what your rashee - the ugly truth!

What’s your Rashee – The Ugly Truth!
The plan was to see “What’s Your Raashee”
We are professional movie maniacs, so had a checklist of pros & cons:
Pro: Ashutosh Gowarikar was responsible for two of my favorite hindi films – Lagaan & Swades.
Pro: Priyanka Chopra has come a long way since dubiously winning the “Ms World” crown, after giving the wrong answer – did I hear someone cry foul & ‘rigged?!’ With ‘Fashion’ followed by ‘Kaminey’, shez here for a long innings! Hogging twelve identities in one movie – like the wolf told Red Riding Hood, ‘the more of you to see, my dear!’
Con: HARMAN BAWEJA! HARMAN BAWEJA! HARMAN BAWEJA! HARMAN BAWEJA! HARMAN BAWEJA! HARMAN BAWEJA …..
nothing personal against him, except that the thought of nearly four agonizing hours with HB, seemed worse than Chinese rack torture! That clinched the deal & “WYR” has been relegated to ‘never/maybe/only on dvd’ categorgy!
So for those of you who thought this was a review of the 192 minute “WYR”, this is where we part ways.
This was a long winded, convoluted explanation for why not watching ‘WYR’ led to “The Ugly Truth”.
Some speed breakers in the form of a daughter, who was hanging with pals at the mall & then gonna watch the movie – she gagged & died a thousand deaths, at the thought of her disgraceful parents watching the film in the same2same theatre – social suicide!! So we dropped her off at a mall at one end of town & swore solemnly to go far, far away, if we had to be pathetic enough to watch romantic chick flicks at our age!
Yeah, we are that – hum to aisey hain bitiya! Later in life, I envisage her lying flat on some fancy shrink’s couch, blaming her screwed up parents for messing her up totally!

Ah yes, finally, ‘The Ugly Truth’ –
strangely nothing ‘ugly’ here – Katherine Heigl is drop dead gorgeous & Gerard Butler, one handsome hunk!
Sure its old wine in a new bottle, about the eternal quest for Mr. Right – if beauties like KH have problems getting good guys, what hope is there for really ugly gals like me?!
Hate being akin to love & all that, a little cheesy, syrupy & horribly predictable, but the movie is so visually enchanting that it worked for me. Gr8 looking couple, beautiful locales, glamorous TV jobs ….
Warning – a lot of four letter words floating around, so maybe not the best movie to see with your kids!
So apologies Ashutosh, Priyanka, you’ll survive this flop & Harman, my deepest sympathies & counsel to join papa’s office or something, but we could not bear to see “WYR” & that’s “The Ugly Truth!”