What's Your Raashee?
| What's Your Raashee? | |
|---|---|
| File:Whatsyourraashee3.jpg Teaser poster for the film | |
| Directed by | Ashutosh Gowarikar |
| Written by | Madhu Rye |
| Produced by | Ronnie Screwvala Ashutosh Gowarikar |
| Starring | Harman Baweja Priyanka Chopra |
| Cinematography | Piyush Shah |
| Edited by | Ballu Saluja |
| Music by | Sohail Sen |
Release dates | September 25, 2009 |
| Country |  India |
| Language | Hindi |
What's Your Raashee? (Hindi: व्होटस यौर राशी?, translation: What's Your Zodiac?) is a forthcoming Hindi film directed by the noted director Ashutosh Gowarikar. The movie is based on US based Gujarati writer Madhu Rye's novel Kimball Ravenswood and stars Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra.[1] The film began shooting in Mumbai, on December 6, 2008.[2]
Plot
Yogesh Patel (Harman Baweja), a young man who has always wished for a love marriage, is told that he must find his dream girl within ten days to save his family from utter ruin. He makes a plan; he will meet one girl from each raashee – sun sign, so that he will get twelve chances to fall in love. Two meetings per day gives him six days to meet them, three days to make a final decision and he can get married on the tenth day.[3]
Priyanka Chopra plays twelve different characters depicting the twelve zodiac signs. Each character will have a trait related to the zodiac sign.
Cast
- Harman Baweja as Yogesh Patel
- Priyanka Chopra in twelve roles as Anjali, Vishakha, Kajal, Hansa, Mallika, Pooja, Rajni, Nandini, Bhavna, Jhankhana, Sanjna, Chandrika. Priyanka Chopra has created cinematic history by being the first actor in world cinema to play twelve different characters in a single film![4]
- Manju Singh
- Aanjjan Srivastava
- Visswa Badola
- Rajesh Vivek
- Dilip Joshi
- Dayashanker Pandey
- Yuri
- Bhairavi Vaidya
- Geeta Tyagi
- Ajita Kulkarni
- Darshan Jariwala
Crew
- Presenters: UTV Motion Pictures & Ashutosh Gowarikar Productions
- Director: Ashutosh Gowarikar
- Producers: Ronnie Screwvala & Sunita A. Gowariker
- Screenplay: Naushil Mehta & Ashutosh Gowarikar
- Dialogue: Naushil Mehta, Amit Mistry & Tapan A. Bhatt
- Music: Sohail Sen
- Lyrics: Javed Akhtar
- Cinematography: Piyush Shah
- Art Director: Nitin Chandrakant Desai
- Costume Design: Neeta Lulla
- Sound: Stephen Gomes
- Choreographers: Chinni Prakash, Rekha Prakash, Raju Khan, Lollypop, Terence Lewis & Rajeev Surti
Production
Development
What's Your Raashee? is a romantic comedy dealing with the tradition of arranged marriage. The author calls the novel a side-splitting tingly comic, which studies human nature. It has many devilish characters and can be termed even as a sex thriller. But he also said that, Ashutosh Gowarikar might make few alterations in the plot to make it more appealing.[5] The movie is Ashutosh Gowarikar's first romantic comedy film. In a press interview Gowarikar said "It is a genre that I have always loved and I had always wanted to attempt. My favourite films of this genre are "Roman Holiday" and "When Harry Met Sally", amongst several others. I'm also a great fan of 'Chupke Chupke' and all romantic comedies of Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee".The movie went on floors on 6th December.[2] It is being shot across 65 different locations in Mumbai. The director said that shooting for this movie is more challenging that his previous effort, 2008's Jodha Akbar, since the shooting is not in one location and the crew has to continuously move around which is time consuming. The production of the movie entered its second schedule in the midweeks of January. Few parts of this schedule is supposed to be shot in Chicago as well as Baroda. The film will be shot in a single start-to-finish schedule.[6] The final wrapping of the shooting is supposed to happen by April 2009.[7]
Casting
This movie is the second time that Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra will be paired opposite each other after the disastrous Love Story 2050.[8] According to the director, Harman was signed for this movie much before Love Story.[9] Priyanka Chopra joined the cast. Her role is reportedly very complex as it is modelled after the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Priyanka will be playing twelve different characters depicting the twelve zodiacs and each will have a unique look for each individual starsign.[10]
Promotion
After finishing the first schedule of the movie, Ashutosh Gowarikar wanted Nabeel Abbas to design the first look of the film. Ashutosh and Nabeel came up with the unique concept for the first look of the film. The teaser poster was released on 20th January 2009. The poster looked like a book cover that, according to Gowarikar, "will not reveal much about the film at the same time will have a feel of the film."[11]
Soundtrack
The music of the film is composed by Sohail Sen and the lyrics are penned by Javed Akhtar[12] The music was released on August 18, 2009.The album has 13 songs, 12 for each zodiac sign, represented by 12 characters played by Priyanka Chopra, and one introductory song.[13]
| Untitled | |
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| Track | Song | Artist(s) | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What's Your Raashee? (Pal Pal Dil Jisko Dhoonde) | Sohail Sen | 03:59 |
| 2 | Jao Na | Sohail Sen, Tarannum Mallik | 04:45 |
| 3 | Aaja Lehraate | Shaan, Bhavya Pandit | 03:50 |
| 4 | Bikhri Bikhri | Sohail Sen, Marianne D'Cruz | 04:42 |
| 5 | Maanunga Maanunga | Ashutosh Gowarikar, Pamela Jain | 03:51 |
| 6 | Sau Janam | Udit Narayan, Madhushree, Sohail Sen | 04:23 |
| 7 | Aa Le Chal | Aslesha Gowarikar, Harman Baweja | 02:59 |
| 8 | Pyaari Pyaari | Alka Yagnik, Sohail Sen | 04:47 |
| 9 | Su Chhe | Sohail Sen, Bela Shende | 04:24 |
| 10 | Salone Kya | Sohail Sen, Tarannum Mallik | 03:49 |
| 11 | Dhadkan Dhadkan | Sohail Sen, Tarannum Mallik | 05:04 |
| 12 | Koi Jaane Na | Rajab Ali Bharti, Bela Shende | 04:43 |
| 13 | What's Your Raashee? (Chehre Jo Dekhe Hain) | Sohail Sen | 05:34 |
References
- ^ "First Look poster of What's Your Rashee ?". 10th January 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b "Priyanka, Harman team-up again". The Hindu. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
- ^ Trailer and Synopsis of What's Your Raashee
- ^ "Priyanka Chopra Creates History!". Movie Talkies. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Gifting Harman-Priyanka another love story". Retrieved July 9 2008.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ PTI (Monday, December 8, 2008 17:02 IST). "Gowariker begins shooting for 'What's your Rashee?'". DNAIndia. Retrieved 2009-01-29.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ What's Your Raashee? on the moveMasala.com Retrieved on 2009-01-29
- ^ "Harman, Priyanka go for arranged marriage". Retrieved May 20 2008.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Ashutosh Gowariker to make another period filmMasala.com Retrieved on 2009-01-29
- ^ "Priyanka Chopra in Twelve Different Avatars in 'What's Your Raashee?'". Movie Talkies. Retrieved 2009-08-04.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Harman Baweja impresses GowarikerOne India Retrieved on 2009-01-29
- ^ Gowariker picks new composer over Rahman for '...Rashee?'IANS Retrieved on 2009-08-13
- ^ "Commendable job but an average listen".
- ^ "Bumpy forecast for Ashutosh Gowariker's next". Rediff.com. Retrieved 18-08-2009.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "What's Your Raashee? Music Review". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 18-08-2009.
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