What's Your Rashee?

Directed By-

Ashutosh Gowariker

Produced By-

Ronnie Screwvala, Ashutosh Gowariker

Featuring-

Harman Bhaweja, Priyanka Chopra..

How many of you were waiting for this one from Gowariker? i know many! Sadly for all Gowariker fans, What's Your Rashee? is absolutely disappointing. Based on Madhu Rye's novel Kimball Ravenswood, WYR's? script is as flat as it can possibly get. 

What's Your Rashee's? story revolves around Yogesh Patel(Harman Bhaweja) an MBA student studying in Chicago, who is forced to return to India after receiving a message about his father's deteriorating health. On reaching India is when the family of Yogesh let out the actual reason. Yogesh is then told about the share scam committed by his brother and the family's huge debt. He's also told about the solution offered by a astrologer according to whom, If Yogesh gets married on the 20th, huge wealth is to follow the family on the very day. He's given a mere 10 days to decide a girl and get married. It does not take long for his family to convince Yogesh and he's then out looking for brides. After a lot of confusion about the brides shortlisted by his uncle, Yogesh comes up with a bizarre idea of meeting one girl from each of the 12 zodiac signs. And the plot leading upto Yogesh deciding his soul mate among the 12 is for you to watch it yourself. 

Gowariker seems to have failed miserably with WYR? provided the quality of movies that he

made previously. The movie fails to take off and the plot of the movie does not really convince you at any level. The one and the only thing that is impressive with WYR? is Priyanka Chopra's impeccable performance playing 12 different characters. She's absolutely mind blowing with each of the 12 characters and probably the only thing that makes you sit right through the exhausting 3 hours 15 minutes. Harman Bhaweja is good and tries his best to make an impact with his honest acting supported well by rest of the cast. The funnier parts that were supposed to be funny are not funny and it just frustrates you more. 

The music by Sohail Sen is ordinary and the 12 songs used for 12 the different characters are not impressive either. 

I will go with 4 BOP's out of 10 for Ashutosh Gowariker's What's Your Rashee?.

Avoid this Flick!

Reviewed By-

Raghav Ramaiah

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1 comments Posted by Rag at 8:32 PM  |

Wanted

Directed By-
Prabhudeva

Produced By-
Boney Kapoor

Featuring-
Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia, Mahesh Manjrekar..


If you were waiting for a good film from Salman Khan, your wait is certain to continue as Wanted turns out to be a below average watch. Directed by dance guru Prabhudeva, Wanted will fail to impress you on every level. Adapted from the original telugu flick Pokiri, Wanted is an out and out action film. The script of Wanted seems more like its made for the audience down south and implementing it with Salman Khan makes it all more interesting. Having proven his abilities with action flicks, Salman Khan looks to have gone that extra mile to give Wanted the classy touch.

Wanted's protagonist Radhe(Salman Khan) is a local thug who terminates people when offered the right price. He's seen shifting between two rival gangs to terminate one another who ever offered more money. Radhe takes no time eliminating people and is seen doing the same in every second scene and here's when he falls for the innocent-pretty girl Jhanvi(Ayesha Takia) who works in a call center. Not so impressed by his rough gangster looks, it takes a while before Jhanvi starts feeling for Radhe who helps her out from the hands of the corrupt crook inspector Talpade(Mahesh Manjrekar). On the other hand due to constant killings in both rival gangs, the top don Gani Bhai(Prakash Raj) is forced to visit mumbai to take over the underworld activities. Now is when the plot takes a unanticipated bizarre u-turn giving Wanted the much needed climax that you might end up liking. The abrupt unpredictable climax is for you to watch it yourself.

Wanted has hardly anything that you might want to look back at except for Salman Khan. The script is ordinary and the execution part makes it even more lousy. The dialogues are ineffective and fails to derive the energy necessary except for a few. Salman Khan has delivered a decent performance with some great action sequences which you are sure to enjoy. Not so impressive are the costumes which look awful in nicely shot backdrops especially in the songs- "Tose Pyar karte Hai" and "Dil Leke Darde Dil". The performances of Ayesha Takia and the rest of the crew is forgettable.

The music by Sajid-Wajid is again ordinary and is tolerable provided the violent theme of the movie. "Love me Love Me" being the most catchy of all.
Having seen the huge commercial success with the Tamil and Telugu versions, Wanted will have to literally run full shows to even compete with its counter parts.

I will go with 5 BOP's out of 10, for Prabhudeva's Wanted .





Go watch it if you are a Salman Khan Fan, and not really advisable for the rest.


Reviewed By,
Raghav Ramaiah

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1 comments Posted by Rag at 6:15 AM  |

The Ugly Truth

Directed By

Robert Luketic

Cast:

Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Eric Winter, Bree Turner

Why is this happening to me? Why is it that every time I decide to watch a movie and write a review for it , it turns out to be a

really bad choice? Bad luck, I must say! Well if those 2 lines weren’t enough, then read on.

Katherine Heigl, the unlucky in love lady, who is all independent and believes that she will never find a good man, and that she thinks is because they are all intimidated by her. Well absolutely uptight television producer Abby Richter (played by Katherine Heigl) is this really pretty and hot woman who well apparently cant find a man. Now someone please explain how a gorgeous woman like her is not able to find a man? Please ask the directors/writers!

Gerard Butler, the STUD! The shock-jock! Any other testosterone driven words you can find to describe a man, can be used here. Well this man, as very obviously shown in the promotional pictures, believes love happens with an organ that has nothing to do with emotions. Mike Chadway (played by Gerard Butler) is a television host, who is forced upon Abby, because the ratings shoot up as soon as he’s on air. Makes you wonder, how with his absolutely chauvinistic, horrible locker-room trash talk, the ratings go up?

Put together an ice-queen and shock jock and what do you get? The Ugly Truth! Ha! A joke that one is, the

whole movie is a series of horribly choreographed scenes, that don’t even raise whimper from the crowd. There are a couple of disgusting , toilet-humor based scenes, like a pair of vibrating knickers on Abby. They managed to put in a part where Mike tutors Abby on how to get the attentions of her very hot neighbour, who also happens to be a doctor, that doesn’t really work for the movie either!Well well, no imagination, no thought put into the screen-play. It’s a very run-of-the-mill script, that did not succeed in being a rom-com, not romantic, not a comedy!

As a saving grace I can say that the all the actors tried their best at making something good out of the script, and they do manage to get a laugh out of you in some rare scenes.

Why is Katherine subjecting herself to this, one movie after another is a failed attempt at being a rom-com, and what a waste of Gerard Butlers absolute HOT-ness! This was such a horrible choice on both their parts, I cant believe I spent hard-earned money on watching this flick! If you guys value the money you or your parents earn, please don’t go spend it on this one, buy yourself a nice accessory to go along with that new shirt.

Girls I know rom-com’s call out to us, but believe just stay away from this one.

Boys, you still might enjoy this one, for all the stud-talk and the abuses, in that beautiful accent that Gerard Butler has, and I am sure that all of you will secretly want to imbibe all that he is on screen into yourselves, but seriously that works only on screen. In real life, the girls are definitely not going to be hounding you with that sort of attitude.

I guess there is a certain section of society that could still watch it, but that doesn’t mean it still wouldn’t be a waste of their money. So well if your really really bored, then you might as well occupy your time with this one.

I would give this 4 BOP’s , it doesn’t deserve any more no matter how hard I try searching for some part of the movie that demands one more BOP from me, it really doesn’t get any further than 4.

Reviewed By,

Taru Girdonia

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1 comments Posted by Rag at 5:03 AM  |