Chennai Express Movie Review: Get On This Train, Baby!

A man on his way to fulfill his grandfather's last wish helps a girl get into a train and ends up on the run across South India from a powerful don's goons.

Shah Rukh Khan is one of the few actors in the industry, who is good at self-deprecating humour and he does that with nary a worry in this film. When he is not mouthing wise cracks, Khan thumbs his nose at his other films and dialogues without being mean about it ('My name is Rahul and I am not a terrorist'- he tells a posse of cops, who arrest him due to a misunderstanding, earning a few guffaws). On her part, Deepika's Southern belle act gets a bit too over-the-top as she lays on a thick accent, but considering its a Rohit Shetty, you anyways end up grinning at the way she murders Hindi grammar in her dialogues. The rest of the cast has done a passable job, but it's clearly Khan and Padukone, who carry the film on their shoulders.