Chennai Express Movie Reviews


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2.6
Verdict: Timepass based on 14 reviews
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Verdict: Super Hit based on 40 reviews & ratings
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  • Taran Adarsh

    4.0

    Taran Adarsh | bollywoodhungama.com

    The season of biggies commences from Eid onwards. And it sets in motion with the global release of CHENNAI EXPRESS. Shah Rukh Khan. Deepika Padukone. Rohit Shetty. UTV. Four formidable entities that translate into the ultimate, unbeatable combination. The timing couldn't be better as well: Eid. The hype and buildup, obviously, is humungous. The question is, does CHENNAI EXPRESS live up to the gargantuan expectations?
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  • Meena Iyer

    3.5

    Meena Iyer | Times of India

    In an ode to his own cinema—read Golmaal series, Bol Bachchan, Rohit Shetty ishstyle, the director, who has grossers in Bollywood's 100-crore club, ups the scale for his Eid offering. Chennai Express (CE) is a magnificently mounted film. Never having been strong in the story department, CE too has a guillible plot line. Rahul ( Shah Rukh Khan) is asked by his dadi (Kamini Kaushal) to drop his granddad's ashes in Rameswaram, the southern-most tip of India
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  • Sarita Tanwar

    3.5

    Sarita Tanwar | DNA India

    The story isn't very different from all the usual boy-meets girl romance. You know from the beginning what will happen. You have seen it many times before but the beauty is that you know whats coming, and you still want it. Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan) embarks on a journey to fulfill the last wish of his grandfather: to have his ashes immersed in the Holy water of Rameshwaram. He meets Meena (Deepika Padukone) on the train and while attempting
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  • Shubha Shetty-Saha

    3.5

    Shubha Shetty-Saha | Mid-Day

    The heroine is running towards a train going to Chennai, even though she is running away from Chennai. The urn containing the hero’s grandfather’s ‘precious’ ashes plays hide and seek conveniently. The goons kill everyone around but spare the hero, and most of Tamil Nadu cannot decipher Hindi words like they are the aliens of 'Krrish 3' …so on and so forth. Well, this film is Brand Rohit Shetty so you are expected to leave your brains at home
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  • Meena Iyer

    3.5

    Meena Iyer | Times of India

    In an ode to his own cinema—read Golmaal series, Bol Bachchan, Rohit Shetty ishstyle, the director, who has grossers in Bollywood’s 100-crore club, ups the scale for his Eid offering. Note: You may not like the film if Bollywood potboilers leave you cold
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  • Bodrul Chaudhury

    3.5

    Bodrul Chaudhury | Bollyspice

    On the whole, Chennai Express has a masala of comedy, action, romance and drama which will keep you entertained from beginning to end. Though it is by no means perfect, Rohit Shetty does handle the majority of this film quite well; which may be of some inspiration for future filmmakers seeking to produce and direct a fresh Bollywood comedy. In addition, it can be safely said that Chennai Express ends Shah Rukh Khan’s lean phase, given that he starred in some less appreciated films in recent years. With Chennai Express, you will see the King of Bollywood back at his best and proving that he still has the talent and determination needed to keep audiences entertained. Thus, make the time to get on this train and witness a delightful story unfolds before your eyes!
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  • Saumya Sharma

    3.5

    Saumya Sharma | BookMyShow

    There’s always something interesting in watching Shahrukh Khan do his usual “common man” antics in his films. In Chennai Express,......
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  • Aseem Chhabra

    3.0

    Aseem Chhabra | rediff.com

    Rohit Shetty has said he does not make films for intellectuals. Which is fine, but to be honest I have had problems with Shetty’s previous films - always loud, ultra violent, often crass and packed with crude humor. But in Chennai Express Shetty does something smart - he ropes in the star talents of Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone and in the process he smoothens some of the rough edges that were evident in his previous works
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  • Saibal Chatterjee

    3.0

    Saibal Chatterjee | NDTV Movies

    It’s a somewhat long ride that occasionally teeters on the edge of tedium, but it certainly isn’t all wrong. Parts of Chennai Express, propelled by a spirit of inspired lunacy that holds the no-holds-barred action comedy in good stead, is markedly better than the sum total of the film. If only it had enough steam to sustain its momentum all the way to the very end, it would probably have been far more fun to watch. But do hop aboard.
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  • Vinayak Chakravorty

    3.0

    Vinayak Chakravorty | India Today

    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. Chennai Express is a loud and crazy experience, so what if you might just forget all of it even as you hit the exit door after the show. It’s got the lungi power while it lasts.
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  • Rummana Ahmed

    3.0

    Rummana Ahmed | Yahoo! India

    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.
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  • Resham Sengar

    3.0

    Resham Sengar | Zee News

    If you ignore the few clichés (the repetition of ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’ scenes and the lines that we have heard SRK speaking in his popular films), the lack of punch in the script and even the high predictability factor, then you are onboard for a fun ride with ‘Chennai Express’!
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  • Sukanya Verma

    2.5

    Sukanya Verma | rediff.com

    The trouble with brands is that you come to know what to expect. Director Rohit Shetty has achieved an enormous deal by being one but it has also limited his creative progress. Unlike his films, he's a pretty sharp guy but there's a sameness to his shtick. Does Chennai Express break away from it? Not always. But even with his overstating approach, it's decidedly more zany compared to all the Golmaal sequels and ilk he's doled out in recent years
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    2.5

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    Wannakum, wannago? I went into Chennai Express dreading I would be doused, doused I tell you, with a staggering number of stereotypes, and that I would spend the film flinching and grimacing and counting the minutes. But as Chennai Express began chugging along, I found myself guffawing in a place. Or two. The laughs came intermittently through the first half, and I was still sitting in my seat at the interval. And then it turned into the same old story
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  • Khalid Mohamed

    2.5

    Khalid Mohamed | Deccan Chronicle

    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. Sorry, except for a few stray laugh-out-loudish moments, here’s a bad trip. Shah Rukh Khan springs no surprises, re-rendering every old trick in the acting book. Indeed, it’s disheartening to see him overact. Gratifyingly, Deepika Padukone sparkles: consistently radiant and restrained in the mayhem.
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  • Shubhra Gupta

    2.5

    Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express

    The laughs came intermittently through the first half, and I was still sitting in my seat at the interval. And then it turned into the same old story : the plot, which was thinner than a self-respecting wafer to start with, just gives up and dies, and the lead pair, Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone stop talking to each other and begin posturing. They have no competition from anything else : the trademark Shetty bang bang –car chases, jeeps blowing up, large groups of people charging at each other—is by now more eye glaze than ever.
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  • Anupama Chopra

    2.0

    Anupama Chopra | Hindustan Times

    In the interest of honest, unbiased reviews, let me begin by putting my biases on the table: I’m a sucker for Shah Rukh Khan. I’ve delighted in Rahul and Raj and the romantic fantasies they engendered over the last two decades. I cry when Rahul becomes a widower in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and swoon when Raj sweeps Simran in his arms amidst the swaying mustard fields in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. So it breaks my heart to tell you that Chennai Express
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  • Rajeev Masand

    2.0

    Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com

    Some films are hard to make sense of. Others are just nonsense. Chennai Express, directed by Rohit Shetty, ticks both boxes. More than a quarter of the film is in Tamil, and hence incomprehensible if you're unfamiliar with the language. The rest is a stew of puerile humor, lazy stereotypes, and way-over-the-top acting from a star who appears to be trying too hard. Shah Rukh Khan, who's provided enough evidence to convince us that he can do comedy effortlessly
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  • Pratim D. Gupta

    2.0

    Pratim D. Gupta | The Telegraph

    Shah Rukh Khan has very much been the King the world calls him. But the kingdom he rules has always resided in his head. The way he has called the shots. The choices he has made. For 22 years. He was the King when he made the negative hero cool in the early 1990s. He was the King when he produced a film on media wars in 2000. He was the King when he led a gang of girls in a film about women’s hockey. He was the King when he gave a fresh twist
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  • Karan Anshuman

    2.0

    Karan Anshuman | Mumbai Mirror

    3500 local prints. 700 overseas prints. The widest Indian release ever. Production budget a shade under 100 crores. 6.75 crore paid preview collections on a Thursday, the highest ever. 100 crore over the weekend? 200+ crore lifetime? 2nd place for 3 Idiots? It's troubling that, forget the producers, even the audience is interested in attending a math class rather than watch a movie for what it is. An individual opinion in such critic-proof films
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  • Rajeev Masand

    2.0

    Rajeev Masand | IBNLive

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

    1.5

    Martin D'Souza | Glamsham

    Sachin ne ek buddhe ki jaan le li; woh kya hai na, 99 pe out hua. Rahul's Dadaji is also on 99 (age wise). Wicket-keeper ne catch liya, Dadaji ka old heart fisal gaya! Clean bowled. Party ka atmosphere sad ho gaya. Now comes the question of immersing the ashes. Dadaji wanted one part to be immersed in the Ganga and the other in Rameshwaram in the South. Dadi takes the urn towards Ganga, but the one meant for Rameshwaran, she entrusts
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  • Raja Sen

    1.0

    Raja Sen | rediff.com

    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. 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. Chennai Express is, in a way, full circle for that very lady as she — enervated by box-office success
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  • Mayank Shekhar

    1.0

    Mayank Shekhar | Daily Bhaskar

    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. Throughout, at least I couldn’t spot a single moment that had me even mildly chuckling. The stunts and car-nage is limited to two sequences, which is a small fraction for a film that clocks over 140 minutes. So should you feel cheated, sitting in this loud, chugging train to Chennai? Perhaps.
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  • Mohar Basu

    NR

    Mohar Basu | Koimoi

    Chennai Express Movie Review | Rating: 3/5 Stars | Chennai Express is a must watch entertaining flick that will ju...
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  • IANS

    NR

    IANS | Deccan Herald

    The good news first. “Chennai Express” is a pleasant and likable film in parts. The bad news is, it does nothing for Shah Rukh Khan’s imdomitable star power except to tell us he can still play a 40-year Rahul without faltering. That we already know.
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  • Rachit Gupta

    NR

    Rachit Gupta | Filmfare

    Any attempt to intellectualise Chennai Express is futile. This film is unabashedly juvenile in its sense of humour and entertainment. Shah Rukh Khan is in full-on self deprecation mode. Deepika Padukone speaks in a caricature-ish Tamil accent. More than half the film’s dialogue is in Tamil. The story arc is so simple that you can fit it in a single tweet. Despite all its shortcomings, this is still a funny film. Rohit Shetty makes chettinad-style masala movies. And that’s the perfect description of this film.
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  • Sneha May Francis

    NR

    Sneha May Francis | Emirates247

    It’s endearing at times, but the jokes are repeated so often that they lose shine. Rohit’s carnival-like comedy coaxes some laughs, but can leave you exhausted. Make no mistake, ‘Chennai Express’ is fun, but the kind that Rohit endorses.
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  • rajverma67

    5.0

    My review of Chennai Express (2013) by rajverma67

    rajverma67, 9 years ago
    This film has been directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Gauri Khan for Red Chillies Entertainment. The story starts with Rahul. He is a 40-year-old guy who lives along with his grandparents in Mumbai. His grandfather has a family business of running his year’s long sweet business. Rahul’s parents died in an accident and his grandparents who took care of him since, he was a child. Rahul’s grandfather while he is celebrating his 99th birthday, dies seeing the match. Therefore, his friends tell him that they will go to visit Goa. Rahul agrees and convinces his grandmother that he will take his grandfather’s ash along with him to immerse in Ganga and Rameshwaram. So, Rahul reserves his tickets for Goa but he catches the train of Chennai Express. Rahul is extremely happy that he will be visiting Goa with his friends. But while he is in train, he sees a woman who is running behind his train to board the train. Therefore, Rahul helps her along with her few bodyguards. It is after this, he comes to know that her bodyguards have kidnapped her and he decides to free her when the TT comes to ask for the ticket. They throw the TT in water and also Rahul’s phone. Rahul misses his train to Goa and instead of going Goa, he has to go with Meenamma’s bodyguards and Meenamma’s place. She tells her that her father is a don of a place and that he shouldn’t leave the place. Meenamma dictates a fake story about her and Rahul’s life that they are in love with each other. Meenamma also confesses that her father her to get married to Thangabali. Thangabali is Meenamma’s father’s friend’s son. So in her place, Rahul is taken care of everything but in a poor way. The don announces the competition between Thangabali and Rahul. Rahul wants to run away from this place and he takes Meenamma along with him. Both Meenamma and Rahul cross all the hurdles and they reach Rameshwaram. In Rameshwaram, they immerse Rahul’s grandfather’s ashes. Meenamma is in love with Rahul and she confesses this to him. Even Rahul confesses his feelings by taking her to her own place. He decides to fight with Thangabali and win her father’s heart. The film shows fight sequence between Thangabali and Rahul with rahul winning the competition. Thangabali decides to lay Meenamma’s hand to Rahul. Rahul and Meenamma live happily ever after. If it’s a Rohit Shetty‘s film, you can see cars and other objects flying high in the air. The film has got a good concept and it keeps you entertained till the end. The film’s fighting sequence is also excellent. All the stunts have been performed by SRK himself. The film has outstanding songs, which have been composed by Vishal Shekhar and Yo Yo Honey Singh. The film’s strongest factor is the romantic chemistry between Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone. The film’s contents, especially the songs written in Hindi take you to another world.
  • rajesh93

    3.5

    Board Chennai Express blindly

    rajesh93, 9 years ago
    Super hit movie. I loved everything about this movie.
  • kailashmisra

    3.5

    SRK style in Rohit Shetty style

    kailashmisra, 9 years ago
    Super hit movie. I loved everything about this movie.
  • bollyfan25

    3.0

    Spicy Madrasi Chicken Masala but, Half-Cooked !

    bollyfan25, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • devenpatel

    2.5

    Rowdy Reviewer – Chennai Express- Average Watch wi

    devenpatel, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.
  • rajesh93

    5.0

    Shah rukh back with blast

    rajesh93, 9 years ago
    This is one of best movie of all time.
  • prakashreddy9

    1.5

    Outright boring, get OFF the train baby!

    prakashreddy9, 9 years ago
    This is one time watch. You can watch this movie to pass your time.
  • hindicritic

    5.0

    Hilarious Movie

    hindicritic, 9 years ago
    This is one of best movie of all time.
  • filmifan45

    2.5

    Chennai Express: A De-railed Train

    filmifan45, 9 years ago
    This is nice movie. I liked it.

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