Chennai Express

Chennai Express i t n a k s p r s is a 2013 Indian romantic action comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty, and produced by Gauri Khan for Red Chillies Entertainment. The film features Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in lead roles it is the second collaboration between Khan and Padukone after Om Shanti Om 2007. The film is about a mans journey from Mumbai to Rameshwaram, and what happens along the way after he falls in love with the daughter of a local don. Principal photography began onSeptember 2012, filming began in October 2012 and was completed by May 2013.

Rahul Mithaiwala Shahrukh Khan is a fortyyearold bachelor living in Mumbai. His parents died in a car accident when he was eight years old, so his grandparents raised him. His grandfather Lekh Tandon owns a chain of confectionery shops. Before his grandfathers 100th birthday celebration, two of Rahuls friends invite him to accompany them on a vacation in Goa, which he accepts. Rahuls grandfather dies on the eve of the celebration. His grandmother tells Rahul that his grandfather wanted his ashes to be divided into two partsone of each to be immersed in the Ganges and Rameswaram. She asks Rahul to take the ashes to Rameswaram and disperse them. Reluctantly, he accepts her request but is also eager to attend the Goa trip. Rahul and his friends plan to dump the ashes at Goa but his grandmother wants to see him off, forcing Rahul to travel by train. He books a single ticket on the Chennai Express, planning to meet his friends along the way. However, Rahul forgets to take the ashes, and he almost misses the train when he returns to collect them. As he tries to leave the train, he notices a young woman running to board it. He helps her and four other people board the moving train, but the train leaves the station before he can get off.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. 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 is annoyed, but says nothing because the men are carrying weapons. Rahul tells the ticket inspector about them, but they push the inspector into a river below a bridge. Panicked, Rahul learns that the men are her cousins, and that her name is Meenalochni Meena Azhagusundaram Deepika Padukone. She is fleeing from a forced marriage to Tangaballi Nikitin Dheer. Her father, Durgeshwara Azhagusundaram Sathyaraj is a powerful headman of the local mafia in Ta

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