Chandni Chowk To China(2009)

16 January 2009hindiActionComedy

Storyline

This is an action-comedy film along with romantic side of it. In this movie, a simple cook from Delhi is mistaken by a subjugated Chinese village's residents as Liu Shengh, an ancient peasant warrior.

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Official Trailer Chandni Chowk To China Deepika Padukone | Akshay Kumar

Plot

Sidhu (Akshay Kumar) is the lowest on the totem pole, cutting vegetables at a roadside food stall in Chandni Chowk in Delhi. He longs to escape his dreary existence and looks for shortcuts- with astrologers, tarot readers and fake fakirs - basically believing anything except himself, despite his father figure Dada's (Mithun Chakraborty) best efforts. His redeeming moment arrives when two strangers from China claim him as a reincarnation of a war hero in the past and takes him to China. Sidhu now dreams of wine, women, and a princely existence in foreign lands. Thanks to the devious translator, a conman by the name Chopstick (Ranvir Shorey), little does he know that he is being taken to the Promised Land to rid the Chinese village of the vicious smuggler Hojo (Gordon Liu)! So Sidhu blissfully sets forth to China with Chopstick who instigates dreams of a delicious future and forgets to reveal the perils which await him. Along the way he meets Sakhi (Deepika Padukone), Ms. Tele Shoppers Media (Ms. TSM) who has embarked on a journey to pay homage to the land of her birth and her dead father and twin. Initially, Sidhu through a series of lucky coincidences manages to sidestep being beaten by Hojo's men but finally Hojo catches up with him and exposes him as the country buffoon that he really is. Sidhu has the fire of revenge in his belly and finds the one man who will make him a Kungfu expert and set the village free. Armed with his Sifu (master), faith in himself and the love of the fair Sakhi Sidhu sets forth to conquer all!

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Critic Reviews

B
BMDB Critic

The movie opened to a spectacular view of The Great Wall of China where the warrior Liu Shengh dies fighting. It went downhill from there. Siddu (Akshay Kumar) chops veggies at Chandni Chowk desperately hoping for a life of grandeur as his Dada (Mithun Chakraborty) tells him that his destiny is in his hands. Siddu meets the Feng-Shastra guru Chopstick (Ranvir Shorey) on his quest for overnight fame & riches. Two Chinese men and Chopstick who wants a free ride to China convince him he is the re-incarnated war hero and they take off to China to fight the tyrant Hojo. Sakhi (Deepika Padukone) is in China looking for her long lost twin Meow Meow. There's utter chaos as their paths meet. Akshay Kumar's funnies hit the right note occasionally while he was in his element during the later scenes where his skills as a martial arts expert came into focus. Mithun Chakraborty, though with limited scenes, was great. Deepika Padukone as Meow Meow in a catwoman-ish outfit was sleek, feline and gorgeous if nothing else. Ranvir Shorey's halo-ed and horn-ed conscience apart, he was utterly wasted as he spent most of the movie looking miserable. The first part of the movie is overdone in the name of comedy. The second part is well paced out punctuated with laughs, tears and kung fu. The movie had it's good moments, no doubt. Maybe, it was mostly the hype that was built up that made the expectations set, fall apart like a house of cards. Oh! And there might be a sequel to it.

B
BMDB Critic

Only Akshay Kumar has the guts to do this type of movie. This movie story is really horrible; however you have nothing do with the story. It is a fast movie; don't need to use your brain at all. You will see some international stander kung fu. Songs are good. Particularly actions are very good. You will watch Karshima of Akshay. It is good entertaining non-sense movie .A rare combination.

B
BMDB Critic

Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone star in a scene from the action-comedy "Chandni Chowk to China." (CNS photo/Warner Bros.) By John P. McCarthy Catholic News Service If, on its way to garnering awards, "Slumdog Millionaire" presents moviegoers with a Western dish laced with Bollywood flavors, "Chandni Chowk to China" (Warner Bros.) is a multicourse banquet offering a fusion of the popular Indian filmmaking style with Hong Kong's martial arts tradition. No accolades will be forthcoming, yet this foray into Asia by a major American studio (Warner Bros. financed the project) is undoubtedly authentic. Whereas you don't want Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" to end, director Nikhil Advani's movie seems like it never will. A colorful spectacle that proves to be too much of too many things, the prolix effort will test the patience of uninitiated moviegoers as well as fans of both cinematic genres and their respective ingredients. Anyone who doesn't relish nearly two and a half hours of speed-reading subtitles for the Hindu, Cantonese and Mandarin dialogue should choose another form of escapism. Akshay Kumar, one of Bollywood's leading action stars, plays Sidhu, a clownish cook from the Delhi marketplace of the title who travels to China to vanquish a gangster, Hojo (Gordon Liu), who is cruelly exploiting villagers. Kumar bears a resemblance to George Clooney, but his character behaves more like an amalgam of the late Peter Sellers and Jackie Chan. A bumbling vegetable chopper and bread maker in the food stall run by Dada (Mithun Chakraborty) – who took him in as an infant, raising Sidhu as his own son with well-intended harshness – our unlikely hero dreams of making good. Instead of relying on hard work and his own talents, however, he resorts to fortunetellers, con men posing as gurus, and inspiration such as the image of the god Ganesh he discerns in a potato. Two Chinese men turn up and, believing Sidhu to be the reincarnation of a legendary warrior, bring him back to their village near the Great Wall. He's accompanied by his fraudulent spiritual guide and translator Chopstick (Ranvir Shorey). There's not room to describe all that transpires or the many tonal shifts that result. Sidhu crosses paths with a set of twins played by the lovely model turned actress Deepika Padukone, and after being humiliated by Hojo and suffering a shattering loss, is eventually transformed into a fighter by their father, a beggar who was formerly a police officer and kung fu master. Shot in India, China and Thailand, "Chandni Chowk to China" is visually attractive and adequately rendered from a technical perspective. Yet a solid pedigree and decent execution can't make up for its elongated nature, with repetitive montages and flashbacks accounting for much of the padding. All the signature accoutrements of the Bollywood formula – designed to instigate laughter, crying and tapping of the toes – are present, along with the Hong Ko

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