In Chennai Express Padukone is a serial runaway bride who gets caught by her large-sized cousins and brought back to her father who is a local don. Padukone is delightful in the film - beautiful, smiling, and often a lot more playful and funny than Khan. Khan is well supported by a woman, half his age, but a star on her own. And that is what makes Chennai Express work. That is what makes him a star and so appealing to the audience I watched the film with in New York. Khan knows he is there to entertain the masses - not much different than Rajnikanth, and he works at it with gusto and the madness of his energy. He works so hard in film - in playing a comic character, in breaking out into dances, being the romantic Khan that Yash Chopra, Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar have defined in their films, and ultimately the violent, action hero.
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And there is some truth in it.Ĭhennai Express is a full throttle masala entertainment ruled by 47-year-old Khan’s star power. As Khan says way too many times in the film - one shouldn’t underestimate the power of the common man. And even critics rarely trash Rajnikanth’s films. Hey, the film is an homage to Ranjnikanth, hence the Lungi Dance song. And that is where Chennai Express delivers. Its purpose is to entertain the audience. I realize there is value to this brand of Bollywood and it is not going to go away. As a critic I can advice the audience that most of Chennai Express is loud, very mindless. In fact, I think critics should sometimes watch films with the audience and they might see a whole lot different film. Sometimes critics should not be separate from the audience. I was amused at times as well, although certainly not at much as the audience.Īs the film progressed I realized a few things. I watched Chennai Express in a nearly packed theater in New York City with the audience laughing-out-loud at practically every dialogue of Khan, clapping and whistling. And there are many more references to Khan’s other films.
(yes, Khan is once again Rahul in this film). There is still enough loud noise in Chennai Express, some over-the-top background score, exploding cars and stereotyping that would drive the politically correct critics to take a plunge into the ocean in Ramashwaran.īut Chennai Express is also a journey into Shah Rukh Khan nostalgia, many times following the pattern of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaynege - the plot, the songs, dialogues, Rahul’s earnest position that he will not elope with the girl he loves, until her father approves of their relationship. Which is fine, but to be honest I have had problems with Shetty’s previous films - always loud, ultra violent, often crass and packed with crude humor.īut in Chennai Express Shetty does something smart - he ropes in the star talents of Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone and in the process he smoothens some of the rough edges that were evident in his previous works. Rohit Shetty has said he does not make films for intellectuals.
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