Khan’s facial expressions and flamboyant gestures are over-the-top an unintentionally humorous at times, but I’ll take laughs where I can get them. Despite having a fluffy role in Chalte Chalte, is a Bollywood Benigni. Khan is one of the biggest names in Bollywood today and it’s not hard to understand why, even if Raj is a big-time goofball. It has the feel of a standard Hollywood romantic comedy, only with the occasional out-of-the-blue musical number and drawn out to maximum lengths. With a near three-hour running time, typical for Bollywood films, Chalte Chalte runs its course by the first intermission. It cheapens the audience’s reactions as I found myself getting wrapped up in a couple of the conflicts only to have them end so simply and with great dissatisfaction. I would have rather seen a couple of situations built up instead of the many that are touched upon and discarded. But every time it seems as though there’s some build up in Chalte Chalte, the resolution pops the tension instantly and the story moves on to another high-drama point. It tries to be universal and in the process loses out on the unique aspects of love that make it personal and real.Ī staple of Bollywood is big-time melodramatics so loud major plot points might as well be announced by a marching band and a seven-gun salute. This makes Raj and Priya’s relationship a modern myth that skews towards romance and sentimentality. Despite their differences, the two hit it off and embark on a rocky relationship built on a mountain-valley approach of high highs and low lows.Ĭhalte Chalte is a simple love story recalled by a group of mutual friends. Priya (Rani Mukherjee) is an up-and-coming fashion designer with a taste for the more complicated things in life. He owns a transport company and lives by his work. But in the end I was disappointed by the simplistic route Mirza takes with regards to plotting and the lack of unique situations that might have made Chalte Chalte feel more genuine. With that I was excited, hoping for a Bollywood version of All the Real Girls. It is a simple film that deals with basic human emotions.” He continues, “It is about the everyday experiences that we all at some point of our lives encounter with our partners.” On making his latest film, director/producer Aziz Mirza writes, “ Chalte Chalte does not strive to make any statements.