Chalte Chalte

Plot synopsis:
Geeta and a young man are in love and want to marry. Unfortunately the young man tragically passes away, leaving behind a devastated and shocked Geeta, who eventually loses her senses and is confined to a mental hospital. Years later, Geeta recovers and is discharged, only to find that the man she thought was dead is still alive, calls himself Ravi, and is in love with a lovely young woman named Asha. Unable to deal with this, Geeta decides to make Ravi her own. When she fails, she is re-confined in the mental hospital. Ravi decides to travel abroad, leaving Asha alone. It is then Geeta escapes, gains entry into the house, and tries to do away with Asha, who she believes is the real cause of why her lover has lost interest in her. Geeta tries to kill Asha but is ultimately killed by falling off the roof. The film ends with Ravi consoling Asha. The background music 'Chalte Chalte' plays.

Tags: romantic

Review:
I don't know why, but I get the feeling that a lot of the so-called critics mocking the way Hindi movies are done, are thinking it just  isn't right.I for one have come to accept the whole song and dance routine, the sometimes awful acting and outrageous production.
Shah Rukh Khan is, as usual, fabulous, the story touches on a subject that most Asian families would rather sweep under the mat and put on fake smiles to!But this is exactly what makes Chalte Chalte a cut above the rest movie, and where, in my opinion, is beginning to show how everything within these movies are progressing to higher levels.Rani Mukherji has also put in a great performance as the trying to get blood out of a stone wife of SRK.I would recommend Chalte Chalte to anyone whether you are die hard Hindi fans or not!
Instead of leaving you at the altar to assume that `they lived happily ever after', Chalte Chalte takes you inside the marriage after Boy meets Girl, Boy wins Girl, to experience Man faces the realities of life with Woman.Start with Raj (Shah Rukh Khan), a middle class guy who owns a small transport company.
Also a bit of a snob, she assumes Raj is merely a truck driver and snubs him accordingly.Love blossoms, but the road to happiness is never smooth in Bollywood: Priya becomes engaged to her childhood friend, Sameer, a wealthy businessman from Priya's world of money and privilege.
Raj, not wanting to spend the rest of his life regretting `if only' follows Priya to Greece to convince her that he, not Sameer, is the man of her dreams.
Chalte Chalte provides a mature look into a marriage, not of two movie stars, but of  Mr. and Mrs. Anybody.
The problems Raj and Priya face are problems that all married people the world over face every day: disapproving in-laws, money problems, personality clashes, and on and on.
The supporting players, including Satish Shah and Lilette Dubay are wonderful, and though a handful of new-comers intrude on the flow of the film from time to time, their presence helps develop the story and provide narration and a bit of comic relief.
The usually shrill and obnoxious Johnny Lever shows some welcome restraint this time, and creates an endearingly poignant character who helps tell the story in yet another way.Rani Mukerjee, in my opinion one of India's best actresses, is stunning, both in appearance and in her acting.
With her exotic amber eyes and husky voice she is spellbinding in all her scenes, an intriguing mixture of sexy sophistication and little girl charm rolled into one.But this movie belongs to Shah Rukh Khan, and no mistake.
Even in those moments when Raj is rampaging over his wife's well-intentioned betrayal, or on his knees humiliating himself in a crowded airport in front of Priya's snooty relatives, begging her not to leave him, Khan never goes over the top in his acting.
Shah Rukh Khan has a definite gift for creating complex characters who don't fall easily into good-guy, bad-guy categories, and Chalte Chalte's Raj is one of those characters.
The story has a definite (and intentional) been-there-done-that feel, but Khan is the reason to watch it all one more time.There are those who say the movie has no ending, no resolution, and at first viewing I was one of them.
The choreography was nice, if not overly exuberant (perhaps due to Khan's highly publicized back problems), the cinematography is gorgeous, and there are some dialogues and scenes that will stay with you long after the film has ended.There are a couple of scenes that I would have trimmed, most notably the climax which starts out very movingly, but then lags a bit because of length, and the fact that the entire cast are in danger of drowning in glycerine.
I've noticed that films produced by Shah Rukh himself tend to end up in my TOP-10 list -- Asoka, Main Hoon Na. And the same happened with Chalte Chalte -- it's definitely one of my favorites now, right up there with Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and DDLJ, if not better.I really love the SRK--Rani jodi.
I was so rooting for Raj and Priya to be happy and together in this film that the viewing turned into a very emotional experience for me, which I didn't expect at all, having read some rather lukewarm reviews.Rani looks absolutely stunning (well, as usual) and very feminine.
I liked how realistic and unpretentious this film was, liked the drama in the second half, loved the music and all the songs.
Raj's(Shahrukh Khan)performance as a hard worker, responsible, faithful and romantic husband was Outstanding!
They loved each other very much and were faithful to each other but it appeared that there were personality conflicts, and family class differences between them because Priya was from a upper class family and Raj was from a middle class family.
Later, Sameer made it look like only a loan.Although Priya had admitted to Sameer it was wrong for her to accept money from Sameer, she never appolagized to Raj for accepting the money.No one in the world is perfect.
Rani was fabulous as Priya, stunning in looks and in her conflicts with Raj. This movie was when I first felt that she was a serious actress.
Overall - I gave Chalte Chalte an 8 because I liked the story, the music, the acting and most of all the reality that it is hard for human beings to change what is their true nature..
Chalte Chalte is no doubt a fully fledged Bollywood commercial venture with top stars, exotic foreign locations, expensive sets, colourful dances and melodious songs but at the same time it's a daring experiment in many ways.
First of all, the story defies the set rules of development and plot construction: the boy and girl get married very early in the story and seemingly there is no emminent danger to their "living happily ever after" and at a time when you are expecting some external factors to pop up and spoil their happy marriage, the talented writer manages to create an effective and convincing internal conflict to keep the story within its logical confines.
I really liked this movie even if it's true in some scenes we feel bored and I think it could be better done.Yet the songs are really nice.
The story is simple but I think it was the intention of the producer (to produce something which relates the reality).I give 7/10 to this movie especially for the songs and for the landscapes which take us miles away at least during 3 hours so we forget our problems and daily life to enter in the world of 2 "different" kind of lovers which 2 opposite personalities.To watch more than one time because really enjoyable songs, musics and landscapes!.
I don't think Aish has good acting skills enough to play a challenging role like Rani has played.
I enjoyed this movie very much, Rani looked very sexy in the song Tauba.
Chalte Chalte with its music, acting, frames, screen play is one such film that grips you during the three hours of viewing and has all the ingredients of being a hit.
After larger than life roles (and that too hits), the actor has managed to come up with a light film in a style and has shown why he is distinct in the best actor hall of Indian cinema.
6. Chalte Chalte once again proves the fact that if a film is made keeping in view what audience wants, it will be a hit.
Shahrukh khan really stole the show and he proved with this movie why he is no.1 The film is really worth watching and i assure you that you will not be dissapointed..
Story-wise; it's refreshing to see realist love stories that goes beyond the-guy-gets-his-girl sequence, which most of the movies end with.
I really enjoyed it.It was throughly enjoyable.The story was really good.It was a mature love story.It was very realistic and a typical one too.Scenes were really exciting.Dialogs and script were great.The first half was really enjoyable because of comedy and romance.Second half had drama but was still enjoyable.The chemistry was remarkable.The direction was very good.Acting was phenomenal.Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee have given superb performances.Others are good.The comedy was very entertaining and funny.I don't know why Aziz Mirza made Kismat Konnection which was simply horrific after this.Songs are catchy and enjoyable.Any way,Watch this you will enjoy it.
Besides playing every Bollywood cliché to the hilt, this film was nothing more than a rehash of the Manirathnam quiet hit "Saathiya".Basic story - boy falls in love with girl, get married despite misgivings/objections from parents/coming from different backgrounds blah blah blah and then realising that life is not a bed of roses.
I loved it.The SRK stalwarts were there - Rani Mukherjee, Johnny Lever, Satish Shah, Lillete Dubey.
End result is BAD product.Shah Rukh Khan: Yet again he proves that he is totally non versatile actor.
Here he is a Truck driver who stalks a rich Greek born Indian lassie played by the round faced and raspy voiced Rani Mukherjee who is fresh form the throngs of a similar themed movie "Saathiya"; when she replaced Ash Rai. So Rani is in her native domain so to speak and she is even getting good at these roles depicting a newly married with better expectations and duelling to get it.
A good story could be told well without innately intrusive comics and foreign locations, which have become integral part of the Hindi Movies these days.
Although I had great fears that this film would not live up to my expectations, I am happy to say that in almost every way this film was outstanding.First let me get my only quibble out of the way--the ending was too rushed, too abrupt and too unrealistic--we needed more closure.Otherwise, this was an outstanding movie in every way--from SRK's acting to the supporting characters to Rani's clothes to the absolute realism of the couple's post-marriage fights--I cringed with every word they spoke, watching how two people who loved each other so much could tear themselves apart so easily.I commend the writer for not making either SRK or Rani's character's perfect; they were both flawed and both to blame for what happened.
This is indeed the truth of any marriage--there are two equal partners, and very rarely is it more one person's fault than the other's no matter what people think.On a purely shallow note--SRK continues to look as good as ever (though he has lost weight, poor babe, due to his recent ill health) and continues to remind us why Gauri is one of the luckiest women on earth!!It was also good to see an indian film in which the actress did not feel that a string bikini was adequate attire--Rani wore sexy, stunning clothes, and never felt the need to undress the way the actresses in, for example, Andaaz did-- costume directors take note--this is how real women dress- elegant, revealing when necessary, but never vulgar.All in all, apart from the ending, I would give this movie easily 9/10Go See!!!!!!!!!!!.
Trucks, great honking big ones, gaudily painted and festooned with tinselly decorations, feature prominently in `Chalte Chalte', the new film from Shah Rukh Khan's production company, Dreamz Unlimited.
The hero, Raj (Shah Rukh Khan), as proprietor of a transportation company, owns a fleet of trucks.
Unfortunately, trucks become a metaphor for the film itself, with its lumbering unsubtlety and ponderous plot turns.Taking a page out of Miss Piggy's `Guide to Living', Raj has a number of remarkably homely-looking friends: in her self-help tome, the Porcine One advises, `To look glamorous at the dinner table, surround yourself with ugly dining companions.'  These friends recount to a newcomer to the group how Raj and Priya (Rani Mukherjee) met cute and how he proceeded to woo her.
This first encounter, adhering to Hindi film convention, is a prickly one, but the subsequent ones lead to mutual attraction and considerable singing of duets.Priya is a promising fashion designer; she is also foreign-based so that she and Raj can sing romantic songs in Greece.
Hindi film heroes are made of sterner stuff, however: within days, Raj recruits what seems to be the entire able-bodied population of Mumbai, including a kindly traffic cop, a benevolent postman, and citizenry of other sundry occupations, to locate Priya over the course of a single well-choreographed song.Having made it abundantly clear that he is in love with her, Raj suffers a setback when Priya tells him she has to fly back to Athens to get engaged to her childhood chum and fellow blue-blood, Sameer.
But the writing (and the direction) is so hackneyed, that even proficient performers like Shah Rukh and Rani have trouble bringing Raj and Priya to life.
I feel this film shows the life SRK and Gauri Khan..
That should be a great lesson for the people who says "Marriage is a tomb of love" Keeping all respect to the privacy of SRK's personal life, I would like to say, there are some of things in the film what I have read about Shahrukh Khan's life.
I think, because of this, this film is very very close to reality.It is my very personal feeling is that Ash Rai would play Priya's character better than Rani did.
I seriously am not a fan of Srk's films except someHis films mostly are too sugarcoated, larger then life.etcThis film is just a routine story and nothing great In fact SAATHIYA had a similar story which also had Rani in the same role but that is betterThis is just an ordinary film with ordinary stuffOf course Srk fans will find it greatIt has SRK doing his usual comedy, romance, dance everything he has done before Even an airport sceneDirection by Aziz Mirza is ordinary Music is goodSRK does his usual stuff, Rani is as usual but looks gorgeous Jas Arora is okay Satish Shah and rest are okay.
Imagine that if you can, a Bollywood film as the mainstream movie hit of the year!
No, snipping the film at the hour and a half mark would have cost us the brilliantly acted (and scripted) argument scenes.***spoiler*** It would have robbed us of the pathos of the scene where the impressionable young girl accidentally uncovers the fact that all is not rosy in the Raj-Priya home.
In short, we both loved it.Ok, so my wife had the added attraction of the staggeringly smooth Mr Shah Rukh Khan - about whom my BollyDolly friend regularly, and expansively salivates, but then, truth be told, Rani Mukherjee wasn't exactly lacking in attractive powers either.
I mean, there was one scene ***spoiler coming...*** where Khan's Raj was telling Mukherjee's Priya all the things he would do for her and how much he wanted her to be happy - all the while flashing that cheeky crease of the face trick - where I think, even a red-blooded male such as myself, would have almost succumbed to marry the royally-larynxed Raj!
***end-spoiler***So, as if that's not enough, what else was it that made me love this film?
***spoiler*** The bit where the girl in the bowling alley bursts into tears; the hilarious scene with the policeman (who played a great role, akin to a Shakespearian fool); Raj's telephone call with an irate customer - how could you NOT love this film?
***** SPOILER******   SPOILER********  SPOILER*******BEWARE****SPOILER***Sharukh Khan and Rani Mukerjee are both my favorite actors, I would recommend you to watch this movie.
I am pointing out some mistakes.The story starts when Raj (Sharukh) and Priya (Rani) meet with a freak accident.
Then the traffic police sequence was good and subsequent sequences were nice until Raj meets Priya in Mumbai and tells her he looking for her for 20 days , this is way too impractical , how can he obstruct traffic for so much time.
I loved this movie, from start to finish, the songs amazing (perhaps not the Sonu Nigam one) the performance of each and every one of the cast, flawless.Let's start with King Khan, I loved the way he looked at Rani with affection the first time he saw her, it looked genuine and not some feature that was plastered on his face.
The way their relationship developed, was touching and for the first time I didn't cringe after the fact that the hero run's off to woo his love before she gets married to someone else.
Her performance was outstanding, heart-warming, I loved her every scenes, it made me want to fast forward the next scenes until she was on screen (thank god for me and my DVD player she was on the screen as much as Shahrukh) The whole movie was a great achievement and I was glad to see that the film didn't end with a big happy ending it ended with what was building a crack in their marriage, an argument.I'm glad I purchased the film on DVD, as well as its soundtrack, it was one of my few but best buys!.
If you love Shah Rukh Khan you will love this movie!.
If you like Shah Rukh (and I think it is clear that I do), go immediately to see this movie.
Meets the heroine (Rani Mukherjee) who has come-a-visiting India just before she is going to tie the knot with a childhood family friend's son- good looking and tall  same cultural and educational and upbringing values  kinda heaven made match.
fought over small things and then must have made up like it happens when you are family friends.Anyways, she meets this truck driver owner - and maybe the stars were not in her favour at that particular point of time, she falls in love with him!
She should have married the family friend's son.NB: the truck drivers and other subordinates did not look the kinds to go to you know what na?