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    Chak De India is a sports film about the Indian women's field hockey team directed by Shimit Amin. It stars Shah Rukh Khan as Kabir Khan, a disgraced former player who is hired to coach the women's national team. The team is made up of players from different states and backgrounds who must learn to work together. Through rigorous training and overcoming adversity, the coach helps the fractious team come together and qualify for the women's hockey world championships in Australia. The film is praised for its commentary on sexism in India and for allowing the women characters to have the final word.

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    Chak De India is a sports film about the Indian women's field hockey team directed by Shimit Amin. It stars Shah Rukh Khan as Kabir Khan, a disgraced former player who is hired to coach the women's national team. The team is made up of players from different states and backgrounds who must learn to work together. Through rigorous training and overcoming adversity, the coach helps the fractious team come together and qualify for the women's hockey world championships in Australia. The film is praised for its commentary on sexism in India and for allowing the women characters to have the final word.

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    Chak De India is a sports film about the Indian women's field hockey team directed by Shimit Amin. It stars Shah Rukh Khan as Kabir Khan, a disgraced former player who is hired to coach the women's national team. The team is made up of players from different states and backgrounds who must learn to work together. Through rigorous training and overcoming adversity, the coach helps the fractious team come together and qualify for the women's hockey world championships in Australia. The film is praised for its commentary on sexism in India and for allowing the women characters to have the final word.

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    Film Review- Chak De India

    Chak De! India


    Director
    Shimit Amin
    Writer
    Jaideep Sahni
    Stars
    Shah Rukh Khan, Vidya Malvade, Sagarika Ghatge, Shilpa Shukla, Arya Menon
    Rating
    Not Rated
    Running Time
    2h 33m

    The making-of-a-team sports movie is a timeworn genre, and yet “Chak De! India” (“Go,
    India!”) finds new variations. Though the game here is field hockey, those fondly
    recalling the United States soccer team’s first-place finish in the 1991 Women’s World
    Cup will find a lot to like.

    Of course, there are conventions. Kabir Khan (the assured Bollywood veteran Shahrukh
    Khan) is a former player for India’s national field hockey team who missed a fateful play
    against Pakistan, costing a championship and making him a pariah. Seven years later,
    he is hired to coach the nation’s women’s hockey team, giving him one more shot at a
    title.

    The players, from states all over India, are a fractious lot, including a tomboy (Chitrashi
    Rawat) whose father fears she will never marry; a forward (Sagarika Ghatge) whose
    boyfriend, a cricket superstar, wants her to quit the team and live in his shadow; a
    newlywed goalie (Vidya Malavade) whose in-laws expect her to stay at home; and a
    haughty, seasoned player (Shilpa Shukla) who needles the coach.

    When leering boys at a McDonald’s harass them, a girls-against-boys melee erupts, but
    the coach doesn’t interfere, knowing the team will prevail — and find its spirit. From
    there, it’s on to the women’s hockey championships in Melbourne, Australia.

    The director, Shimit Amin, strikes a buoyant, propulsive tone, replacing the customary
    Bollywood production numbers with exhilarating musical montages of team practice.
    For his part, Mr. Khan, to his credit, lets his co-stars’ youthful charisma carry the movie.
    He also laudably portrays a man who vigorously and unabashedly advocates the
    advancement of women.

    In fact, the film’s greatest merit is its commentary on sexism in India. As it should,
    “Chak De! India” gives the women, in the closing credits, the last word.

    CHAK DE! INDIA

    Directed by Shimit Amin;

    Written (in Hindi, with English subtitles) by Jaideep Sahni;

    Edited by Amitabh Shukla;

    Music by Salim Merchant and Sulaiman Merchant;

    Art director: Sukant Panigrahy;

    Produced by Aditya Chopra;

    Released by Yash Raj Films.

    WITH: Shahrukh Khan (Kabir Khan), Vidya Malavade (Vidya Sharma), Chitrashi Rawat
    (Komal), Sagarika Ghatge (Preeti) and Shilpa Shukla (Bindia Naik).

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