{"id":15986,"date":"2013-08-18T00:08:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T00:08:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:14:42","slug":"bollywood-film-chennai-express-becomes-box-office-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=15986","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood film &#8220;Chennai Express&#8221; becomes box office hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India&#8217;s hugely-popular Hindi film industry, otherwise known as Bollywood, has yet another box office hit &#8211; in a film that combines elements of Tamil culture and language.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Chennai Express&#8221;<\/strong> is Bollywood&#8217;s latest blockbuster movie.<\/p>\n<p>Made with US$13 million, it crossed the US$25-million mark in ticket sales after just five days.<\/p>\n<p>Chugging along with its success is lead actor, Shahrukh Khan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aFJmSKMvLTg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Bollywood heart-throb plays the role of Rahul, a north Indian man from Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>He has to travel to a small town in south Indian province of Tamil Nadu to fulfill his grandfather&#8217;s last wish to have his ashes immersed in the holy water of Rameshwaram.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, he meets a Tamil girl, falls in love with her and they embark on a series of adventures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Khan said:<\/strong> &#8220;I like the whole idea of bringing a love and a comedy story together, which has a situation in which we do not understand each other and our love prospers and we find out that love conquers everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many scenes were filmed in south India and Tamil language is often used in the romantic action comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Deepika Padukone, who plays Meenalochini Sundaram, is a south Indian from Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p>She chose to work alongside Khan in Chennai Express after her successful debut with him six years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She said:<\/strong> &#8220;After the release of &#8216;Om Shanti Om&#8217;, he always said that whatever we do next has to be as special as &#8216;Om Shanti Om&#8217; and if not more and I am glad that &#8216;Chennai Express&#8217; finally happened to the two of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Chennai Express&#8221; has already proved itself a runaway success.<\/strong> Now, all eyes will be on the next Hindi-Tamil fusion movie coming out of Bollywood &#8211; the political thriller &#8220;Madras Cafe&#8221;. It&#8217;s expected to be released at the end of August.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\">Source www.channelnewsasia.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s hugely-popular Hindi film industry, otherwise known as Bollywood, has yet another box office hit &#8211; in a film that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1012],"tags":[2120],"class_list":["post-15986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-travel"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"India&#8217;s hugely-popular Hindi film industry, otherwise known as Bollywood, has yet another box office hit &#8211; in a film that","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Travel"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":133,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1012\">Travel<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}