Chennai Express
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Chennai Express |
| Country of production | India |
| original language | Hindi , Tamil |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 141 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rohit Shetty |
| script |
Robin Bhatt Rashid Sajid |
| production |
Gauri Khan Ronnie Screwvala Siddharth Roy Kapur |
| music |
Vishal Dadlani Shekhar Ravjiani |
| camera | Dudley |
| cut | Steven H. Bernard |
| occupation | |
| |
Chennai Express is a romantic action comedy from India starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone , the second collaboration between the actors after Om Shanti Om from 2007. The film was directed by the successful Indian director Rohit Shetty and produced by Red Chillies Entertainment and UTV Motion Pictures . With a worldwide grossing of 4.2 billion rupees (67.5 million USD ) it replaced 3 Idiots as the most successful Bollywood production.
The film premiere took place on the occasion of the Islamic Eid-ul-Fitr festival on August 9, 2013. A week later, over 80 copies of the film were shown in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as individual screenings from August 15 to August 28, 2013 as a subtitles version.
action
Forty-year-old Rahul has been an orphan since he was eight, but still lives with his grandparents and helps out in their candy store. Only when his grandfather dies and he is supposed to bring his ashes to Rameshwaram as the fulfillment of his last will does he have to leave Mumbai for the first time . To show his grandmother the start of this journey, he takes the express train to Chennai , but actually he wants to get off at the next stop and then accompany his friends on the pleasure trip to Goa .
When the train leaves the station, a beautiful girl rushes over, whom he can help to get on on time. He also extends his hand to the four men running after him. It turns out that Meena wants to run away from a forced marriage , that her father is a mafia boss from the village of Komban and that the four colossi are supposed to bring Meena home on his behalf so that she can marry the neighboring drug lord Tangaballi.
The thugs grab Rahul and Meena and take them to their father's Tamil village called Durgeshwara Azhagusundaram. Since Rahul does not understand a word, he has to rely on Meena's translation, but she does not inform him that she has introduced him as her fiancé. Unknowingly, he engages in a duel with Tangaballi, Meena's promised husband. When he finally realizes what he has gotten into, he tries by all means to evade the fight, so that a turbulent chase ensues. Ultimately, he manages to escape by taking Meena hostage. On the way, the different characters get to know each other better and fall in love.
music
The soundtrack was composed by the duo Vishal-Shekhar , the lyrics were written by Amitabh Bhattacharya, and the album was released on July 1, 2013. In the item song 1 2 3 4 Get on the Dance Floor , the Indian actress Priyamani has a cameo .
| title | Singer |
|---|---|
| 1 2 3 4 Get on the dance floor | Vishal Dadlani, Hamsika Iyer, Sricharan Kasturirangan |
| Titli | Gopi Sunder, Chinmayi Sripaada |
| Tera Rastaa Chhodoon Na | Anusha Mani, Amitabh Bhattacharya |
| Kashmir Main Tu Kanyakumari | Sunidhi Chauhan, Arijit Singh, Neeti Mohan |
| Ready steady butt | Vishal Dadlani, Brodha V & Smokey, Enkore, Natalie Di Luccio |
| Chennai Express | SP Balasubrahmanyam, Jonita Gandhi |
| Lungi dance | Honey Singh |
The two main characters use well-known Hindi songs to disguise their conversation in front of their Tamil companions as inconsequential warbling. In the vocal interludes of the leading actors, melodies from popular Bollywood films are reproduced with changed text, preferably from those in which Shah Rukh Khan played.
In the first conversation you sang, you hear “Tujhe Dekha To” from First Come Get the Bride , “Kajra Re” from Bunty Aur Babli , “Chinta Ta Ta Chita Chita” from Rowdy Rathore and the theme song from the Golmaal film series, with them the director Rohit Shetty became known. In the later conversation with the train conductor, the melody of the song "Haule Haule" from A Divine Couple was used.
Another “song versation” takes place in the scene when Tangaballi tracks down the escaped couple in the neighboring village. The songs "Jiya Jale" from Dil Se , "Ooh La La" from The Dirty Picture , "Chammak Challo" from RA.One - Superhero with a Heart and "Dard-e-Disco" from Om Shanti Om are played . Rahul also alludes to an old Indian advertising jingle for the laundry detergent brand Nirma.
synchronization
The German dubbed version was the occasion of the DVD -Publishing on 13 December 2013, commissioned by the German film labels Rapid Eye Movies made for the dialogue book was Nadine spirit mandated that even with the voice recording dialogue director led.
| actor | role | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Shahrukh Khan | Rahul | Pascal Breuer |
| Deepika Padukone | Meenamma | Annina Braunmiller |
| Sathyaraj | Durgeshwara Azhagusundaram | Frank Röth |
| Nikitin Dheer | Tangaballi | Sebastian Christoph Jacob |
In the German dubbed version, the dialogue book author in charge, Nadine Geist, developed a fantasy dialect called Kaffspraak , instead of keeping the Tamil dialogues with subtitles. As with the French comedy Willkommen bei den Sch'tis , the inland cultural differences, which are also reflected in the language, were not equated with those of the Germans, but created an artificial language that sounds strange but contains some easily recognizable words, e.g. . B. "Birnje" for head or "Sprecki" for command.
Grossing results
In India, the domestic exceeded grossing of Chennai Express , the so-called 100- crore mark (= 1 billion rupees ) in only 4 days, so that the film had a record of Mission Love (Ek Tha Tiger) broke from the 2012. After only two weeks of running, the film achieved grossing over 200 crores, and at the beginning of the third week of play, the blockbuster succeeded the most successful Hindi film to date, 3 Idiots .
First weekend box office earnings were $ 2.2 million in the US, $ 2.1 million in the United Arab Emirates and $ 1.5 million in the UK . Overall, Chennai Express achieved total overseas sales of $ 7.1 million in just five days. In Germany, the Bollywood film landed at 16th place in the German cinema charts after its weekend start. A total of almost 11,000 viewers saw the film in German cinemas.
Reviews
"Parodistic, exalted Bollywood comedy that conjures up various Indian success romances and plays with the internal Indian language barriers."
“ Last but not least, Rohit Shetty stages Chennai Express as a loving, parodic homage to the filmography of its main actor, who here delights himself through the cocoa. [...] The exalted, comedic tone of voice, regularly interrupted by action segments resulting from the pursuit of the young couple by the mafiosi, is what the film holds up to the end. Only then does the director seek refuge in melodrama again. And gets tangled up in a scenic and narrative way while trying to treat the hero to a classic macho showdown, because this character was characterized by being sympathetic "unmanly" and countering the macho poses of the others. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chennai Express' Box Office Journey Comes To A Halt At 420 Crs Gross Globally , accessed December 22, 2013
- ↑ a b Chennai Express - International Box Office Results. Box Office Mojo , accessed December 22, 2013 .
- ^ Ronnie Scheib: Film Review: 'Chennai Express'. Variety , August 9, 2013, accessed August 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Chennai Express (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) , accessed August 16, 2013
- ↑ Rapid Eye Movies: Chennai Express , accessed December 19, 2013
- ↑ a b Chennai Express. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on December 19, 2013 .
- ↑ Schwalla twu Kaffspraak? , accessed January 24, 2014
- ↑ Bollywood Hungama: Bollywood's 100 Crore club , accessed August 18, 2013, (English)
- ↑ 'Chennai Express' Declared 'All Time Blockbuster' Crosses ₹ 200 Crore in India. International Business Times , August 23, 2013, accessed August 25, 2013 .
- ↑ 'Chennai Express' becomes the highest grossing Bollywood film ever. CNN-IBN , August 24, 2013, accessed August 25, 2013 .
- ↑ Chennai Express box office results , filmstarts.de, accessed on August 16, 2013
- ↑ Chennai Express: Box Office Overseas. bollywoodhungama.com, October 9, 2013, accessed October 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Top Overseas First Weekends 2013: Besharam 4th. boxofficeindia.com, October 9, 2013, archived from the original on November 3, 2013 ; accessed on October 14, 2013 .
- ↑ zweausendeins.de: Chennai Express , accessed on September 12, 2013
- ↑ Felicitas Kleiner : Film review: Chennai Express ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. FILMDIENST, issue 18/2013, published on August 29, 2013
