On the heels of Slumdog Millionaire’s wins at Golden Globe Awards and Critic’s Choice Awards, “Chandni Chowk to China” is the latest Bollywood film to try to make it in the US. The film looks to be Bollywood meets Kung Fu Hustle. The actors are mainly Indian and Chinese. Not sure what to make of this film yet, but here’s the film’s synopsis below:

Chandni Chowk to China, the first ever Bollywood Kung Fu comedy takes you on a madcap journey from the by-lanes of Chandni Chowk in Delhi, to Shanghai, the Great Wall and rural China, with a myriad of hilarious gags, breathtaking action, spectacular locations and heart stirring emotions.

Our protagonist Sidhu (Akshay Kumar) is the lowest on the totem pole, cutting vegetables at a road side food stall in Chandni Chowk in Delhi. He longs to escape his dreary existence and looks for shortcuts- with astrologers, tarot readers, & fake fakirs- basically believing anything except himself, despite his father figure Kaka’s (Mithun Chakraborty) best efforts.

His redeeming moment arrives when two strangers from China claim him as a reincarnation of a war hero in the past and take him to China. Sidhu now dreams of wine, women and a princely existence in foreign lands. Thanks to the devious translator, a conman by the name Chopstick (Ranvir Shorey), little does he know that he is being taken to the promised land to rid the Chinese village of the vicious smuggler Hojo (Gordon Liu)

So Sidhu blissfully sets forth to China with Chopstick who instigates dreams of a delicious future and forgets to reveal the perils which await him. Along the way he meets Sakhi (Deepika Padukone), Ms. Tele Shoppers Media (Ms TSM) who has embarked on a journey to pay homage to the land of her birth and her dead father and twin.

Sidhu has the fire of revenge in his belly and finds the one man who will make him a Kung fu expert and set the village free. Armed with his Sifu (Master), faith in himself and the love of Sakhi, Sidhu sets forth to conquer all!

Chandni Chowk to China – Bollywood Kung Fu comedy