Chennai Express - Movie Review....
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:47 pm
Hi there,
I recently saw the movie Chennai Express.
Chennai Express - Movie Review
For months now — though it felt more like years — the gossip rags have gone on and on about the great rivalries, real and imagined, between the makers of Chennai Express and Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara!, the two massive Bollywood productions originally scheduled for an Eid release date. Ultimately, like much else in the country, it was a conflict about real estate: getting your movie to as many screens as possible in order to make as much money as possible. Now that Raj Thackeray (PBUH) has intervened and convinced Ekta Kapoor and Co to move their release to next week, the field has been left open to Messrs Shetty and Khan to capitalise. Which they most certainly have done, raking in almost Rs 90 crore by Saturday itself in almost 4000 screens in India and more overseas, the biggest weekend opening ever for a Bollywood film.
The mantle of the highest-grossing Bollywood film ever — one that is by no means a given for Chennai Express, whose record-breaking run could well be halted when it hands over 40 percent of its screens to OUATIMD — has been held by some of the industry’s most iconic films. If Shetty’s film does indeed overhaul 3 Idiots and claim it, it will be by far the most forgettable one to do so (say what you will about Gadar; it was anything but forgettable). But these films have been testaments to the times they were made in. Perhaps an era characterised by diminishing attention spans and conveyor-belt films deserves a Chennai Express to define it for posterity.
I recently saw the movie Chennai Express.
Chennai Express - Movie Review
For months now — though it felt more like years — the gossip rags have gone on and on about the great rivalries, real and imagined, between the makers of Chennai Express and Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara!, the two massive Bollywood productions originally scheduled for an Eid release date. Ultimately, like much else in the country, it was a conflict about real estate: getting your movie to as many screens as possible in order to make as much money as possible. Now that Raj Thackeray (PBUH) has intervened and convinced Ekta Kapoor and Co to move their release to next week, the field has been left open to Messrs Shetty and Khan to capitalise. Which they most certainly have done, raking in almost Rs 90 crore by Saturday itself in almost 4000 screens in India and more overseas, the biggest weekend opening ever for a Bollywood film.
The mantle of the highest-grossing Bollywood film ever — one that is by no means a given for Chennai Express, whose record-breaking run could well be halted when it hands over 40 percent of its screens to OUATIMD — has been held by some of the industry’s most iconic films. If Shetty’s film does indeed overhaul 3 Idiots and claim it, it will be by far the most forgettable one to do so (say what you will about Gadar; it was anything but forgettable). But these films have been testaments to the times they were made in. Perhaps an era characterised by diminishing attention spans and conveyor-belt films deserves a Chennai Express to define it for posterity.