Yeh Faasley Movie Reviews

If there's anything that holds the film together, it is the performances. If Anupam Kher renders a serious and substantial act as a father who may or may not be guilty, then newcomer Tena Desai is suitably restrained as the troubled daughter, torn between love and truth. Then, there is also Pawan Malhotra to watch out for as the mysterious third angle in this whodunit. All okay, on the acting front at least. But when it comes to the plot

The film does show flashes of substance and form, but there’s a whole lot of flab that renders it formless.

YEH FAASLEY is like travelling a faasla of 100 kms only to find out, you have reached the wrong destination.

eh Faasley is one those very few movies that works quite the opposite, the inconsistencies in the screenplay impossible to reason with.

Constantly quibbling over whether he loved her or not, the Daddy and his daughter arrive at a point when they feel the distance; a disconnect that deepens further as uncomfortable truths tumble out. She has, in any case, never spent too much time with him and perhaps doesn't know him too well. Maybe this is what Yogesh Mittal's Yeh Faasley stands for. It is about a man who has a past and his daughter who is in pursuit of finding out more truths

A bubbly young girl returns home after a gap, to a father who’s been her idol growing up. But it’s not all fun and games. She’s drawn slowly but steadily into a complex web of past sins and current transgressions : was her mother’s end as straightforward as she’s always been led to believe? ‘Yeh Faasley’ has an intriguing premise. The connection between a father and a motherless daughter is usually made stronger because there is just the two of them

Yeh Faasley is the torturously long and convoluted story of a young girl unravelling her mother's mysterious death. Arunima, played by Tena Desae, returns home after a long stint in boarding school. Her father Devinder, played by Anupam Kher, is generous and loving but slowly Arunima discovers that his version of how her mother died isn't the whole truth. Devinder has hidden from Arunima many aspects of their troubled marriage

Wonder what was going on in Anupam Kher’s head to agree to act in it. Shouldn’t we, instead, just get nostalgic watching Kher’s infinitely better act as an alcoholic father to Pooja Bhatt in the 1989 flick Daddy?

The tragedy is that Yeh Faasley isn’t even unintentionally funny so it doesn’t make the grade of so-bad-that-it’s-good. It’s just pure tedium. I’m going with one and a half stars.

‘Yeh Faasley’ has an intriguing premise. The connection between a father and a motherless daughter is usually made stronger because there is just the two of them, and that’s what it seems when Devinder Devilal Dua ( Kher) is first shown rapping companionably with daughter Arunima ( Desai).

Last year, UDAAN made a sweeping impact on cineastes, so much so that the honors, compliments and accolades keep pouring in to this day. Besides winning tremendous critical acclaim and bagging awards, the film struck a chord with everyone watching it. The poignant and disturbing relationship between a father and son seemed straight out of life. Now YEH FAASLEY explores the relationship between a father and daughter.

You couldn’t care less for the characters, let alone the frikin’ killer. Anupam Kher’s the film’s leading man. Talented Pawan Malhotra plays the second lead. Which is good to know, so far as risking with top billings are concerned. Bombay films may still seem far from producing draws like a matured Meryl Streep. We could soon have Philip Seymour Hoffmans of our own. How about a “did he, did he not” like Doubt (2008) to match expectations from a script as well? Ah, never mind that.

Honestly, we wonder why this film was even released. Please do not subject yourself to the boring ride that is Yeh Faasley, especially because there are some fantastic Oscar-nominated films to pick from this weekend.

On the whole, YEH FAASLEY fails to deliver.

Yeh Faasley is about the quest of Tena Desae who suspects that her father, Anupam Kher, had murdered her mother 20...