Movie Review: What’s Your Raashee? (2009)
Cast: Hurman Baweja, Priyanka Chopra, Dilip Joshi, Anjan Shrivastav, Visswa Badola, Rajesh Vivek
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Producer: Ronnie Screwala, Sunita Gowariker
Music Director: Sohail Sen
Lyrics: Javed Akhtar
EXCLUSIVE REVIEW BY HANUMANT BHANSALI
UTV Motion Pictures in association with Ashutosh Gowariker Production Pvt. Ltd. brings together What’s Your Raashee?, starring Hurman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra. Known for making extraordinary movies and experimenting on diverse projects like Lagaan, Swades and Jodha Akbar, Ashutosh Gowariker is back with yet another innovative project What’s Your Raashee? The movie is based on the novel ‘Kimball Ravenswood’ by Madhu Rye.
The story revolves around Yogesh Patel (Hurman Baweja) a young man residing in Chicago who enjoys his life to the core. Yogesh is always in search of his love and dreams of getting married to the same, until his family calls him to India and asks Yogesh to get married in just ten days.
Yogesh is in a dilemma and lands in complicated situation, but soon clicks with an idea of meeting a girl (Priyanka Chopra) from each Raashee and giving himself a chance of falling in love with each girl. Yogesh finds this idea the best way of finding a compatible and a perfect bride for himself and goes ahead with the thought.
Thus, Yogesh decides to meet two girls from each sun sign everyday and get to know them all in six days. Next three days to analyze and choose the best amongst the twelve girls and on the final day (tenth day) to get married to the ideal partner.
From here on starts the journey of an eligible bachelor Yogesh meeting and discovering the twelve girls and is seen romancing, singing as well as dancing with different girls. The movie explores girls with different attitude and perception from ambitious-conditional and unconventional-social.
As much as the movie appears to be interesting on paper, it equally disappoints on screen and the reasons for the same are many. Firstly, the length of the movie is tedious, in recent times where people as well as multiplexes for more benefits prefer short movies this movie is as big as 3hours and 30mins.
Secondly, the screenplay is weak and script is poor. Thirdly, few of the sun-sign stories are silly furthermore they hardly make sense and turn off your interest. Lastly the biggest cause of concern are 13 tracks of the movie which bore the audience.
Priyanka does well in the film and is a complete show stealer. Hurman is decent and carries the role well.
This is a complete disaster from one of the finest and pioneer film-makers of the industry, it’s a thumbs down for Ashutosh Gowariker for this flick.
Radiosargam Movie Rating: 4/10
Hanumant Bhansali
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