Deepika Padukone, Rohit Shetty celebrate as 'Chennai Express' clocks in eight years of release

The iconic and highly loved film ‘Chennai Express’ on Sunday (August 8) completed eight glorious years of its release. Directed by Rohit Shetty, the film starred superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in lead roles.

Taking to his Instagram Story, the director shared a motion poster of the film and wrote, "8 years”. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the 2013 film, which was packed with action, romance and comedy, became one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time.

Deepika Padukone also took to her Instagram stories and shared a video of a scene from the film. The animated video depicted Deepika and SRK’s scene from the film when they’re crossing the bridge in a jeep. Deepika tagged SRK and Shetty in her story. 

‘Chennai Express’ was produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Gauri Khan and Karim Morani. It was based on a story by K Subash, with a screenplay written by Yunus Sajawal and dialogues by Farhad-Sajid.

Basically, the film revolves around a Tamil girl Meenamma who falls in love with a North Indian guy Rahul (played by Shah Rukh Khan), who boards the Chennai Express train from Mumbai carrying the ashes of his late grandfather, supposed to be immersed in Rameshwaram, while he intends to go to Goa instead. 

Sathyaraj, who is famous for his role as Kattappa from ‘Baahubali’, also played a supporting role in this film.The music for ‘Chennai Express’ was composed by Vishal-Shekhar. The film also gained wide popularity for its song Lungi Dance’, a tribute to megastar Rajnikanth, sung by Honey Singh. 

On the work front, Deepika has an exciting slate of films from ‘Mahabharata’, Nag Ashwin's Pan-Indian next with Prabhas, ‘The Intern’ remake with Amitabh Bachchan, ‘Pathan’ with Shah Rukh, Shakun Batra's next and Fighter with ‘Hrithik Roshan’.