Family & Friends and Xpression Films’ Fastey Fasaatey (UA) is a comedy family drama.
Aakash Singhal (Arpit Chaudhary) works in a bank in NOIDA and is in a live-in relationship with an NRI girl, Anisha (Karishma Sharma). He has lied to Anisha that he is an orphan. In reality, his parents – Brijmohan SingÂhal (Amitabh Shrivastava) and MriduÂla Singhal (Neeta Malhotra) – live in Ghaziabad. They are in a tearing hurry to get Aakash married but he buys time as he wants to marry Anisha.
Soon, Aakash tells his parents that he wants to marry Anisha. He also tells them that he is living in with her. But since he has told Anisha that he is an orphan, he wonders how he would marry her without revealing that he wasn’t an orphan.
Anyway, Anisha soon shifts from NOIDA to Ghaziabad. As luck would have it, Anisha ends up taking part of Aakash’s bungalow on rent. For this, she lies that she is married to one Aakash as otherwise, the bungalow would not be rented to her.
Aakash now seeks friend Dev’s (Nachiket Narvekar) help. He introduces Dev to his family, as Anisha’s husband, Aakash. He introduces Dev to Anisha as the bungalow owners’ son, Aakash. The drama of two Aakashs goes on for some days till the maid, Jugnu (Taranjit Kaur), senÂses that something is not right. However, Aakash manages the drama.
What happens thereafter? Do Aakash and Anisha unite in matrimony? How does Anisha react when she learns that Aakash had lied to her about being an orphan simply beÂcause he wanted to have physical relations with her?
Amit Agarwal and Uphaar’s story is entertaining in bits and parts but lacks consistency. The post-interval portion is particularly boring at several places. The duo’s screenplay has its limitations. In fact, it would not be wrong to say that except for the comedy, there is precious little in the drama. Even the comedy itself is entertaining at places only. Amit Agarwal and UpÂhaar’s dialogues are ordinary.
Arpit Chaudhary is alright as AakÂash Singhal. Karishma Sharma is good as Anisha. Nachiket Narvekar lends fair support as Dev. Amitabh Shrivastava and Neeta Malhotra lend reasonable support as Aakash’s parents. Taranjit Kaur’s comedy is alÂright at times. Anusha Jain (as AakÂash’s sister), Bijay Anand (as Anisha’s father), Vishwa S. Badola (as the panÂdit), Sharib Hashmi, Ashu Sharma and Rajesh Jais are adequate.
Amit Agarwal’s direction is ordinaÂry. He has not been able to make a laugh riot or even a consistently entertaining film. Music (Arko Pravo MukÂherjee, Sanjay-Rajee, and Rahul Jain) is so-so. Lyrics (Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Uphaar and Sanjeev Chaturvedi) are routine. Sanjay-RajÂee’s background music is commonplace. Sushil Rajpal’s camerawork is routine. Hemant Kumar’s art direction is nothing to write home about. Aseem Sinha’s editing is alright but it could’ve been tighter.
On the whole, Fastey Fasaatey is a poor fare.
Released on 21-6-’19 at Inox Metro (daily 1 show) and other cineÂmas of Bombay thru Aum Exhibitors. Publicity: so-so. Opening: weak. …….Also released all over. Opening was dull everywhere