Chennai Express
- Shahrukh Khan: Rahul
- Deepika Padukone: Meena
- Satyaraj: Durgeshwara Azhagusundaram
- Nikitin Dheer: Tanga Balli
- Kamini Kaushal: Rahul's grandmother
- Lekh Tandon: Rahul's grandfather
- Manorama: aunt
Was Chennai Express is a romantic action comedy from India with Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles, the second with the actor after Om Shanti Om from the year 2007. Directed by the Indian star director Rohit Shetty, produced the film for Red Chillies Entertainment and UTV Motion Pictures. With a worldwide box office earnings of 4.2 billion rupees ( 67.5 million USD) he broke 3 Idiots from the most successful Bollywood production.
The film premiere was held on August 9, 2013 on the occasion of the Islamic Eid- ul- Fitr. A week later, more than 80 copies of the film were shown as individual performances from August 15 to August 28, 2013 as OV - version also in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Action
The forty- year-old Rahul is since he was 8 years old orphan, but still lives with his grandparents and helps in the candy store from. Only when his grandfather dies and he shall bring his ashes as the fulfillment of his will according Rameshwaram, he has to leave Mumbai for the first time. To audition his grandmother the beginning of this journey, he takes the express train to Chennai, but he really wants to get off at the next stop again to then accompany his friends on the pleasure trip to Goa.
As the train departs the station, still rushes a beautiful girl whom he can assist in the timely boarding. The four men running after it reaches even the hand. It turns out that Meena wants to run away from a forced marriage, her father is a mob boss from the village Komban and the four giants to bring home his behalf Meena so that she can marry the neighboring drug lord Tanga Balli.
The thugs take Rahul and Meena and bring them in the Tamil village of her father called Durgeshwara Azhagusundaram. Since Rahul does not understand a word, it is dependent on the translation of Meena, but does not tell him that she introduced him as her fiance. Unwittingly, he became involved in a duel with thong Balli, Meena promised husband, a. When he is finally aware of what he has let himself in, he tried to escape by any means the fight, so that a tumultuous chase. Eventually he manages to escape by taking Meena hostage. Along the way the different characters to get to know better and fall in love.
Music
The soundtrack was composed by the duo Vishal - Shekhar, the lyrics wrote Amitabh Bhattacharya, the release of the album took place on 1 July 2013. In the Item song 1 2 3 4 Get on the Dance Floor, the Indian actress Priyamani has a cameo.
The two main characters use a conventional Hindi songs in order to disguise their conversation as trivial warble in front of their Tamil companions. The vocal melodies deposits of the main characters are played changed the lyrics from popular Bollywood films, preferably from those where Shah Rukh Khan has starred.
In the first sung conversation one hears " Tujhe Dekha To" from Who Will Take the Bride, " Kajra Re" from Bunty Aur Babli, " Chinta Ta Ta Chita Chita " from Rowdy Rathore and the theme song of the Golmaal film series, which Rohit Shetty, the director was known. In the later conversation with the train conductor, the melody of the song " Haule Haule " from A divine pair was used.
Another " Song Versation " takes place in the scene, as Tanga Balli track the pair fled in the neighboring village. This will include the songs " Jiya Jale " from Dil Se, " Ooh La La " from The Dirty Picture " Chammak Challo " from RA.One - Super Hero with Heart and " Dard -e- Disco" from Om Shanti Om played. Moreover Rahul alludes to an old Indian advertising jingle of the detergent brand Nirma.
Synchronization
The German dubbed version was produced on the occasion of the DVD release on 13 December 2013 by order of the German film labels Rapid Eye Movies, for the dialog Book Nadine was commissioned spirit, which also led dialogue directed the voice recordings.
In the German dubbed version of the competent dialogue author Nadine spirit developed a fantasy dialect called Kaffspraak instead of keeping the Tamil dialogues with subtitles. As in the French comedy Welcome to the Sticks had the country meaningful variable cultural differences, which are reflected in the language, not with those of the Germans equated, but an artificial language created which may sound strange, but some easily recognizable words includes, for example, " Birnje " for head or " Sprecki " for command.
Box office and business
In India, the domestic box office earnings of Chennai Express, the so-called 100 - crore mark ( = 1 billion rupees ) exceeded in only 4 days, so that the film had the record of Mission Love ( Ek Tha Tiger) from 2012 broke. After only two weeks running, the film reached a grossing over 200 crores, and at the beginning of the third week of the blockbuster game could replace the 3 Idiots to date the most successful Hindi film.
The business for the first weekend in the U.S. amounted to $ 2.2 million in the United Arab Emirates $ 2.1 million and $ 1.5 million in the UK. Overall Chennai Express generated abroad in just five days total revenues of $ 7.1 million. In Germany, the Bollywood film landed after the weekend on the grid to 16 of the German cinema charts. A total of nearly 11,000 spectators saw the film in German cinemas.
Reviews
" Parody, exalted Bollywood comedy, the various Indian success romances summoned and plays with intra- Indian language barriers. "
" Rohit Shetty directed Chennai Express does not last as lovingly parodic homage to the filmography of his protagonist, which runs here enjoyable even through the mud. [ ... ] The exalted - comedic tone, regularly punctuated by action sequences that result from the pursuit of the young couple by the mafia, the film holds up through the end. Only then will the government again seeks refuge with the melodrama. And tangled up scenically how narrative when attempting the hero to treat yourself to a classic macho showdown, this figure recorded but just by the fact of being sympathetic " unmanly " and to counter the macho poses of the other. "