Despite seeing this movie the night before its release on 25 September 2009, What’s Your Raashee was so disappointing that finding the motivation to write a review of this atrocity was difficult. Sorry to all of our readers for the late posting!
At first, despite the overused storyline of the influence of astrology on contemporary Indians, the movie seemed as if it could be interesting. With Priyanka Chopra going down in the Guinness Book of World Records for playing the most roles in one movie (12) than any other actress, the film could have been interesting.
What’s Your Raashee? depicts the story of a man, Yogesh Patel, whose parents are forcing him to marry by the 20th of the month so that he can receive the inheritance that his grandfather intends to give him on his wedding day. This inheritance would pay off the ridiculous accrued debt of his bumbling brother, but the idea of marriage so soon, and especially an arranged marriage, is troubling to Yogesh. Simply for the love of his family, Yogesh decides to meet one girl from each of the twelve raashees so that he increases his chances of falling in love. The movie is essentially an exploration of the possibilities of online matrimonial matchmaking along with an analysis of the different personalities attributed to the different zodiac (sun) signs.
Remembering Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra’s pitiful first on-screen match-up, Love Story 2050, our hopes for the film went downhill.
What’s Your Raashee? simply reiterated that Harman is a horrible actor, and no matter how many roles any co-star of his played, nothing could counter-balance his falsified emotions, idiotic gestures, and lame imitations of Hrithik Roshan. Before watching the film, we speculated that perhaps in Love Story 2050 he just couldn’t connect to the idea of playing a character in the future, that science-fiction was his weakness…but seeing What’s Your Raashee changed our minds. We could barely believe that Harman’s character was able to love any of the girls that he was meeting, nor that he was deeply ruffled by his brother’s large debt or potentially fatal involvement with the mafia.
After suffering this film for three and a half hours, it is difficult to even award the movie one star; the only redeeming factor was the slightly interesting roles that Priyanka played. The only reason we managed to stay until the end was to tie up the loose ends created in the film. The ending was another downer, a quickly told ending that was typical of the poorer movies of Bollywood, a simple summary of the going-ons that no one witnessed on-screen. The transition between a girl of each raashee was depicted through strange interpretative dance, and the songs corresponding to each girl were long and boring.
Disappointed, but unable to not applaud Priyanka for her stunning transformation of characters, we must give this film 1/5 stars, simply for her entertaining acting alone.
Rating: 1/5 stars
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