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Chennai Express Has Huge Start In Overseas Friday 9th August 2013 12.00 IST
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Chennai Express has started strong in Overseas. The film had a full day in the Gulf and will smashed all records there by collecting around $550,000.
The paid preview collections in UK were 143,000 which is more than what most films collect on the first day in UK.
The Australia paid previews were $35,000 while Singapore collected $110,000.
The presence of Shahrukh Khan has meant the film has managed to release in more countries than the usual Hindi film despite it being a masala film set in rural India.
Deepika is super as the spicy South Indian chick in Chennai Express, but King Khan goes overboard with his hamming.
Rohit Shetty's Chennai Express starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone looks like a film that was executed while the makers were in a goofy mood. The result, we must confess, has turned out to be nothing less than abysmal.
While Shah Rukh's hamming like no one's watching, the story flows through the lanes of shoddy dialogues and unnecessary action scenes. The slapstick, mind-numbing comedy makes you stare at the screen with utter astonishment – the shock of enduring one bad joke after the other is worse than consuming a bitter, terrible tasting tonic.
So this is how the torture-inflicting process begins – Shah Rukh (Rahul) is a 40-year-old guy who runs a sweet shop. But life isn't too sweet for this lad until of course his grandfather passes away and Khan can finally live life on his own terms and give wings to his dreams. And he plans to start his freedom fiesta in Goa – but freaking fate has some other plans. He bumps into this gorgeous Tamilian girl (Deepika as Meena) who has been running away from a posse of fat sickle wielding gundas. Meenama's dad wants her to marry Tangaballi played by the enormous Nikitin Dheer. But the chick would rather stay single than tie the knot with someone who hasn't managed to touch the cockles of her heart. And there the hero's Goa plan takes a U-turn and heads to the beautiful locales of South India.
Instead of chilling on the idyllic beaches of Goa, SRK is now entangled in a murky situation – he wonders why he showed any interest in Meenama at all. Why did he give her a helping hand while boarding the train – typical Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) style? He just needed a plain vacation and what he got instead is a dangerous ride on the Chennai Express. The goons catch hold of him and Deepika and take them to their village where the heroine's dad – the deadly don is waiting for his daughter only so that he can hitch her up with the hulky Tangaballi. And that gives rise to a series of chaotic hide-and-seek games. And in the process Deepika and SRK fall in love. What does that sound like – clichd or boring?
There are a few scenes that give us the uncontrollable giggles but that wasn't enough to hold our interest in the film for too long. Deepika looked lovely and did great justice to her South Indian twang but SRK disappointed with his over-the-top performance. Without a shadow of doubt, DP takes the cake in this one. The film has this disorganised and incoherent quality about it, and trust us you don't want to be a part of this mess. As the film ends with the super entertaining, feet thumping Lungi dance song, we wonder which was King Khan's last film, his last performance that totally mesmerised us. Chak De! India (2007)…but that was ages ago, no..?
The first day first show collections of Chennai Express in JodhpuR are as follows:
The first day first show collections of Chennai Express in Kanpur are as follows:
Heer – 44,160 (Housefull)
Manjushree – 30,865 out of 35,000
Gurdev – 20,112 (Housefull)
Shyam – 21,486 (Housefull)
Lal – 20,020 out of 22,000
Gunjan – 9,987 out of 27,199
Vivek – 13,253 out of 18,686
Sachin ne ek buddhe ki jaan le li; woh kya hai na, 99 pe out hua. Rahul's Dadaji is also on 99 (age wise). Wicket-keeper ne catch liya, Dadaji ka old heart fisal gaya! Clean bowled. Party ka atmosphere sad ho gaya. Now comes the question of immersing the ashes. Dadaji wanted one part to be immersed in the Ganga and the other in Rameshwaram in the South. Dadi takes the urn towards Ganga, but the one meant for Rameshwaran, she entrusts in the care of Rahul, who has plans of going to Goa for some fun, we are told, with his buddies who behave like teenagers.
So to lie to dadi, Rahul boards the Chennai Express and asks his friends to wait for him outside Kalyan Station. Wahe pe, he forgets the urn. He tells his friends he will be back. But when he is about to alight Rohit Shetty decides to take stock images of DDLJ. First Rahul gives his hand to Meena in a saree. Then, to a burly man who also wants to board the running train. By the time he wants to alight, the platform has run out from under his feet. What happened is this. One by one, he helped four huge men board the running train along with Meena. He tells his friends that he will now meet them at Karjat Station. Meanwhile, he plays antakshari with Meena to find out what the problem is. He learns through various songs that they are her father's goons and are taking her back to Chennai from where she had run away. As he tries to help her, he is subdued by the hulks; first by throwing out his mobile phone which he so passionately advertises for, then by sitting on him, literally. CHECK OUT: Would Shahrukh Khan be a worthy successor of Salman Khan? Rahul is now taken to Meena's village where she lies to her father that Rahul is in love with her. All this while, all Rahul has to do is shake his head when Meena looks at him. This is the understanding between him and her since he does not understand the language. We do not too, since there are no sub-titles. Meena has another suitor who her father has given his word to and there is pandemonium. Rahul has to fight the suitor, a huge hulk of a man. Rahul runs, because he cannot fight. Strangely, he finds himself in Sri Lankan waters and is brought back to Meena's village. Again he runs away, this time with Meena. In the village they stay, Meena tells them (the villagers) that they are married. To complete the rasam, he has to carry his 'wife' to a temple which is high up. Now, Rahul has also put sindoor in her maang. Meena is now behaving like his wife. They have a chance to escape, Rahul to Mumbai and Meena to Pune. But suddenly Rahul grows up to be a man. He goes back to her father, tries to convince him in his Hindi-Tamil-English; gets beaten black and blue. Father watches the fun, but when Rahul gets up and beats the shit out of everyone, including the hulk of her suitor, father relents. Meeena cries buckets of tears; Rahul is happy the language of love has triumphed. We are happy the movie has ended. We are told it is the power of the common man.
Thanks to Deepika's translation, we understand much of the movie. Thanks also to her charmed acting we are saved the ignominy of a disaster. She does well with her Tamil accent and body language. Different from what we have seen of her so far. Take a bow Ma'm; you shine throughout. In fact, you are the hero of the film! I don't think SRK will mind this because he has put your name before his in the credits, as he had promised. |
Let me say upfront, this may be promoted as a Shah Rukh Khan-Rohit Shetty film but it is, in fact, leading lady Deepika Padukone who steals the show.
As much as her mock Tamilian accent jarred in the trailer of Chennai Express, it is endearing and works within the film as a whole. Padukone makes the most of the material in spite of the stereotyping of her character Meena and the way she speaks Hindi (train jaati hai, tum khaati hai etc). One grouse is that the accent is inconsistent – pronounced at first, and disappearing towards in the emotional scenes. Fortunately the supporting actors are not caricatures and they speak Tamil as it is spoken. In fact, this not a Hindi but a 'Tamlish' film!
Rohit Shetty's attempt at making a relationship comedy, rather than his usual massive action set pieces interspersed with pedestrian humour, gets derailed by half time. I must add, that this film is far less lowbrow and far less offensive than some of Shetty's earlier films. Chennai Express has some truly funny moments (I particularly enjoyed the DDLJ spoof and Meena's nightmare scene). But the overt product placements (we are told the price of his expensive cell phone three times) and reference to all SRK's past movies suggest a creative bankruptcy.
Rahul's plans of not taking his grandfather's ashes to Rameshwaram, but diverting on a holiday to Goa with his friends are sabotaged when he lends a hand to Meena onto the Chennai Express. He's on the Chennai Express to scam his grandma that he is doing the dutiful thing.
Meena is the daughter of a feared and powerful Tamilian don (Sathyaraj) being escorted back to her village where she must marry the giant thug (Niketan Dheer) of her father's choice. Rahul is a man-boy who refuses to grow up. But he also never runs away from Meena, which is another inexplicable point in the script. Instead he gets more and more entangled in her lies, the biggest one being that they are a married. They fulfill all kinds of post-wedding rituals as suggested by strangers in a village where they are taking refuge. This is when love begins to blossom, a love that – as Rahul says in the climax – has a universal language. And then he begins to beat up all the bad guys. Where did this sudden personality change come from? How did he go from the cowardly, immature Rahul who hops around a lot, to the angry, brave Rahul who can face a punch and deliver one too, sometimes in Tamil? Ask Rohit Shetty and his writers.
By now you are numb, even to Rahul's preachy speech about women being allowed to make their own choices. It's reminiscent of the regressive mainstream South Indian films we have long derided. If Chennai Express is meant to be a spoof, it is not. If it's meant to be a tribute, it's not that either. It is a project: hit director, superstar, big budget holiday release. Never mind the poor computer graphics, the variable lighting, inconsistent camerawork, gaudy colours, the dropped accent and various script liberties.
Shah Rukh is pulling out the same tricks from his bag, but he takes Meena's jibe about him being close to 50 on the chin. Padukone, on the other hand, appears to be relishing the comedy and the saris and she makes 'bakwas' her own!
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The music of the film by composer duo Vishal-Shekhar boasts of a couple of good tracks like 'Titli' and '1 2 3 4 Get On The Dance Floor'. When played on the 70mm, the background number 'Chennai Express' ups the excitement level. But songs like 'Kashmir Main Tu Kanyakumari' could have been skipped. If we think from the film maker's perspective, the so-called unwanted songs we are talking about would have been added with the idea of putting more depth to the romance angle of the film. 
One of the downsides of 'Chennai Express' is its predictability. As the story moves forward, the guessing game becomes easier, thereby revealing the climax of the movie. Second, like any of the previous Rohit Shetty's films, this one too is nothing really out-of-the box or one that can qualify for awards. It is Shah Rukh Khan's act that makes the film substantial and keeps one hooked.
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