bombay Velvet, which is currently in theatre and has received praise from critics.

Sidharth Malhotra is an Indian actor who was born on January 16, 1985 in Delhi. His father Sunil was a former employee of Indian merchant Navy.

Sidharth started modeling at the age of 18. He was not very serious about it at that time and took it as a fun activity to earn extra money. He did modeling for 4 years before he decided to pursue acting as a career.

He then started off by assisting Karan Johar in the film My Name Is Khan in 2010. Karan then gave him his first big break in 2012 in the movie Student of the Year. The actor played Abhimanyu Singh in the movie. The film was successful and Sidharth got critical acclamation.

He then had 2 films in 2014 namely Hasee Toh Phasee and Ek villain. His work was compared to that of Amitabh Bachchan in his early life. Both his films did moderately well on box office but Sidharth received praise from both critics and audience for his screen presence and intensity.

He has won 4 awards which are Breakthrough performance (Stardust) and debut actor of the year (South Africa India Film and Television Awards) male for Student of the Year; most entertaining actor in a romantic film (Big Star Entertainment Awards) for Hasee Toh Phasee and Entertainer of the Year (shared with Alia Bhatt).

He got 10 other nominations combined for all his work.

He was among the top 15 on the Times of India List of India’s Most Desirable Men in 2012 and 2013. He was voted the 3rd hotlist most promising new comer (Times of India).

His upcoming film "Brothers" is in postproduction stage now, which will release on the 14th of august 2015. He is also doing a film Kapoor and Sons, which is still filming, and the dates are to be announced.