Keep your 'faasla' from 'Yeh Faasley'

Film: Yeh Faasley (U/A)
Director: Yogesh Mittal
Cast: Anupam Kher, Tena Desae, Rushad Rana, Pavan Malhotra and others
Rating: *

Awful films most often fall into two categories – the first category is made up of films that are so terrible that you have a good time making fun of it (remember Jaani Dushman?), and the other category has films that make you cringe in seat and run for the nearest exit. Yeh Faasley belongs to the second category.

Dev Dua (Kher) and Arunima (Desae) are your typical father and daughter living in a vanilla world until the daughter discovers a skeleton in their well-furnished closet. The daughter accuses the father of killing her mother who died when Arunima was still in her diapers.

Now that the kahani mein twist has happened in the first thirty minutes, you wonder what could possibly happen in the next two hours before you can run out. It looks as if the director wants to torment and torture you as the characters try to figure out the truth behind Arunima's mother's murder.

Although the film occasionally generates curiosity, the director messes it up with his over the top, long stretched scenes. Patience becomes a necessity as you search for a remote control to fast forward to the end.

For example, the scene leading up to the wife's death stretches for so long, that you wish the woman just dropped dead and the director got on with whatever it is he is trying to say.

When Arunima’s friend Manu (Rana) gets lost in a maze of passageways in a haveli in Rajasthani, you could make a trip to North pole and back, before the dude finds his way out.

While the actors just about deliver decent performances, a bad screenplay does them injustice. Even the cinematography is nothing to write home about. The grainy and out of focus shots made us wonder if this film was hoping to be the next Blair Witch Project.

What disappoints us the most is that Mittal has a story with massive potential and he messes it up with a shoddy screenplay, shabby camera-work and schoolish dialogue.

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.