A film like Chennai Express heavily thrives on SRK's hysteria and the affection that the audience has bestowed on Rohit Shetty's no-brainer comedy flicks(read : the 100 Crore club)over the years.The epitome of NRI romance, Shah Rukh Khan returns to hinterland with Shetty juxtaposing his love story against the barrier of culture and ethnicity.
Shetty puts SRK in the same trajectory that he carved out in his Golmaal series without any novelty factor and the same tongue-in-cheek humor.SRK reprises his good old screen persona 'Rahul' that had catapulted him to an iconic status and connected instantly to the youth brigade. This time around , he is 40 but flirts and flies with the same intensity and is all set to party with his friends at Goa(burying aside his family responsibility, hoodwinking his granny )and as destiny would have it, he comes across a Tamil runaway-bride Meena(Deepika) and heads to Rameswaram.So one wrong train and he gets the right track in his life – that's the crux of the story that Rohit tries to bring in, with his usual elements of masala and generous doses of entertainment. Conscience hits the protagonist and he chooses parent's blessings over elopement , quite DDLJish! Isn't it ? even though he has to fight the don's(Deepika's father ) goons and the muscular hulk Hogan , Thangavvalli (Nikitin Dheer).
You would like to forgive all the clichéd melodrama if you are a die- hard SRK fan , love his buffoonery even when he tries hard to make you laugh with those silly Tamil dialogues. SRK's energy is unflinching and infectious, but I felt that Deepika stole the show with her endearing Meena and her accent. It's a thorough testament of her blazing talent, and let me tell you that it's not easy to inhabit that character.My only bone of contention was the superficial treatment towards the ending portions which made the journey look haggard.Some of Vishal Dadlani's chart-busters served hot from the pantry,of course skewed towards the second half, were indeed a pleasant respite in the narrative which seemed to propel without any creative fuel.
Shetty puts SRK in the same trajectory that he carved out in his Golmaal series without any novelty factor and the same tongue-in-cheek humor.SRK reprises his good old screen persona 'Rahul' that had catapulted him to an iconic status and connected instantly to the youth brigade. This time around , he is 40 but flirts and flies with the same intensity and is all set to party with his friends at Goa(burying aside his family responsibility, hoodwinking his granny )and as destiny would have it, he comes across a Tamil runaway-bride Meena(Deepika) and heads to Rameswaram.So one wrong train and he gets the right track in his life – that's the crux of the story that Rohit tries to bring in, with his usual elements of masala and generous doses of entertainment. Conscience hits the protagonist and he chooses parent's blessings over elopement , quite DDLJish! Isn't it ? even though he has to fight the don's(Deepika's father ) goons and the muscular hulk Hogan , Thangavvalli (Nikitin Dheer).
You would like to forgive all the clichéd melodrama if you are a die- hard SRK fan , love his buffoonery even when he tries hard to make you laugh with those silly Tamil dialogues. SRK's energy is unflinching and infectious, but I felt that Deepika stole the show with her endearing Meena and her accent. It's a thorough testament of her blazing talent, and let me tell you that it's not easy to inhabit that character.My only bone of contention was the superficial treatment towards the ending portions which made the journey look haggard.Some of Vishal Dadlani's chart-busters served hot from the pantry,of course skewed towards the second half, were indeed a pleasant respite in the narrative which seemed to propel without any creative fuel.