- 'Chennai Express' is gonna ssssssssssuck but will still most probably rake in crores and crores of rupees...sigh...I swear I read the final tagline of the promo as 'Rohit Shetty shit-yle' instead of 'ishtyle'...I think I will be forgiven...
- Imran Khan cannot pull off a rough look, he looks like a friggin हिजड़ा in the promo for 'Once upon a time in Mumbai 2'
- Movie starts nice and slow...setting a good milieu...1950s Bengal...zamindari system on it's last legs...an unwell daughter and her doting father...the 'thotha' story was a nice touch...some girl wooted when Ranveer Singh came on screen....really? I mean really???
- Sonakshi Sinha has a huge golf course of a forehead...my god! I mean i don't want to be shallow...but god damn... it sometimes feels like she was born with a receding hairline. Though at least they aren't parading her as some hot girl in this movie...
- Director is definitely attempting to create a good chemistry between the lead pair, playful flirtatious banter, a stellar background score by Amit Trivedi, though I must say the songs have not been re-recorded well, the song audio is quite jarring...
- Subtlety in acting performances seems to be the order of the day...both Ranveer and Sonakshi trying their very best to convey deep emotions with subdued expressions, not always succeeding...though most of the supporting cast achieve much better success...a shout out to the hero's friend actor and of course a truly impressive performance by the actor playing the father - the stoic dignified proud zamindar if there ever was one...
- A tremendous pre-interval semi-climax sequence! Now that shows signs of the Vikramaditya Motwane who directed 'Udaan'...it was taut, gripping, silent with a zipping score and the story only moving forward by frozen expressions in framed scenes...A nice perhaps unintentional nod to 'Shawshank Redemption' as a character encounters a tunnel.
For all the gentle pace the screenplay had, finally a solid end to the first half, really setting the stage for a good second half.
- Whoa, this theater actually gives an intermission break...gotta remember that next time...
