CHAK DE INDIA!

(movie review)


CHAK DE INDIA.....! The title itselfs sounds so good, especially the India part in it and the triclolour it bears. My love for India is increasing daily and it definitely pulled me to the theatres.

Chak de India is the second sports film this year coming from Yash Raj banner . With Yash Raj’s Tararumpum bombing at the box-office, Chak de India broke that jinx and fortunately Tararumpum can never be compared to it.

Movie begins with a hockey world cup final match between India and Pakistan. kabir khan(Sharukh) gets chance to make a penalty goal which he misses out and India losses the cup. As it’s seen always, each and every hockey fan and authority members critize him and dig out a false prediction of having friends and connections with the opponents. This leads to self exile of Kabir Khan.
After few years ,India’s national hockey selection committee meet to select a coach for womens team for the world cup. For this job kabir khan appoints himself, as no-one takes it.

The story is about how kabir khan trains his 16 players and their journey till world cup final.

First half deals with the introduction of each player of the team and the second half deals with the matches that they paly against different opposition in their tour.

Coming to performances, Sharukh khan stands out as a coach and delivered a great performance (no one suits this role except sharukh himself). He was exceptional in emotional scenes and was good in the rest of the movie. All the girls were good, without them chak de India wouldn’t be possible. They fitted the groove perfectly and did well even though they were new-comers. Comedy track between few girls did really work out well.

Credit goes to the director - Shimit Amin and Screen writer -Jaideep Sahani who were great at their jobs. Screen play is fast paced, you won’t even bother to know anything but the movie,it’s that gripping. The dialogues are colloquial and inspiring at parts - the best of them comes from SRK and he says - “Maine pehli baar ek gor’e ko janda lagate huve dekha”. Salim Sulaiman scores and scores well with music and background score, the music whenever a match starts is just rocking. The title song is apt and great, it became so famous that the star cricket channel started using it. Inaddition to all these the production values are retained even though it’s a low budget movie.

BOTTOM LINE IS CHAKEDE INDIA WILL SURELY CHAK DE EVERY INDIAN…………….
RATING 4.25/5

(Ranganath Pacha)