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Chennai Express '' Shah Rukh Khan & Deepika Padukone ''
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To get a sense of Rohit Shetty’s “Chennai Express,” wait for the closing credits to roll.
The film contains all the stereotypes that exist about those who live south of the Vindhyas, but narrated by someone who doesn’t live there. A South Indian film for those not living in the South, so to speak.
There are Kathakali dancers (from Kerala) in a song sequence, characters calling each other “Garu” (a Telugu term) in a movie that is supposed to be set in Tamil Nadu village, and references to eating idlis, vadas and dosas.
You even have a song called “Lungi Dance” which is supposed to be a tribute to Rajnikanth, sung by Punjabi rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh.
But the stereotyping and lack of authenticity are the least of the film’s problems.
Shetty’s flimsy story centres around a 40-year-old man who lives in a Mumbai mansion and runs a successful business, but has apparently not been on enough trips to Goa that he wants to run off to its sandy beaches the day his grandfather dies.
Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan) promises his grandmother that he will go to Rameshwaram to scatter his grandfather’s ashes in the sea, but instead makes plans for a trip to Goa with his friends.
He gets on the “Chennai Express” with the intention of getting down at the next station and proceed towards Goa, but the arrival of Meenamma (Deepika Padukone) throws his plans haywire.
Meenamma tells him she is running away from her father (but still gets on a train that takes her straight to her father’s village) because he wants to marry her off. Through a series of mishaps, Rahul ends up accompanying her to the village and immediately finds himself in trouble.
He has to face Tangaballi (Nikitin Dheer), a towering giant of a man who wants to marry Meenamma. Of course, the inevitable happens – Rahul and Meenamma fall in love and he has to fight the world to claim her. In between, there are songs with inane lyrics and dialogue that could have been be written by a five-year-old.
One of the crucial ingredients missing is pace, which is essential for a “masala” film like this one. Shetty doesn’t even manage to keep the laughs coming at regular intervals. He uses self-deprecating humour and doffs his hat to the southern style of filmmaking. But he doesn’t achieve the desired result in both.
Shetty also uses a lot of Tamil dialogue in the film – which is great for the tone of the film but leaves the audience clueless many times.
If Shetty’s work in the past is anything to go by, “Chennai Express” wasn’t going to be an authentic film, but the least he could have done was provide a steady flow of laughs so that viewers forget the flaws.
But from mentioning the price of an expensive phone that a character is carrying, to Deepika’s pronounced South Indian accent, even the humour in the film jars.
Of the cast, both Padukone and Khan throw themselves into the part, fake accents and all. If the film does work, it is mainly because of Khan’s inherent charm, but otherwise there is nothing to write home about.
Towards the second half of the film, as proceedings were trudging along, a frustrated audience member asked audibly: “Hasn’t Rameswaram come yet?” That sums up “Chennai Express” perfectly – a film that doesn’t reach its destination.
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters)
sos masala :Chennai Express – Doesn’t reach its destination
tidak tahu apakah kekurangan-kekurangan yang terdapat di dlmcerita atas,
memang merupakan ciri khas pelem India atau tidak, dan terserah apakah anda mau membela bahwa pelem ini adalah tribute untuk layar perak India klasik or whatever, tetapi Chennai Express memang memiliki permasalahan yang sangat serius di bagian naration, gaya rentak humor dan eksekusinya untuk standard pelem berkualiti masa kini dan kebijaksanaan para penontonnya. What a beautiful mess.
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scene kereta terbalik tu mmg legend laaa...gila tahan dgn sabit guna tangan je boleh melompat kereta tu |
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cmf_GAIA posted on 16-8-2013 02:49 AM 
Tidak dilupa juga pada Hey Ram yg ada gabungan Kamal Hassan dan Shah Rukh Khan
Sebenarnya Shah Rukh Khan boleh cakap sikit-sikit Bahasa Tamil...
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HangPC2 posted on 17-8-2013 11:35 AM
Sebenarnya Shah Rukh Khan boleh cakap sikit-sikit Bahasa Tamil...
Dan Mumbai Express....Kamal Hassan n Manisha Koirala....ke manisha koirala tu tamil? Boleh cakap tamil dgn banyak or sikit2 ? |
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bluezink posted on 16-8-2013 10:54 PM
To get a sense of Rohit Shetty’s “Chennai Express,” wait for the closing credits to roll.
Th ...
ada ternampak Kathakali Dancers tu dlm promo n aku pun rasa jangal juga sbb mmg Kathakali tu icon budaya Kerala, takde kena mengena dgn Tamil Nadu. |
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cmf_GAIA posted on 17-8-2013 04:54 PM
Dan Mumbai Express....Kamal Hassan n Manisha Koirala....ke manisha koirala tu tamil? Boleh cakap t ...
manisha koirala tak silap orang nepal....
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HangPC2 posted on 18-8-2013 05:52 PM
manisha koirala tak silap orang nepal....
whoa...lagi utara tu.....boleh cakap Nepali, Hindi, Tamili |
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cmf_GAIA posted on 17-8-2013 04:54 PM
Dan Mumbai Express....Kamal Hassan n Manisha Koirala....ke manisha koirala tu tamil? Boleh cakap t ...
manisha koirala tu nepal..
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cmf_GAIA posted on 18-8-2013 08:02 PM
whoa...lagi utara tu.....boleh cakap Nepali, Hindi, Tamili
Sekarang ini Banyak Pelakon Lollywood (Lahore) Pakistan berhijrah ke Bollywood....
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HangPC2 posted on 19-8-2013 10:33 AM
Sekarang ini Banyak Pelakon Lollywood (Lahore) Pakistan berhijrah ke Bollywood....
macam Ali Zafar? |
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cmf_GAIA posted on 19-8-2013 10:36 AM
macam Ali Zafar?
Katrina Kaif khabarnya Orang Pakistan kan ?
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HangPC2 posted on 19-8-2013 02:54 PM
Katrina Kaif khabarnya Orang Pakistan kan ?
nope..her father is Kashmiri, mak die English (British citizen)..tp parents die divorce since die kcik lg..
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HangPC2 posted on 19-8-2013 02:54 PM
Katrina Kaif khabarnya Orang Pakistan kan ?
memula ingat org India tapi then tau dia org puteh...baca wiki rupanya bapak dia Kashmiri....kira mix india-english la....mungkin aku salah paham tang org puteh tu...sbb org Delhi yg bagitau aku dia bukan Indian...dari perspective org2 sana Indian maksudnya warganegara India, bukannya keturunan....Katrina ni takde IC India la kot, tu maksudnya bukan Indian, tapi aku salah paham as org puteh..... Last edited by cmf_GAIA on 20-8-2013 10:20 AM
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aishwarya rai pun bnyk berlakon tamil what?
jeans, kandukondain2 (dgn tabu lgk) & beberapa lg
in fact aku lbh suka tgk aishu dlm filem tamil sbb jln cerita & watak lbh mencbr (jeans mencabar? ) |
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adehh...salah benang... Last edited by hafieza on 20-8-2013 12:14 PM
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hafieza posted on 20-8-2013 12:11 PM
jeans mencabar ke?
tp aku rase die kt situ ala2 comey2 kne bawk watak kunun2 kembo gak..
s ...
psl tu aku gelak sendiri
tp seronok tgk jeans, lawak
antara lakonan terawl aishu
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supernaturalee posted on 20-8-2013 11:58 AM
aishwarya rai pun bnyk berlakon tamil what?
jeans, kandukondain2 (dgn tabu lgk) & beberapa lg
Kondukonddain tu based on Jane Austen novel yg mana dah? Sense and Sensibility kot? |
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cmf_GAIA posted on 21-8-2013 04:48 PM
Kondukonddain tu based on Jane Austen novel yg mana dah? Sense and Sensibility kot?
betul2, sense and sensibility....versi barat lakonan kate winslet & emma thompson (die jgk buat screenplay utk filem ni)
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supernaturalee posted on 21-8-2013 05:04 PM
betul2, sense and sensibility....versi barat lakonan kate winslet & emma thompson (die jgk buat sc ...
ha'ah...cuma sense n sensibility versi Ang Lee tu stay true pada zaman n suasana Inggeris dulu2....yg Kondukondain ni diadaptasi ke persekitaran Tamil moden, cuma temanya masih sama....Kiranya Aishu ni dah dua kali la berlakon filem yg adapted dari novel Jane Austen, yg satu lagi filem Bride and Prejudice (adapted dari novel Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen)...Keluarga English dalm P&P jadi keluarga Punjabi dalam B&P, Mr Darcy pulak dari English gentleman jadi American dlm B&P Last edited by cmf_GAIA on 21-8-2013 10:09 PM
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