Oct 20th, 2008 Satish Kaushik is a clever man.
For starters, he changed the locale from Ooty to Switzerland.
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 Sep 29th, 2009  Listed under:   According to the dictionary , ' plod' means to walk heavily or move laboriously, to proceed in a tediously slow manner or to work with constant and monotonous perseverance.Nothing explains the experience of watching 3 hours of Priyanka's 12 avatars better than plodding through. It was more of wading, dragging on along with the completely predictable scenes,desperately praying for a jump cut to the last scene, which took an excruciatingly 3 hours to materialize. As a Constant Movie Fan, there is this one simple question to Priyanka - Why? Ashutosh Gowarikar is 'renowned' for the 'epic length' of his productions, but,thankfully the ones that came around till now had something to look forward to,rather than the glowing signs of the emergency exit in the dark cinema hall. But to stretch a great concept, balanced on a flimsy script and stretch it to levels that border on the bizarre, testing the patience thresholds of the Constant Movie Fan is downright dangerous. For those who still haven't figured out the Raashee thingy yet, it is this story of Harman Baweja who plays Yogesh Patel, who has this deadline of 10 days to get married - he plans it with meeting a girl from each sun-sign, two meetings a day (that makes it 6),next 3 days to make the big decision,and get married on the 10th day.Great concept, makes it all the more fantastic when you can get one actress to play all the 12 characters. The potential here is huge.You have the novel 'Kimball Ravenswood' by Madhu Rye to fall back on, in case you get your creative stumbling blocks. And as the director and script-writer, your handful of movies have redefined the Bollywood cinemascape.
Outstanding, till now.
And then you go around and write the sloppiest and the silliest ( painful, but have to say it ) script that could ever be expected of Ashutosh Gowarikar, and he makes sure you endure that for 3 hours.
It is not that you could walk out ant any given point, but you still sit around, partly in disbelief at the half - cooked dough he is trying to pass off as a delectable delicacy, and partly still vainly hoping for the big turnaround that would have you glued to your seat in the next minute. Alas, it never arrives.
Priyanka Chopra does her best. But, plodding through with 12 stories in 3 hours with the same actress that becomes repetitive to the point of mental exhaustion is outright criminal.
But, then again, hey, this will be forgiven, Mr.Ashutosh Gowariker. Regardless of all the invectives that those viewers spat out in the cinema, they will surely return for your next production.That is a given.
But that nagging qestion still remains - Why?
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1. When people could watch Kamala Hassan in 10 repetitive roles, and hail for the movie. I don’t think that, it was a bad idea to watch the flick, (what’s your rashee) that bestows you a real time guffawing.