Priyanka Chopra in What's Your Raashee?

Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra's new movie "What's Your Raashee?"comes out today and the critics seem to like it except for one thing.
It's three and a half hours long.

In the film Priyanka gets a role that would make Jim Carrey or Eddie Murphy proud, she gets to play twelve different characters.

The film is a romantic comedy (the first) from director Ashutosh Gowariker.
He also directed the award winning films Lagaan, Swades and Jodhaa Akbar.
But to maintain interest for over three hours is quite a feat as a lot of directors have found out the hard way.

The films plot is a Chicagoan (Harman Baweja) returns home to Mumbai and has ten days to find a wife and get his Grandfather's inheritance.
He interviews twelve women (all played by Priyanka) each with a different astrological sign (raashee) and each with their own unique personality which gives Priyanka time to show off her acting abilities.

I understand the length of the movie.
Cutting it down to say 2 hours would have lost a lot of story.
Ashutosh couldn't very well have taken the film and pulled a Quentin Tarantino making "What's Your Raashee" Part 1 and Part 2 ala "Kill Bill".
So I think the movie had to pretty much be made the way it was.

Now, will the audiences feel the same way?


Priyanka Chopra in What's Your Raashee?, posted to http://bollywoodwomen.blogspot.com/ on Sept 25th, 2009.

Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra and Rani Mukherjee

One of the most successful female filmstars in the history of Indian cinema, Hema Malini, has said that the only Bollywood actress that deserves the title "Dream Girl" is the beautiful and talented Aishwarya Rai.
High praise indeed coming from a lady thats made a name for herself as not only an Indian actress, director and producer but as a Bharatanatyam dancer-choreographer as well.
The lovely Ash is keeping herself busy, with four movies coming out in 2010.
First up is Endhiran, a science-fiction Tamil language film being directed by S. Shankar.
Then Ashokavanam, also a Tamil film, directed, written and produced by Mani Ratnam.
Next up are two Hindi movies, Raavan, also being directed by Mani Ratnam, and Action Replay directed by Vipul Shah.


There is a rumor going around that Priyanka Chopra is going to work with UK-based pop star Jay Sean on his new album.
Priyanka big fan of Jay Sean’s music and it's rumored that she will appear in at least one music video for him.
This isn't Jay Sean’s first Bollywood connection.
The lovely Bipasha Basu worked with him on his music video "Stolen".


And the bad feelings between Salman Khan and Aditya Chopra have been healed thanks to Rani Mukherjee.
Evidently the love of Salman's life and the friend of Aditya has been working behind the scenes to get the two back on speaking terms.
So I guess you can add "peacemaker" to Rani's list of credits.
BTW, you can get a lot more info on Rani at this great site I found (no, it's not mine...LOL)
Rani Mukherjee Saree