Chak De India Reviews
JANI LOVE
- Jun 14, 2009
- by Jalees
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Its dam good
chak de man!!!!!
- Jun 5, 2008
- by Shruti
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ya i agree that a team cannot win every match esp if its their first time... but it was the spirit of the movie that was good... the kuch kariye song was awe - inspiring... in totality the movie was really good... thank god it was not on cricket!!!!!!!!!!
Great Movie
- May 18, 2008
- by Lopamudra ray
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I went to watch the first day 2nd show because i am an SRK fan.but i didn't have high expectations from the film,i had thought it would be a boring documentary.But boy was i proved wrong.I cried,i laughed,i shouted and at the end came out of the cinema inspired.wow what an amazing film.It sent out so many important messages on women power,on national integration,and on teamwork but did not sound preachy or boring!!wish more movies like this will be made.
simply mind blowing
- Aug 30, 2007
- by Chetan
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a must see for every indian.....
Chakde! India
- Aug 7, 2008
- by Umar
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This is an excellent movie for all ages and complete entertainment with extraodinary acting and it's a great offering to the Bollywood industry. This movie is about Kabir Khan(Shah Rukh), who was dropped from his Hockey team as a Team Captain just because he shook hands with the Pakistani team, so people thought he was a traitor. After seven years, he coached the National Women's hockey team. He was a strict coach, but he knew how all about Hockey and teams. The team didn't really like him, because he was so strict, and the team didn't know how to cooperate with each other. When the team send a resignation form to Kabir, he took them to a restaurant before they went away. At the restaurant, some people boys harassed some of the girls, so they started a fight. All the girls on the team helped each other, and they finally learned to cooperate. Kabir brought his his team all the way to the world cup.
This movie is full of emotion during the time when they were facing against other countries, and this film is excellent, and I am sure you will enjoy it!
Good movie
- Jun 25, 2008
- by Gilraj
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It was a good movie i enjoyed it alot:)
Another SRK beauty!
- Feb 3, 2008
- by Marie
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Excellent Movie. SRK is a real GENIUS when it comes to acting. this movie was a pleasure to watch. I actually saw it 3 times and plan on watching more of it. Before seeing it, you might think, yeah deja vu, w/ girl's team fighting to be recognized by...(read more) the world, but it's much more than that. It's about people being judgemental, and unshamefully hypocrite. When someone does something good to serve them, if he or she makes a mistake societies reject him/her completely before finding out whether or not he actually sold them out. I love this movie. My favorite moments:
1. THE FIGHT! I love how the girls, fought like girls, and still kicked MAJOR guys' ASS! and how Bindia just sat throughout the fight only to kick this guy in the B***s without even getting up and getting back to watching as if she didn't do anything while the guy cries out in pain! LOL! FANTASMIC!
2. The Last Match was unbelievable, I watched that game 4 times and still got excited doing it each time! When Kabhir figures out the striker is going to hit straight in the middle and screams in his mind for his goal to look at him and for a mn you think she won't, and then she does! You see the relief on his face and you feel it yourself!
3. After the match, when they've won, and Kabhir finally realizes what happened and he's stumbling backward in shock and amazement... SRK's acting skills are to be praised, because I felt it!
Great MOVIE!
chakde india
- Oct 22, 2007
- by Eisha.....mis sd ya allll...muaaa hz....
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it was a nice REAL STORY!!THE STORY WAS GUD N COZ OF SHAHRUKH IT WAS A HIT!!
THE STORY WAS ABT 16 GIRLS PLAYING HOCKEY N THEIR COACH!!IN THE BIGINNING THEY WERE NOT NICE BT AFTER THE NEW COACH THEY PLAYED N BEHAVED WELL!!THE RESPECT FOR THE COUNTRY WOKED N THEY UNITED TO WIN THE "WORLD CUP" N THEY HARDWOKED N WON IT!!
THIS TELLS US THT IF V WANNA DO SMETHING GUD V SHOULD TRY OUR BEST TO DO IT N WORK HARD!!N ACHIEVE ALL OUR DREAMS!!LIKE IT SAY"DONT GO BACK IF U STARTED A THING UNLESS U ACHIEVE/DO IT"!!!IT WAS A GUD MOVIE!!!!
idea of india
- Sep 6, 2007
- by Richa
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An excellent movie,emphasising the 'unity in diversity' and 'united we stand and divided we fall' ..i.e all the cliche holding true here.
it is about the discrimination on several planes such as religion ,gender,region and so forth.the coach with a tainted name and girls with their own baggages and agendas get together to catch their dream that is world cup.
the name of the game is 'niyat'.beautifully said by srk" Team banane ke liye takat nahi neeyat chaaiye".
So true .
hip hip hurray to good intentions and all the under dogs.
team spirit is thy name...
- Aug 12, 2007
- by Dinrat
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the movie is pretty good, good performances by everyone, largely about team spirit, and a man's fight to get back his dignity and off course hockey :-)...
kabir khan (srk) had the worst nightmare of life when he missed the penalty shot against pakistan team in world cup finals of hockey, he was declared traitor and media just took his life from him... he leaves hockey and his home... now after 7 years of exile he is back and wants to be coach of women's hockey team, his dream is to get the world cup in women's hockey... he gets his team of 16 members who have come from different states and he has to train them for the tournament... these 16 characters are different so that gives a chance for entertainment... he firstly tries to get team spirit in all of them... after some initial resistance he manages to get the team going... then the story is about how the team does in the world cup...
overall a pretty good watch, srk has done justice to the role, most of the girls are new and they have done well, though I think the focus was on 4 of them only... not a lot of songs but music is good... good direction, director has kept the movie light and entertaining... though being a bollywood movie it has its own cliches... the movie in spirit is similar to apne also, with a sports kind of background, but apne had more scope to be emotional since family was involved, here that becomes the team spirit...
must watch from my side, with repeat value also, so I think will go for it again :-)
one of the great movie of bollywood
- Aug 11, 2007
- by Ashwani
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srk ne dikhaya ki kuch bhi ho wohi bollywood ka badshah hai.
Agar koi apne desh se prem karta hai usko kam se kam ek bar is movie ko dekhna chaihye kyon ki desh bhakti is movie mein dikhyaa hain great,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
great. bas aur kuch nahin
A good film after a longtime
- Mar 1, 2008
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This film is great! indian team to his best
EXCELLENT MOVIE
- Aug 27, 2007
- by Gurleen
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EXCELLENT MOVIE. Have seen it twice and want to see it third time. All players acted so well especially i like komal chotala, preeti sabarwal,Bindia .
A Good motivational movie showing the power of team spirit.
best entertainerof the year
- Aug 11, 2007
- by Avinash
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First things first kudos to yashraj films for having the courage to take up a script like this. Without doubt script is the mainstay of this movie.
Casting director deserves a standing ovation for resisting the temptation to cast famous faces as players. It is really heartening to see that all
the hockey players look real. Shahrukh, Only an actor of his stature could have provided the much needed star value to a film like this, lest scripts
like this run the danger of going unnotioced.
The story is inspired from a real life one. Mr. negi who 25 years back happened to be the goalkeeper of indian national hockey team which lost 1-7 to pakistan
Then he is labelled a traitor on grounds of accepting bribe from the rival team. Shahrukh plays the disgraced player, who missed a penalty stroke in finals
of world cup. Later he dons the mantle of coach of indian women's hockey team. Where he has to build a 'team'from scratch as they are 16 devils up
in arms against him plagued by regionalismand personal rivalry.
Now shahrukh khan of late has generally been playing himself onscreen. Here is one movie where where he is kabir khan the coach and not king khan.
He remains the character through out th movie. One could remember only of swadesh in recent times where he achieved a similar feat. It is an achievement
of sorts for him, as people are used to watching king khan onscreen and love him for that. Here the actor in him again resurfaces and comes out
with flyig colours. My personal favourite being the last scene where after winning the cup he succumbs to emotions and cries.
Other actors i.e. all of the team pitch in perfectly. Particularly the gals who played bindiya naik, preeti , komal and vidya . They have managed to hold
their own against a star like shahrukh.
Some of the dialouges are really good. Qiute a lot of them have been writtenkeeping in mind the gallery. Playing to the gallery at times is not that bad an idea
but the speech shahrukh gives before the final match could have been edited. Cinematogarphy is upto the mark, editing has been done quite nicely.
All the matches that are played have been scissored properly and hence are quite engrossing. music is soothing.
About the director, shimit amin has come up with a brilliant effort. Ab tak chchappan and now chak de india this guy is endowed with genuine talent. The
kind of sensitive treatment this kind of script required has been dealt with in an adequte manner. This new brigade of film makers have the guts to take
up scripts and implement ideas which generally the formula guys would safely wash their hands off with.
All in all this is a must watch. It is been quite some time since one came across such a genuine effort. Go for it.
Rating 3.5/5
chak de
- Aug 10, 2007
- by Sandeep
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Kabir Khan (Shahrukh ) is branded as a traitor after he loses the match against Pakistan in the capacity of the captain for Indian hockey team. Everybody hates him. After 7 years, he comes back as the coach for Indian women hockey team. The rest of the story is all about how he trains the 16 women of various states, different mindsets and attitudes to play as one and win the world cup
Shahrukh Khan did the role of a brilliant coach whose respect is battered by the misconception and the media. He is exceptional as an inspiring and tough coach. The actor in Shahrukh dominates the star in this film. It is nice to see Shahrukh Khan doing purposeful films like Swadesh and Chak De India once in a while. The girls who played the women hockey team are exceptionally good. The girls who did the roles of Preeti, Balbir and Komal dominate the scene.
The story of the film is about a typical underdog winning the game. The aspect of coach seeking redemption by making his team win added lot of grip to the story. What makes this film different is extraordinary script writing and superb direction. Screenplay is just perfect. The entire film is realistic barring certain episodes demanding creative freedom. The writer avoided the board's politics aspect in the storyline, in order to focus on establishing each and every character of player well and then show how they change their attitude to become team players. The following scenes are defining moments of the film "The McDonald's scene where the entire team shows team spirit by entering into a physical fight with the eve teasers.The applause team gets after playing against the men's teamThe phone call from Shukla. Coach telling Preeti and Komal about how they can make or mar the match."
Cinematography is amazing. Music is good. The baground music is peppy and suits the theme. Dialogues are very good. Editing is nice. It is nice to see Yashraj Films producing a purposeful film like this instead of box-office winning inspired popcorn entertainers.
The entire first half is concentrated on establishing all the characters in Hockey team and then inculcating the sense of belongingness among the team members. The second half is more entertaining with nice twists and engaging games. The plus points of the film are writing performances , direction by shimit and Cinematography by sudeep. It is a sensible and a brilliant film with soul. On a whole, Chak De India is one the best sports based films ever made in India. A must watch for everybody .
