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Chak De! India

January 07, 2023

Chak De! India (transl. Let's go! India) is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language sports drama film directed by Shimit Amin and produced by Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films, with a script written by Jaideep Sahni. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan as Kabir Khan, former captain of the India men's national field hockey team. After a disastrous loss to Pakistan, Khan is ostracized from the sport owing to religious prejudice. 7 years later in an attempt to redeem himself, he becomes the coach for the Indian national women's hockey team, with the goal of turning its 16 contentious players into an award-winning team.

Chak De! India
Theatrical release poster
Directed byShimit Amin
Written byJaideep Sahni
Produced byAditya Chopra
Starring
CinematographySudeep Chatterjee
Edited byAmitabh Shukla
Music bySalim–Sulaiman
Production
company
Distributed byYash Raj Films
Release date
  • 10 August 2007 (2007-08-10)
Running time
149 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget₹200 million[1]
Box office₹1.09 billion[2]

Sahni, a screenwriter, was inspired by the India women's national field hockey team's win at the 2002 Commonwealth Games to develop Chak De! India's script after reading about it in a newspaper. The screenplay was fictional and the characters, while inspired by the real team and coaches, were invented by Sahni. Kabir Khan's struggles bore resemblance to those faced by real-life hockey player Mir Ranjan Negi, although Sahni was unaware of Negi's tribulations while writing the script. On the suggestion of Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, then coach of the women's hockey team, Sahni invited Negi to join the film's production team. A combination of professional players and actors were cast as the sixteen team members; workshops were conducted for training the actors in hockey and the players in acting. Kaushik and Negi would train Sahni, Khan and the other cast members over a period of six months. The sports scenes were choreographed by Rob Miller, and the soundtrack was composed by Salim–Sulaiman, with lyrics written by Sahni.

Chak De! India released in India on 10 August 2007, coinciding with the country's 60th Independence Day, and grossed ₹109 crore (US$26.36 million) on a ₹20 crore (US$4.84 million) budget, thus becoming the third-highest grossing Hindi film of 2007. It received widespread critical acclaim upon release, with praise for its direction, story, screenplay, dialogues, feminist themes, and performances of the cast, with high praise directed towards Khan's performance.

A recipient of numerous accolades, Chak De! India won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment at the 55th National Film Awards. It received a leading 10 nominations at the 53rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Film, Best Director (Amin) and Best Supporting Actress (Shukla), and won a leading 5 awards, including Best Film (Critics) and Best Actor (Khan).

The title song remains highly popular and prominent in Indian popular culture and is played at sporting events regularly. Considered one of Khan's career-best performances, Chak De! India also proved to be socially impactful in India; its success brought about the re-organisation of the Indian Hockey Federation in April 2008, and former player Aslam Sher Khan pointed to the film as a model for the Indian team to work towards.

Plot

Chak De! India opens in Delhi during the final minutes of a Hockey World Cup match between Pakistan and India, with Pakistan leading 1–0. When Indian team captain Kabir Khan is fouled, he takes a penalty stroke. His shot just misses, causing India to lose the match. Soon afterwards, media outlets circulate a photograph of Khan shaking hands with the Pakistani captain. The sporting gesture is misunderstood, and Khan[3][4] is suspected of throwing the game out of sympathy towards Pakistan. Religious prejudice[3][4][5] forces him and his mother to leave town.

Seven years later Mr. Tripathi, the head of India's hockey association, meets with field hockey advocate Uttam Singh to discuss the Indian women's hockey team. According to Tripathi, the team has no future since the only long-term role for women is to "cook and clean". Uttam, however, tells him that Kabir Khan wants to coach the team. Initially sceptical, Tripathi agrees to the arrangement.

Khan finds himself in charge of a group of 16 young women divided by their competitive natures and regional prejudices. Komal Chautala, a village girl from Haryana, clashes with Preeti Sabarwal from Chandigarh; short-tempered Balbir Kaur from Punjab bullies Rani Dispotta and Soimoi Kerketa, who are from remote villages in Jharkhand. Mary Ralte from Mizoram and Molly Zimik, from Manipur in Northeast India, face widespread racial discrimination, and sexual comments from some strangers. Team Captain Vidya Sharma must choose between hockey and the wishes of her husband Rakesh's family, and Preeti's fiancé—Abhimanyu Singh, Vice-Captain of the India national cricket team—feels threatened by her involvement with the team.

Khan realises that he can make the girls winners only if he can help them overcome their differences. During his first few days as coach, he benches several players who refuse to follow his rules—including Bindiya Naik, the most experienced player. In response, Bindiya repeatedly encourages the other players to defy Khan. When she finally succeeds, Khan angrily resigns; however, he invites the staff and team to a farewell lunch at McDonald's. During the lunch, local boys eve tease Mary; Balbir attacks them, triggering a brawl between the boys and the team. Khan, recognising that they are finally acting as one for the first time, prevents the staff from intervening; he only stops a man from hitting one of the women from behind with a cricket bat. After the fight, the women ask Khan to remain their coach.

The team faces new challenges. When Tripathi refuses to send the women's team to Australia for the World Cup, Khan proposes a match against the men's team. Although his team loses, their performance inspires Tripathi to send them to Australia after all. Bindiya is upset with Khan for choosing Vidya over her as the captain of the team. Her consequent behaviour results in a 7–0 loss to Australia. When Khan confronts Bindiya about her actions on the field, Bindiya responds by attempting to have sex with Khan, to which he rejects & asks her to stay away from the game. Khan goes on to train the girls again, which is followed by victories over England, Spain, South Africa, New Zealand, and Argentina. Just before their game with South Korea, Khan approaches Bindiya, asking her to begin playing once more and break the strategy of 'Man to Man' marking used by the Korean team so they can win the match. Bindiya goes onto the field and with the help of Gunjan Lakhani manages to beat South Korea. They are again matched with Australia for the final; this time, they successfully defeat them to win the World Cup. When the team returns home, their families treat them with greater respect and Khan, his good name restored, returns with his mother to their ancestral home.

Cast

Shortly after the film's release, the media began referring to the 16 actresses who portrayed the players as the "Chak De! Girls".[6][7] The panel of judges at the Screen Awards also used the term, awarding the Best Supporting Actress award to the "Chak De Girls" at the 14th Screen Awards in 2008.[8]

Team

Actor Character State or city Position and number
Shah Rukh Khan Kabir Khan India Head Coach
Vidya Malvade Vidya Sharma Madhya Pradesh[9] Captain and goalie (18)[9]
Shilpa Shukla Bindiya Naik Maharashtra[9] Centre half (5)[9]
Nichola Sequeira Nichola Sequeira[10] Utility player (12)[6]
Sagarika Ghatge Preeti Sabarwal Chandigarh[9] Centre forward (9)[9]
Chitrashi Rawat Komal Chautala Haryana[9] Right in (8)[9]
Tanya Abrol Balbir Kaur Punjab[9] Fullback (3)[9]
Shubhi Mehta Gunjan Lakhani Andhra Pradesh[9] Right half (4)[9]
Sandia Furtado Nethra Reddy Left out (11)[9]
Anaitha Nair Aliya Bose West Bengal[9] Right out (7)[9]
Arya Menon Gul Iqbal Uttar Pradesh[9] Left (10)[9]
Kimi Laldawla Mary Ralte Mizoram[9] Penality Specialist (15)[9]
Masochon Zimik Molly Zimik Manipur[9] Left half (6)[9]
Kimberly Miranda Rachna Prasad[11] Bihar[11] Utility player (14)[6]
Seema Azmi Rani Dispotta Jharkhand[9] Right defender (2)[9]
Nisha Nair Soimoi Kerketa Substitute (17)[9]
Raynia Mascerhanas Raynia Fernandes[11] Goa Utility player (16)[6]

Additional cast

Production

Development

A brief article about the victorious women's team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games inspired screenwriter Jaideep Sahni to create a film about the Indian women's hockey team,[13] and he modelled Kabir Khan on hockey coach Maharaj Krishan Kaushik.[14] After listening to the storyline Kaushik suggested that Sahani meet hockey player Mir Ranjan Negi, who faced accusations of throwing the match against Pakistan in the 1982 Asian Games.[15][16][17] Shah Rukh Khan stated in a speech delivered at the University of Edinburgh that the phrase Chak De! was originally "an inspirational martial cry that Sikh soldiers used while lifting logs in order to make bridges across rivers on their campaigns against their enemies. It implies the will to get up and get on with it."[18]

According to Sahani, he was unaware of Negi's plight while he wrote the script and any resemblance to Negi's life was coincidental.[19] Negi agreed, saying that he did not "want to hog the limelight. This movie is not a documentary of Mir Ranjan Negi's life. It is in fact the story of a team that becomes a winning lot from a bunch of hopeless girls".[20][21] Responding to media reports equating Kabir Khan with Negi, Sahani said: "Our script was written a year and a half back. It is very unfortunate that something, which is about women athletes, has just started becoming about Negi."[14]

Casting

"I felt why has the girls’ team been given so little coverage. I shared the idea with Aditya (Chopra). He liked it and said stop everything else and concentrate on it. I started my research by spending time with hockey players ... It’s just a matter of chance that Negi's story matches with Kabir Khan. There are many cases, like in Colombia, football players are killed for not performing well for the club. I had no idea about Negi’s story while writing the script, and he joined us after the script was ready. In fact, his name was suggested by M.K. Kaushik, who was the coach of the team that won the Commonwealth Games’ gold. On day one, when Negi read the script, he cried and it was then that we came to know about his story."

—Jaideep Sahni[19]

Although Salman Khan was initially signed for the lead role, he later withdrew due to creative differences with director Shimit Amin.[22] Shah Rukh Khan (who had originally declined due to a scheduling conflict with Farhan Akhtar's Don (2006)) was later confirmed as Kabir Khan.[23] Khan accepted the role partly because he used to play hockey in college: "I feel hockey as a sport has been monstrously neglected in our country. I used to play the game during college. In fact, I was quite a good hockey player. So the role was a lot like going back to my past."[24] Some media sources called the actor's role offbeat, since it departed from his usual romantic image and included neither lip synched songs nor a single female lead.[7]

Casting of the 16 actresses as the hockey players took over six months. Amin described the process as "very, very difficult" and "very strenuous because the requirement was they had to play – and act". A four-month training camp was held where the girls learned the rules of the game, took acting lessons and followed a strict diet; safety precautions were also taken.[25] According to Amin, "Learning hockey is very tricky unlike, say, football. You have to know how to hold the stick, how to maneuver it, so it doesn't look fake on screen ... For those who were originally players, we had to make sure they were able to act as well. The dialogue was weighty; it isn't frivolous. It has to be delivered with a certain tone, in a certain manner". The actors, including Khan and the rest of the supporting cast, participated in a number of rehearsals and script readings before principal photography began.[7]

Kaushik and his team taught the crew "all [they] knew about hockey". In an interview, he later said that he "taught him (Sahni) everything about the game, starting from how the camp is conducted, how the girls come from different backgrounds and cultures, the psychological factors involved. Also how the coach faces pressure to select girls from different states and teams".[14] After Negi was suggested, the latter assembled a team of hockey players to train the actors.[14] He later said that he "trained the girls for six months. Waking up at 4, traveling from Kandivali to Churchgate. We would retire around 11 in the night. It was tiring. But we were on a mission ... They couldn't run; couldn't hold the hockey sticks. I ensured none of them [would have to] cut their nails or eyebrows (as the players do). The girls have worked very hard. I salute them".[15] Some of the actors, such as Chitrashi, Sandia, and Raynia, were cast because they were hockey players.[26]

Rob Miller was the sport action director, choreographing the sports scenes,[27][28] and worked with Negi to train the actors. About working with Khan, Negi recalled that everything was planned "including the penalty stroke that SRK missed. That shot alone took us nearly 20 hours as I was keen that it should be very realistic. I took the help of a lot of my former teammates. But more importantly, it was so easy working with SRK. He is unbelievably modest and was willing to do as many re-takes as we wanted".[16]

Soundtrack

Chak De! India
Soundtrack album by
Salim–Sulaiman
Released11 July 2007 (2007-07-11)
Recorded2007
StudioYRF Studios, Mumbai
GenreFeature film soundtrack
Length30:12
LanguageHindi
LabelYRF Music
ProducerYash Raj Films
Salim–Sulaiman chronology
Dor
(2006) 		Chak De! India
(2007) 		Aaja Nachle
(2007)

The soundtrack album of Chak De! India and the film's background music is composed by Salim–Sulaiman. This film marks the duo's first collaboration with actor Shah Rukh Khan. The lyrics for all the songs were written by Jaideep Sahni. The album features seven tracks with a remix song and a dialogue by Shah Rukh Khan from this film. The album was released on 11 July 2007, and upon its release 11,00,000 units of the album were sold, making it the eleventh highest selling soundtrack album of the year, according to the Indian trade website Box Office India.[29]

The album received positive reviews from critics. Planet Bollywood rated the album 8/10 stars, with "Chak De! India",[30] "Badal Pe Paaon Hai",[31] "Ek Hockey Doongi Rakh Ke"[32] and "Maula Maula Le Le Meri Jaan"[33] as their top picks. Then stated "Salim-Sulaiman have shown that just like the girls' hockey team, every underdog has his/her day. The album is a relief from the usual Himeshsonic-Pritammatic soundtracks that are flooding the Bollywood music scene today. Here's hoping that the duo get more contracts and bring us some more fresh tracks."[34]

No.TitleSingersLength
1."Chak De! India"Sukhwinder Singh, Salim–Sulaiman, Marianne D'Cruz4:43
2."Badal Pe Paaon Hai"Hema Sardesai4:05
3."Ek Hockey Doongi Rakh Ke"KK, Shahrukh Khan5:14
4."Bad Bad Girls"Anushka Manchanda3:39
5."Maula Mere Le Le Meri Jaan"Salim Merchant, Krishna Beura4:47
6."Hockey" (Remix)Midival Punditz5:17
7."Sattar Minute"Shahrukh Khan2:05

Release

Chak De! India premiered on 13 August 2007 at Somerset House in London to an audience of over 2,000 during the Film4 Summer Screen and India Now festivals.[35][36][37] It was released globally in theaters on 10 August 2007,[38] playing on only 400 screens in India because of the middling response of Yash Raj Films's two previous films, Ta Ra Rum Pum and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom.[38]

The film was screened in New Delhi on 17 August 2016, as part of the week-long Independence Day Film Festival. The festival was jointly presented by the Indian Directorate of Film Festivals and Ministry of Defense, commemorating India's 70th Independence Day.[39][40]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 94% of 17 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.3/10.[41] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 68 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[42]

In an NPR interview via affiliate WBUR-FM, Mumbai Mirror columnist Aseem Chhabra called Chak De! India "an example of a film that's been made within the framework of Bollywood and yet it is a very different film. It does take up some realistic issues, and what I really liked about the film was that the women who acted, you know, who are part of the team, each one of them got a chance. Their personality, their characters, were very well-written, and so, the superstar in the film was Shahrukh Khan, who was the coach of the team; he doesn't sort of take over the whole film. Every supporting character gets a role, and it's a very inspiring movie that really changed the mood in India. People loved it".[43] Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India gave the film four out of five stars stating that it was a film of "great performances by a bunch of unknowns."[44] India Today called Chak De! India "the most feisty girl power movie to have come out of Bollywood ever."[45] Sudhish Kamath of The Hindu wrote, "At another level, Chak De is about women's liberation. It is one of the best feminist films of our times."[46] Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave the film four out of five stars, saying "Chak De's ... a winner all the way."[47] Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express called the film "the most authentic, meticulously researched sports movie India has made".[48] In Kolkata's Telegraph, Bharathi S. Pradhan wrote that the film combines "an extremely well-knit screenplay with unrelentingly deft direction, 16 unknown, and not even glamorous, girls simply carried you with them, with one single known actor compelling you to watch Chak De India without blinking".[49] Jaspreet Pandohar of the BBC gave Chak De! India four out of five stars stating that "while the tale of the sporting underdog is hardly new, Jaideep Sahni's screenplay offers a rare look at a popular Indian sport often overshadowed by cricket."[50] Andy Webster of The New York Times wrote that the film gave a fresh look to the conventional underdog sports film, comparing its premise to the U.S. victory in the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup.[51] Derek Elley of Variety called Chak De! India "a patriotic heartwarmer that scores some old-fashioned entertainment goals."[52] In The Hollywood Reporter, Kirk Honeycutt wrote that the "technical credits are first rate with excellent cinematography, quicksilver editing, musical montages of practice and a fine use of locations."[53]

Michael Dequina of themoviereport.com was more critical of the film, giving it 2.5 out of four stars and calling it "a very familiar, very formula underdog sports movie with nothing to distinguish it from similar, equally slick Hollywood product."[54] Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide gave Chak De! India two stars out of four, writing that the film uses "sports-movie conventions to address larger cultural and political issues, and while it doesn't miss a cliche, it also invests every one with vigorous conviction."[55] Although Subhash K. Jha gave the film 3.5 stars, calling it "a fairly predictable story" with dialogue "quite often the stuff bumper stickers are made of", he wrote that "Chak De! India is an outright winner" and "one of the finest sports-based dramas in living memory."[56] Khalid Mohamed gave the film 3.5 stars in the Hindustan Times stating that the film "may be predictable but compels you to root for a team of losers whom only an earth-angel can save from disastrous defeat".[57]

Apart from critics, Chak De! India tied with Taare Zameen Par for the Best Film of 2007 according to various Bollywood movie directors such as Madhur Bhandarkar, David Dhawan, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Anurag Basu, and Sriram Raghavan.[58]

The film was mentioned in critic and author Shubhra Gupta's book, 50 Films That Changed Bollywood, 1995–2015.[59]

Box office

Due to the film's strong critical response, cinema halls reported 80% occupancy for its opening weekend.[38] Chak De! India topped the Indian box office during its first two weeks,[60] and played to full houses during its first two months.[61] The film was particularly successful in large cities.[61] Chak De! India was the third-highest-grossing film of 2007 in India, with domestic net earnings of ₹66,54,00,000 that year it was declared a box office 'Blockbuster'.[62] By the end of its theatrical run, the film grossed ₹102 crore ($27.05 million) worldwide, including ₹85.86 crore gross (₹66.54 crore net) in India and $3.94 million (₹15.76 crore) overseas.[63]

Accolades

See also: List of accolades received by Chak De! India

Social impact

Chak De! India has become an influential film. The title track song "Chak De! India," now doubles as a sports anthem in India and is played at numerous sports events.[64] According to Salim Merchant, the song "almost became the sports anthem of the country, especially after India won the Cricket World Cup 2011. It was no longer our song but the country's song".[65][66] After India's World Cup victory, Indian team player Virat Kohli "sang 'Chak de India' to the crowd".[67] When India defeated South Africa at the 2015 Cricket World Cup, Nitin Srivastava of the BBC noted: "MCG has erupted with "Vande Mataram" (the national song of India) and "Chak De India" (Go India!) slogans in the air! And there's no age barrier for cricket fans who came and enjoyed the match".[68]

In addition, the suspension of the Indian Hockey Federation in April 2008 also indicated the film's influence. India Today used the title to label the event in two articles, titled "Operation Chak De! impact: Jothikumaran resigns"[69] and "Operation Chak De! impact: Furore in Lok Sabha".[70] The Indiatimes, in an article titled, "Five wise men set for a Chak De! act" also argued, "It looks like Indian hockey has done a real Chak de this time around".[71] In addition, former hockey player Aslam Sher Khan, who was appointed by the Indian Olympic Association to head a committee which will replace the IHF, pointed to the film as a model to work towards. He 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."[72] In another interview, he emphasised that he wants "to create a Chak De effect" on hockey in India.[73]

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Further reading

  • Chakraborty, M.N. "Nationalist transactions: Chak De! India and the down-and-out sports coach." In Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Volume 26, Issue 6, 2012. Special Issue: India/Cinema: An Archive of Politics and Pleasures.
  • De, Aparajita. "Sporting with gender: Examining sport and belonging at home and in the diaspora through Patiala House & Chak De! India." South Asian Popular Culture, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2013:287-300. (Special Issue: Sport and South Asian Diasporas).
  • Gaikwad, Vandana, and Dr. Prasanna Joeg. "Chak De India Movie demonstrates the values of Scrum Team & Scrum Master – A Case Study." International Journal of Advanced Research, Volume 3, Issue 6, June 2015: 613–618.
  • Kaushik, Nancy. "." Innovation: International Journal of Applied Research. ISSN 2347-9272 (Volume-1, Issue-1). December 2013.
  • Madhav, Tushar, Koshy, Vasundhara Anna, Usmani, Aaquib Shehbaaz, Rajani, Mohita, Ahmed, Mudasser and Samra, Kanika."Terrorists and Patriots: Construction in Popular Hindi Cinema." Social Science Research Network, 2 May 2008.
  • Ransom, Amy J. "Bollywood Goes to the Stadium:Gender, National Identity, and Sport Film in Hindi." Journal of Film and Video, Volume 66, Number 4, Winter 2014, pp. 34–49.

External links

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chak, india, transl, india, 2007, indian, hindi, language, sports, drama, film, directed, shimit, amin, produced, aditya, chopra, under, banner, yash, films, with, script, written, jaideep, sahni, film, stars, shah, rukh, khan, kabir, khan, former, captain, in. Chak De India transl Let s go India is a 2007 Indian Hindi language sports drama film directed by Shimit Amin and produced by Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films with a script written by Jaideep Sahni The film stars Shah Rukh Khan as Kabir Khan former captain of the India men s national field hockey team After a disastrous loss to Pakistan Khan is ostracized from the sport owing to religious prejudice 7 years later in an attempt to redeem himself he becomes the coach for the Indian national women s hockey team with the goal of turning its 16 contentious players into an award winning team Chak De IndiaTheatrical release posterDirected byShimit AminWritten byJaideep SahniProduced byAditya ChopraStarringShah Rukh Khan Vidya Malvade Shilpa Shukla Sagarika Ghatge Chitrashi Rawat Vivan Bhatena Mohit Chauhan Joyshree Arora Vibha Chibber Anaitha NairCinematographySudeep ChatterjeeEdited byAmitabh ShuklaMusic bySalim SulaimanProductioncompanyYash Raj FilmsDistributed byYash Raj FilmsRelease date10 August 2007 2007 08 10 Running time149 minutesCountryIndiaLanguageHindiBudget 200 million 1 Box office 1 09 billion 2 Sahni a screenwriter was inspired by the India women s national field hockey team s win at the 2002 Commonwealth Games to develop Chak De India s script after reading about it in a newspaper The screenplay was fictional and the characters while inspired by the real team and coaches were invented by Sahni Kabir Khan s struggles bore resemblance to those faced by real life hockey player Mir Ranjan Negi although Sahni was unaware of Negi s tribulations while writing the script On the suggestion of Maharaj Krishan Kaushik then coach of the women s hockey team Sahni invited Negi to join the film s production team A combination of professional players and actors were cast as the sixteen team members workshops were conducted for training the actors in hockey and the players in acting Kaushik and Negi would train Sahni Khan and the other cast members over a period of six months The sports scenes were choreographed by Rob Miller and the soundtrack was composed by Salim Sulaiman with lyrics written by Sahni Chak De India released in India on 10 August 2007 coinciding with the country s 60th Independence Day and grossed 109 crore US 26 36 million on a 20 crore US 4 84 million budget thus becoming the third highest grossing Hindi film of 2007 It received widespread critical acclaim upon release with praise for its direction story screenplay dialogues feminist themes and performances of the cast with high praise directed towards Khan s performance A recipient of numerous accolades Chak De India won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment at the 55th National Film Awards It received a leading 10 nominations at the 53rd Filmfare Awards including Best Film Best Director Amin and Best Supporting Actress Shukla and won a leading 5 awards including Best Film Critics and Best Actor Khan The title song remains highly popular and prominent in Indian popular culture and is played at sporting events regularly Considered one of Khan s career best performances Chak De India also proved to be socially impactful in India its success brought about the re organisation of the Indian Hockey Federation in April 2008 and former player Aslam Sher Khan pointed to the film as a model for the Indian team to work towards Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 2 1 Team 2 2 Additional cast 3 Production 3 1 Development 3 2 Casting 4 Soundtrack 5 Release 5 1 Critical response 5 2 Box office 5 3 Accolades 6 Social impact 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksPlot EditChak De India opens in Delhi during the final minutes of a Hockey World Cup match between Pakistan and India with Pakistan leading 1 0 When Indian team captain Kabir Khan is fouled he takes a penalty stroke His shot just misses causing India to lose the match Soon afterwards media outlets circulate a photograph of Khan shaking hands with the Pakistani captain The sporting gesture is misunderstood and Khan 3 4 is suspected of throwing the game out of sympathy towards Pakistan Religious prejudice 3 4 5 forces him and his mother to leave town Seven years later Mr Tripathi the head of India s hockey association meets with field hockey advocate Uttam Singh to discuss the Indian women s hockey team According to Tripathi the team has no future since the only long term role for women is to cook and clean Uttam however tells him that Kabir Khan wants to coach the team Initially sceptical Tripathi agrees to the arrangement Khan finds himself in charge of a group of 16 young women divided by their competitive natures and regional prejudices Komal Chautala a village girl from Haryana clashes with Preeti Sabarwal from Chandigarh short tempered Balbir Kaur from Punjab bullies Rani Dispotta and Soimoi Kerketa who are from remote villages in Jharkhand Mary Ralte from Mizoram and Molly Zimik from Manipur in Northeast India face widespread racial discrimination and sexual comments from some strangers Team Captain Vidya Sharma must choose between hockey and the wishes of her husband Rakesh s family and Preeti s fiance Abhimanyu Singh Vice Captain of the India national cricket team feels threatened by her involvement with the team Khan realises that he can make the girls winners only if he can help them overcome their differences During his first few days as coach he benches several players who refuse to follow his rules including Bindiya Naik the most experienced player In response Bindiya repeatedly encourages the other players to defy Khan When she finally succeeds Khan angrily resigns however he invites the staff and team to a farewell lunch at McDonald s During the lunch local boys eve tease Mary Balbir attacks them triggering a brawl between the boys and the team Khan recognising that they are finally acting as one for the first time prevents the staff from intervening he only stops a man from hitting one of the women from behind with a cricket bat After the fight the women ask Khan to remain their coach The team faces new challenges When Tripathi refuses to send the women s team to Australia for the World Cup Khan proposes a match against the men s team Although his team loses their performance inspires Tripathi to send them to Australia after all Bindiya is upset with Khan for choosing Vidya over her as the captain of the team Her consequent behaviour results in a 7 0 loss to Australia When Khan confronts Bindiya about her actions on the field Bindiya responds by attempting to have sex with Khan to which he rejects amp asks her to stay away from the game Khan goes on to train the girls again which is followed by victories over England Spain South Africa New Zealand and Argentina Just before their game with South Korea Khan approaches Bindiya asking her to begin playing once more and break the strategy of Man to Man marking used by the Korean team so they can win the match Bindiya goes onto the field and with the help of Gunjan Lakhani manages to beat South Korea They are again matched with Australia for the final this time they successfully defeat them to win the World Cup When the team returns home their families treat them with greater respect and Khan his good name restored returns with his mother to their ancestral home Cast EditShortly after the film s release the media began referring to the 16 actresses who portrayed the players as the Chak De Girls 6 7 The panel of judges at the Screen Awards also used the term awarding the Best Supporting Actress award to the Chak De Girls at the 14th Screen Awards in 2008 8 Team Edit Actor Character State or city Position and numberShah Rukh Khan Kabir Khan India Head CoachVidya Malvade Vidya Sharma Madhya Pradesh 9 Captain and goalie 18 9 Shilpa Shukla Bindiya Naik Maharashtra 9 Centre half 5 9 Nichola Sequeira Nichola Sequeira 10 Utility player 12 6 Sagarika Ghatge Preeti Sabarwal Chandigarh 9 Centre forward 9 9 Chitrashi Rawat Komal Chautala Haryana 9 Right in 8 9 Tanya Abrol Balbir Kaur Punjab 9 Fullback 3 9 Shubhi Mehta Gunjan Lakhani Andhra Pradesh 9 Right half 4 9 Sandia Furtado Nethra Reddy Left out 11 9 Anaitha Nair Aliya Bose West Bengal 9 Right out 7 9 Arya Menon Gul Iqbal Uttar Pradesh 9 Left 10 9 Kimi Laldawla Mary Ralte Mizoram 9 Penality Specialist 15 9 Masochon Zimik Molly Zimik Manipur 9 Left half 6 9 Kimberly Miranda Rachna Prasad 11 Bihar 11 Utility player 14 6 Seema Azmi Rani Dispotta Jharkhand 9 Right defender 2 9 Nisha Nair Soimoi Kerketa Substitute 17 9 Raynia Mascerhanas Raynia Fernandes 11 Goa Utility player 16 6 Additional cast Edit Anjan Srivastav as Mr Vishal Tripathi the head Indian hockey official Vibha Chibber as Krishnaji assistant coach for the Indian women s field hockey team Javed Khan as Sukhlal Mohit Chauhan as Uttam Singh Kabir s former hockey teammate and friend Vivan Bhatena as Abimanyu Singh Vice captain of the Indian national cricket team and Preeti s fiance Nakul Vaid as Rakesh Sharma Vidya s husband Joyshree Arora as Kabir s mother 12 Emily White as the Australian Field Hockey Goalie Jimmy Lekkas as Argentinian coach Production EditDevelopment Edit A brief article about the victorious women s team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games inspired screenwriter Jaideep Sahni to create a film about the Indian women s hockey team 13 and he modelled Kabir Khan on hockey coach Maharaj Krishan Kaushik 14 After listening to the storyline Kaushik suggested that Sahani meet hockey player Mir Ranjan Negi who faced accusations of throwing the match against Pakistan in the 1982 Asian Games 15 16 17 Shah Rukh Khan stated in a speech delivered at the University of Edinburgh that the phrase Chak De was originally an inspirational martial cry that Sikh soldiers used while lifting logs in order to make bridges across rivers on their campaigns against their enemies It implies the will to get up and get on with it 18 According to Sahani he was unaware of Negi s plight while he wrote the script and any resemblance to Negi s life was coincidental 19 Negi agreed saying that he did not want to hog the limelight This movie is not a documentary of Mir Ranjan Negi s life It is in fact the story of a team that becomes a winning lot from a bunch of hopeless girls 20 21 Responding to media reports equating Kabir Khan with Negi Sahani said Our script was written a year and a half back It is very unfortunate that something which is about women athletes has just started becoming about Negi 14 Casting Edit I felt why has the girls team been given so little coverage I shared the idea with Aditya Chopra He liked it and said stop everything else and concentrate on it I started my research by spending time with hockey players It s just a matter of chance that Negi s story matches with Kabir Khan There are many cases like in Colombia football players are killed for not performing well for the club I had no idea about Negi s story while writing the script and he joined us after the script was ready In fact his name was suggested by M K Kaushik who was the coach of the team that won the Commonwealth Games gold On day one when Negi read the script he cried and it was then that we came to know about his story Jaideep Sahni 19 Although Salman Khan was initially signed for the lead role he later withdrew due to creative differences with director Shimit Amin 22 Shah Rukh Khan who had originally declined due to a scheduling conflict with Farhan Akhtar s Don 2006 was later confirmed as Kabir Khan 23 Khan accepted the role partly because he used to play hockey in college I feel hockey as a sport has been monstrously neglected in our country I used to play the game during college In fact I was quite a good hockey player So the role was a lot like going back to my past 24 Some media sources called the actor s role offbeat since it departed from his usual romantic image and included neither lip synched songs nor a single female lead 7 Casting of the 16 actresses as the hockey players took over six months Amin described the process as very very difficult and very strenuous because the requirement was they had to play and act A four month training camp was held where the girls learned the rules of the game took acting lessons and followed a strict diet safety precautions were also taken 25 According to Amin Learning hockey is very tricky unlike say football You have to know how to hold the stick how to maneuver it so it doesn t look fake on screen For those who were originally players we had to make sure they were able to act as well The dialogue was weighty it isn t frivolous It has to be delivered with a certain tone in a certain manner The actors including Khan and the rest of the supporting cast participated in a number of rehearsals and script readings before principal photography began 7 Kaushik and his team taught the crew all they knew about hockey In an interview he later said that he taught him Sahni everything about the game starting from how the camp is conducted how the girls come from different backgrounds and cultures the psychological factors involved Also how the coach faces pressure to select girls from different states and teams 14 After Negi was suggested the latter assembled a team of hockey players to train the actors 14 He later said that he trained the girls for six months Waking up at 4 traveling from Kandivali to Churchgate We would retire around 11 in the night It was tiring But we were on a mission They couldn t run couldn t hold the hockey sticks I ensured none of them would have to cut their nails or eyebrows as the players do The girls have worked very hard I salute them 15 Some of the actors such as Chitrashi Sandia and Raynia were cast because they were hockey players 26 Rob Miller was the sport action director choreographing the sports scenes 27 28 and worked with Negi to train the actors About working with Khan Negi recalled that everything was planned including the penalty stroke that SRK missed That shot alone took us nearly 20 hours as I was keen that it should be very realistic I took the help of a lot of my former teammates But more importantly it was so easy working with SRK He is unbelievably modest and was willing to do as many re takes as we wanted 16 Soundtrack EditChak De IndiaSoundtrack album by Salim SulaimanReleased11 July 2007 2007 07 11 Recorded2007StudioYRF Studios MumbaiGenreFeature film soundtrackLength30 12LanguageHindiLabelYRF MusicProducerYash Raj FilmsSalim Sulaiman chronologyDor 2006 Chak De India 2007 Aaja Nachle 2007 The soundtrack album of Chak De India and the film s background music is composed by Salim Sulaiman This film marks the duo s first collaboration with actor Shah Rukh Khan The lyrics for all the songs were written by Jaideep Sahni The album features seven tracks with a remix song and a dialogue by Shah Rukh Khan from this film The album was released on 11 July 2007 and upon its release 11 00 000 units of the album were sold making it the eleventh highest selling soundtrack album of the year according to the Indian trade website Box Office India 29 The album received positive reviews from critics Planet Bollywood rated the album 8 10 stars with Chak De India 30 Badal Pe Paaon Hai 31 Ek Hockey Doongi Rakh Ke 32 and Maula Maula Le Le Meri Jaan 33 as their top picks Then stated Salim Sulaiman have shown that just like the girls hockey team every underdog has his her day The album is a relief from the usual Himeshsonic Pritammatic soundtracks that are flooding the Bollywood music scene today Here s hoping that the duo get more contracts and bring us some more fresh tracks 34 No TitleSingersLength1 Chak De India Sukhwinder Singh Salim Sulaiman Marianne D Cruz4 432 Badal Pe Paaon Hai Hema Sardesai4 053 Ek Hockey Doongi Rakh Ke KK Shahrukh Khan5 144 Bad Bad Girls Anushka Manchanda3 395 Maula Mere Le Le Meri Jaan Salim Merchant Krishna Beura4 476 Hockey Remix Midival Punditz5 177 Sattar Minute Shahrukh Khan2 05Release EditChak De India premiered on 13 August 2007 at Somerset House in London to an audience of over 2 000 during the Film4 Summer Screen and India Now festivals 35 36 37 It was released globally in theaters on 10 August 2007 38 playing on only 400 screens in India because of the middling response of Yash Raj Films s two previous films Ta Ra Rum Pum and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom 38 The film was screened in New Delhi on 17 August 2016 as part of the week long Independence Day Film Festival The festival was jointly presented by the Indian Directorate of Film Festivals and Ministry of Defense commemorating India s 70th Independence Day 39 40 Critical response Edit On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes 94 of 17 critics reviews are positive with an average rating of 7 3 10 41 Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned the film a score of 68 out of 100 based on 4 critics indicating generally favorable reviews 42 In an NPR interview via affiliate WBUR FM Mumbai Mirror columnist Aseem Chhabra called Chak De India an example of a film that s been made within the framework of Bollywood and yet it is a very different film It does take up some realistic issues and what I really liked about the film was that the women who acted you know who are part of the team each one of them got a chance Their personality their characters were very well written and so the superstar in the film was Shahrukh Khan who was the coach of the team he doesn t sort of take over the whole film Every supporting character gets a role and it s a very inspiring movie that really changed the mood in India People loved it 43 Nikhat Kazmi of The Times of India gave the film four out of five stars stating that it was a film of great performances by a bunch of unknowns 44 India Today called Chak De India the most feisty girl power movie to have come out of Bollywood ever 45 Sudhish Kamath of The Hindu wrote At another level Chak De is about women s liberation It is one of the best feminist films of our times 46 Rajeev Masand of CNN IBN gave the film four out of five stars saying Chak De s a winner all the way 47 Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express called the film the most authentic meticulously researched sports movie India has made 48 In Kolkata s Telegraph Bharathi S Pradhan wrote that the film combines an extremely well knit screenplay with unrelentingly deft direction 16 unknown and not even glamorous girls simply carried you with them with one single known actor compelling you to watch Chak De India without blinking 49 Jaspreet Pandohar of the BBC gave Chak De India four out of five stars stating that while the tale of the sporting underdog is hardly new Jaideep Sahni s screenplay offers a rare look at a popular Indian sport often overshadowed by cricket 50 Andy Webster of The New York Times wrote that the film gave a fresh look to the conventional underdog sports film comparing its premise to the U S victory in the 1991 FIFA Women s World Cup 51 Derek Elley of Variety called Chak De India a patriotic heartwarmer that scores some old fashioned entertainment goals 52 In The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt wrote that the technical credits are first rate with excellent cinematography quicksilver editing musical montages of practice and a fine use of locations 53 Michael Dequina of themoviereport com was more critical of the film giving it 2 5 out of four stars and calling it a very familiar very formula underdog sports movie with nothing to distinguish it from similar equally slick Hollywood product 54 Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide gave Chak De India two stars out of four writing that the film uses sports movie conventions to address larger cultural and political issues and while it doesn t miss a cliche it also invests every one with vigorous conviction 55 Although Subhash K Jha gave the film 3 5 stars calling it a fairly predictable story with dialogue quite often the stuff bumper stickers are made of he wrote that Chak De India is an outright winner and one of the finest sports based dramas in living memory 56 Khalid Mohamed gave the film 3 5 stars in the Hindustan Times stating that the film may be predictable but compels you to root for a team of losers whom only an earth angel can save from disastrous defeat 57 Apart from critics Chak De India tied with Taare Zameen Par for the Best Film of 2007 according to various Bollywood movie directors such as Madhur Bhandarkar David Dhawan Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Anurag Basu and Sriram Raghavan 58 The film was mentioned in critic and author Shubhra Gupta s book 50 Films That Changed Bollywood 1995 2015 59 Box office Edit Due to the film s strong critical response cinema halls reported 80 occupancy for its opening weekend 38 Chak De India topped the Indian box office during its first two weeks 60 and played to full houses during its first two months 61 The film was particularly successful in large cities 61 Chak De India was the third highest grossing film of 2007 in India with domestic net earnings of 66 54 00 000 that year it was declared a box office Blockbuster 62 By the end of its theatrical run the film grossed 102 crore 27 05 million worldwide including 85 86 crore gross 66 54 crore net in India and 3 94 million 15 76 crore overseas 63 Accolades Edit See also List of accolades received by Chak De IndiaSocial impact EditChak De India has become an influential film The title track song Chak De India now doubles as a sports anthem in India and is played at numerous sports events 64 According to Salim Merchant the song almost became the sports anthem of the country especially after India won the Cricket World Cup 2011 It was no longer our song but the country s song 65 66 After India s World Cup victory Indian team player Virat Kohli sang Chak de India to the crowd 67 When India defeated South Africa at the 2015 Cricket World Cup Nitin Srivastava of the BBC noted MCG has erupted with Vande Mataram the national song of India and Chak De India Go India slogans in the air And there s no age barrier for cricket fans who came and enjoyed the match 68 In addition the suspension of the Indian Hockey Federation in April 2008 also indicated the film s influence India Today used the title to label the event in two articles titled Operation Chak De impact Jothikumaran resigns 69 and Operation Chak De impact Furore in Lok Sabha 70 The Indiatimes in an article titled Five wise men set for a Chak De act also argued It looks like Indian hockey has done a real Chak de this time around 71 In addition former hockey player Aslam Sher Khan who was appointed by the Indian Olympic Association to head a committee which will replace the IHF pointed to the film as a model to work towards He 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 72 In another interview he emphasised that he wants to create a Chak De effect on 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