Prashast Singh
CCTC is the first Indian martial arts movie that is very entertaining. Director Nikhil Advani and Akshay Kumar are the real stars that have made it a pleasant and interesting movie. It's really a great entertainer.Akshay Kumar who not only performs Martial arts, also emotes well throughout the entire movie. The film is full of thunderous performances. The film has excellent emotional chain between all characters. The stunts are the best ones I have ever seen. Other aspects like music,comedy,locations,cinematography and story with screenplay are also perfect. The Chinese actors are also good.On the whole,CCTC is a great entertainer all the way. Go,watch it and visit China with our desi stars!
elshikh4
No, my title isn't contradictory, and you'll see how. This is a Bollywood movie. Not that great, not that new, and not that comic, but – somewhat – holds up as a portion of entertainment. The thing is it demands a lot to be watched in complete !Kumar irritates me : let's face it, this guy isn't funny. Comparing the good old Indian stars to him seems like comparing The Simpsons to The Cleveland Show. His inclination to screams and dirty jokes produces nothing but bore and disgust. Whatever his movie's status, always dreadful by the way, he needs a considerable endurance from your side !Some point eats me. Why the awful violence? Seeing a head that separates from a body doesn't fit a colorful comedy such as the one intended in here. Let alone the many killings along the way? I believe this movie is whether tense between being a comedy and a martial arts movie, or simply it doesn't know what to be ?!The script bleeds me. How many wrong things it has ?! Take a list. Forced; they had to make a superfluous musical part, where the scientists strangely gift the heroine with many free gadgets, one of them is a translating device, only to fix a problem this movie has; which is Chia Hui Liu's failure to speak English or Hindi, while a little dubbing would have been easier and shorter ! Unoriginal and silly; ask yourself what Inspector Gadget's umbrella from Inspector Gadget (1999), and Oddjob's killing hat from Goldfinger (1964) are doing here ?! Ugly; there are at least 200 coincidences. Dispensable and tedious; 2 consciences for the sidekick ! Blah; the lead develops a supernatural power??!! Irritating; the matter of 20-year-lost amnesiac policeman who lives as a lunatic bagger, conserving his fighting abilities, having SO MUCH TIME till he remembers, all pushed me to not explode with laughs, just explode ! Well, to sum it all up, watch the evil man urinating on the lead at one unnecessary point, and the heroine flying in the sky at another, to know how loathsome this movie is at parts, and how messy it is at the most ! The good moments happen accidentally, about 2 did amuse me; the opening credits' sequence and when a woman slaps Kumar in the airport for his antic! The legendary Chia Hui Liu (or Gordon Liu), from the Shaw Brothers' classic martial arts' movies of the late 1970s, is wasted. I waited a long time to see him in action again, decent one for that matter, but alas. Deepika Padukone is so beautiful, I was amazed by her risqué outfit in the ad's scene, End of The Story! Ranvir Shorey vies worthily for the title of the most ridiculous sidekick ever. Mithun Chakraborty is the sole factor I would remember from this movie, despite the exaggeratedly tragic way his character was handled.OK, the riddle's answer is easy. This Indian movie-makers sit, then say : we want to make an action, comedy, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, musical, melodrama, into many international locations, James Bond's atmosphere, Martial arts taste, with enough colors, music and corpses ! The outcome of that could have been unique and entertaining mix of genres. This time it's only entertaining episodes that lack being harmonious together. And it fits for one viewing, because it needs a mighty power to stand that unbelievable, idiot and inflated mix entirely twice! However, the riddle that maybe I, and the rest of the next generation of reviewers, and the next and the next, will search for an answer to it is how come in god's name this is Warner Bros' first Hindi production ???????????Akshay Kumar claims that this movie is semi-autobiographical, since (Sidhu) is a cook who grew up in Chandni Chowk, Delhi, just like he had. He forgot other reasons; (Sidhu) is dullard, he is too. It's about a loser cook mistaken for a super worrier, Kumar is a loser actor mistaken for a superstar. And big part of this movie sucks, exactly like his career yet. So autobiographical indeed !P.S : In the same year Kumar did 4 more movies. One of them, Kambakkht Ishq (2009), was a crime to humanity which has been nominated for 8 Golden Kela awards, the Indian Razzies, fair and square. Makes you feel how merciful Chandni Chowk to China really is !
Avinash Patalay
Well, cutting the long story short C2C is a big downer. And mind you Mr. Akshay Kumar saw this shaping up and put a disclaimer "C2C is a no- brainer" even before the movie hit the screens. Akshay Kumar:: Its sad to see the lows Akshay Kumar is seeing after his success streak. I hope he is wise enough to see that he is another Govinda in the making. Deepika:: There was no need for the twin, IMO. And yes, it seems a lot of effort has been put in for getting the authentic look for the Chinese twin. Mithun Da:: Very bad role.Akshay Kumar's training:: Seems to inspired from Remo.Plot is full of craters. And the action and comedy don't fill up big sizes. Too much of Chinese characters/ dialogues & references work against the movie. And hey - all the chinks looked the same. So it was even more difficult to distinguish the good guy from the bad. And the narration didn't help either.Warner Bros have been taken for a jolly good ride. I am sure they haven't lost the lesson they have learnt after loosing the moolah.Ramesh Sippy:: Another Sholay, Shaan or Shakti? Forget it. Its better to be in sabbatical and not further taint existing reputation.Nikhil Advani:: Well face it Sir... SEI wasn't great shakes and C2C "is" a disaster. Hope you are not competing against yourself to deliver a bigger flop. Kal Ho Na Ho should perhaps be attributed to Karan Johar pulling the strings in the background eh? Given KJo's reputation at the moment, you should beg to get back into his camp (even if it takes you to get down on all fours!).
sumanbarthakursmailbox
The trouble with Chandni Chowk To China is that it is a horrible film. Chandni Chowk To China is a big, bloated misadventure of a movie with a string of set pieces instead of a plot. There are too many gags, too many action scenes, too many item songs, and too much of everything, in fact. The film's biggest crime, if you ask me, is that it's an exercise in excess.Inspired liberally from Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, the comedy in Chandni Chowk To China, although largely slapstick, is enjoyable for the sheer good-natured goofiness Akshay brings to his character.The screenplay also spends too much time on secondary characters like Hojo and Chopstick, whose pointless sub-plots only add to the film's daunting length. While there's no question most of the kung-fu scenes are neatly choreographed, there's a good chance you'll wish they weren't so repetitive and unending.In a nutshell, Chandni Chowk To China is a tiring watch because it's an old formula only re-packaged in an East-meets-East avatar. The star of the film and really the only reason it doesn't entirely fail, is Akshay Kumar who is in such good form you wish they wrote better material for him. His timing is pitch-perfect and he's not afraid of looking foolish, as a result he pulls off some pretty good stuff. Deepika Padukone, despite the double role, is only ornamental in the film, but she makes a pretty sidepiece.Throw in those breathtaking scenes filmed at the Great Wall of China, and you have something to remember after all. But what sticks with you when you leave the cinema after a screening of Chandni Chowk To China is the feeling of fatigue that comes from being trapped in an elevator for hours.Nikhil Advani the director must quit directing because he is a very very bad director.
