Shah Rukh Khan Deepika Starrer "Chennai Express" surpassed all previous box office records in Indian film Industry as it crossed 300 crore(About 48 Million US$) business at this time.
Rohit Shetty the Director of the film has proven himself again. His earlier films Singham, Bol Bachchan, Golmaal 3 have already been very successful in box office.
Deepika Padukone is lucky again after her last very popular film "Yeh Jawanee hai Diwanee" with Ranbeer Kapoor.
She is in a phase where every hit film will consolidate her position as an actress in bollywood where as of now not many young female artistes are vying for top position after Kareena's little slow post marriage pace and not any other notable actress worth mentioning other than Priyanka Chopra who has been in indusrty for over 10 years and a much younger actor should be ready to overtake, Deepika certainly has her age and looks advantage to go ahead of any other contemporary actresses for at least few years to come.
Shah Rukh on the other hand has definitely all reasons to be more than happy with this film proving a lucky mascot after his few earlier films didn't fare well (Ra. One,Billoo Barber) His "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" had Yash Chopra tag to create late director's magical spell ti bring crowd to theatres but as a film it had nothing much to talk about.
Some rightly put an arguement "Who Cares for quality of films these days?" How much business it does is all that matters to be successful.
If doing business of over 100 crore is yardstick for films to be remembered, we will see how in years to come, a film will be remembered,watched or loved for its content as much as some of films of golden era(1960-70) are remembered and appreciated even today.
The movie per se is a typical bollywood formula film with South Indian precepts and tamil diologues to appeal South Indian filmgoers in particular. But its novel comic stroy line seems to have got acceptance by others across the country and abroad to make it so successful.
Yet one wonders, the strange outcome of a film's success or failure whether has anything to do with
content or quality of film in its entirety.
Deepika has done full justice to her role with freshness and poignancy.
Shah Rukh has only his star value to add.
It was nice to see veteral Kamini Kaushal after a long time.
Rated: ** 2/5- (Average)
