Chennai Express Reviews

But as `Chennai Express’ began chugging along , I found myself laughing out loud in a place. Or two. The laughs came intermittently through the first half, and I was still sitting in my seat at the interval.

Shah Rukh Khan yelps and squeaks and shrieks and bares fangs and pouts and, well, exhausts himself overcompensating at every step, despite nobody else in the film following this template.

But Chennai Express plays neither to Rohits strengths nor to Shah Rukhs. Its a strangely sloppy mishmash of cheesy humor, half-hearted romance, half-baked emotion and head-banging action. But mostly the film is a slog.

Some films are hard to make sense of. Others are just nonsense. Chennai Express, directed by Rohit Shetty, ticks both boxes.

How to put this politely? It's a big, fat bore. A bloated vanity project for an actor capable of so much more.

He's on a high, jumping-jackflashin', jibing and jousting, picking up a sickle as if it was bottled pickle, all in a desperate bid to tickle your funny bone.

Its a somewhat long ride that occasionally teeters on the edge of tedium, but it certainly isnt all wrong.

He always had the lung power. This time Shah Rukh Khan, in a bid to prove he still remains at the top of his game, is out gunning to score with lungi power.

Given the trailer, viewers in the theatre will probably look out for two things: lots of crackerjack humour, equal amounts of earth-shaking, gravity-defying assault on human bodies, cars, jeeps, and even the train.

If watching vehicle chase sequences, cars being blown up in the air and muscled goons is your film genre of choice, then you would know that we could be talking about Rohit Shetty of the ‘Golmaal’ series fame.

If you are a die-hard Shah Rukh fan and if you can overlook the many indulgences of the Rohit Shetty-style of filmmaking there is no reason for you not to love this movie.

On the whole, Chennai Express has a masala of comedy, action, romance and drama which will keep you entertained from beginning to end.

Well, if you leave logic and some of your education behind, Chennai Express manages to get some chuckles out of you, keeps you entertained for part of it and also makes you sheepishly want to be silly and dance to the Lungi song.

But, logic isnt something that wed associate with this breed of comedies, but, despite these obvious slip-ups, Rohit Shettys Chennai Express manages to chug along.

Chennai Express Review : is regurgitation of his trademark style that comprises his repertoire of work.

This is a treat for all Hindi film lovers. It has it all you’d expect from a big commercial masala film.

Chennai Express Movie Review: Critics Rating: 3.5 stars, click to give your Rating/Review, Shah Rukh’s attempts at comedy go from convincing to convoluted. But, for the most part, he lights u

there is just too much use of the Tamil language in the dialogues, making it irritating and boring for non-Tamil-speaking people.

An individual opinion in such critic-proof films is like a smashed up secondary car in a Rohit Shetty convoy: it amuses momentarily.