Movie Review: Chandni Chowk to China

Movie Name: Chandni Chowk to China
Director: Nikhil Advani
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Mithun Chakraborty, Ranvir Shorey, Chia Hui Liu
Lyrics: Bohemia, Kailash Kher
Rating: * 1/2

Disappointing is how I would describe Chandni Chowk to China (CC2C). Akshay Kumar was ruling the hearts and had already taken the King title from King Khan but he would want to forget he did this movie as soon as he can.

The plot is built on tip of castle made of cards, it blows away to pieces in the very beginning. When you want to throw someone out of China you throw them from Great Wall of China. That’s a cool concept.

Akshay has tried hard to look comic and manages to pull the trick in some scenes. Ranvir Shorey deliveres a good performance but I definitely thought he could have done much better. Where was his comic timing? Mithun had some good dialogues and was a good supporting actor while Deepika was good in some action sequences. Her James Bond style gadgets were not impressive and final fight paled in front of other stunts in the movie.

Akshay’s training was the high point of film and was definitely well executed with a good mix of comedy and action. I was hoping to see Jackie Chan style fights and found very few scenes of that kind.

I hope this is not where the new king of bollywood starts going downhill. He should try to include Katrina in the cast because she sure has been lucky for him.