Chandni Chowk to China

For other uses, see Chandni Chowk (disambiguation).

Chandni Chowk to China
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNikkhil Advani
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Rajat Arora
  • Shridhar Raghavan
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyHimman Dhamija
Edited byAarif Shaikh
Music by
Production
companies
Ramesh Sippy Entertainment
People Tree Entertainment[1]
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • 16 January 2009 (2009-01-16)
Running time
154 minutes
CountryIndia
Languages
  • Hindi
  • Mandarin
Budget₹800 million (US$9.6 million)[2]
Box office₹1.2 billion (US$14 million)[3]

Chandni Chowk to China (shortened to CC2C) is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language martial arts action comedy film[4] directed by Nikkhil Advani and stars Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone, with Mithun Chakraborty and Hong Kong action cinema actor Gordon Liu among the co-stars. In addition to being shot in China, many parts of the film were shot in Bangkok, Thailand,[5][6] although some of the China scenes were shot in sets in the Shanghai Film Studio.[6] The film revolves around a vegetable cutter from Chandni Chowk in Delhi who finds himself on an adventure in China after the residents of an oppressed village deem him to be the reincarnation of a slain Chinese revolutionary.

Distributed in the U.S. and co-produced by Warner Bros., it is the third Bollywood movie made and distributed in partnership with a major Hollywood studio, following Sony's Saawariya (2007) and Walt Disney Pictures' animated feature Roadside Romeo (2008).[7] It is Warner Bros. Pictures' first Hindi film.[8] Released on 16 January 2009.[9] Indiagames had also released a mobile video game based on the film.[10]

  1. ^ "Chandni Chowk to China (2009)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
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  3. ^ "Box Office India.com: Top Lifetime Grossers Worldwide (IND Rs)". boxofficeindia.
  4. ^ "Ramesh Sippy's Chandni Chowk To China". British Board of Film Classification.
  5. ^ BollywoodMovies.US: "Deepika Padukone in Bangkok" Archived 29 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine, 24 March 2008.
  6. ^ a b NewsLine365.com: "Chandni Chowk to China shot mostly in Bangkok" Archived 6 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, no date.
  7. ^ Chhabra, Aseem, "From Bollywood to Chinatown: Warner Bros. teams with India for 'Chandni Chowk' martial-arts musical" Archived 22 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Film Journal International, 14 January 2009.
  8. ^ "CC2C's Bollywood splash in US". Washington/New York: Mid-day.com. Indo-Asian News Service. 10 January 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  9. ^ India Yearly Box Office – 2009. boxofficemojo.com.
  10. ^ "Chandni Chowk To China". phoneky.com. Retrieved 30 September 2023.