With beautiful locations, and great music at hand, Hastey- Hastey is a light hearted comedy, which brings together romance, scandal, and drama all in a humorous package. The film is set in Manhattan, where Neel (Jimmy Shergill) a student at Columbia University, who happens to be a brilliant student. His excellence and attractive personality impresses Maya (Nisha Rawal), an upper-class Indian Catholic girl and both fall in love with each other. Everything seems to be going great in their lives, and both are ready to step into a new phase of life together. Sunny Malhotra (Rajpal Yadav), Neel’s best friend and roommate is a habitual flirt, who happens to run behind every fair skinned girl. He comes across Tina (Sarah Thomas) and falls in love with her. Meanwhile, ambitious Neel comes across an enticing offer when an American offers to help him in setting a Call Centre in India. Neel, against Maya’s wishes, yet unable to resist the tempting offer, moves to India to set up his own call-center. In India, he meets Tanvi (Monishka), who goes out of the way to help Neel in completion of his dream projects, as she falls for him. However, determined Neel rebuffs her moves towards him. In her rage, she decides to take revenge. She backs off the funds provided by her to Neel’s company. She sends Maya photographs with her and Neel in intimate poses. With her father also against the relationship, Maya decides to break all ties with Neel. She is about to get married when, a friend of Neel decides to help him out, and uses the media to publicize the scandal Neel had gotten into. Maya catches the piece, and realizes the truth. She moves to India to look for Neel, and meets him and both of them reunite.

The movie may not have an extraordinary story line, but it manages to impress the audience with a good implementation. Set in Manhattan, New York, the movie has appealing locations and excels in cinematography. The characters have been clearly defined and each of them has its own plus point. Director Tony does an excellent job in handling the two debutantes. The screenplay of the movie is spectacular.

Performance wise, the two established actors, as well as the new comers give in their best. With a new hairdo, Jimmy Shergill as usual, gives his best to the character. He looks great on screen with his new look. His on-screen chemistry with the two female actors is beyond par and seems absolutely effortless. Compliments for Rajpal Yadav fall short of words, as he adds the light moments in the film with a triple-role. Remarkably established in the comedy genre, Rajpal manages to give his best to the movie. The two debutantes also manage to take loads of compliments their way, as they do a fairly good job for their first movie! Nisha as well as Monishka look great on the screen. Nisha, a face not quite unknown, brings a fresh beauty to the screen. Monishka also looks enticing.

Music of the film is one of the main attractions. Anu Malik presents a blend of catchy numbers and romantic melodies to offer music that supports the screenplay. The title song “hastey–hastey” is the best among the lot.

Giving a competition to other movies in it's genres, Hastey-Hastey is a humorous puree of different emotions.