Movie: Chalte Chalte
Director: Aziz Mirza
Year: 2003
Genre: Romance, Emotion, Drama
Stars: Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee and Satish Shah

Snapshot of the story

Movie portraits the love story of Raj (played by SRK) and Priya (played by Rani) coming from different background and fall in love with each other but slowly their relationship started to show cracks in the seams. Movie takes an unusual twist and turns as their relationship starts with a fight, how Raj conveys Priya who is going to marry some other guy that he is the Mr. Perfect for him. Chalte Chalte is emotional love story made under Shahrukh Khan’s own production house Red Chillies Entertainment.

Review of Movie Chalte Chalte

Storyline

Raj (Shahrukh Khan) is an entrepreneur and one day while being on his way to hill station he meets by accident Priya (Rani Mukherjee). There starts the Mars vs. Venus relationship and fights blaming each other but soon they realize that accidents happened because they both ignored the basic rules of love. Raj and Priya become friends. As they start meeting each other Raj has feeling for Priya, however on the other hand Priya is about to leave to Athens for her wedding to be.

Raj (Shahrukh Khan) has some other plan in his mind and boards the same flight to win back Priya’s (Rani Mukherjee) heart and make her believe that he is the Mr. Right for her. This small section is funny and also the most romantic part of the movie. Raj (Shahrukh Khan) makes all the funny and crazy attempts to rethink Priya (Rani Mukherjee) about her decision. Failing to change her mind as they both reach Athens where Priya (Rani Mukherjee) tells the entire episode to her father. Her father makes Priya understood and realize that how much Raj loves her and wants Priya (Rani Mukherjee) to get married with Raj.

Chalte Chalte becomes the emotional drama and often slow and boring drama as the relationship between Raj and Priya starts showing problems. Priya being grown up in a rich family and loves cleanliness, punctuality and other good habits but Raj being of middle class, hard working man is not able to follow all these systematic habits and the financial crisis makes the situation worst. Unable to handle this situation Priya goes back to her parents leaving Raj alone. Emotional drama continues as how Raj handles this situation and brings himself back to normal life from this situation and also wins Priya’s heart.

Final Thoughts

Director Aziz Mirza gave his 100% to make this hit but it does have a weak storyline, unconvincing drama and sad screen play which did not lift the movie. Chalte Chalte impresses audience in patches which is the sad part of story. Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee were good and gave their solid performance. Music of the movie was good which is evident as Jatin-Lalit made award wining compositions. Chalte Chalte did an average business of $16 million but was in the top ten when it comes to the gross collections.

Rating
Chalte Chalte scores 7 out of 10 for strong performance by Shahrukh Khan. Aziz Mirza made a good effort to make an average story where it can not be called as flop.