Meenamma takes Rahul to Durgesh and introduces Rahul as her lover. Rahul ( Shah Rukh Khan) helps Meenamma ( Deepika Padukone) board the train, a spoof of the famous train scene in the 1995 film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge Meenamma's father, Durgeshwara "Durgesh" Azhagusundaram, is a powerful headman of the local mafia in Tamil Nadu. She is fleeing from a forced marriage to a ruffian named Tangaballi. Panicked, Rahul learns that the four men are her cousins and that her real name is Meenalochni "Meenamma" Azhagusundaram. Rahul tells the Travelling Ticket Examiner about them, but they push the inspector into a river below a bridge. Rahul is annoyed but says nothing because the men are carrying weapons. Rahul lends her his mobile phone so that she can contact her friends, but the men with her grab it and throw it from the train. Rahul tries to flirt with the woman, who starts communicating by singing parodies of Hindi film songs, and explains that the four men are trying to kidnap her. He helps her and four other people board the moving train, but the train leaves the station before he can get off. As Rahul tries to leave the train, he notices a young woman running to board it. However, Rahul forgets to take the ashes, and he almost misses the train when he returns to collect them. He books a single ticket on the Chennai Express, planning to meet Bobby and Baman along the way, at Kalyan Junction station. Rahul, Bobby and Baman plan to dump the ashes at Goa but Neetu wants to see him off, forcing Rahul to travel by train. Reluctantly, he accepts her request but is also eager to attend the Goa trip. She asks Rahul to take the ashes to Rameswaram and disperse them. After Bhishambhar's funeral, Rahul's grandmother Neetu tells Rahul that Bhishambhar wanted his ashes to be divided into two parts-one part to be immersed in the Ganga, and the other in Rameswaram.
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Meanwhile, Bhishambhar dies on the eve of the celebration, just when he witnesses Sachin Tendulkar on TV in a cricket match get dismissed on his 99th run.
Before Bhishambhar's 100th-birthday celebration, Rahul's friends Bobby and Baman invite him to accompany them on a vacation in Goa, which he accepts. Raised by his grandparents from the age of eight, Rahul's grandfather Bhishambhar owns a chain of confectionery shops. Rahul Mithaiwala is a 40-year-old orphaned bachelor living in Mumbai. It is among the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time worldwide. The film surpassed 3 Idiots (2009) to become the highest-grossing Bollywood film worldwide at that point.
The film received mixed reviews from critics and it broke several box office records in India and abroad, becoming the quickest film to collect ₹1 billion (US$13 million) net domestically. UTV Motion Pictures came on board as producer and distributor, marking its first active project with Khan after Swades (2004).Ĭhennai Express was released theatrically in overseas markets on 8 August 2013 and a day later in India. The soundtrack for Chennai Express was composed by Vishal–Shekhar, with the background score being composed by Amar Mohile. A large part of the film was set in Ooty, for which sets were constructed in Wai. Filming began in Mehboob Studio in October 2012 and was completed by May 2013. Conceived as a "commercial romance", the film was originally titled Ready Steady Po. The script of Chennai Express, which was initially written as a backup project for Khan, was chosen instead. The first planned collaboration between Khan and Shetty was a remake of Angoor (1982). Nikitin Dheer and Sathyaraj play supporting roles. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan as Rahul Mithaiwala, a man who accidentally boards the eponymous train and journeys from Mumbai to Rameswaram with the daughter of a local don, played by Deepika Padukone. Subash, with a screenplay written by Yunus Sajawal and dialogues by Farhad-Sajid. Chennai Express ( / tʃ ɪ ˈ n aɪ/ ( listen)) is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Gauri Khan and Karim Morani, based on a story by K.