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i rilly wanna watch the movie..!!!👍🏼

I haven't seen the movie yet but I really wanna watch it...
But going by the reviews - looks like everyone is loving it...so definitely gonna watch it...😊

Totally enjoyed the movie! though its long it does create an impact on you! THe movie scenes are still lingering in my head! Harman is looking really handsome and has danced extremley well! and acting has improved tremendously. Priyanka is Superb! She has Carried all 12 roles to a high expectation! Music is really awesome! some beautiful compostions by Sohail Sen. All in this movie comes in a whole package! Its worth a watch! Im going with my friends again to watch the movie today!

a great movie! my family and i all enjoyed it. brilliant performance from priyanka. recommend for all to watch and enjoy!! 👏

Star-struck
Rating: 3.5/5


Twelve cheers to Priyanka Chopra! Despite Ashutosh Gowariker implying the contrary, Ms Chopra has more than proved there is no role that can faze her.


Just take a look at the 12 roles she has carried off with aplomb in What's Your Rashee? and you will be left dumbstruck.

Priyanka Chopra has turned in an 'awesome' (in Yogesh's lingo) performance be it as the village hillbilly, Anjali, who undergoes a two-day tutoring class in English to impress the foreign groom, or as the bubblegum chewing college girl, Kajal, waiting to fall in love. But her best performance comes in the end as the 15-year -old schoolgirl, Jhankhana, who is forced to cover her plaits under a ghungat and serve tea to the prospective groom.

At nearly four fours, the movie is a bit too tedious to sit through, and though Priyanka is a delight to watch, the 12 roles proves too many to digest. The plot is sketchy in parts, and the music average with the main soundtrack What's Your Rashee? purely given over to Ms Chopra's talent.
All in all a highly entertaining though long movie to watch out for.

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What's Your Raashee?

What's Your Raashee?Starring: Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Rating: ***

The movie begins at Bardoli village, Gujarat where a wealthy old man decides to write his assets in the name of his grandson Yogesh Patel (Harman Baweja), the only person in the family to remember his maternal grandfather on all occasions (read birthdays).

Yogesh is doing his MBA at Chicago with a rocking life style of a sincere student in the day time, popular guy in the campus and a DJ at a night club. But things are not rosy at home in Mumbai where his elder brother has taken a huge amount of loan and lost it in stock market crash and is not able to pay back to several people including a local bhai.

He is supposed to give attendance everyday at Bhai's office and he is being constantly threatened by two chelas of the dreaded bhai who has a style of threatening defaulters – he would cut the fingers by using a betel nut cutter.

A family astrologer predicts that within a very short time Yogesh would get married and he would get a fortune on the very same day.

Yogesh makes an urgent visit home after learning of sudden ill health of his dad, which turns out to be a false news and he is further taken aback by the ridiculous request made by his family members - he has to marry a girl in 10 days in order to save his family from an eventual complication and disgrace.

After a long phase of jet lag and persuasion and emotional blackmail by family members he agrees to marry and being a principled man he refuses to accept dowry. He starts reading a book which he happens to find at home and what's that book all about?

No prizes for guessing – "What's your Rashee?" and then starts the poor translation of Linda Goodman's sun signs book into a loose movie plot. As if it is not enough, there are two additional silly and forgettable sub plots.

The girls start entering in a random zodiac fashion and each zodiac has a story to tell. Ashutosh Gowariker struggles to stitch a convincing story relevance-wise as well as astrology-wise.

Some zodiac signs lack convincing characterization and a few overlap. Only a few succeed in making an impact due to the versatile Priyanka Chopra who delivers every character with sheer conviction and brilliant performance.

Anjali (Mesh) with a slouch and a bad dressing sense, Vishakha (Vrishabh) with a childish behavior who wants to test the person, Kaajal (Mithun) a vivacious and bubbly girl who thinks it is a must to give some time to understand each other before marrying, Hansa (Karka) a traditional girl with a broken heart, Mallika (Simha) an ambitious and headstrong dancer, Pooja (Kanya) a doctor who wishes for a husband to support her in every venture of hers, Rajani (Tula) a dominating business person for whom the marriage is a business contract to save her from an ongoing CBI enquiry, Nandini (Vrishik) who has a conservative exterior with a diametrically opposite true nature and who is passionate about becoming a supermodel, Bhavna (Dhanu) an astrologer with seductive charms, Jankada (Makar) a school going underage girl, Sanjana (Kumbh) a sophisticated and a straightforward girl and lastly Chandrika (Meen) a filmy kinda person who believes in re-incarnation and second lives….huh

While adapting the extremes of every character to the demands of screen, the story loses it's plot (if at all it had any) in a big way only to be saved mercifully by the brilliant Priyanka Chopra.

Music has always been a strong point of Gowariker's films here it's a downer. Every zodiac breaks into a compulsory song with only very few being catchy.

The story becomes so predictable in the second half that you wait for the movie to get over and start counting how many signs are still left and with no interest left to see which sign the protagonist ultimately marries.

From whatever little you showed us (for a fraction of a second) on the screen Mr. Gowariker, I could gather that Yogesh Patel is Mithun moon sign and Scorpio sun sign.

But his birth details do not match with the chart generated towards the end of the movie. But you were so busy adapting extremes of Priyanka Chopra's 12 zodiac signs, you completely neglected the characterization of the main lead.

He is just a foreign returned student with some music knowledge and giving all similar responses, exclamations and surprise reactions to the extreme idiosyncrasies convincingly exhibited by Priyanka Chopra's characters.

Harman Baweja impresses overall. He enacts his part with complete understanding along with other cast members who have put up a good show.

The film would have been a lot more better had it been under three hours but a running time of 3 hours and 30 minutes appears far too much. If you may ask whether to check it out or not well there are only two reasons to watch What's Your Raashee? – Priyanka Chopra and Harman's sincerity.

From SantaBanta

Rating : Above average (3.3/5)

Movie Review : What's your rashee ?
Rating : Above average (3.3/5)


WHAT's YOUR RASHEE (MOVIE REVIEW) : THE LONG AND BORING WAY TO FIND A BRIDE !

Ashutosh Gowariker – film maker extraordinaire, or a director too cheap to hire an editor ? "What's your rashee ?" was a whopping 192 minutes long. Yes, that's 3 hours and 12 minutes. And it's not like Gowarikar made an exception here – Lagaan was about 3 hours and 40 minutes long, Swades 3 hours and 14 minutes, and Jodha-Akbar 3 hours and 35 minutes. So you could call WYR his "shortest" film, although me thinks it could have been much shorter – like by at least 1.5 hours !

This film also had 12 songs (one of which Gowariker has sung himself), on average it seemed, one per Rashee ! Reading the reviews, and finding out that I was about to watch an almost 3.5 hour film with wishy-washy Harman Baweja in the lead made me quake in my boots (or sandals really – it's still summer-like weather here). However I persevered (that's my middle name), because the way I see it, the worst from Gowariker still has to be loads better than the best from directors like David Dhawan, Sajid Khan, Anil Sharma and their ilk.

The story, as per my preview, is of Yogesh (Baweja) trying to find a bride in 10 days, to save his family from catastrophe. Having gotten his pointers from a book, and deciding that there are only 12 types of girls in the world, one of each Rashi (or Zodiac Sign) Yogesh decides to meet one of each Rashee and then pick his soul-mate. Priyanka Chopra plays all 12 girls – small-town Anjali , rich heiress Vishakha , fun-loving Kajal , sedate Hansa , fiery Mallika , selfless Pooja , toe-my-line Rajni , wanna-be model Nandini , come-hither Bhavna , gauche Jhankhana , foreign-born Sanjana and superstitious Chandrika.

Gowariker adds some reflections on society in this story – there's the problem of dowry, and under-age marriage, and the issue of an unwed woman who is not quite the coveted virgin. But while the story is relatively strong, the film suffers from a rather loose screenplay. For a romantic comedy, WYR can never gather up enough pace to render it either romantic or a comedy. The songs are quite interruptive, and meeting one girl after another got quite dreary after about the first 3-4 (and we were counting !).

I'm happy to report however that it's not all bad news folks. This film is L-O-N-G, as in you-need-3-intermissions-lots-of-refreshments long. But I can't quite call it a bad film. It reminded me of an older genre of movies, of a thoughtful, sedate style of film, albeit extremely stretched. It's fairly clean, with some very well shot scenes and songs. Take for example the credits in the beginning of the film – they were done in a play of light and shadow with Priyanka in what looked to be a leotard, and reminded me of the credits in a Bond film.


Priyanka over-shadows Harma effortlessly – she's come a long way in acting terms. I was especially impressed with her "Anjali" avatar – slouchy posture, diffident gestures, and to top it all the snort – quite marvelous ! Baweja, unfortunately, lacks screen presence. Although he can act quite the ingnue (that's what saves his performance) and seems quite earnest, he also appears unsure of himself, and it shows. The supporting cast was fantastic – there was Anjan Srivastav as Yogesh's "Pappa", Manju Singh as his emotional mother (remember her from the Doordarshan days ?), Darshan Jariwalla as the match-maker uncle and Dilip Joshi as Yogesh's brother Jitu bhai.

Gowariker who lends his sensibilties to thoughtful dramas quite well, fails here to peddle romantic fluff. Keeping extra footage which you might absolutely love as director might work in ponderous drama, but in a film genre where short, sweet and pithy works best, it's a pity that the editor's scissors didn't go snip-snip a bit more. Thus while this film would be a good DVD watch, it's hardly the warm-n-fuzzy romantic comedy promised.

What's Your Raashee?

When the post-movie exit down the stairs turns out to be noisier than the proverbial fish market, you know that the heart strings have been yanked at like nobody's business. In What's Your Raashee?, Ashutosh Gowariker does a take on sun signs, one of womenfolk's top 5 favourite conversation pieces. Audiences of this one are more likely to be the kinds who consider Linda Goodman a significant part of their teenage years - the flick is as chick as a chick flick can get.

What's Your Raashee? is also a celebration of Priyanka Chopra, the actress - in fact, any woman going down the Kamal Hasan highway of showing off how many different kinds of make-up she can don, must be commended. The bigger feat consists of successfully keeping from overwhelming audiences with what can easily slip into megalomania. Chopra is there 12 times over - she's essentially the script of the film - and still gets interesting with each frame.

Gowariker bases his script on a bizarre premise - the foreign-educated Yogesh Patel (Harman Baweja) is forcibly brought to India because he must get married by the 20th of this month, going by the family astrologer. There's simply no other way out, because the family, though well-off, is in some serious debt issues, and the wedding is tied up with some big-time inflow of money.


Yogesh has an obscene number of girls lined up to meet, but decides to meet just 12, one from each sun sign. The women are all caricatures - what the film likes to call manifestations of the vital facets of each sun sign - but Gowariker displays an unfair partiality towards one of them, the only girl he portrays as 'normal' (a fatality, since she has no defining qualities in particular). Love strikes more than once, but the train has to move - Yogesh wants to decide only when he finishes the list.

Yogesh is the solitary thread of sanity in the proceedings, like the narrator in a world of weird women, the common man in an R K Laxman cartoon - and this is what forms the basis of the jokes.

The film is impossible to be considered anything but a 'story', a spoof on the zodiac, astrology and quick-fix arranged marriages, because Gowariker wraps it all up so abnormally, it looks like he's poking fun at the peculiarity of it all. Yogesh doesn't know who he's getting married to, even when he sees the bride walk down the pandal. Well firstly, she was finalized by his uncle and not him, and secondly, in his mind's eye, they're all Priyanka Chopras, and this one being dressed like a generic bride makes him keep guessing. Dangerous one there.

There are a few other logical flaws you could pick if you're particular about mapping the film with real life. For example, Yogesh goes through all the 12 women in his head when he's deciding in the end, though he doesn't really have to - because we'd assumed that most of them had already been eliminated during his first meeting with them.

Characterization and story line aside, the poking fun business does raise laughs. The wit is smart and subtle. Then, there are a couple of glimpses of Gowariker's pet topics - a little rural stint, and a very angry rant on NRIs.

What's Your Raashee? is more an artist's indulgence of developing characters, than it is a story-telling session. The creativity here is less in the sets and visuals, and more in Priyanka's look and diction.

Priyanka, for her part, handles it all with eye-popping ease. There's some curiosity value before the entry of each character, and she never once lets you down. She overdoes it sometimes - the Taurian and the Saggitarian are grating, and the Piscean is over-dramatized. Not all of it is her fault, though - some of the characters have been terribly written, like that of the cold and calculating Parmar.

Harman can breathe now - he's good, though audiences might have to live with the fact that the Hrithik-ness is a part of the package. He has to wear an amused and resigned look throughout the film, and pulls it off quite well, besides keeping with the comic timing.

Darshan Jariwala does a splendid job as Yogesh's uncle. Rajesh Vivek and Dilip Joshi are funny, too. The rest of the cast is an assortment of mostly senile unknown faces, who you wouldn't remember after a scene.

It's a completely Gujarati atmosphere out here, but there hasn't been a lot of emphasis on the visuals - Yogesh mostly meets the girls indoors. Priyanka's costumes and make-up are where all the production costs probably went.

Some of the songs are lilting and even engaging, and you could find a few addictively hummable bits here and there.

And at over 3 hours, Gowariker proves once more that he cares a damn for attention spans. What's Your Raashee? is likely to be bludgeoned by some big releases this festive season, but until then, there's reason to celebrate your Raashee.

Priyanka X 12, a pleasure to watch in 'What's Your Raashee?'
25 Sep 2009 | IANS

Film: 'What's Your Raashee?';
Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Hurman Baweja; Director: Ashutsoh Gowariker;
Rating: *** 1/2

A Gujarati downmarket wannabe bride dragged out of her traditional habitat into tight skirts tops and a 7-star hotel by her parents to meet the eligible bachelor from Chicago. The girl's longing to go West leaps out at you even when the guy politely rejects her.

'It must be snowing in Chicago,' she says with a warm wistfulness that melts your heart.

Elsewhere, almost at the end of Yogesh's (Hurman Baweja) long and exhausting bride-hunt a 15-year-old is passed off by her desperate parents as a purported bride. When our hero politely asks her which college she attends, the school girl burst into wracking sobs.

There are enough heart-melting moments in this lengthy treatise on how not to go bride-hunting for money's sake, to make Ashutosh Gowariker's reputation as a filmmaker. His films constantly ventures into areas of filmmaking that seem at first commonplace but actually secrete the most valuable truths of life.

We saw him make a resplendent virtue of simplicity in the storytelling in 'Swades' where Gowariker said 'go back home' to the NRI played by Shah Rukh Khan.

A lack of pretension and a thorough affinity to simplicity and grace in the narration imbue 'What's Your Raashee?' with shades of life done in the quirky satirical tones that completely reject obscure images and symbols.

Raashee relates the episodic story of the NRI's search for a bride in the easygoing rhythms of a folk tale set to a contemporary but unobtrusive beat. The director's eye for detail is unmatchable. When a postman huffs and puffs up that dusty village-road to deliver a much-awaited birthday card to a rich nanaji (grandfather) from his favourite grandson in Chicago, the postman's shirt is sweat-stained.

When the first of Yogesh's wannabe brides, arguably the best of Priyanka's 12 spectacular turns, walks in, her shoes seem to have been bought only hours ago.

Gowariker pitches the elemental tale at a satirical level. Some of the supporting characters - too broadly parochial to match the narrative's mellow mood - needed to be toned down. Also the whole subplot about the marriage broker (Darshan Zariwala)'s extra-marital affair and a bumbling detective on his trail needed to be edited out.

Some of the music in the otherwise-interesting mix of acoustics and sporadic melody by debutant Sohail Sen is also a burden on the narrative.

But Yogesh's bride-hunt never gets tedious, thanks to the unadorned interiors of the simple plot. The bride-encounters move from the poignant girl who frankly tells Yogesh she had sex with her neighbour to the satirical self-crowned yogini who gets horny on the flustered Yogesh to the unabashedly idealistic barefoot doctor who invites Yogesh to move from Chicago to the village to the satirical theatre actress who spews venom at the NRIs - each character brings her own little universe of flickering emotions and ideologies.

The film is the consummate post-date film. It tells us about what happens to the nice decent Gujarati boy Yogesh, played with heartwarming niceness and decency by Hurman, when he meets 12 prospective brides.

By now we all know Priyanka Chopra plays all the 12 brides. What we don't know is how beautifully she balances every characters' inner life in the swarming but serene paradigm of the plot creating for each of the 12 intended brides an inner life and an outer glow within a restricted time-span.

It's an amazing achievement. Priyanka gives soul to all the 12 characters she plays. In the climactic song, she brings all of them together, quirks and mannerisms all on display in one unified flow of feelings and body-language. The actress achieves individuality for all her characters while giving the plot a homogenous flow.

As for Hurman, this film is his actual debut. His equation with Priyanka is similar to Shahid Kapoor's vis-a-vis Kareena Kapoor in 'Jab We Met'. Hurman is warm and sincere and ever-articulate before the camera. What a nice guy he has made out of yogi.

A lovely uncluttered, unassuming and transparent film from Gowariker!