Saturday, October 31, 2009

Whats your Rashee ?

Overall "What's your Rashee ?" is PAIN! And much of this pain is caused by it's more than a dozen, yeah... more than a dozen, mostly insipid songs! There is also the usual melodramatic drag. I personally don't mind it much, because... over the years, on a feast of Hindi movies, I have pretty much grown immune to it!


There are twelve girls and they all look the same, it wouldn't have been much of a problem if they had come and gone in a tidy sequence. But then, it would have been even more boring... so one or two of them pop in here and there in between and you are left wondering which one was she? A pen and paper to take notes as you watch, might help! Oh, did I mention the movie runs for a full three and a half hours? The climax, according to me is super stupid and takes away any regards you have managed to preserve so far for the movie and it's makers!

On the positive side, I found the plot quite interesting! The unfortunate protagonist HAS to get married on a given date, but there's hardly any time! Fortunately he's in India, and as we know here... it's not our problem to get ourselves married! So the stage is all set for an arranged marriage! But then, our hero always wanted to fall in love, and so he works out a little plan! Through a book he knows, that there are twelve rashee's and hence twelve kind's of girls... and so he decides to meet one of each type; thereby giving himself every possible chance on the planet(given his assumption that there are only twelve kinds of girls) ... to fall in love! There are some funny moments especially in the beginning, and the movie seems to be slowly tightening it's grip on the viewers attention... but sadly it doesn't last for too long!

Watch it on a DVD(when it's available), forward the songs.

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