Sequel for sanity: Chandni Chowk to China
iView Author: ANUBHA YADAV (DELHI, INDIA)
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Sequel for sanity: Chandni Chowk to China
From Chandni Chowk to China is 30 yrs too late. It seems the team must have made the film somewhat like this.
Mr X :Sitting in CCD)- Yaar, we can use this Indo-China political idiom.
Mr Y:The dragon and the tiger, u mean? – Waah! the two Asian superpowers coming together.
Mr X: Haan, yaar aur saare NRI
X:(adds, after taking a sip of his cappuccino): Par, Kaise?
Mr Y: ummmm, the three D’s- Diamonds, Chinese Don and the Indian Dost and Done.
Mr X & Y: Chalo, phir shooting schedule bana le date shate le le….
Agreed, the cuppa of coffee at CCD did help the genesis of a great concept! But then they did not go to CCD again for the creation of great plot. It is like some hackneyed, stale recycling of old plots.
But aren’t all reviewers extraordinary with retrospective criticism. Well, the team might say its different when you actually do it. You might raise your eyebrows and say -Got a better idea? Let’s say, Mr. Sippy wants a sequel! So here is my quick version of the sequel/film.
Ok. So here is the rough narrative/story for the sequel. A retired army colonel who fought the Indo-China war(played by Mithun). Someone who saw the humiliation India felt as a nation came down on its knees, the grand betrayal of Chacha Nehru(We can recreate it in flashbacks quickly). The rhetoric of Hindu Cheeni-Bhai Bhai and then the attack and the infamous war.
Now, this guy lives in the past. He sits and tells tales at Chandani Chowk, of the heroic battle and how he lost his dear friends to the Chinese. The story of many a betrayals, a personal and national narrative told by him sitting in gullies with chai wallas, paan wallas and galli children.
The colonel had a close buddy who was captured in the Chinese war, a young soldier of 20, he perhaps is still languishing in some jail, as a POW. Colonel Saheb has a son who has been brought up to hate the ‘Cheeni’ vehemently. This young guy of Chandani Chowk grows up to join the army. His son joins the army with obvious motivation against anything that is ‘Chinese’.
Son becomes a dedicated officer and the Government of India decides to do a good will gesture of training army professionals in each other’s countries. Ten Indian officers go to China. Our Colonel’s son is chosen for the same. So Akshay Kumar is going to China. As the father comes to know this he tells him to get his friend out from the Chinese jail. The usual-pomp and show and emotion and sentimentality with the request. He promises that he will get his father’s friend out of prison. When he reaches China he realizes he can’t do it without the help of someone inside the system. One of the trainer’s training them is Deepika Padukone at the Chinese Army Headquarters. She means business. Tough, brainy beauty but particularly racist against these Indian officers(She is the daughter of the man who lead the Indo-China war,messy angle but lets keep that for now). Akshay Kumar pretends love for Deepika so that through her he can reach the jail, but actually really falls for her brilliance and charm.
Too late, Deepika realises the plot and thwarts it. Akshay is put in detention till a hearing happens in a Chinese jail. Indian authorities shocked.Diplomatic failure.Embarrassment. Story of POW leaks. Chinese government denies it. Colonel’s realises the nation he fought for has a different soul. His nationalsim reaches a point of defeatist realism. Finally Deepika’s believes him and together they get the POW out of jail. He becomes a Hero and is reinstated.
Well, even within formula film making please do not insult the intelligence of the average viewer.
What say?
Tags: akshay kumar, Chandni Chowk to China, Deepika Padukone, ramesh sippy
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Akshay Kumar belonged to a prev generation. He should have been alongside Mithun’da in 80’s. He doesn’t belong to ‘now’!
Sometimes I wonder what’s wrong with people – making him such a huge success at the box off that he can churn out such inane movies. He must be stopped now!
@anubha
your plot is so much better than the torture meted out to us.
they thought about making an indian kungfu hustle meets kungfu panda, but instead turned up making a mockery of everything good that was in those films.
very funny.