Khan’s Rahul plays the freak while the locals around him look at him dazed, befuddled by his buffoonery.Īll the other actors in this enterprise, despite their one-note roles, conform to the universe of this film, to its reality, but Khan’s having nothing of it. This is, in many ways, a full-throated tribute, a Sun TV Strikes Back statement of a film, where a typically cliched example of Southern style masala chugs along normally (and unironically) but is disrupted by a Bollywood actor who has no business there. Rohit Shetty’s Chennai Express is a curious beast, a film it seemed would lampoon the South Indian blockbuster - those films we claim are cheesier and sillier than our own (and then remake with much fanfare) - but happens to be, in fact, the diametric opposite.
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At the time, her acting inabilities were cannily masked by the director giving her little to do except look staggering, and by Khan himself, carrying the film on the muscles of his tremendous charisma.Ĭhennai Express is, in a way, full circle for that very lady as she - enervated by box-office success and increasingly self-aware as an actress - holds up her end of the film far better, and more consistently than her leading man. Six years ago, Deepika Padukone made a celebrated debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan in a rollicking entertainer Om Shanti Om, that marvellously spoofed his stardom.
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