Leisure) is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language musical romance short film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, who co-wrote the script with Jyotsna Hariharan.
Produced by Absolute Productions and VB Pictures, the film stars Ishaan Khattar, Wamiqa Gabbi and Salman Yusuff Khan.
Besides directing, Bhardwaj also composed the film score and soundtrack, with lyrics by Gulzar and Shiamak Davar handling the choreography for the song sequences.
It received positive reviews from critics, with praise directed on the cinematography, music, choreography, performances from the lead cast and the technicalities, but noted the incoherence in the screenplay and aesthetic appeal.
Along the way he meets his childhood friend and doctor Diya Srivastav (Wamiqa Gabbi) and chief gangster (Salman Yusuff Khan).
Vishal Bhardwaj initially spearheaded on two projects for Netflix and Amazon Prime Video after the release of Pataakha (2018)—one being an adaptation of the Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children and the other based on the hijacking of the Indian Airlines Flight 814.
"[2] Bhardwaj, who was keen on doing a musical film, had co-written a script with Jyotsna Hariharan, which is about a youngster who gets a magical device to view the future and how its impacts his present life.
Ishaan Khatter and Wamiqa Gabbi were cast as the lead pair, while Salman Yusuff Khan joined in an important role.
[21] Rajpai also praised the performances of the lead pair, adding that "Wamiqa and Ishaan's chemistry is decent given the fact that Fursat is a short film.
[22] In his review for Firstpost, Subhash K. Jha was critical of the film, stating "Imagine the resources which can be saved if expensive cameras and equipment are deleted from the filmmaking process.
"[23] Prathyush Parasuraman of Frontline stated that "Cinematically, however, Fursat is a weak film, so insistent on showing the technical versatility of the phone using the visual versatility of a genre like time travel and the musical that it is not as much interested in a coherent story that builds tension and momentum [...] The aesthetic is one of technical excess, with some blurs, some odd frames—where rain looks like crosshatches on the screen, for example.