Cast: Harman Baweja, Priyanka Chopra
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Runtime: Enough to make you sick
Rating: *

I am always an ardent fan of Zodiac signs. No matter what they forecast, I mean more often than not the Taurus forecast tells me that there is romance in cards when I am single and that I shine well in my career when I hit the rock bottom in my appraisal. But still there is some innate force in me that asks me to believe in them. And I did read the characteristics; I beg your attention dear reader, characteristics of almost all the Sun/Moon signs and compared them with the people I know.

So when I came to know that there is whole movie coming up on this, I was more than excited. I shall not think even once to emphatically declare that the excitement ended there, well, almost.

The last thing that should be done while making a movie is to take your audience for granted. Mr. Gowariker did just that. I had to say this as I am assuming that he understands that a movie needs a good script and the one he is attempting a very crisp editing! No, I am not talking about the 12 Priyanka Chopras in the film. The director was smart enough to tell us that the bloke who is head hunting for his life partner, did realize that the girls he has been meeting are looking identical to each other. My problem is with something more basic.

My problem is that when you are making a movie about women of different zodiac signs, you are EXPECTED to churn out a movie that emulates those characteristics. A Taurus woman should be like a bull, having security in mind or such blah! But what Mr. Gowariker churned out is little less than bull’s excretion.

I mean, you have a movie where a guy is trying to understand a girl by her sun sign and meeting her too, and you screw up the whole thing by replacing the dialogue with a song? What kind of a dumb decision is that? Yeah, may be I would have consented if the songs sounded good and had a nice lyrical value. I could not comprehend what on earth could have encouraged Mr Gowariker to choose such songs. Period.

My problem did not end there; I was determined to make sense out of the movie. To wait till I see signs’ characteristics being presented, but my wait was for eternity. Because, the characteristics of most of the 12 characters of Priyanka were more due to circumstances than due to Sun signs. A 15 year old girl was forced to marriage by quoting a wrong age, due to poverty; has this got anything to do with a sun sign? A young lady is interested in fashion, has it got anything to do with sun sign? How I wish Ashutosh reads this review!

If there is any thing that is worth while that is acting. Priyanka did a fabulous job, she carried the whole movie on her shoulders, if it were not for her I would have puked in the theatre. Harman was OK, there isn’t much scope for him, and he is not given any material to work on. One more good concept got lost in compulsive obsession for idiocracy in bollywood cinema. Don’t watch this movie, not even on a DVD, read a good book on Sun Signs rather!

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