Chennai Express Page #7

Synopsis: Rahul embarks on a journey to a small town in Tamil Nadu to fulfill the last wish of his grandfather: to have his ashes immersed in the Holy water of Rameshwaram. En route, he meets a woman hailing from a unique family down South. As they find love through this journey in the exuberant lands of South India, an unanticipated drive awaits them.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Rohit Shetty
Production: UTV Communications
  28 wins & 55 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
54%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
141 min
Website
5,886 Views


What happened?

Where has the power

of the common man gone?

Meenamma please!

I know you will

drop me after fifty.

Never!

Dont underestimate

the commonof a power man...

I meanthe power of a common man.

Rahul, you carried

your wife to the temple...

Bravo.

Meena, he will take

care of you all your life.

What is he saying?

Hes saying that youve proved you will

look after me for the rest of our lives.

Ya.

Raaja, may you live

for a hundred years.

you both will live together

for seven generations.

Miss Subtitle. What?

They believe that the couples who

are able to complete this ritual...

God will keep them together

for the next seven lives.

Why havent you put kumkum?

What is he saying?

Without the vermillion

the ritual is not complete.

What?

You shouldve mentioned it earlier.

That means all of

this has gone to waste?

My hands and my hips

are hurting so much!

Put this kumkum my son.

Oh! Shes got it.

Thank you, aunty.

Thank you very much.

No, Rahul.

What happened?

This ritual wont be complete

without the vermillion.

These people will

take us out from here.

Come on and listen.

Hurry UP-

We have to descend 300 steps

andthis time you will help me.

My heart like a butteryhas

taken flight far away

My heart like a butteryhas

taken flight far away

With sweet fragrances

it has gone to stay

I have never felt

this waya ray of light

kisses the darkness away

My heart like a butteryhas taken

flight far away... Far, far away

Should I say it in wordsor

inscribe it on the sky

Praise be to you

My heart like a butteryhas

taken flight far away

With sweet fragrances

it has gone to stay

Your deep brown eyes

Tease me with a glance

Your soothing words can

Also put the birds in a trance

A little incomplete without you,

Now I feel complete

Your simplicity has

swept me off my feet

My heart like a butteryhas taken

flight far away... Far, far away

Should I say it in wordsor

inscribe it on the sky

Praise be to you

What happened Rahul?

What? I am packing.

Why?

Do you on living here

in this Vidamba village?

Look Meenamma, this is enough.

We will quietly slip

away without telling anyone.

Otherwise these people will

keep making us do weird rituals.

You also get ready. Let's go

No Rahul.

If we run away from here

then what will the villagers think?

They will think

that weve run away.

It's no big dea|.Come on.

You also get ready.

It's about the villagers

feelings Rahul.

They will feel hum!

What about when they find out

thatwe lied about being married?

Will they help

anyone the next time?

Will these people be

able to trust anyone again?

As it is...

Do you want to

stay here?Is that it?

I've noticed that ever since you've started

playing the role of being my wife...

you have been having a lot of fun.

Look, just because I

put vermillion on your head,

doesn't mean you start

getting serious about it.

That was a stupid ritual.

Rahul!

Only you can think this way!

Have you thought about

howthe villagers would feel?

Forget the village, have you thought

about your grandmother's feelings?

Didnt you say that your grandfather

had replaced your parents.

And what did you do?

You changed the place wherehe

wanted his ashes immersed.

Rameshwaram to Goa!

Yes! I changed the place.

Do you know why?

Because I...

I dont have any feelings.

I am bad...

actually... I am a very bad man!

Only you are very good,

these villagers are very good...

Grandma is. Grandpa is.

And a bad person has no

rightto stay amongst good people.

So I'll just go. You know what,

you keep this with you.

You are good, he was good.

All of you make a company

of good people and live together.

I am not going to live

in this village right.

Spare me please!

Even though I was mad,

I had a sinking feeling...

about leaving Meenamma all alone.

Youve come?

Rahul! This...

This is too much!

One minute, yes. One minute.

I'll come there.

Hi Tangaballi sir.

You and me...

No personal enmity here, sir.

Why take me,

go to Komban village and kill?

No point, sir.

Youve...

youve got your lady, sir.

Leave me.

I ready steady go, sir!

Sir!

What?

From my heart sir.

I am speaking from my heart sir.

Forgive me and forget me.

Throw it away, sir.

Do whatever you

wantwith your lady, sir.

Do... do get married.

Do what you want to do, sir.

Just let me go. Thank you.

Sir, shes your girl.

You can sing any song

you want to with her.

Now Meena is all yours, my friend.

Hey you!

You're a number stupid,

parasiteand an opportunist!

You are leaving me and running?

Try and understand.

Understand what?

That...

What that?

That only...

What that only?

I've played such a game...

that I fool the opponent

and the game comes into my hands.

To save you...

I've played a ruse.

So this was your strategy?

Since when did you becomebrave

enough to defend me?

Meena!

Washing powder, Meena!

What?

No matter how wicked I am,

I am human after all.

I thought to myself

that I must help you Meena.

Now did you understand

what I'm saying...

Meena!

Pick up the sickle that's...

right in front of

you and beside Tangaballi

Yes! I will take it.

I've understood my lady love.

You two think I dont understand...

and that you can

make a fool out of me.

Tangaballi is singing in Hindi?

Yes!

Balli Balli I am Tangaballi!

I know your plan...

now youre in trouble.

You will not sing to him anymore.

Now you will bid farewell

to this world, while doing disco!

Okay, that's enough!

Hey Tangu...

Hey Tangu...

Touch and show Anna,

I will cut you.

You do not know...

whom you are fighting with.

We are good for good peopleand

at the same time bad for...

bad people... understand.

We are in South, but we are

in the centerof people's hear-ts.

Whoever ridicules our honor and culture,

we teach them such a lesson that...

they wet their pants.

Rahul!

Meenamma, ready steady go!

Meena...

nobody can understand women.

At a time like this shes

worried about her things!

Really,

no one can understand women.

Come on.

Here you go, your ticket to Mumbai.

And you?

I am going to immerse

Grandpa's ashesin Rameshwaram.

You know Meenamma,

I just realized...

the best way to escape your

problems is to...is to face them.

No matter how wicked I

am,I am human after all, Meena.

You are right about all...

just one thing is wrong.

I will also come

with you to Rameshwaram.

What? Have you gone mad?

This is wrong.

- I'm doing the right thing.- Right, how?

Youve got the chance to

run awaywith such difficulty.

I could have run away when you were

drunkin the village, if I wanted.

I didnt run away

then.So how will l, now?

Its final Rahul,

I will also come with you.

Meenamma, try to understand...

I've taken a decision, let me complete

iton my own accord, please.

And you might be in danger there.

-What if Tangaballi reaches there?- Exactly.

I will save you from Tangaballi.

That's why I should come with you!

Okay?

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