Chandni Chowk to China (2009)

Instant Favorite.

Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

CCTC is the first Indian martial arts movie that is very entertaining. Director Nikhil Advani and Akshay Kumar are the real stars that have made it a pleasant and interesting movie. It's really a great entertainer.Akshay Kumar who not only performs Martial arts, also emotes well throughout the entire movie. The film is full of thunderous performances. The film has excellent emotional chain between all characters. The stunts are the best ones I have ever seen. Other aspects like music,comedy,locations,cinematography and story with screenplay are also perfect. The Chinese actors are also good.On the whole,CCTC is a great entertainer all the way. Go,watch it and visit China with our desi stars!

No, my title isn't contradictory, and you'll see how. This is a Bollywood movie. Not that great, not that new, and not that comic, but – somewhat – holds up as a portion of entertainment. The thing is it demands a lot to be watched in complete !Kumar irritates me : let's face it, this guy isn't funny. Comparing the good old Indian stars to him seems like comparing The Simpsons to The Cleveland Show. His inclination to screams and dirty jokes produces nothing but bore and disgust. Whatever his movie's status, always dreadful by the way, he needs a considerable endurance from your side !Some point eats me. Why the awful violence? Seeing a head that separates from a body doesn't fit a colorful comedy such as the one intended in here. Let alone the many killings along the way? I believe this movie is whether tense between being a comedy and a martial arts movie, or simply it doesn't know what to be ?!The script bleeds me. How many wrong things it has ?! Take a list. Forced; they had to make a superfluous musical part, where the scientists strangely gift the heroine with many free gadgets, one of them is a translating device, only to fix a problem this movie has; which is Chia Hui Liu's failure to speak English or Hindi, while a little dubbing would have been easier and shorter ! Unoriginal and silly; ask yourself what Inspector Gadget's umbrella from Inspector Gadget (1999), and Oddjob's killing hat from Goldfinger (1964) are doing here ?! Ugly; there are at least 200 coincidences. Dispensable and tedious; 2 consciences for the sidekick ! Blah; the lead develops a supernatural power??!! Irritating; the matter of 20-year-lost amnesiac policeman who lives as a lunatic bagger, conserving his fighting abilities, having SO MUCH TIME till he remembers, all pushed me to not explode with laughs, just explode ! Well, to sum it all up, watch the evil man urinating on the lead at one unnecessary point, and the heroine flying in the sky at another, to know how loathsome this movie is at parts, and how messy it is at the most ! The good moments happen accidentally, about 2 did amuse me; the opening credits' sequence and when a woman slaps Kumar in the airport for his antic! The legendary Chia Hui Liu (or Gordon Liu), from the Shaw Brothers' classic martial arts' movies of the late 1970s, is wasted. I waited a long time to see him in action again, decent one for that matter, but alas. Deepika Padukone is so beautiful, I was amazed by her risqué outfit in the ad's scene, End of The Story! Ranvir Shorey vies worthily for the title of the most ridiculous sidekick ever. Mithun Chakraborty is the sole factor I would remember from this movie, despite the exaggeratedly tragic way his character was handled.OK, the riddle's answer is easy. This Indian movie-makers sit, then say : we want to make an action, comedy, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, musical, melodrama, into many international locations, James Bond's atmosphere, Martial arts taste, with enough colors, music and corpses ! The outcome of that could have been unique and entertaining mix of genres. This time it's only entertaining episodes that lack being harmonious together. And it fits for one viewing, because it needs a mighty power to stand that unbelievable, idiot and inflated mix entirely twice! However, the riddle that maybe I, and the rest of the next generation of reviewers, and the next and the next, will search for an answer to it is how come in god's name this is Warner Bros' first Hindi production ???????????Akshay Kumar claims that this movie is semi-autobiographical, since (Sidhu) is a cook who grew up in Chandni Chowk, Delhi, just like he had. He forgot other reasons; (Sidhu) is dullard, he is too. It's about a loser cook mistaken for a super worrier, Kumar is a loser actor mistaken for a superstar. And big part of this movie sucks, exactly like his career yet. So autobiographical indeed !P.S : In the same year Kumar did 4 more movies. One of them, Kambakkht Ishq (2009), was a crime to humanity which has been nominated for 8 Golden Kela awards, the Indian Razzies, fair and square. Makes you feel how merciful Chandni Chowk to China really is !

Chandni Chowk to China,fails big time and how? 1.)The film's script is shoddy.The 1st hour is okay but it is the 2nd hour that plays as the villain.2.)Considering the fact that the movie is shot in China,the audience just gets to see the Great Wall Of China.3.)The film's promos promises some big laughter.Sadly,the viewer laughs for just 1 or 2 jokes.4.)The action sequences are bland.These are the few things which makes CC2C a disaster.The promos looked terrific and the movie turns out to be terrible.Performance wise-Aakshay is good.Deepika also acts well.Mithun Chakraborty,Ranvir Shorey,Gordon Liu are bland.Overall CC2C is a washout.

AkshayBhai is currently playing roles where he's the hero but also a complete clown. He pulled this role off well in Namastay London but seems to be sinking lower and lower in each successive film. Can it get worse? Well his character is urinated upon in this film.Deepika is imaginatively assigned a double role in this and succeeds well. Both her characters appear distinguishably different although this is probably due to the costume and make-up rather than strength of her characters.The premise has potential, however the script appears to have been cobbled together. This film would probably disappoint it's audience because they'd be expecting popcorn and actually be fed peanut soup. Overall it's a farcical film made watchable by the dumb antics of AkshayBhai, eye candy of Deepika, and some fine kung foolery by Mithun.Pros - Different to the usual Bollywood fare! Soundtrack has 1 great song...Cons - Odd continuity glitch, plot-holes, swear words!?Overall - runs out of steam just before credits role