Chak De! India (2007-movie) : Bollywood Hindi Film

Chak De! India Movie Details :

Chak De! India is a 2007 Indian Bollywood sports film directer is Shimit Amin and producer is Aditya Chopra, with a screenplay written by Jaideep Sahni, with sports scenes choreographed by Rob Miller and music by Salim–Sulaiman. It tells a fictional story about the Indian women’s national field hockey team, which was inspired by the team’s win at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and explores themes such as feminism and sexism, the legacy of the partition of India, racial and religious bigotry, and ethnic and regional prejudice.The film stars Shahrukh Khan as Kabir Khan, former captain of the Indian men’s national field-hockey team. After a disastrous loss to Pakistan, Khan is ostracized from the sport and he and his mother are driven from the family home by angry neighbors. Seven years later, to redeem himself, Khan becomes the coach of the Indian national women’s hockey team and aims to turn its sixteen contentious players into a championship unit. The film was released worldwide on 10 August 2007, coinciding with India’s 60th Independence Day, and opened high critical acclaim and since then it’s hailed as a cult classic.

Chak De! India won a number of awards, including the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. On 30 August 2007, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences requested a copy of the film’s script for a place in its Margaret Herrick Library. When the Indian Hockey Federation was reorganised in April 2008, former player Aslam Sher Khan said that he wanted “to create a ‘Chak De’ effect” in Indian hockey. 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.

• Directer : Shimit Amin
• Producer : Aditya Chopra
• Writter : Jaideep Sahni
• Screenplay : Jaideep Sahni
• Story : Jaideep Sahni
• Starring : Shah Rukh Khan
• Music : Salim-Sulaiman
• Cinematography : Sudeep Chatterjee
• Editer : Amitabh Shukla
• Casting : Abhimanyu Ray
• Art Direction : Sukant Panigrahy
• Costume Design : Mandira Shukla
• Makeup Department : Anwar Khan,Javed Khan
• Production Management : Gyandeep Chetry,Mohd. Haider,Ella Lehaf
• Visual Effects : Supriya Avate,Prakash Bhoir,Saptarshi Chakraborty
• Action Directer : Mir Ranjan Negi
• Production Company : Yash Raj Films International Ltd.,Yash Raj Films
• Distributors : MG Distribution,Rapid Eye Movies,Yash Raj Films
• Genres : Drama,Family,Sport
• Release date : 10 August 2007
• Running time : 153 minutes
• Country : India
• Language : Hindi

Chak De! India Movie Trailer :

Star Cast of The Film :

• Shah Rukh Khan … Kabir Khan
• Vidya Malvade … Vidya Sharma
• Sagarika Ghatge … Preety Sabharwal
• Shilpa Shukla … Bindia Naik
• Arya Menon … Gul Iqbal
• Seema Azmi … Rani Dispotta
• Nisha Nair … Soimoi Kerketa
• Sandia Furtado … Nethra Reddy
• Masochon V. Zimik … Molly Zimik
• Kimi Laldawla … Mary Ralte
• Chitrashi Rawat … Komal Chautala
• Shubhi Mehta … Gunjun Lakhani
• Anaitha Nair … Aliya Bose
• Tanya Abrol … Balbir Kaur
• Kimberly Miranda … Rachna Prasad
• Nichola Sequeira … Nichola Sequiera
• Raynia Mascerhanas … Raynia Fernandes
• Javed Khan … Sukhlal
• Vibha Chhibber … Krishnaji
• Jayshree Arora … Kabir’s mother
• Nakul Vaid … Rakesh
• Vivan Bhatena … Abhimanyu Singh
• Mohit Chauhan
• Chantelle Abela … Argentina Player
• Padam Bhushan
• Lisa Blake … Australian Goalkeeper
• Ashleigh Paige Burt … Little girl for autograph
• Kasey Davis … German player
• Ramakant Dayma … IHF official
• Liz Duffield … German player
• Joshi … Indo Pak Commentator
• Ravi Kachhawa … Photographer
• Rio Kapadia … Australia Commentator
• Lalhmingkimi Khiangte
• Mary Lofthouse … Australian Team Manager
• Sarah O’Connor … Australian Player
• Vicki Periorellis … German Player
• Janine Pretorius … Argentina Captain
• Ansh Rathore … Official
• Kate Sandry … Argentina Player
• Danielle Schubach … Australian player
• Kim Snowden … German Player – Dering #22
• Anjan Srivastav … Tripathi
• Jill van Duuren … German Player
• Elizabeth Vardy … Argentina Player
• Brodie Whitmore … Argentina Goalkeeper
• Amanda Wilkinson … German Player
• Aleesha Willett … Australian Player
• Mirko Jukic … Paramedic
• Nicholas Mifsud … Security Guard

Story of The Film :

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, …

Chak De! India Movie 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, and he modeled Kabir Khan on hockey coach Maharaj Krishan Kaushik. 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. 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.”

According to Sahani, he was unaware of Negi’s plight while he wrote the script and any resemblance to Negi’s life was coincidental. 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”. 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.”

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.”

Although Salman Khan was initially signed for the lead role, he later withdrew due to creative differences with the director. Shah Rukh Khan (who had originally declined due to a scheduling conflict with Karan Johar’s Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna) was later confirmed as Kabir Khan. 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.” 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.

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. According to Amin, “Learning hockey is very tricky unlike, say, football. You have to know how to hold the stick, how to manoeuvre 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 Film Shooting Started.

Kaushik and his team taught the crew “all 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”. After Negi was suggested, the latter assembled a team of hockey players to train the actors. 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 cut their nails or eyebrows (as the players do). The girls have worked very hard. I salute them”. Some of the actors, such as Chitrashi, Sandia, and Raynia, were cast because they were hockey players.

Rob Miller was the sport action director, choreographing the sports scenes, 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”.

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. It was released globally in theaters on 10 August 2007, playing on only 400 screens in India because of the commercial failure of Yash Raj Films’s two previous films.

Chak De! India Movie Songs / Music :

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 Sanhi. 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.

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

• “Chak De! India” – Sukhwinder Singh, Salim–Sulaiman, Marianne D’Cruz
• “Badal Pe Paaon Hai” – Hema Sardesai
• “Ek Hockey Doongi Rakh Ke” – KK, Shahrukh Khan
• “Bad Bad Girls” – Anushka Manchanda
• “Maula Mere Le Le Meri Jaan” – Salim Merchant, Krishna Beura
• “Hockey” (Remix) – Midival Punditz
• “Sattar Minute” – Shahrukh Khan

“Chak De! India” Full Video Song :

• Singers: Sukhvinder Singh, Salim Merchant, Marianne D’Cruz
• Music: Salim-Sulaiman
• Lyrics: Jaideep Sahni

“Maula Mere Le Le Meri Jaan” Full Video Song :

• Singers: Krishna, Salim Merchant
• Music: Salim-Sulaiman
• Lyrics: Jaideep Sahni

Chak De! India Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 8.2 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 73,424.

When I first saw the first previews I thought it looked horrible, but after a while I saw the second promo and it looked so good. Then after there was a special screening with the director, so I got a special chance to see it, and all I have to say is that this one of my favorite movies of all time. Everything in the movie was very well handled, I loved everyone in the movie but shah rukh khan was freaking awesome, i love shahrukh khan with all my heart, hes so great in every movie, and the director was so amazing, after this movie i so thanked him for making this movie, this movie is one of ask ing, reminds me of the aamir khan movie lagaan, its well wordy everyones watch, this movie definitely should get an Oscar, the music was so splendid, i hope you guys love the music, and everything about this movie was very nice. This is a lot better then most shahrukh khan movies I watch, and this has to be one if finest performances ever, thank u shahrukh Khan for staying in bollywood you truly are the best actor ever!

Critics Rating by Carrie R. Wheadon, from Common Sense Media give 3 star out of 5 Star.

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