Published On:Monday, 29 July 2013
Live Coverage on Chennai Express: Countdown to great Epic
v Shahrukh's first interview on Chennai Express: Those two months before movie release are terrible – Shahrukh Khan
v Shahrukh's wife Gauri Khan said that Shahrukh started wearing lungi since he started working on Chennai Express. Shahrukh confirmed, he said "Lungi is best costume in the world. It is very comfortable and open. Many diseases you can keep away from your body, wearing this awesome cloth."
v India Satire's expert panel watched first promo of Chennai Express. They found it very funny and laughed out loud like crazy pigs. One of the panelists, Mahesh Bhatt said "Chennai Express has great subtle porn and eroticism that only I can see. I can watch real lust and greed in the eyes of SRK."
v Another panelist Mohit Suri, Director of Ashiqui 2 advised Director Rohit Shetty said "The movie will be hit if Rohit Shetty will show both actor and actress kill each other in the end."
v Another panelist Sanjay Leela Bhansali said the colours and sets used in Chennai Express are highly predictable. "There is no creativity at all. All sets are South Indian, nothing new. I expected that Rohit Shetty would be importing all sets from mars or planet Zumbata."
v Director Rohit Shetty decided to use laughing gas in the theaters so that people can laugh watching the movie.
v One car which burst in the movie expressed its unhappiness. She said that she was having a long peaceful rest in the garbage and suddenly Rohit Shetty bought her for peanuts and blasted in the movie. She is planning to file case against the director.
v Chennai Express actor Shahrukh Khan confirmed that the movie is exactly copy paste from his previous movies. He said "I don't want to give any kind of shocks to my fans and therefore this movie is similar to my old movies. I am going to do everything similar what I did in my previous movies. I will spread my hands, run behind girl, will make sarcastic and funny comments and then finally all will be well. Everything is similar like what was happening in the Jubilee star Rajendra Kumar's movies. We have copied all the best scenes from my previous movies and pasted in Chennai Express. Only thing was that I wore different clothes in this movie to show some differentiation. Just to add some creativity, Rohit Shetty showed blasts of cars and jeeps and few rubbish jokes."
v Economist, Bharat Ratna and Nobel Prize winner, Amartya Sen said that he is interested in participating in the special screening of the movie before the release of Chennai Express. He said "I would like to find out communal angle in the movie and then only I will recommend it to wide Indian audience." Rohit Shetty ruled out any possibilities of inviting him for special screening of the movie.
v "Parliamentary session at the time of Chennai Express' release is Government's attempt to divert Indians from serious and controversial corruption related issues," said leader of opposition, Sushma Swaraj.
v Shahrukh Khan announced free tickets of Chennai Express to those who were physically and mentally injured watching his Ra-One and Jab Tak Hai Jaan.
v Shahrukh Khan called Chennai Express actress Deepika Padukone '100% Steel Body' in a press conference, Salman Khan slammed him for degrading women Indian women.
