Chak De Bollywood

It was a red letter day in my life that I had an opportunity to watch CHAK DE INDIA....Thanks to my friend R and her husband A for taking me with them....I owe them a great treat in return for sure:))
Whatta movie...Chak De Bollywood hats off to director Shimit Ameen(AD ya work panna ivar kitta ellaam dhaan work pannanum....)
The movie starts off quite simply without any heroic introductions to KING Khan Shahrukh.....Hope at least one southi star accepts such a thing hehe...May be i am dreaming or asking for too much.He is falsely accused of match fixing and loses his hockey career....The guy returns with a bang and uplifts the spirits of Indian womans hockey team which was until then a sick pathetic unit of egoistic girls who live in their own identities and refuse to unite as a team.....and eventually wins the world cup for INDIA....
The introduction of the team members starting from the angry punjabi kudi to the ignorant Jharkand girls is really splendid...
The gutsy Sharukh has a mammoth task ahead.He has to satisfy the male chauvinistic management,get sponsorships,unite the egoistically inflated hostile team member girls....so much...but he handles with much ease as much as the director handles the screenplay and direction in a flawless way....
Sharukhs characterisation has been perfect and one of the best any actor could have had in the recent times....SRK couldnt have asked for anything better but one has to appreciate the actors courage to have signed a slightly off beat movie when bollywood masalas are waiting at his doorsteps for the remuneration he demands...No words to appreciate his flawless subtle and underplayed performance...Undoubtedly he is one of the greatest acting geniuses in the world....
The heroines ...most of them unknown as actors have pulled it off with ease..only Vidya Malavade is a known actor among them but all of them have put in great efforts and every single character stands out.They have sincerely played hockey as well...it was so great of the producer and director to have taken pains in training them formally in hockey before commencing the shoots.
One more commendable job is the handling of the expected climax in the most interesting way...We are pretty much sure India would win but director Ameen has succeeded in bringing us to the edge of our seats till the last second...
The camera work,Sulaiman-Saleems back ground scores and montage songs, immaculate editing all add up to the beauty of the movie and have worked in perfect synchronisations to make it huge and add up to the grandeur of the movie...
I was amazed by the way patriotism has been handled in this film..There was no over doing or singing patriotic songs or anything but it has been expressed now and then along with the story line..especially when SRK talks about a white guy hoisting the Indian flag the day before the final match....A movie that should not be missed.....for sure.. A movie SRK and Yash Raj films would be remembered for...A movie every non cricket playing Indian would die for......no more words to appreciate( i rarely get so emotional)
I have always been a critic of some sick bollywood movies...with same old story lines, all movies dealing the stories of NRI s,similar sounding songs,making cheap fun of south indians and non hindi speaking indians,over exposing heroines and smooching champions ....but movies like Dil Chahta Hai,Lagaan ,Rang De Basanti and now Chak De India have been proving that bollywood has already taken the giant leap ahead of south indian industry which ,I hope we will soon be able to catch up if educated movie makers add to the population of the existing movie makers....
JAI HIND................. CHAK DE BOLLYWOOD.....