Making of Chennai Express movie | Behind the scenes | Shahrukh Khan | Deepika Chennai Express is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Gauri Khan and Karim Morani, based on a story by K. Subash, with a screenplay written by Yunus Sajawal and dialogues by Farhad-Sajid. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan as Rahul Mithaiwala, a man who accidentally boards the eponymous train and journeys from Mumbai to Rameswaram with the daughter of a local don, played by Deepika Padukone. Nikitin Dheer and Sathyaraj play supporting roles. The first planned collaboration between Khan and Shetty was a remake of Angoor (1982). The script of Chennai Express, which was initially written as a backup project for Khan, was chosen instead. Conceived as a "commercial romance", the film was originally titled Ready Steady Po. Filming began in Mehboob Studio in October 2012 and was completed by May 2013. A large part of the film was set in Ooty, for which sets were constructed in Wai and also in Ramoji Film City. The soundtrack for Chennai Express was composed by Vishal–Shekhar, with the background score being composed by Amar Mohile. UTV Motion Pictures came on board as producer and distributor, marking its first active project with Khan after Swades (2004). Chennai Express was released theatrically in overseas markets on 8 August 2013 and a day later in India. The film received mixed reviews from critics and it broke several box office records in India and abroad, becoming the quickest film to collect ₹1 billion (US$13 million) net domestically. The film surpassed 3 Idiots (2009) to become the highest-grossing Bollywood film worldwide at that point. It is the 21st highest grossing Indian film of all time. Filming on the project began at Mehboob Studio in Mumbai on 5 October 2012.Additional filming was done at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus with a minimal crew.Stills of the lead actor were unofficially released in mid-October 2012.In November 2012, the cast and crew went to Goa to begin filming the scenes set there.Vasco da Gama railway station was used to portray as Kalyan Junction railway station. A romantic scene on board a train passing next to Dudhsagar Falls was also shot.In December 2012, the crew went to Jakarta to film certain scenes.The Pamban Bridge also known as Annai Indira Gandhi Bridge, connecting the town of Mandapam in Tamil Nadu with Pamban Island, and Rameswaram was the scene for the song "Tera Rastaa Chhodoon Na". In January 2013, a shoot was supposedly scheduled to take place in Ooty, but since Khan felt that Ooty was too far from Mumbai, several locations from Ooty were reconstructed on the outskirts of Panchgani in Wai by the art director Narendra Ruharikar.It took over 40 days and ₹ 15 million to build the required sets.Filming in Wai took the entire month of March 2013.A 10-day shooting schedule in Munnar, Kerala, began in mid-April 2013; scenes were filmed at Devikulam Lake, Meesapulimala, Wagavara and Kannimala.Filming was stopped for several days because of heavy rainfall, resulting in the schedule being slightly extended until end of the same month.A press conference was held in Munnar.In May 2013, scenes were filmed in North Goa.Padukone finished shooting on 25 May 2013.Khan flew to Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad in May 2013 to film his remaining scenes.The film has several Tamil dialogues, but to retain context no subtitles were used. #making #shahrukhkhan #moviebts #chennaiExpress