Happy Happy Saturday! And SRK day!!! What a wonderful start to the day/weekend, spending the morning with SRK.
I swear I won’t oversleep this week! So at 7:30am Chicago time, I will put up an “And PLAY!” comment and we will go from there. Super fun!
Reminder, Chennai Express is off Netflix and Prime right now, so you will have to dig out a DVD or else rent it on youtube (link below).
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It’s cheap to buy it on YouTube!
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Here!
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I am here and I am tired but I am ready.
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And PLAY!
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I am watching this oldschool on a DVD and I can barely even remember how that works
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Was this the first movie where SRK asked for the womens’ names first? Love this.
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YES!!!! And one of the reviewers mentioned (and this is totally true), that you don’t even notice it because Dips is more of the hero of the film than Shahrukh so her name being first just feels normal.
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STUPID UTV DANCERS!!!! They deserve to have been taken over by Disney and then bankrupted by Fitoor and Jagga JAsoos because I HATE this logo video!!!!
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The only person I would rather marry than the owner of a sweet shop is the owner of a DVD store. But now DVDs are dead, so short of the CEO of Netflix, sweet shop is my top choice!!!!
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My childhood’s friend’s grandmother worked in a candy shop, and she wouldn’t let her grandkids eat candy!
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“Hot NRI Woman” Filmikudhi!!! You should go to Goa and have affairs with middle-aged married Indian men!!!
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HA! I will float the suggestion by my husband.
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Grandpa is so sweet. Shahrukh is awful.
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He really is. Talking about vacations at his Grandpa’s funeral. He’s a teenager.
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Grandma is also adorable!!!!
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I like how the slight spoof of classic romance/family films is right there at the start!!!! Dead grandfather, funeral scene, all played for laughs.
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I’m sure it’s all VFX but the backdrop is SO BEAUTIFUL
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Rohit Shetty is a madman with color alterations and CGI backdrops, but I don’t mind because it makes things look soooooo pretty.
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I’ve thought about this deeply, and I think I would want to be all in one place instead of scattered here and there and everywhere. I just want to settle. I have a friend whose mother is thinking about asking to be scattered in all kinds of places all over the world, so then her kids get a nice vacation out of it.
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BAD PERSON!!!! Shahrukh is a BAD PERSON!!!!!
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Aren’t most SRK characters not the greatest in the first half of their movies?
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Good point. Except Chak De, where he is always perfect.
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That is a good point, but rarely has he been totally despicable.
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Is it time to talk about Shahrukh’s freakishly black hair that is clearly not his natural color because it is no one’s natural color?
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Dadaji!!!! On the train! SHAHRUKH!!!!!
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Running after the train offers him some redemption.
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Dips’ hair is AMAZING!!!! And I think it might be real? It looks real, doesn’t it?
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All of Deepika sarees are so beautiful. Deepika is so beautiful.
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I know, right?! You can’t help but just stare at her and smile!
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DDLJ!!!!!! (someone had to say it)
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“I’ve done this before”!
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First big laugh of the movie for me!!!!!
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HA! It’s okay. I have done this before! That cracks me up every time!
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Rule of threes, golden law of comedy.
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This movie is super nostalgic for me because it was the first Bollywood movie I ever saw. All this DDLj stuff obviously went over my head, but I’m glad I eventually got into it so I can appreciate the references after multiple rewatches.
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I enjoy that Shahrukh is so awful by this point that we actually sympathize with the big gunda types.
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I was just thinking that!
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I just assume this is what all Desi guys are saying about me when I come to the movie theater and the look and then talk in non-English languages. Desi guys are sometimes gross.
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EW. Yes! Most desi guys are the worst!
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HA! Deepika singing in Hindi is AMAZING!!!
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It is a genius bit.
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I just showed a Shahrukh movie to someone for the first time and she was trying to figure out when it was him singing and when it was dubbed. And then there was a scene where he actually used his own voice to sing and she went “oh YEAH. Yeah, he definitely should not to his own singing”. Don’t know what made me think of that just now 🙂
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I thought the only song he sang was in Josh.
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Yep. The rest of the time he is dubbed, because he is BAD.
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The singing back adn forth is when I start to like SRK. He forgets to be “cool dude” and just does things.
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I don’t know why, but I think on this watch the thugs are going to be my favorite cahracters. They are so nice! And enthusiastic about playing Antakshri!!!!
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Also real, also horrible, that guy who is super excited about his phone. Such boring party conversations I have been trapped in!!!!
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Also, I think Shahrukh’s character would have been a better person if he had more big scary thugs following him around his whole life and cutting him down to size.
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Very good point instead of his stupid friends who encourage his idiotic behavior!
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MMMMMMMMM
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This was one of the first SRK movies I watched, but now that I’ve seen almost all of them, I’m struck by how rarely I’ve seen him do such obvious comedy.
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And he’s good at it!!! He doesn’t do it much, but he can actually do it when he has to.
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This is a good joke, and also the kind of joke I can picture little kids really really getting into and repeating to each other. Right? The “you have made me SO ANGRY…..I will sit down”. It just begs for 8 year old sto repeat it to each other and giggle.
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Haule Haule is my fave
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Deepika’s choli is gorgeous, and also very wide-necked which looks great on her. But on me it would mean the shoulders kept slipping off. Do you think she has them glued or taped? Or is it just that perfectly fitted?
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There has to be some tape involved.
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Definitely sari pins at least to keep the sari tail in place on her shoulder.
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Oh definitely. That’s a must ALWAYS!
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The conductor survived, right?
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Yes, they show us that. For the people like my mother who saw this in the theater and grabbed my arm and went “But, that poor conductor!”
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I missed the bits of the conductor getting out of the water on other watches, nice to know he doesn’t die!
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This theme song is absolutely addictive. I watched this with a friend years ago at 1am and by this point we were singing along.
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YES!!!! With my friends, we just don’t say the title any more. You have to say it “Chennaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiii Express”.
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I love over-saturated colors.
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Especially on cloudy wintery days.
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Did Disney help produce the film? Or did they just throw in a disney reference for kicks?
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Just for kicks I think.
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Wait I missed it
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They showed a moon and panned down to the disney stream with a bridge crossing it and then entered the train.
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I’m also very biased towards this movie because I found out it released on my birthday 🙂
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That’s INSANE. Because I saw it the last time in theaters in the middle of a massive snow storm. Which means it ran in theaters for at least 3 months, CRAZY!!!!
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My friend and I quote this movie constantly. “MY LIFE SUCKS” “SAME HERE.” you have to say it like that.
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ME TOO! It’s great!
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How does Shahrukh look taller than Dips in that standing conversation? 4 inch heels or careful blocking?
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I think there is a lot of careful blocking going on. Unlike some of his other co-stars I never actually realized Dips was taller than him in their films.
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I love this, Deepika is basically the hero of the film, and Shahrukh is her wacky side-kick comedian. So GOOD!
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This is especially funny, because Deepika and the thugs keep referring to SRK with the female pronoun when they speak to him. It could be because they don’t speak Hindi very well but also because SRK is definitely the heroine in this movie.
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Outside of beauty is there any logical reason to stop on a bridge?
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Maybe it’s the easiest place to get off? If the rest of teh route is jungle and stuff?
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Danger
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When I was traveling through Peru years ago, on a trip to Macchu Picchu there was an actual stop similar to the stop in this movie and it was so wild and also so cool!
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I have DREAMED of doing this!!!!! The train used to go right by my house, and then it would keep going to the station and I would have to take another 20 minutes getting back home. If it just stopped for a second and let me out, I could have been right there!!!!
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