If you don't know this, you'll leave the film scratching your head wondering what everyone was laughing at. I know that when Rahul sweeps Meena up onto a moving train that it's a reference to an iconic scene from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.
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When Rahul and Meena decide to speak in code by singing Hindi songs that her Tamil kidnappers can't understand, I know what songs they are, and I know which come from SRK's films and how iconic they are. I know that when the lights go down and we hear, "My name is Rahul, perhaps you remember?" we know that it's a reference to Aditya Chopra's Dil To Pagal Hai, and more broadly a reference to the many times that SRK has played a romantic lead named Rahul. I'm not going to lie, there are large swaths of Chennai Express that were laugh-out-loud funny. Rahul mistakenly admits to being in love with Meena and thus begins a massive clusterfuck of a comedy that will leave those not paying close attention begging to rewind. Rahul gets drug down to Tamil Nadu and involved in local gangster politics when he learns that Meena is the daughter of a local Don who intends to marry her off to a neighboring gang leader in order to strengthen ties between the communities. Chennai Express is largely a comedy of misunderstandings. Meena is a Tamil (Padukone, herself, is actually from Karnataka, which borders Tamil Nadu, but doesn't speak Tamil in real life), and Rahul is north Indian, and speaks Hindi. Here's where it starts to get complicated for those not familiar with Indian culture, languages, cinema, and/or humor.
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A silly enough premise to be sure, but it only gets sillier when Khan is trapped on the train through a series of goofy circumstances involving a lovely young woman named Meena, played by Deepika Padukone. The reasoning behind this being that if he dumps the ashes in the waters of Goa, they'll eventually find their way to Rameshwaram. In an effort to throw his grieving grandmother off his scent, he boards the Chennai Express heading for south India while planning to jump ship at the first station and drive off with his buddies to Goa. However, he is convinced by his friends to ditch the pilgrimage and instead take a week off in India's party capital of Goa. Khan plays Rahul (one of many, many inside jokes that will be lost on the audience without in depth knowledge of SRK's films), the scion of a candy magnate in Mumbai who is tasked with delivering his late grandfather's ashes to the holy waters of Rameshwaram. However, there is no more "meta" exercise in SRK's oeuvre than Rohit Shetty's latest attack on logic, Chennai Express. Since then he's starred in dozens of films, many of them record-breaking blockbusters, and, on more than one occasion, had the opportunity to spoof himself and his characters' ubiquitous presence in films of his own.
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