Chak De

One man mentoring a hockey team of young and feisty girls. Their determination, ambition and skills are put to test in an ultimate contest with the world�s more..Chak De India� is a beautifully made film that makes you laugh, makes you cry, gives you goose bumps, and stirs up patriotism inside you. It is a film more..

Chak De! India (Hindi: चक दे इंडिया English: "Go For It, India!")^[2] is a 2007 Bollywood sports film about field hockey in India. It is directed by Shimit Amin, produced by Yash Raj Films, and stars Shahrukh Khan as Kabir Khan, the former captain of the Indian hockey team. After a disastrous loss to the Pakistani hockey team, Khan is ostracized from the sport. He and his mother are further forced from their ancestral home by angry neighbors. Seven years later in an attempt to redeem himself, Khan becomes the coach for the Indian women's hockey team with the goal of turning its sixteen contentious players into a champion team. After leading the women's team to the Gold, Khan restores his reputation and returns with his mother to their home, welcomed by those who had shunned them years before.

Chak De! India explores religious bigotry, the legacy of partition, ethnic/regional prejudice, and sexism in contemporary India through field hockey.^[3][4][5] Screenwriter Jaideep Sahni decided to write a fictional screenplay based on the winning of the Gold by the Indian women's field hockey team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games after reading about it in the newspaper.^[6][7] Thus the characters, while inspired by the real team and coaches, were invented by Sahni.^[8] Although some media outlets compared Kabir Khan to real-life hockey player Mir Ranjan Negi,^[9] Sahani has stated that he was unaware of Negi's tribulations while writing the script and that the resemblance with Negi's life was coincidental.^[10]

Earning over Rs 639 million, Chak De! India was the fourth highest grossing movie of 2007 in India ^[11] and was critically acclaimed.^[12] Chak De! India has won numerous awards (including eight for Best Film) and received the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment.^[13] The suspension of the Indian Hockey Federation in April 2008 emphasized the film's influence. After a new hockey council was formed, former hockey player, Aslam Sher Khan, stated in an interview, "We have to make a Team India as you have seen in bollywood blockbuster Chak De! India. There are players from several parts of the country. We have to unite them to make a powerful force."^[14

Featured Chak De India Movie Review

by dblacksmith

Chake De is so much more than a Sport film or a Hockey film. Its so much more than that.

It addresses most relevant issues that our citizens are facing in their desire to become world class.

The main issues, which it addressed include the gender issue, the individual over the team issue, the leadership crisis issue, the communal issue, the post marriageidentity crisis isssue, the pathetic national sports issueand the generation gap issue.

These are issues which are being handled by every single indian in some area of his life. Be it as a student, an employee, a job aspirant, a lover, a father/mother, a wife/husband or as a noble minded indian.

The movie comes as a support to all those struggling indians. It comes as a uniting force which addresses all these issues by highlighting them an a extremely 'in-your-face' manner.

The movie charged me to such an extent that for ten minutes after the movie got over I was sitting in my seat, feel the blood boil in my veins.

My heart weeped for my country, because i could see clearly the challenges that we were facing in our daily life in our challenge to become professional, quality consious global indians.

For the past two years, I have been working in rural india sharing my skills with schools and colleges.I feel that every single indian must see this movie. I see it as anther Sholay.

Go see it. You will change.

Cheers

Gurmeethe making-of-a-team sports movie is a timeworn genre, and yet “Chak De! India” (“Go, India!”) finds new variations. Though the game here is field hockey, those fondly recalling the United States soccer team’s first-place finish in the 1991 Women’s World Cup will find a lot to like.

Of course, there are conventions. Kabir Khan (the assured Bollywood veteran Shahrukh Khan) is a former player for India’s national field hockey team who missed a fateful play against Pakistan, costing a championship and making him a pariah. Seven years later, he is hired to coach the nation’s women’s hockey team, giving him one more shot at a title.

The players, from states all over India, are a fractious lot, including a tomboy (Chitrashi Rawat) whose father fears she will never marry; a forward (Sagarika Ghatge) whose boyfriend, a cricket superstar, wants her to quit the team and live in his shadow; a newlywed goalie (Vidya Malavade) whose in-laws expect her to stay at home; and a haughty, seasoned player (Shilpa Shukla) who needles the coach.

When leering boys at a McDonald’s harass them, a girls-against-boys melee erupts, but the coach doesn’t interfere, knowing the team will prevail — and find its spirit. From there, it’s on to the women’s hockey championships in Melbourne, Australia.

The director, Shimit Amin, strikes a buoyant, propulsive tone, replacing the customary Bollywood production numbers with exhilarating musical montages of team practice. For his part, Mr. Khan, to his credit, lets his co-stars’ youthful charisma carry the movie. He also laudably portrays a man who vigorously and unabashedly advocates the advancement of women.

In fact, the film’s greatest merit is its commentary on sexism in India. As it should, “Chak De! India” gives the women, in the closing credits, the last word.

Directed by Shimit Amin; written (in Hindi, with English subtitles) by Jaideep Sahni; edited by Amitabh Shukla; music by Salim Merchant and Sulaiman Merchant; art director, Sukant Panigrahy; produced by Aditya Chopra; released by Yash Raj Films. In Manhattan at the Imaginasian Theater, 239 East 59th Street. Running time: 152 minutes. This film is not rated.

WITH: Shahrukh Khan (Kabir Khan), Vidya Malavade (Vidya Sharma), Chitrashi Rawat (Komal), Sagarika Ghatge (Preeti) and Shilpa Shukla (Bindia Naik).

Monqolian Ping pong ball

This kid get water from the river the kid saw Ping Pong im the river he put it in his hands it so his da and his grandma and Brothers. The kids talk about waht is Ping Pomg they say was a egg. The brothers went to school and he was all lot of ping Pong.

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The move was good I like it. The boy and girl also kissing at night time. The girl got in trople with teather was not good for her. And the boy he box the aother boy got hunrt bad. They have good food. The boys look that girls saw the girls at the dance. The hed matters wipe the boy in the buts it was all red.

Friday we finished watching "Rabbit Proof Fence." The movie made me sad because the police took the three sisters away from their mom and took them to a school. The girls leave from the school because they missed their mom. They walked for miles and miles in the desert. It was hot and sunny and windy. The girls ate plants and eggs that they got from a nest up in a tree. They ran into a guy who showed them a shortcut how to get to the fence. Then they ran into a woman who was hanging up clothes. She let them get food and stayed in her cabin and then they saw a guy coming to get them so they got scared and got out of bed and ran out. They hid from the police. They kept walking at night before the police could get them. They kept going and going until they got home. Her mom hugged them. One sister went to a train station and she was caught by the police. She tried to run away but they took her and took her back to the school. The two ladies at the end of the movie were old and they were the two sisters that the movie was about.

I watched a movie called "The Weeping Camel." It was a sad movie because the mom camel was sad. A family in Mongolia live in huts in the desert. It looks sunny and windy. There was sand everywhere. They have animals like sheep and camels. They ate a lot of white soup and drank tea. They sit on the ground when they eat. The grandma in the hut was throwing out white soup for the animals. They talked in a different language that I didnt understand but i knew what they were saying because I read the subtitles.

The mom camel had a baby. It was white. It was a boy I think. The mom didnt want to take care of the baby so the people helped her. They played a song and the mom came over and the baby came over to the mom and drank milk and food from the mom. Two boys went to the store to get batteries for their radio and the little boy ate ice cream.

There were a lot of things different about their life. One thing that was the same as me is that I drink soup like they do and I drink tea. The little baby in the movie was crying a lot and I have nieces and nephews that cry a lot when they are babies.

I did like this movie because I liked the people. The people in the movie were nice to their animals. I am nice to animals too.

I am going to be watching a movie called "Rabbit-proof Fence." This is about an Australian family and their experiences.  Three aboriginal children were stolen and removed from their family during the early 20th century.  It is their story of them and how they escaped.

First Blog

This is my first blog for my new class called Global Film Studies. We are going to be watching films and then blogging about them. I want to learn about different movies and film makers in this class.