I was thrilled after watching the movie. I couldn't get tickets so got them in black. Was really a worth watching. Advocates team spirt and oneness among Indians,not gender based. Watch it if u are a Indian
On 14th Augest I enjoyed chak De India At Nagpur. Before starting of film there was offical National Anthem Sung by all who gathered to celebrate 60 yrs with Chak De. I really enjoy the Movie. Shaharukh is real gem. But my all attention was on Girl Knowen As "Priti Sabrawal" Captain Of Chandigad. I dont Know Name of the Girl. But I am eager to Know her name I like to Chat with Her. She played her part very well. She is young beautiful really true sportperson. Prity please please mail me
Patriotic Preity Zinta slipped into a cinema hall to whistle and cheer for Shah Rukh Khan in his new film.
Mallika Sherawat famously wore one last year to dodge the media when she was coming out of the airport in Mumbai from a foreign jaunt.
And singer Himesh Reshamiyya daringly got into one last month to slip into the Ajmer Sharif dargah incognito. We are talking about the burkha.
Which the attractive Preity Zinta wore on Independence Day eve so as not to attract attention when she went into a Bandra cinema hall to see Shah Rukh Khan%u2019s hit movie Chak De India with the junta.
Preity tells the story, %u201CI could have seen the movie in the safety and comfort of a multiplex, but to gauge the reaction of the audience, I had to sit among the masses.
I went along with my mom and cousin, hidden in a burkha, and because nobody could see me, I was at my buoyant best!%u201D
According to the vivacious actress, in her disguise, she was able to scream, whistle and cheer along with the audience for SRK and his team of women hockey players in the movie.
There were other women in burkhas as well among the audience, so she got away with it. Says Preity, %u201CThe movie has elevated patriotism to a higher level, it%u2019s given energy a new meaning and youth a new direction.%u201D
Coming from someone who is at the top of the Bollywood heap herself, and who made her debut with SRK in Dil Se, this is high and handsome praise indeed.
RE:Preity Zinta went in a burkha just for SRK
by Sujata Basak on Aug 15, 2007 10:25 PM Permalink
The two acted in a few more successful movies together, like Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, Veer Zara and Kal Ho Na Ho. But Preity believes the Bollywood Badshah%u2019s performance in Chak De India is his finest so far. %u201CHe is mind blowing, too good to express in words, and I just love him,%u201D adds Preity. %u201C
It%u2019s rare for an actress to openly admit such feelings for a male co-star. And Preity unburdened these emotions on the man himself which SRK, in all his humility, accepted.
But then, Preity Zinta is known to be outspoken and honest, if not to wear her heart on her sleeve. Ness Wadia and Gauri Khan to please note.
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Chak De! India Scores Overseas Washington Post
A new Bollywood film that focuses on gender inequality in India through women's field hockey and adds a dash of patriotism has pleased critics and scored at the box office as well. "Chak De India" (Go For It India), which opened last week starring Shahrukh Khan, the most bankable star in the Hindi language film industry, is loosely based on the true story of a 1980s Indian national men's hockey goalkeeper.
Khan plays the Muslim captain of the Indian team who misses a do-or-die penalty shootout against arch rival Pakistan in the final of a world championship, sparking a national outrage and triggering charges of match-fixing, leading to his ouster.
He returns seven years later as the coach of a ragtag women's national team and transforms a bunch of divided girls from far corners of the country into world beaters. "It's a big success, it's a definite earner," said Bollywood trade analyst Komal Nahta.
"Two things are responsible -- one it is a very well written screenplay, and secondly it has got so much patriotism, it has worked."
Bollywood films based on sport are not rare but most of them have revolved around cricket as the country boasts the largest following for the game in the world. Some stories have also been set around boxing.
Field hockey, once India's national sport and one in which the country ruled the wor
RE:just read this its from REUTERS
by love sports on Aug 15, 2007 10:13 PM Permalink
Field hockey, once India's national sport and one in which the country ruled the world for a large part of the last century, has lost its appeal along with a decline in the national team's fortunes.
"Chak De" was a winner not only because it has managed to make hockey a topic of conversation but also because it peddles patriotism, fights gender bias, rips apart class distinctions and makes a valid criticism of regional chauvinism and minority bashing, critics said.
While Khan, the reigning star of Bollywood, has been praised for his uncharacteristically understated acting -- with some critics saying he may not be able to better this performance -- his team of unknown actors has also drawn widespread appreciation.
Some of the biggest applause in cinema halls showing "Chak De" comes when the women go around breaking Indian stereotypes -- walking out of homes, beating up men who harass them in public and declining marriage proposals -- all for hockey.
"Director Shimit Amin not only manages to make the impossible possible, he does it with a delicate sensitivity and sensibly steers clear of all cliches," critic Nikhat Kazmi wrote in the Times of India.
The opening of the film was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of India's independence from British colonial rule and "Chak De" has the inevitable hint of jingoism so popular with Indian audiences.
One of the players in the film asks Khan's character what he was doing outside in the dead of the night as flags are bein
RE:RE:just read this its from REUTERS
by love sports on Aug 15, 2007 10:14 PM Permalink
One of the players in the film asks Khan's character what he was doing outside in the dead of the night as flags are being raised on the eve of a world championship final his team has entered in Melbourne.
Khan replies: "I am watching a white man raise the Indian national flag for the first time."
I was reading some of your reviews on the movie. I guess most of us missed the base point of the movie. That being the Indian Integrity. The movie is not a show about Hockey specially. It sure does promote a sport but the theme could have been any other sport or any team effort.
In the mordern times when each zone/state in India is disintegrating by highlighting their own identity, they are forgetting they are a part of India. Its them who makes India. Forming new states will not bring India to forefront but uniting will make the country go forward.
Its not about being a Punjabi, a Gujarati, a Telugu, A Bengali... its about before anything all of us are Indians. And that will give success to the country. Thats how we will win the ultimate world cup being the TOP nation of the world.
