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Chandni Chowk
to China [2009]
Presented by : Warner Bros. Pictures
Produced by: Ramesh Sippy, Rohan Sippy, Mukesh Talreja
Directed by : Nikhil Advani
Cast : Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Mithun Chakraborty,
Ranvir Shorey, Gordon Liu, Roger Yuan
Music Director : Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
UK Release Date : 16 January 2009 |
'Chandni Chowk To
China', the first ever Bollywood Kungfu comedy takes you on a
madcap Journey from the by-lanes of Chandni Chowk in Delhi, to
Shanghai, the Great Wall and rural China, marrying in its wake
hilarious gags, breathtaking action, spectacular locations and
heart stirring emotions. The protagonist Sidhu (Akshay Kumar)
is the lowest on the totem pole, cutting vegetables at a roadside
food stall in Chandni Chowk in Delhi. He longs to escape his dreary
existence and looks for shortcuts- with astrologers, tarot readers
and fake fakirs - basically believing anything except himself,
despite his father figure Dada's (Mithun Chakraborty) best efforts.
His redeeming moment
arrives when two strangers from China claim him as a reincarnation
of a war hero in the past and takes him to China. Sidhu now dreams
of wine, women, and a princely existence in foreign lands. Thanks
to the devious translator, a conman by the name Chopstick (Ranvir
Shorey), little does he know that he is being taken to the Promised
Land to rid the Chinese village of the vicious smuggler Hojo (Gordon
Liu)!
So
Sidhu blissfully sets forth to China with Chopstick who instigates
dreams of a delicious future and forgets to reveal the perils
which await him. Along the way he meets Sakhi (Deepika Padukone),
Ms. Tele Shoppers Media (Ms. TSM) who has embarked on a journey
to pay homage to the land of her birth and her dead father and
twin.
Initially, Sidhu
through a series of lucky coincidences manages to sidestep being
beaten by Hojo's men but finally Hojo catches up with him and
exposes him as the country buffoon that he really is. Sidhu has
the fire of revenge in his belly and finds the one man who will
make him a Kungfu expert and set the village free. Armed with
his Sifu (master), faith in himself and the love of the fair Sakhi
Sidhu sets forth to conquer all!
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