Priyanka at TIFFBollywood beauty Priyanka Chopra dazzled the Toronto audience as Ashutosh Gowariker’s What’s Your Rashee? Brought the curtains down on the last day of the 34th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

Gowariker, Priyanka and actor Harman Baweja were given the ceremonial red carpet reception at the city’s Roy Thomson Hall where the film premiered Saturday. And festival co-director Cameron Bailey was on hand to welcome the trio.

Check out hot pics of Priyanka, Harman & Ashutosh Rock at “What’s Your Rashee?” premiere in Tiff in the photo gallery below:

What"s Your Rashee? team at TIFF

What\
◄ Back
Picture 1 of 19

Priyanka Harman & Ashutosh at TIFF

“It is an honour to have India’s great and very diverse director (Gowariker) here with us today. We welcomed him here in 2001 with Lagaan and we welcome him here again,” said Bailey. Unlike 2001, Gowariker said, on Saturday was a special day for him as it was the first time his film was being premiered at one of the world’s top film festivals.” I am apprehensive, waiting in anticipation how the film is received back in India when it is released next week. I hope the planets (Rashee) are with me,” Gowariker told IANS.

Waving to the crowd in the theatre hall, Priyanka said she was thrilled to be at the Toronto film festival for the first time. She asked the audiences to be forgiving as it was her first film premiere at a major international festival. Looking a little bewildered, Hurman, who plays the role of Yogesh Patel, said they all worked very hard on the film and he was excited to see it being premiered at the Toronto fest. In the packed hall, the audience enjoyed every moment as the over three-hour-long film unfolded on the big screen. After initially switching between India and Chicago, the plot settles on NRI Yogesh Patel’s Gujarati family as the search begins for a bride for him.

Short listing 165 girls who respond to their matrimonial ad to just 12 – each of one sun sign – Yogesh and his family start meeting each girl, starting with the Aries sun sign. Twelve songs – one for each sun sign – keep the plot afloat as Priyanka changes chameleon-like from the role of one girl to the other. If she is homely in one role, she is a bold student in the other, a dedicated doctor in another and a corporate in the next.

If in one role she says she knows nothing about love, in the next she frankly admits to having an affair with someone. In between, Gowariker has thrown in a little bit of the bhai (don) world to add variety to the plot. What’s Your Rashee? Was the second Bollywood film to be premiered this year at the festival after Dil Bole Hadippa, starring Rani Mukerji and Shahid Kapoor.

‘Copyright @ HT Media Ltd.‘
email