Ashutosh starts his romance with comedy IndiaGlitz [Monday, December 08, 2008] Taking inspiration and keeping in mind the magic of clean evergreen comical moments given birth by classic movies made by masters like Hrishikesh Mukherji and Basu Chatterji, Ashutosh Gowariker is for the first time started giving his skills a free run on creating a romantic comedy.
The shooting of 'What's Your Rashee' having Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra in the lead roles started on December 6 in Mumbai. After setting new benchmarks and contributing immensely in the great change of perspective of the whole world towards Bollywood by being the captain of such films like 'Laagan', 'Swades' and 'Jodhaa Akbar' the film lovers now can never think that Asutosh Gowariker can go wrong. That automatically adds up to the huge expectations that this film will be carrying. But by a previous statement of the hit maker who is famous for the intense research that he carries out before finalizing each of his project that as far as 'What's Your Rashee' is considered he is far more relaxed as not much of rigorous research and study is needed for the light hearted comical movie, film buffs can start the wait for a well made movie laced with quality humour. The film is based on a Gujarati novel titled as 'Kimball Ravenswood' written by Shri Madhu Rye. The novel tells the tale of a young Gujarati man's journey filled with confusion and hilarious moments to find out his dream girl within a span of 10 days so that his family is saved from a particular tribulation. The director says that the genre of romantic comedy is something that he has always loved and one which he wanted to attempt for a long time. 'What's Your Rashee' is produced jointly by UTV Motion Pictures and Ashutosh Gowariker Productions. The lyrics have been written by javed Akhtar, music has been composed by Sohail Sen, Screenplay is by Naushil Mehta and Ashutosh Gowariker, cinematography is by Piyush Sha, Netta Lulla is the costume designer, dialogues written by Naushil Mehta and Nitin Desai is responsible for Art Direction. http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/article/43484.html <http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/article/43484.html>
