Monday 12 August 2013

Chennai Express



Krish 3 Theatrical was really awesome which came before the movie…

I don’t usually write the reviews of Tamil Movies, but I am making this exception only for Deepika Padukone here. She is fascinating in the movie, the perfect beauty for the movie, great poise and outstanding acting. Though it was a trial of Shahrukh to Comedy but she superseded him in Comedy and proved yet again that she can do any type of role. Long way to go gal….

Since Salman Khan has already started stealing the formula of south movies and making them a big hit with masses in Bollywood 3 years back, Shahrukh went one step ahead and stole their language also to increase the mass audience size and yes, he got the numbers right; He is going laughing to the Bank. 

A mithaiwala starts his journey for Goa but for no reason falls prey to the high tamil accent girl’s dusky beauty and reached one of the south Indian village. And a very old story of Girl lying to her father to avoid an arrange marriage and make the stranger act like her husband, starts. The plot is encrusted with all the sweetness of romance to suit Shahrukh’s image and not to broil his faithful audience. In the course of this fool -the -father game, the girl falls for the guy and eventually the guy falls for the girl and he fights with all the odds in the climax and comes out as a hero. Tried and tested formula with all the ingredients of typical masala movie. No surprise that it is making all the collections.

The movie is marketed as comic thriller, but I could not find comedy in the movie except for an awesome Deepika’s scene and on the name of action, it has below average “Matka tod” and roadside stall tussling fighting sequence shot at a small set of Ramoji, not even the trademark Car sequence of Rohit Shetty movie. Looks like, Rohit saved on the movie budget to allocate more money to marketing.

The direction is totally average and highly mechanical. Shahrukh’s trial on comedy was an absolute faliure. Music is totally average except for Titli Song. Only department with some good work is cinematography, capturing the beautiful landscapes of Munnar and other parts of Kerela. 

It’s the success of such movies which disheartens me and feels pity for that young lot of talented people who are working day in day out to make really good movies without much of a commercial success. Never mind!! these movies can be commercial success due to high budget of marketing but they succumb to a fast death and create way for new actually good movies which do wonders without much of Brand or marketing.

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