Movie Preview : What’s your Rashee ?

Update : Movie review here.

Ashutosh Gowariker does romantic comedy. With trusted producer Ronnie Screwvala backing him up. Note that Screwwalla started his producing career with TV, producing popular Hindi serials but has now progressed to some of the best Hindi films. Swades, Jodha-Akbar, Rang de basanti are some of his productions. So naturally I am enthused (aren’t you ?) – a great director, a good producer, some very good music, AND Priyanka Chopra in 12 different roles – all the (Rashee ?) signs tell me that this film’s going to be fun.

Based on a Gujarati novel “Kimball Ravenswood” (not available on Amazon) by playwright Madhu Rye, “What’s Your Rashee” is the story of Yogesh Patel, a romantic lad, who must forego the love marriage route, when he is told to find a bride in 10 days to save his family from “utter ruin”. Lest you worry for him, note that he’s got it all planned : he’ll meet 12 girls of each Rashi (Zodiac sign), 2 every day – that’s 6 days. Then he’ll give himself 3 days to think it over, and the 10th day will be D-day.

My instincts want to give Yogesh a swift kick in the back-side, and natural cynicism raises it’s head here – what if the girl doesn’t want to marry him ? I’m betting that Yogesh bhai didn’t think of that, hmm ? And 2 girls every day – all assembly-line-ish, what ? This being Bollywood – they’ll probably all line up neatly for him, waiting to be viewed by their future Lord and Master. And for the same reason, the girl (a former Miss Universe) will probably be falling all over the guy; candidly I’d describe him as the poor man’s Hrithik Roshan.

Anyway, rant out of the way, here’s a teaser :

Priyanka Chopra plays all the 12 girls – bet she’s smirking at all the double roles now, huhn ? There’s Anjali , Vishakha , Kajal , Hansa , Mallika , Pooja , Rajni , Nandini , Bhavna , Jhankhana , Sanjna , Chandrika, and what with her new found potential (Kaminey, Fashion etc.) I’m looking forward to see her play them all. I’m also looking forward to see Hurman Baweja come into his own this time, instead of trying to ape Hrithik Roshan. Gowariker also directs a pretty talented cast – there’s Manju Singh, Anjan Srivastav (also spelled Anjjan Shrivastav), Darshan Jariwala, Visswa Badola, Rajesh Vivek and Dayashankar Pandey.

For your perusing pleasure here’s the Official Website.