I only decided to watch this one based on the premise. I love Kung Fu movies, even really bad ones, so I was curious to see what the Bollywood take on a Kung Fu movie would be like off. I mean this is essentially a Kung Fu spoof movie. It's got Akshay Kumar, who I've only seen in that Yeh Dillagi film that was so bad, and Deepika Padukone.
Basically it's about this dude who lives in Chandni Chowk, which is one of the market districts in Delhi with old style market, who works at a food vendor's stall and is very superstitious. He keeps going to fortune tellers and mystics and stuffs, and freaks out when his potato looks like Ganesh. He goes to this one fortuneteller conman named Chopstick who is supposed to be Chinese or something and it's a very very bad stereotype. He gets mistaken by these two Chinese dudes as a reincarnation of Liu Sheng and gets swept away to China to stop this bad gangster dude. On the way he meets this model named Sakhi, better known as Ms. TMS because of the ads she does. She happens to have a twin sister named Suzy who was kidnapped and raised by the bad gangster dude and is now a evil spy hit man named Meow Meow.
Naturally there is a Kung Fu style training sequence where he has to suddenly pick up Kung Fu through the help of a master who had lost his memory and was going around as a beggar bum. Then there is the inner struggle as he has to beat the bad dude with the power within. Yep. That happened.
So yeah, super formulaic, stereotypical, and very racist. Oh well. What did you expect. I expected to laugh, and I did. It was so bad, but not horrible. I don't regret watching it, but then I had no expectations going into it. Do that, and you'll be fine.
Song:
Chak Lein De
Dance:
Chandni Chowk To China
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