Synopsis
The film starts with a hockey match. Indian Captain Kabir Khan misses a penalty stroke in the dying minutes of the match which causes the team to lose the game, the final of a tournament against arch rivals Pakistan. The Indian media make Kabir Khan the fall guy for the defeat. Kabir is humiliated %26amp; even has to leave his ancestral home, unable to face the shame of being labelled a 'gaddaar' (traitor).
Seven years later, Kabir returns with a proposal to coach the Indian Women's Hockey team for the Hockey World Cup. The Indian Hockey Federation members are skeptical since women's Hockey in India has never achieved anything substantial. Kabir takes on the challenge and goes to the National Hockey Camp where he is introduced to the 16 young girls who play for their respective states. Kabir starts coaching them with a dream that the team will win the Hockey World Cup for India and he will finally be free of the demons of the past haunting him.
The team is riven by conflicts of region, class %26amp; ethnicity. Kabir inculcates in them a sense of team spirit %26amp; asks them to put the country first. The girls take time but manage to come together through a series of incidents. Some senior members of the team resent him but he finally gets through to them. The team rally and convince the Federation to send them for the World Cup to be held in Australia who also happen to be the defending champions.
In their first match, they are hammered by the Australians but slowly turn their game around and start winning matches. They keep improving during the course of the tournament and miraculously manage to reach the finals where they must face the defending champions once more. In the end it all comes down to a tense penalty shoot out, which the Indians win.
The players and Kabir are ecstatic at their victory and are welcomed back as heroes. More importantly, Kabir returns to his home after seven years where the residents greet him with love and affection.
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.
Character Sketch
The Coach
Shahrukh Khan as Kabir Khan
Once the hero of Indian Hockey, the best centre forward in the world, the man a nation found a hero in. And the man it sentenced to hell.
Now he has decided to make a last comeback to the game he once loved, to reclaim his lost honour and prove his point to the nation he still loves.
By doing the impossible.
Making a rag-tag bunch of loser girls a team.
And the World Champions.
The only problem is – it is easier said than done.
The Girls
Preeti Sabarwal
Position: Center Forward
Jersey Number: 9
Home State: Chandigarh
Preeti went to the best public schools, but on her way to the U.S. from there, took a sharp left towards the Punjab University and its hockey team for reasons best known to her. Chandigarh captain, she looks like a Princess and plays like the Terminator. The only one she is close to is her iPod. Would you then blame the rest of her mostly rural team-mates for calling her mem? She has a secret, but then, that's a secret.
Komal Chautala
Position: Right In
Jersey Number: 8
Home State: Haryana
The Rohtak Express, also known as chhokra in her village for her tomboyishness, and as chhipkali in the field for her devious dribbling. Born to tough Jats, she has just one regret -that she wasn't born a boy. But she's doing all she can to make up, including not using make-up. Ever.
Bindia Naik
Position: Center Half
Jersey Number: 5
Home State: Maharashtra
Experience corrupts, and too much experience corrupts completely. A veteran of field positions, federation politics and award manipulations, she could make any team's dirty tricks department proud, if she wasn't the department herself in real life.
Vidya Sharma
Position: Goalie %26amp; Captain
Jersey Number: 18
Home State: Madhya Pradesh
Just married. And it already looks like she will have to divorce hockey. She knows this is probably her last tournament but can she give up hockey for marriage?
Balbir Kaur
Position: Left Defender
Jersey Number: 3
Home State: Punjab
Known as tataiya, bhootni, rakshas and ghatotkach on any given day depending upon what she has done lately, everybody in the team is terrified of her temper. Fearless, sometimes to the point of being brainless, she is the team's main hope against the giant Australian girls and the ruthless Argentinean zagalonas. Heart of gold, in a body of armour-plated steel.
Aliya Bose
Position: Right Out
Jersey Number: 7
Home State: West Bengal
Sexy Aliya should have been born in the swinging seventies. The world is a winery of boys and she is the taster-in-chief. And she takes her job very seriously. In her spare time she also plays hockey. Unfortunately, she is good at it and so year after year, team managers and coaches have tolerated her.
Gunjan Lakhani
Position: Right Half
Jersey Number: 4
Home State: Andhra Pradesh
This Hyderabadi potti has seen it all, because she knows when to shut her eyes. Playing with seniors Bindia and Aliya has taught her only one thing there are more games off the field than on it. And a smart player knows how to stay out to stay in.
Rani Dispotta
Position: Right Defender
Jersey Number: 2
Home State: Jharkhand
Rani still remembers the time she moved from her jungle village to Ranchi Sports School. And that makes her an expert on how to handle the city-breds, or manhandle them if need be. She knows enough Hindi to offend anyone and enough English to defend herself, especially on the field.
Soimoi Kerketa
Position: Substitute
Jersey Number: 17
Home State: Jharkhand
From Jharkhand Grameen Adivasi Balika Kalyan Kendra Vidyalaya on the edge of Ghamorni jungle, straight New Delhi. Dicey Hindi and devious English confound her as much as hair-raising roads, blood-curdling cars and monstrous skyscrapers. Not to mention the other creatures around her who call themselves girls. But she knows what to do with a stick and a ball. That she knows.
Nethra Reddy
Position: Left Out
Jersey Number: 11
Home State: Andhra Pradesh
The grounds-man's little daughter who grew up in stadiums among players and dreamt of being one herself. All she ever wanted to do was to make her dad proud and finally, she's an inch away from her dream...
Gul Iqbal
Position: Left In
Jersey Number: 10
Home State: Uttar Pradesh
Hockey legend Mohammad Iqbal's grand-daughter. Her family's history is Indian Hockey's history. And nobody ever lets her forget that. Whether she wants it or not.
Molly Zimik
Position: Left Half
Jersey Number: 6
Home State: Manipur
Mary Ralte
Position: Substitute
Jersey Number: 15
Home State: Mizoram
The talented hockey duo from the North East. Their school books taught them that they are Indians but Indians taught them otherwise. The only reason they play for the National team is that it is the only National team they can play for. They would love to belong but not to the team that calls them 'foreign', and definitely not to the people that call them 'loose'. So they stick together and play. For the love of the game and the honour of their people.
Presenter
Yash Chopra
Banner
Yash Raj Films
Status
Released
Color
C
Release Date
August 10, 2007
Tagline
Sometimes winning is everything
Language
Hindi
Genre
Sports / Thriller / Drama
Shooting Studios
Yash Raj Studios
Producer
Aditya Chopra
Director
Shimit Amin
Star Cast
Shahrukh Khan...... Kabir Khan
Vidya Malvade...... Vidya Sharma
Anjan Srivastava
Javed Khan
Vibha Chibbar
Nakul Vaid...... Rakesh
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
Cassettes and CD's on
Yash Raj Music
Singers
Sukhwinder Singh
Salim Merchant
Marianne D'Cruz
Hema Sardesai
Shahrukh Khan
K K
Anushka Manchandani
Krishna
Midival Punditz
Lyricist
Jaideep Sahni
Music Director
Salim Merchant
Sulaiman Merchant
Background Music
Salim Merchant
Sulaiman Merchant
Executive / Associate / Co-Producer
Aashish Singh
Cinematography
Sudeep Chatterjee
Choreography
Ganesh Acharya
Action
Rob Miller
Art
Sukant Panigrahy
Editor
Amitabh Shukla
Screenplay
Jaideep Sahni
Sound
Manas Chaudhary
Ali Merchant
Dialogue
Jaideep Sahni
Costume
Shiraz Siddiqui
Mandira Shukla
Publicity Designs
Fayyaz Badruddin
Yash Raj Films Design Cell
Story / Writer
Jaideep Sahni
Line Producer
Padam Bhushan
Please help...? english-hindi translation pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?
Please get services of paid translator
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Reply:PEANUT BUTTER JELLY
Reply:u want someone to translate this whole thing for u? :O
Reply:If you want it translated, buy a Hindi to english dictionary. Nobody here knows that language and even if we did we don't have the time to translate that for you. it's a movie review. Great. Watch the movie.
Reply:i can only give u the source from where u can get it
Reply:r u thinking that u r simply wasting time of others %26amp; urself also?
Reply:do u actually expect ppl 2 read all that
Reply:Quit posting and go onto babelfish or something.
Reply:so random..
Reply:Chak de india.................................. Got it translated?
Reply:is that movie really about hockey???????!?!?!?!?!?!?!? what the heck is a left in and left out???? sounds like a sacha baron cohen hockey flick.
Reply:holy Sh!t!! are you kidding me??!!
Reply:mindblowing question.u really need heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllpppppppppppp
Reply:r u asking a question or writing a book?
Reply:just go to a cinema hall, watch Chak De %26amp; get ur answer there!!!!!
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