On 14th Aug '07 I watched Chak de! India...And Wow!! What a wonderful movie to watch on the eve of Independence Day...Celebrating freedom of Indian women....
Bravos to Shah Rukh Khan for agreeing to act in such a movie which had no Box Office appeal and Yash Raj films for making such an unromantic movie...I don’t remember when I last loved a Yash Raj movie so much...Their Jhoom Barabar Jhoom was a nightmare... I was not even a huge fan of Veer Zaara...But Chak de is miles away from typical Yash Raj movie...
And of course Kudos to director Shamit Amin whose Ab tak chappan was great!! And now making a movie on Hockey in a cricket crazy country is a great feat!! And I don't think many of us remember Hockey is our National game....I myself remembered it just now...
And all 16 girls did a great job...Acting with SRK is not a child’s game...
Shah Rukh when acts naturally he does such a great job...He rarely does that though...I hate him when he overacts...That hamming eeeww!! Remember KANK?
I loved him in Swades, Paheli and now Chak de! Adds to the list...
Movie deals with so many things...
One of most important of them is how team spirit is so important in a game...Think about the country before we think about our states; Think about the team’s success before we think about our individual excellence...We should show the movie to our Indian cricket team..One of the important thing it lacks I think is Team spirit...Players always play for themselves, making highest runs, taking highest # of wickets...Anyways I should not comment on Cricket it’s been a long time since I stopped following cricket..
I’m not a sport crazy person...Never imagined I would watch a Hockey match in my life..:) But movie made me sit through it... And I enjoyed it thoroughly
Another thing that is shown in the movie is...
We Indians when a player plays well we worship him/her...And when the same player loses form we show him/her hell....And movie is based on true story of Mir Ranjan Negi. Can’t imagine what this person might have gone through...Why such a wrath on them?? Are they not human? In first place why think them as Gods and then demons? We should change this attitude...

And now last but not least...

My thanks to Shah Rukh, Yash Raj Films and Shamit Amin for making such a beautiful movie...Please keep making them without thinking their Box office fate and ignoring Numerologists who predicted the movie will be flop... ...There are still people who appreciate these kind of movies more than run of the mill movies...