A large part of the film was set in Ooty, for which sets were constructed in Wai and also in Ramoji Film City. Filming began in Mehboob Studio in October 2012 and was completed by May 2013.
Conceived as a 'commercial romance', the film was originally titled Ready Steady Po. The script of Chennai Express, which was initially written as a backup project for Khan, was chosen instead. The first planned collaboration between Khan and Shetty was a remake of Angoor (1982). The film revolves around Rahul Mithaiwala, a man who accidentally boards the eponymous train and journeys from Mumbai to Rameswaram with the daughter of a local don. It stars Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone with Nikitin Dheer, Sathyaraj, Kamini Kaushal and Lekh Tandon in supporting roles. Chennai Express ( / tʃ ɪ ˈ n aɪ/ ( listen)) is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by UTV Motion Pictures and Red Chillies Entertainment.
