He also employs the crowd-pleasing tactic of referencing and lampooning key scenes from past Bollywood hits, notably My Name is Khan (2010), Main Hoon Na (2004), 3 Idiots (2009) and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995). Shetty, ever the shameless showman (Khan’s career is to Cruise’s like Shetty’s is to Brett Ratner’s), bolsters the mood with flourishes of garish colour and an over-saturated palette, as well as every visual tic in the directorial book, including shutter-cam, slow- and fast-motion and physics-defying stuntwork. Rahul and Meena flee and steadily become attracted to each other (naturally) their actions lead to an over-staged, surprisingly bloody showdown with Thambabali and a final reel confrontation with Meena’s father. Most threatening is the towering mountain of Tamil muscle, Thambabali (the imposing Niketan Dheer), a brutish thug to whom Meena is unwittingly promised. His act of goodwill backfires when it is revealed she is the daughter of the local Don (Sathyaraj), whose ruthless parenting and hordes of henchmen make Rahul’s life difficult at every turn. His devious plan is waylaid by the beautiful Meena (Padukone, who gets top-billing) whom he helps to board a train that’s headed for her hometown in the deep-south Tamil Nadu countryside. Upon the old man’s passing, Rahul books a trip to Goa to finally enjoy the party lifestyle, lying to his grandmother that he will distribute the old man’s ashes at Rameswaram, located at the opposite end of the country.
Khan plays Rahul (a familiar moniker, for his legion of fans), a 40-ish bachelor who has dedicated his life to working in his grandfather’s sweet shop. A loud, lame-brained romantic comedy from the (very) broad directorial brush of Rohit Shetty, SRK’s over-hyped vehicle sees the charismatic but ageing actor badly miscast and easily overshadowed by his leading lady, Deepika Padukone.
Shah Rukh Khan, the Bollywood superstar often referred to as India’s answer to Tom Cruise, is more Jerry Lewis than Jerry Maguire in his Eid holiday blockbuster, Chennai Express.
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