Chak De India: Highest grossing film of the year!
Posted by filmikhabar on October 4th, 2007
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Chak De! surprises: Shows an increase in its collections.
Chak De! surprises: Shows an increase in its collections.
Posted by crazytasa23 on October 5th, 2007
Sunday, September 30, 2007
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Release Date
August 10, 2007
Genre
Drama / Sports / Thriller
Star Cast
Shahrukh Khan...... Kabir Khan
Vidya Malvade...... Vidya Sharma
Anjan Srivastava
Javed Khan
Vibha Chibbar
Nakul Vaid
Sagarika Ghatge...... Preeti Sabarwal
Chitrashi Rawat...... Komal Chautala
Shilpa Shukla...... Bindia Naik
Tanya Abrol...... Balbir Kaur
Anaitha Nair...... Aliya Bose
Shubhi Mehta...... Gunjan Lakhani
Nisha Nair...... Soimoi Kerketa
Sandia Furtado...... Nethra Reddy
Arya Menon...... Gul Iqbal
Masochon V. Zimik...... Molly Zimik
Kimi Laldawla...... Mary Ralte
Kimberly Miranda
Nicola Sequeira
Raynia D'Souza
Mohit Chauhan
Joyoshree Arora
Vivaan Bhathena
SYNOPSIS:
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?
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.
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Chak De! India - Some Thoughts
Chak De! India - Some Thoughts
Posted by aksfilmi on September 16th, 2007
Chak De! India - Some Thoughts
By: Utpal Borpujari
I know I am pretty late in catching up with this film, but I finally watched Chak De! India A lot have been written about it on passionforcinema and elsewhere, but still I would add my two bits here, particularly as I think it’s rare to get a film coming from the mainstream framework to have so much layering that is done commendably well. So here goes my take, point by point:
1. Though SRK has said in an interview that he acted just exactly as he does in any other movie, I think Swades and Chak De are the only two films where he chose to go into the character, rising above the Rahul/Raj image. Particularly in the scene towards the end of the movie when it slowly sinks into Kabir Khan that his girls have done it and the ghost chasing him all the years has been exorcised, SRK is great. That’s the Shah Rukh Khan we would love to see more – the actor who is a star, not the star who is an actor.
2. The real star of the movie is neither SRK nor the 16 girls. It is Jaideep Sahni, who wrote the brilliant script that to a great extent played to the gallery yet made a number of telling observations. So, for those who just want to watch a film for its entertainment value, it has got all the elements of the drama and emotion, and for those who want to go beyond there is much more.
3. A Muslim who is accused of being traitor is not a new thing in Indian cinema in recent years, but CDI does it with great sensitivity without the lecturing that quite a films have fallen victim to (an exception was the character played by Mukesh Rishi in Sarfarosh).
4. Each player in the hockey team actually reflects Sahni’s own concerns regarding how particularly in northern India – in places like Delhi where I live – communities from other parts of India have to face a lot of prejudices every day of their lives (Sahni explained this to me during a recent interview / conversation). So, if the girl from Andhra Pradesh is told that for a Delhiite, Tamil and Telugu are the same (to which she retorts that they are as same as a Punjabi is to a Bihari), the girls from the North-East are welcomed as guests, to which the Manipuri girl retorts ‘how can one be happy at being treated as ‘mehmaan’ in one’s own country?’ These and other examples of prejudices and general ignorance amongst us about our own country is one aspect that is brought home without any sermonizing, which makes it great.
5. CDI, like any other sports movie, is all about underdogs going on to win against all odds against far superior rivals (examples – Lagaan, Hip Hip Hurray, Jo Jita Wohi Sikandar, Chariots of Fire, Million Dollar Baby…..). But rising above the basic theme, the script also filters in the issue of women’s status in the Indian society – whether in the middle class or the upper class.
6. The cricket versus other sports debate was, of course, the obvious one, and we get to see stories on this every other day in the media, particularly when there is a story of a sportsperson fallen into bad times. Women’s hockey is even worse when it comes to facilities. This is telling told in the film, thanks to Sahni’s script.
7. The politics within sports teams and the non-sporting games played by sports association bosses who have nothing to do with sports was another aspect dealt with quite beautifully, again without sermonizing. KPS Gill, the Indian Hockey Federation chief, should be compulsorily made to watch this film with his cronies in IHF.
8. The finale was definitely fairytale ending keeping in mind commercial considerations. In a film like this, obviously it cannot end on a sad note after defining all the odds each character is placed against, including Kabir Khan who sees in this the only opportunity to exorcise the label of traitor.
9. There will be many more aspects that would come out with a finer reading of the film – and this is just one done in a hurry – but the one of the most important aspect about CDI is that Yash Raj Films came forward to produce it despite it not having chiffon-clad heroines, songs shot in the Swiss Alps and a clash of families. After producing films like Kabul Express and distributing Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara, CDI is a clear sign that traditional filmmaking houses like YRF are changing, or maybe being forced to change by an audience which is changing. If that is happening, it can only mean good things for Hindi cinema. Keeping my fingers crossed!
10. And yes – the day I watched the film, was the day when Jhulan Goswami of India was announced as the Women Cricketer of the Year by the ICC. No male cricketer from India got anywhere near the awards.
A Tale of two films: Chak De! Vs RGV ki Aag - BEST AND WORST OF 2007
A Tale of two films: Chak De! and RGV ki Aag
Posted by filmikhabar on September 16th, 2007
This weekend I checked out two films of differing styles and character. In a way, it was a journey from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Even if I discount the immediate post-viewing mass hysteria, Chak De India is not just a film.
It’s a revolution of sorts, hitting at the centuries of obscurantism in traditional Indian society that viewed women, for obvious pecuniary and sexual reasons, as second class beings, existing only to satisfy the whims of the superior and powerful patriarchal class.
So, when SRK, subdued, unshaven, sober and refreshingly restrained, gets down to create a World Cup winning women’s Hockey team, he puts a minor but significant foot in the door for women to assert themselves as individuals.
Though it begins as a private battle to redeem himself and regain his lost pride, it ends up breaking a mould, and what a rotten mould it was!
In this, lies the true triumph of the film, besides the obvious winners in terms of a taut script, invigorating cast of actors and a never before seen SRK minus his customary stutter, cultivated drawl and over-the-hill flamboyance.
The film tugs at your heart and makes you want to do something for this much maligned, much abused country, desperately short of heroes and good tidings.
In a subliminal way, Chak De India is very much the story of the underdog that too deserves her moment in the Sun.
On the other hand, RGV Ki Aag is a self-indulgent fantasy unfolding without any logic.
Looks like the film was made when RGV was in a prolonged state of daze and most definitely had ear plugs on. For the soundtrack is so loud and pompous, it is designed to wake up even the dead.
RGV has managed to accomplish an almost impossible feat of making Amitabh Bachchan and Ajay Devgan look trite and wastrels as actors, not a minor achievement by any score.
Urmila’s pelvic-in-your-face movements notwithstanding, the film does everything in its power to make your spirits droop to a new low. You begin to get angry at the sheer stupidity of it all.
Was this Sholay revisited? Bull! Even if you don’t compare it to the original classic, it’s a waste of a film. Things happen because a crazy self-obsessed director willed them to be, with absolute disregard to the intelligence of his audience.
The script is almost non-existent, and whatever little is, is banal, pedestrian and overly pretentious in trying to evoke gutter-like and guttural quality from its lead protagonists.
The film is shot with dark overtones and darker undertones, in the belief that it’s the new mantra of gangster flicks, and each character is like a caricature of his or her self, bereft of dignity and conviction, choking on an unreal brooding intensity that seems so whacked out. If it was meant to be a spoof, it falls flat on its glitzy egg-splashed face.
What the hell was RGV thinking? That he would crap a truckload of stars and the audience will lap it up? Loud, pretentious, contrived, it’s shit served on a silver platter with a generous dash of stale perfume, which simply doesn’t work.
The audience has moved on; RGV needs to move to a rehab.
Check out Chak De India, it will restore your faith in good cinema, and hopefully, in India. And check out RGV Ki Aag only if you lack self-esteem and want to feel sorry for yourself.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
A fair game after SRK’s ‘Chak De’
A fair game after SRK’s ‘Chak De’
Posted by aksfilmi on September 11th, 2007
Yeh chakki-belan chalane wali Bharatiya nari hai. Yeh kabhi knicker wicker pahan ke hockey ke maidan par utar sakti hai kya?”The ‘sports administrator’, who spoke these infamous words on screen, had to eat his words in the end when the ‘Chak De’ girls came home triumphant with the hockey world cup. The movie, it seems, didn’t just end up with the usual feel good factor and a tax-free tag.
The SRK reel effect in ‘Chak De’ seems to have rubbed off on the real as more and more girls seem to be taking up active sports.
Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Chak De India’ has got the goody girls hooked on to sports. “It’s a revolution,” says Anjali Shah of Premier Indian Football Academy (PIFA), adding, “The number of inquiries and enrolment of girls in the game has gone up by 50 per cent this year.
In fact for the very first time, women above 20 years also want to learn the game and play for the country.” PIFA is all set to form a woman’s football team after four women insisted on learning the game and forming a woman’s team.
PIFAis on the lookout for 15 women to complete their women’s football team. And as far as hockey is concerned, the sport has suddenly received a huge momentum.
Ignatius D’Souza, sub coach of the Bombay Hockey Women’s Association informs that four Mumbai schools namely St Paul Convent High School at Dadar, Pawar Public School in Bhandup, Canossa Convent in Andheri and St Teresa’s Convent in Santacruz have introduced hockey in their sports curriculum.
Even colleges are fast catching up with the game. Nisha Nair, the girl who plays Soi Moi in ‘Chak De India’ is an ace hockey player in real life as well.
She along with Ranjan Negi, the one who taught Chak De girls to play hockey, encouraged the Poddar College girls to form their own team. Nisha says, “I felt great when Poddar College actually formed a girls’ hockey team. Things are changing. Everybody around me seem to have suddenly grown fond of sports. It feels great.”
Saturday, September 8, 2007
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