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Originally posted by: theprince

DB_reloaded so you saw the film tell us about your thought about the film and how the reaction and for sure the reactopn to krrish trailer

Movie Review; Chennai Express; Neither funny nor enthralling

Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Nikhtin Dheer

DIrector: Rohit Shetty

Producer: Gauri Khan, Ronnie Screwvala, Siddarth Roy Kapur

Music: Vishal-Shekhar

Rating: 2.5/5

So finally, the Chennai Express train has arrived and I was aboard watching the premiere show tonight. Heck lot of promotions and marketing was done for this film and Shahrukh, Rohit and Deepika were clearly very excited about its release.

Plot: The movie strolls around the life of Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) and how he 'accidentally' meets Meena (Deepika) and the biggest twist in his life (probably any 'common man's' life) comes his way. Rahul plans a trip to Goa with his friends while he granddad passes away. To fulfill his grandpa's last wish, he plans to do away the ashes in Rameshwaram. And in the train Chennai Express he meets Deepika and his four cousin brothers a.k.a thugs, and lands up in an unavoidable, unwanted and unprecedented journey. While Meena has her own troubles with an imposing dad trying to get his daughter married to Nikitin Dheer, who has a very uncommon Tamil name.

Rahul faces immense amount of trouble which is showcased with a few stupid and lame jokes here and there. The movie arrived with a lot of expectations but I'd lost hope over it half way down the film itself.

Technical-aspect: The direction of Rohit Shetty is pretty good. Nothing new but he's done a fair bit of job behind the camera while the music is energetic, fun and simply crazy. The dialogues are very witty and go hand in hand with Shahrukh and Deepika's character. The script lacked a bit of strength when a 'realistic' view is concerned but anyway, this is Bollywood!

Performances: Shahrukh as always is very versatile and supreme. He can adapt to any role with ease and he pulled off a 28-29 year-old guy's character very convincingly. Deepika has done a fabulous job, though the accent is lame but she's really hilarious in some parts. Nikitin Dheer has nothing much to do but his tight physique kept him an instigating personality throughout.

The Last Word: Chennai Express is funny but lacks something which disrupts your interest. Expectations shattered.

Originally posted by: theprince

Movie Review; Chennai Express; Neither funny nor enthralling

Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Nikhtin Dheer

DIrector: Rohit Shetty

Producer: Gauri Khan, Ronnie Screwvala, Siddarth Roy Kapur

Music: Vishal-Shekhar

Rating: 2.5/5

So finally, the Chennai Express train has arrived and I was aboard watching the premiere show tonight. Heck lot of promotions and marketing was done for this film and Shahrukh, Rohit and Deepika were clearly very excited about its release.

Plot: The movie strolls around the life of Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) and how he 'accidentally' meets Meena (Deepika) and the biggest twist in his life (probably any 'common man's' life) comes his way. Rahul plans a trip to Goa with his friends while he granddad passes away. To fulfill his grandpa's last wish, he plans to do away the ashes in Rameshwaram. And in the train Chennai Express he meets Deepika and his four cousin brothers a.k.a thugs, and lands up in an unavoidable, unwanted and unprecedented journey. While Meena has her own troubles with an imposing dad trying to get his daughter married to Nikitin Dheer, who has a very uncommon Tamil name.

Rahul faces immense amount of trouble which is showcased with a few stupid and lame jokes here and there. The movie arrived with a lot of expectations but I'd lost hope over it half way down the film itself.

Technical-aspect: The direction of Rohit Shetty is pretty good. Nothing new but he's done a fair bit of job behind the camera while the music is energetic, fun and simply crazy. The dialogues are very witty and go hand in hand with Shahrukh and Deepika's character. The script lacked a bit of strength when a 'realistic' view is concerned but anyway, this is Bollywood!

Performances: Shahrukh as always is very versatile and supreme. He can adapt to any role with ease and he pulled off a 28-29 year-old guy's character very convincingly. Deepika has done a fabulous job, though the accent is lame but she's really hilarious in some parts. Nikitin Dheer has nothing much to do but his tight physique kept him an instigating personality throughout.

The Last Word: Chennai Express is funny but lacks something which disrupts your interest. Expectations shattered.

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Originally posted by: theprince

DB_reloaded so they will release it from tomoorow with holiday

Originally posted by: DB_reloaded

therez no holiday in usa uk eid is nt a national holiday!!! jus in the middle east and india!!! today was eid so they released it earlier!!!

Originally posted by: DAKDAK

Tell us dude

How was the movie, did you like the movie or Not?

T 1196 -Late ... yes ... but was showing Agastya 'Chennai Express' .. FUN !! Rename the film -'Chennai Mail' .. !!

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Review: Chennai Express

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Sathyaraj, Nikitin Dheer

Director: Rohit Shetty

The Indian Express rating: **1/2

Wannakum, wannago? I went into 'Chennai Express' dreading I would be doused, doused I tell you, with a staggering number of stereotypes, and I would spend the film flinching and grimacing and counting the minutes.

But as 'Chennai Express' began chugging along , I found myself laughing out loud in a place. Or two. The laughs came intermittently through the first half, and I was still sitting in my seat at the interval. And then it turned into the same old story : the plot, which was thinner than a self-respecting wafer to start with, just gives up and dies, and the lead pair, Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone stop talking to each other (even as Padukone's thickly-accented 'main aati, aur jaati' out-Mehmoods Mehmood at his most outre') and begin posturing. They have no competition from anything else : the trademark Shetty bang bang –car chases, jeeps blowing up, large groups of people charging at each other—is by now more eye glaze than ever.

This could have been a good caper, in which madcap characters race around the countryside with other madcap characters in hot pursuit. Especially when Shah Rukh Khan is so willingly sending himself up as only he can, with such a knowing nudge-and-wink that you smile despite yourself. 'Rahul', he introduces himself to Meenamaa (Padukone) : 'naam toh suna hoga'. You know you are being set up, and yet you can't help being amused. The amusement lasts only momentarily, though, and you are left feeling sorry at the waste.

Rahul wants to head to Goa to party with his pals, but he gets on to the Chennal Express instead, to fulfil his late dadaji's dying wish. On that train hops the beauteous Meenakshi aka Meenamma, on the run from her appa (Sathyaraj) who is some kind of a don in a Tamil Nadu village, and who wants to marry her off. One thing leads to another, and the two reach said village. Towering hulk who is also would-be-groom (Dheer) arrives to growl and snarl. A phalanx of dark-complexioned fierce fellows shake sickles at Rahul, who is left to face a barrage of rapid-fire Tamilian yakkity yak, and a Meenamma who dimples prettily whenever she is given a chance.

Mercifully, Shetty doesn't have his dark 'southy' fellows licking 'rasam' off their elbows. He also, surprise, has them speak long, complex sentences in Tamil without someone immediately translating them (a very Shetty, very tiresome thing). So much so that 'Chennai Express' can safely be called the first Tamil film in Hindi. Clearly, having Shah Rukh as co-producing hero stopped Shetty from ratcheting the blown-jeeps-meter : he suddenly finds he has to go all emo, and do a 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge'. And cobble bits and pieces from other hit SRK films. It's another matter that Shah Rukh is looking his age in certain angles : having the sprightly Padukone josh about him looking fifty cuts too close to the bone.

Still, this is a pair trying to have some fun, and coming up with some genuinely funny moments. Padukone looks lovely and sticks to a spunky over –the- topness, and doesn't waver, till she's made to go all emotional. That's when her graph dips. That's when Shah Rukh's raffish charm slips. And that is also when 'Chennai Express' derails. And wannakum becomes wannago.

http://m.indianexpress.com/news/review-chennai-express/1153040/

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