When I first started this movie, I was worried, because Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) was such a stupid boy who couldn't even be bothered to fulfill his grandfather's last wish to have his ashes submerged in Rameswaram. Instead he decides to go to Goa with his friends and dump his grandfather there. So he hops on the Chennai Express, which doesn't go to Rameswaram.
I was rolling my eyes and feeling bad about watching this one with first timers (some family members who hadn't watched any or many Bollywoods yet) when he meets Meena (Deepika Padukone). From the moment he saw her running for the train, as he was about to hop off, and the DDLJ theme started playing, I was laughing. Then when it played again when he helps this fat dude on (in a lower key) I lost it. This whole movie was full of Shahrukh film references, and they were hilarious.
Meena and her kidnappers (the four men Rahul helped onto the train after her) are from the south and only speak Tamil, or so he thinks until he uses a DDLJ pick up line and she understands it. They use singing in Hindi to communicate so that the four dudes don't understand, which is hilarious. So is the rest of the movie, even though it is way over-the-top. This is a comedy. I love their use of language humor, with all the translation problems that happen because of all the different dialects and languages, etc.
There is also plenty of action, although it's the super stagy kind that reminds me of the fight scene at the end of DDLJ, but not quite as bad. He does do a couple of flips though, after being punched that made me laugh. It also has the whole respect women/women's rights theme, with letting the daughters have a say in marriage, etc. so that's cool. But because it is full of in jokes, the more Shahrukh movies you watch before this one, the better. Especially the famous ones, because then this show will be all the funnier.
Favorite Song:
Titli
Favorite Dance:
Kashmir Main Tu Kanyakumari
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