In school, most of us read Linda Goodman's Love Signs, a wooing-made-easy book, the astrological way.

Goodman told us why it was important to know the zodiac sign of a stunning girl in the college or a handsome hunk in the neighbourhood before embarking on the arduous path of romance. It's rashee, the zodiac sign, that decides our personality type, she said. And we believed her. For Yogesh Patel, the central character of Ashutosh Gowariker's latest movie, though, rashee isn't for romance but marriage. The young MBA student-cum- executive-cum-guitarist-cum-DJ must match his compatibility with one of 12 girls over six days before taking the big plunge. It isn't an easy choice to make, especially with a bunch of goons threatening to chop off his fingers.

Dil Bole Hadippa begins with Veera (Rani Mukherjee), the spunky Punjabi kudi in bright pink kurta and blue dupatta doing what Yuvraj Singh did to Stuart Broad in the Twenty20 World Cup two years ago: smashing six sixes off six balls. When you write - A for all-rounder, B for batsman, C for catch and D for dreams - you are cricket-crazy all right.

Brawn is back. So is Salman Khan. Rattled by a barrage of recent flops (Yuvvraaj, God Tussi Great Ho, Hello, Heroes), the actor appeared in dozens of television shows in the past few weeks hoping to stay alive in the viewer's mindspace.

He even went around a Delhi football stadium waving at crowds. He needn't have. In Wanted, the remake of a superhit Telugu film (also made in Tamil), Salman is like a force of nature. Unstoppable. Unbreakable. Unbeatable. As a trigger-happy criminal, he enthrals. As a deadpan lover, who gets to deliver some of the cleverest lines in recent Bollywood films, he amuses in equal measure. He does what only the most charismatic stars do: make an ordinary frame worth watching by sheer presence.

The post-Apocalyptic world is a bleak, dark place filled with industrial wreckage. Against this backdrop, director Shane Acker crafts a multi-layered tale that can be enjoyed as much by pre-teens as their papas. 9 is unrelenting in its visual grimness: the silent factories with giant wheels, the huge eerie black towers, the metal garbage strewn across the landscape - all combine to create a savage setting. But it is the state-of-the-art special effects and great lens-work that create a really engrossing flick. The action sequences, especially the one involving a maniacal, metallic flying beast, are wonderfully crafted.