Just got back from Chennai Express (1st day Turkey)

I just got back from Chennai Express. The 6:45 show was about 70% full. There were some small kids (like age 5) with their moms, some middle schoolers, some couples and some guys who had just got out of work and still had their suits on. After the show, I kept taking pics of Chennai Express on the small electronic billboard. The guy working there watched me for a while and then told me that there was a large poster but they hid it because a kid had drawn a thin mustache on Shahrukh. We were like "bring it out please!" The girls who came for the 9:45 show arrived just in time for the big poster and started taking pics with it. Chennai Express was translated into Turkish as "Love Train" but they also had "Chennai Express" on the tickets.

Overall, good show. The audience did not understand some bits, like the bits about DDLJ, Deepika's Tamil accent and the North-South Indian issues. But lots of laughter (especially by my mom!) and the young girls danced a little and lip-synced to Lungi Dance at the end. Since it's Friday night, people were a bit tired and left quickly after the show. I wanted to do some tamasha myself but felt the other people were not in the mood for it. I expect the sessions on the weekend to be about 75% full. The rest of the week will probably be slow. Hopefully the distributors will earn enough money to invest in more films. Next up is Dhoom 3 scheduled for July. That should be even more fun since I have not seen it.

What I feel most happy about was that there were different age groups in attendance. I think it's going to be the young generation that's going make Bollywood a well known industry in Turkey.

Originally posted by: blue-ice

Were there only Indians or were there Turkish people also??

CE won't appeal to the people who don't know about DDLJ or how South India and North India are different in so many ways...This was the beauty of the movie...but hopefully people enjoyed it..

TFS...

@ChennaiExp2013 has been released in Turkey today!! @iamsrk @deepikapadukone

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Originally posted by: lentils

There were only Turks!

I am yet to meet an Indian in Turkey. I think the only Indians in Turkey are working for the Indian Embassy, or students or there might be some corporate executives in Istanbul. No Indians here otherwise! They say that where there are jobs, there are Indians. So I guess no jobs in Turkey :/

The people who came to watch the film the first day were obviously Bollywood lovers who came to know about it online like me. There might be a few people who have never seen Bollywood and who watch the film out of curiosity on the weekend though. I mean girls taking pics next to Shahrukh on the Chennai Express poster is sure to garner attention.