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Starring: Akshay Kumar,
Deepika Padukone, Mithun Chakraborty, Gordon Liu, Ranvir
Shorey, Roger Yuan, Kiran Juneja, Jun Li, Chang En Lu,
Conan Stevens
Directed by Nikhil Advani
Chandni Chowk to China, the first ever Bollywood Kungfu
comedy takes you on a madcap journey from the by-lanes
of Chandni Chowk in Delhi to Shanghai, the Great Wall
and rural China, marrying in its wake hilarious gaga,
breathtaking action, spectacular locations and heart
stirring emotions.
Our protagonist Sidhu (Akshay Kumar) is the lowest on
the totem pole, cutting vegetables at a road side food
stall in Chandni Chowk in Delhi. He longs to escape his
dreary existence and look for shortcuts - with
astrologers, tarot readers and fake fakirs - basically
believing anything except himself, despite his father
figure Dada's (Mithun Chakravorty) best efforts.
His redeeming moment arrives when two strangers from
China claim him as a reincarnation of a war hero in the
past and take 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) !
Akshay
Kumar’s performance is commendable in this film which is
way below expectations and a major disappointment. There
are couple of scenes in the movie which surely tickles
your funny bone to the core! But, the way the story
drags and too many coincidences gets you on your nerves.
Everything is hilarious and fast and furious in the
first half. Some of the sequences of China are quite
beautiful. Deepika Padukone is stunning in some dance
numbers.
The Indian girl Deepika Padukone is okay, while the sexy
Chinese girl Deepika is impressive. Gordon Liu is
decent. Ranvir Shorey is just wasted , so is our
Mithunda. Roger Yuan is Deepika's father in the film.
- Shaami
M. Irfan
Cast:
Sidhu - Akshay Kumar
Sakhi / Suzy - Deepika Padukone
Dada - Mithun Chakraborty
Hojo - Gordon Liu
Chopstick - Ranvir Shorey
Inspector Chiang Kohung - Roger Yuan
Mrs. Kohung - Kiran Juneja
Wong - Jun Li
Han - Chang En Lu
Joey - Conan Stevens
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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 Kung-fu expert and set the village free. Armed
with his Sifu's (master), faith in himself and the love
of the fair Sakhi, Sidhu sets forth to conquer all !
Credits & Crew
Produced by Ramesh Sippy, Rohan Sippy, Mukesh Talreja
Directed by Nikhil Advani
Written by Shridhar Raghavan
Original Music by Bohemia, Shankar Mahadevan, Loy
Mendonsa, Ehsaan Noorani
Dialogues - Rajat Arora dialogue
Lyrics - Bohemia , Kailash Kher
Cinematography - Himman Dhamija, Manikandan
Film Editing - Aarif Sheikh
Casting by Mo Lan
Costume Design by Jaimal Odedra
Line Producers - Roopa De Choudhury, Sally Yeh, Kulthep
Narula, Ravi Sarin
Assistant Directors - Gaurav Chawla, Aditya Basu,
Rukhshida David, Sabrina Khan, Karan Shah, Devanshu
Kumar
Stunts Director - Huan-Chiu Ku
Singers - Shreya Ghoshal, Neeraj Shridhar, Ravi
Khanvilkar, Kailash Kher, Shankar Mahadevan, Anushka
Manchandani,
Lyrics - Shaily Shailendra
Choreographer - Pony Verma
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