What's your length jee?

When its a question of marriage, it is natural that people who believe in astrology take horoscopes, birth-charts to be more precise. What's Your Raashee is about the protagonist who wants to meet 12 different girls from each zodiac to take the final call

CJ: Amit R Agarwal

Fri, Sep 25, 2009 20:49:36 IST

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I don’t know how many self-professed couch potatoes still remember a serial called Mr. Yogi on the good television of yore, doordarshan. The film had late Mohan Gokhale essaying the role of NRI Patel (I guess his name too was Yogesh, just like protagonist’s name in What’s Your Raashee).

I was hooked onto the serial owing to his humour, more so for the brilliant comic-timing of Mohan Gokhale.

What’s Your Raashee is about Yogesh (Harman Baweja) settled in Chicago, with a well-settled job.

Back home, his brother and father (Anjan Srivastava) have a financial problem. An astrologer tells the father that Yogesh’s kundali says that he will get immense wealth if he is married off by 20th of the month; thereby off-setting the financial problem.

Yogesh is called to India and after much reluctance he agrees to marry, but with the condition that he will meet a girl from each zodiac sign, which makes it 12 girls. Each girl’s part is played by Priyanka Chopra.

The script has a few loopholes. One instance being, the ’cotton king’ and his daughter decide that when Yogesh says ’no’ they will tell Yogesh that the daughter is not mad and they will talk Yogesh into marrying her; but there is no mention when Darshan Zariwala (Debu bhai) breaks the news to them.

Apart from these, the major problem with What’s Your Raashee is its length. I mean, today when the length of an average movie is 100 to 110 minutes; 197 odd minutes seem too long! More so, when the endless stream of tuneless songs could have easily done away with.

What rocks the movie:

Concept.

Priyanka Chopra’s act, first rate.

A couple of scenes.

What chucks the movie:

Harman Baweja’s act, he really needs to be a more spontaneous actor.

The endless songs.

The 2nd half that drags on.

Verdict:

If you don’t mind devoting 197 minutes to this film, you will enjoy the film; else the 2nd half with endless and force-fit songs will be a real test of your patience.

Overall an average fare.

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