He learns that those four men were actually kidnapping the girl whose name is Meenalochini Azhagu Sundaram (Deepika Padukone) aka Meenamma. Then he notices four men are also running to catch the train. Right after commencing the journey from Mumbai railway station, when the train was leaving the platform, Rahul sees a girl running to catch the train. He plans to meet his friends after commencing the journey at the Kalyan Junction station from where they would travel to Goa by car.
This forces Rahul to travel by train and he booked a single ticket on the Chennai Express. But, they were forced to change their plan when Rahul's grandmother told him that she would be coming to see him off at the station. On the other hand he was eager to attend the Goa trip, so, he and his friends make plans to dump the ashes at Goa. She requests Rahul to go to Rameswaram and immerse the ashes. His grandmother tells him that his grandfather desired to have his ashes divided into two parts and have one part of it immersed at Rameswaram. Right before the birth centenary, his grandfather dies. Before his birth centenary celebration two of Rahul's friends suggest going to Goa for a vacation which he accepts. Mithaiwala - and he owns a chain of stores in Mumbai. His grandfather has a sweet-selling business - Y.Y.
Rahul's parents died in a car accident when he was eight years old and it was his grandparents who brought him up. Get in for a movie which has got something for everyone in the family to keep you entertained for 2 hours 20 mins.Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) is a forty-year old bachelor and lives in Mumbai. Negatives were the sets and Tamil base were over colored and totally artificial. I have to say the positives were Deepika,SRK and music. Music was very good particularly "Titli" was a good breezy romantic number that makes us hum after we come out of the theater. Direction,Camera, Music and Editing were good as per requirements for a spicy masala. There are so many gigantic long haired fatty black goons you will see in the movie. The villain has done justice to the role of Thangaballi. Satyaraj plays the father fits the role picture perfect. She was shown well in the movie with her beautiful makeover. Worth mention would be the lady lead Deepika Padukone she has done an excellent job by adapting the Tamil style of English and Hindi speaking. At least this time he has come with a character with an age of 40. He does a great job and gives what was demanded for a film like this. SRK as usual a non serious Indian blushing types of hero and was yet again with his trade name Rahul. But it does promise you to stay glued to your seats by all the necessary ingredients. To start off with singers from Tamil, actors from Tamil like Dhanush directors from Tamil AR Murugadoss and choreographers from Tamil Prabhudeva. Since we can see so much of Tamil influence in Bollywood industry nowadays. For a non Tamil viewer like my friends they did like the Tamil base in it. As a Non tamilian viewer As a viewer like me from Tamil Nadu it was like a spoof of 1980's Tamil movie and sometimes looked like humiliating Tamilians. Since the plot surrounds strong Tamil background I have to tell you my analysis in two views 1. It's a usual SRK movie with Rohit Shetty style of execution. The movie has got no great story as the title tells you the one line "Express love on a journey". Chennai Express delivers what was expected from a commercial spicy masala entertainer.