Chak De India
If you swallow some swallowable cliches and a couple of funny but ham-handed, 'that's not cricket' kind of takes at cricket, Chak De India is a great movie. Great direction, slick production, amazing casting, good acting, no unnecessary romantic angles, songs or item numbers.
At last a game that India were once undisputed champions at, gets some big-screen publicity. There's quite a good chance the movie will get a lot of people interested in playing, watching and sponsoring hockey.
The movie also scores in giving some heart-warming messages on National Integration, India's diversity and Woman power.
The movie shows the Indian women's team under Shahrukh's coach-hood win the hockey world cup (This is no spoiler, you will know as much from the trailers). This was a slightly sore point because that's a feat that the actual Indian women's team have'nt achieved yet (google search). But they have won the commonwealth hockey gold once, so I guess a bit of exaggeration is ok.
Overall the best new Hindi movie since Omkara. A definite must-see.
posted by anant @ 8:11 PM
2 Comments:
I thought the characters in that were very shallow, I mean there were no such moments which would establish characters of the girls actually playing.
To me overall a nice movie, but I thought Lagaan was much better.
I guess the focus was on the game, and the team and the state of Indian Women's hockey. There was no time for characterization. Still we did get a glimpse of several individual characters.
Lagaan was almost total fantasy - a fairy tale. But I would also rate Lagaan higher. Mostly because of Gracy Singh. He he.
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