Chef
Starring Saif Ali Khan, Padmapriya Janakiraman, Svar Kamble
Directed by Raja Krishna Menon
There is a lot of teasing between the father and son, played with endearing casualness by Saif Ali Khan and Svar Kamble. Aptly, Chef teases our appetite for cinema. It’s a culinary delight—warm, tender, inviting and appetizing– served up in a dainty dish with a dash of debonair but played-down posturing, like a masterchef who is shy to show off his skills but can’t help it. He’s so adept at what he does.
Chef conveys the kind of sagacious skill born not out of arrogance but wisdom sometimes misplaced. Like the protagonist Roshan Kalra’s traditionalist father who believes the kitchen is for women.
Speaking of which—arrogance more than wisdom—Saif Ali Khan’s Roshan Kalra (from Chandni Chowk Delhi married to and divorced from the lovely Malayali danseuse Radha Menon...
Starring Saif Ali Khan, Padmapriya Janakiraman, Svar Kamble
Directed by Raja Krishna Menon
There is a lot of teasing between the father and son, played with endearing casualness by Saif Ali Khan and Svar Kamble. Aptly, Chef teases our appetite for cinema. It’s a culinary delight—warm, tender, inviting and appetizing– served up in a dainty dish with a dash of debonair but played-down posturing, like a masterchef who is shy to show off his skills but can’t help it. He’s so adept at what he does.
Chef conveys the kind of sagacious skill born not out of arrogance but wisdom sometimes misplaced. Like the protagonist Roshan Kalra’s traditionalist father who believes the kitchen is for women.
Speaking of which—arrogance more than wisdom—Saif Ali Khan’s Roshan Kalra (from Chandni Chowk Delhi married to and divorced from the lovely Malayali danseuse Radha Menon...
- 10/7/2017
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
The shooting of ‘Boss’ makes Akshay Kumar nostalgic. He walked down the memory lane as maximum parts of the film was shot in those two cities where he is grown up, Delhi Chandni Chowk and Bangkok. The khildai Kumar spend his childhood in Chandni Chowk and he worked as a chef and learnt martial arts in Bangkok. These two places hold a special position in Akshay's heart and he gets nostalgic as well as emotional remembering those happy days. "We were shooting for a scene in Chandni Chowk and it was hardly some 200 metres away from Akshay’s old house. That was the place where he grew up... Akshay wanted a glimpse of...
- 8/23/2013
- Bollywoodmantra.com
'Delhi-6' (2009): India is an exotic foreign land to Roshan, a New Yorker of Indian origin (played by Abhishek Bachchan), who brings his sick grandmother back to her Delhi home. Filled with gorgeous urban footage, the film captures the wonder of seeing India for the first time, through an American's eyes, and the initial shock of amazement that any American who's ever been there will never forget. Roshan is thoroughly enchanted by all of it—the crumbling family abode in Chandni Chowk (one of the oldest parts of Delhi), its narrow lanes, its feisty neighbors—particularly the beautiful Bittu (Sonam Kapoor)—and its rich array of traditions. However, he chafes at the injustices he sees that offend his American sense of equality and fairness, putting him at odds with a place he suddenly can't live without. A bizarre subplot about a black monkey that’s terrorizing the city...
- 10/27/2009
- The Bollywood Ticket
What the hell has gone into Twinkle Khanna?
She quit B-Town years ago thanks to her lack of acting skills and settled down to happy matrimony and almost domesticated the wild Akki. But like all star wives she still continues to be at the centre of things.
Why not? After all she’s the better half of none other than King Kumar. Never mind the fact that post ‘Chandni Chowk to China’- the equation has changed quite a bit. Of course she tries to chip in and stay in the public eye with her interior designing skills too.
Behaving much like the star wife she’s supposed to be.
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She quit B-Town years ago thanks to her lack of acting skills and settled down to happy matrimony and almost domesticated the wild Akki. But like all star wives she still continues to be at the centre of things.
Why not? After all she’s the better half of none other than King Kumar. Never mind the fact that post ‘Chandni Chowk to China’- the equation has changed quite a bit. Of course she tries to chip in and stay in the public eye with her interior designing skills too.
Behaving much like the star wife she’s supposed to be.
The.
- 3/19/2009
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
When Shekhar Suman made critical remarks about Akshay Kumar vis-a-vis Chandni Chowk To China little did he know it would blow up into such a huge point of debate. In a reconciliatory gesture, Shekhar sent an SMS on Thursday morning apologizing to Akshay. "It was never my intention to offend Akshay. And if I've done that, then I've no hesitation in saying sorry. Akshay is too much of a good soul for me to hurt him. He should've realized my comments had nothing personal about them." Shekhar is taken aback by the backlash to his tongue-lash. "I never knew my opinion would matter so much. I reacted as an outraged viewer. I've always admired Akshay Kumar's resilient climb from the bottom rung to the top of ladder. In fact I tell my son Adhyayan that Akshay Kumar is a role model to follow. Self-made superstar." Sadly a section of Akshay's...
- 1/23/2009
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Bappi Lahiri is never short of surprises. Just when his new self-rendered number 'India Se Aaya Mera Dost' in Chandni Chowk To China hit the charts, he springs another surprise. "I've an unreleased song with Boy George 'When Will You Learn From Your Tears & Suffering' coming up for release very shortly." The song was recorded for a film called Deewana Hoon Main Tera some time ago. "But the song was delayed. We're ready with it now. It's a fusion song. I do raga, Boy George does pop. We had so much fun doing the song together. Boy George was filled with masti. You'll love the track." Bappi Lahiri is surprised to know Boy George is incarcerated. "Oh! What happened? Why is he in jail? When I collaborated with him he was perfectly normal. At that time he was a brilliant singer and a good human being. I don't know about his personal life.
- 1/20/2009
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
This weekend, many people in the country might be getting their first real taste of Bollywood, and we're not talking about Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire either! We're talking about a real Bollywood film, one with a major twist: it was mainly shot in China, and it features the type of martial arts action we've seen coming out of that country for decades. The results are Chandni Chowk to China , a zany action-comedy starring Akshay Kumar, one of Bollywood's biggest stars, who has shot 120 films in the last twenty years including some of India's biggest hits, his most recent one being Singh is Kinng . In his new action-comedy directed by Nikhil Advani, Kumar plays Sidhu, a cook from Chandni Chowk--the most congested area of India with the second-largest traders' market in...
- 1/15/2009
- Comingsoon.net
Photo: Warner Bros. Is Bollywood set to move into Hollywood? Give the trailer for Chandi Chowk to China a watch and you tell me if you wouldn't mind giving this little flick a once over... I'm getting a glossy Kung Fu Hustle vibe off this thing and I am digging it. Directed by Nikhil Advani and starring Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Mithun Chakravorty, Ranvir Shorey and Gordon Liu the film moves from Chandni Chowk in Delhi, to Shanghai, the Great Wall and rural China as Sidhu (Kumar), a simple cook from Chandni Chowk who longs to escape his dreary existence. He sees his chance when two strangers from China claim him to be the reincarnation of a war hero from the past and entreat him to come back with them to their village in China. Dreaming of the princely existence that awaits him, Sidhu blissfully sets out for China, never...
- 12/12/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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