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Much of the overt action belongs to Shahrukh Khan, with his comedic fish-out-of-water flailing as Rahul. To Padukone's credit as an actor, she's able to gracefully keep that element both omnipresent and nearly invisibly subtextual. In a film mostly consisting of broad comedy and action setpieces, it's ironic that the most compelling element would be the subtlety of the heroine's string-pulling. The twist here is that rather than Rahul discovering an inner heroism and saving the imperiled damsel from the fates that beset her, Meena spends the rest of the film bailing him out of mortal danger. After a series of comic mishaps, Rahul ends up trapped with a beautiful young Tamil lady named Meena (Padukone) and several large, unfriendly men in the employ of her powerful father, sent by him to bring her back home to marry a hulking brute. The story begins with sheltered Mumbai sweet seller Rahul (Khan) agreeing to transport half of his grandfather's ashes to Rameshwaram, near the southernmost point of India (about as far away from Mumbai as one can get without leaving the country, in other words). "Chennai Express" very quietly becomes her movie, before we even realize it's happening.
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Padukone got top billing in the movie due to Khan ceding it as a personal statement unrelated to this particular project. It should be noted as well that Shahrukh Khan, who's recently spent quite a bit of energy pretending that he's not pushing 50, directly addresses that issue in "Chennai Express," even letting Deepika Padukone spend a whole scene making fun of him for looking old. It's just enough of a change of pace for Rohit Shetty to seem like a radical step forward without being so much of one as to be unrecognizable, as it's still funny and exciting, and the visuals pop. This leaves the movie itself, which could very easily be an afterthought in the wake of all its marketing heft, but isn't at all.