What's Your Raashee?

My Ratings 2.5 stars.
This one is surely a Hatke movie. The career best performance of Piggy chopps. Infact this is one movie that reminds you that Actresses in bollywood movies do exist. Well Ashu has done it again , its his sheer talent that makes this simple Gujrati novel story transform into a masterpiece. But the lenght of the movie makes you feel that Ashu has hired a really bad editor for all his movies. Harman gets his space to break out of the Hritik look-alike frame of mind and plays a boy next door (Yogesh) who's an NRI.Yogesh is a young man who in his heart has always wanted a love marriage. Till suddenly he is told that he must find his dream girl within ten days to save his family from utter ruin. Finding the dream girl is tough enough. Finding her in a hurry is even tougher.
His solution is simple; he will meet one girl from each Raashee , as he feels that is the best way to make sure he finds a suitable wife, while also giving himself 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, or so he thinks.
Well all in all i loved the title track Whats your Raashee's picturization wherein you have Harman dancing with all 12 Priyanka avtars in one screen.
You can wait for the DVD to be released rather than watching this one on the Big screen.

Dil bole Hadippa

My Rating: 3 stars
First Hockey and now cricket. Yashraj seems to be believing that marrying bollywood with Sport is the formula for a superhit. Naaa not really yash uncle.
Dil Bole is about Anupam Kher, one of the rich men of that part of Punjab, has a team of players who play the Aman Cup every year with a team from Pakistan, which is owned by his childhood friend, played by Dalip Tahil. For the last eight or nine years, Pakistan has been thrashing Kher's team. After yet another loss, he calls in his son Rohan, (Shahid) from England, on the pretext that he has a heart attack. He has been long separated from his wife, played by Poonam Dhillon who lives in London with their only son. Rohan learns a little about love and India when he encounters Veera. She, on the other hand, dresses up as a sardar and gets herself selected in the trials for the Aman Cup. She is easily the team's best batsman and has the ability to hammer every ball of an over for a sixer. Day lighting as Veer on the cricket field and Veera in the Sarason Ka Khet, she succeeds in getting Rohan to fall in love with her and India. But Shahid discovers her fraud in the middle of the match and is stung by her deceit and misreads it. He is left with no other option but to allow her to bat when his team is down to nine wickets with only him standing on the other end. After that Veera takes over as Veer and slams the opposition for sixes galore. The film then moves to its logical conclusion and all ends happily.
What I like about the Yashraj movies is their high production values but when u have a not so powerful script accompanied by a debut director then all goes down the drain. Shahid has matured in his acting and you can now see that he is not trying to copy Shahrukh. Rani suits this role completely and is her sheer charm in both the character that really uplift the movie.
Surely a one time watch.

Wanted

My Rating: 2.5 stars
Wanted's story is about Salman Khan, who is a mercenary killer and is willing to give kill for whoever pays him. In the process, he flits from one gang to the other and wrecks havoc wherever he goes. But he has his principles as he does not believe in killing women or children. In the meantime, underworld activity in Mumbai has reached an all time high and the Police Commissioner is out on a mission to eliminate the gangs. But the main controls are in the hand of a Ghani Khan who lives abroad. An elaborate plot is laid out for him whereby he is lured back to India so that the cops can catch him. Of course, this is only revealed in the end. But with Ghani back in India, the cops have their hands full and even when they manage to capture him, they are forced to let him off as he kidnaps the Commissioner's daughters and circulates MMS clips of her being molested. Of course, Sallu comes to the rescue of all, and in the end all sorts itself out as he eliminates all the bad men single handedly. Into this plot are interwoven the romance track between Sallu and Ayesha Takia's character. There is also the track of the sleazy, corrupt cop, played to perfection by Mahesh Manjrekar. The romance is very typically Salman Khan style, with a strong undertone of humour running through it.
This is a full on entertainment masala movie with most elements woven into it. Prabhudeva seems to have done a fairly decent job as a director and the South Indian movie hallo is very evident in every frame

District 9

Alien movie yet again from a small scale Hollywood production house.Hm mm....
Well District 9 is a place in Johannesburg South Africa where this movie is based out of. The movie starts like a documentary on Nat Geo and directly gets to the main point showcasing aliens from the first screen itself. Its about how 20 years ago an Alien spaceship transports aliens to earth and they seem to lose contact with their mother ship leaving them stuck to out planet for a long long time. The look designed for these aliens is something that i have never seen in any of the previous alien movies. They are ugly and look like PRAWNS (sorry fish lovers). They are helped by humans initially to set up a colony (called District 9) which can accommodate them but they soon realize that these aliens are really messy for their neighbourhood due to their acts of violence and slimy presence. Hence they decide to erradicate all the aliens from district 9 and send them back to where they came from. The main character of the movie Vann De Mervee is appointed to lead this team of humans against aliens. What was unique was the way they think of dealing this mission which is by sending the aliens a legal notice to vacate this planet.Wow thats never heard of before. For some strange reason the aliens understand the human language but its not the other way round. Whist in the mission Vann de Mervee gets struck with an alien virus and starts transforming into an alien himself. This is not liked by his group and they decide to showcase him in front of the world as the only Human alien who can operate the alien arms and ammunations. So there is a mafia angle to this movie as well where one of the organization called IMU is interested in figuring out how to master the alien Arms and ammunation technology. They depict the human aspect of greed which is the main sole of the movie. By the second half of the movie the main character almost turns into an alien and his mission is to ensure that the poor aliens are given justice and they reach to their planet. In this process he faces a lot of music from the SA millitary but manages to pull it of for the aliens.
I would not say that this is a avarage movie but if you like alien stuff, then you will not be so disapointed
My Ratings: One and a half star.