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Ready for hockey with SRK?
August 06, 2007. Ready for a game of hockey?
Okay, so it may not be as popular as cricket in India, but this
particular game promises loads of action and drama as Shah Rukh Khan
[Images] coaches a bunch of girls into a determined team that has
its eyes set on being world champions. This year's earlier Yash Raj
ventures -- Ta Ra Rum Pum and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom -- did not go down
well with audiences.
But Chak De promises to do better, if its music is anything to go
by. Are you excited about SRK's [Images] first release of the year,
which opens on August 10? Or do you think the promos don't look too
good?
Jo nahin ho sakta hai, wahi to karna hai...
Kabir Khan (Shahrukh Khan) knows what it's like to come back from
the dead. The ex Indian Captain has now come back in the avatar of
the Coach of the Indian Women's National Hockey team. A team that
exists more on paper and less in reality.
The team is a rag-tag bunch of girls with their own agenda. A bunch
of girls who have forgotten what it is like to play for the love of
the game. Of playing because you want glory for your country. Not
because you want a pensioned job or a government flat. They have all
forgotten the sharp thrill of just holding the hockey stick, keeping
their eyes on the ball and playing for all they are worth. They have
played every game but hockey to make sure they get selected every
year in the Indian National team. But what does it really mean to
play for the Indian National team? To play for India?
Mujhe sirf ek mulk ka naam sunaai deta hai - India
The girls have never known the thrilling energy of being Team India.
Of giving their all to see their country's name on a trophy. But
Kabir Khan, once a captain, now forgotten, does. He knows what it
takes to get there. And what it means to return empty handed. This
time, he wants to make sure that it's different. He knows there are
no second chances. Despite his past, he believes that if only the
girls played as one, anything would be possible.
Because Kabir Khan believes that it is not that we can't win. It's
just that we have never believed we can.
Chak De India is the story of a coach's fight of making his team,
Team India by overcoming their diverse backgrounds, by learning to
use everything that life hurls on them as a secret weapon. It's a
story about honesty, sincerity and integrity. A story to remind the
nation of its National sport. |
