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Rating: 9/10 (10 January 2008)

If someone take a look at all Yashraj films in past 2-3 years, it is really hard to believe that Chak De has came from there. It's good that finally Yashrak banner has came up with something really excellent and extraordinary. I hope they will continue with this and bring back their success era again.
The movie is marvelous for many reason. First it touches the topic of Hockey in India where sport means Cricket. Then it also tells the story of a girl team, which I think is done first time in Indian cinema. It also interact with the different peoples from different parts of India, and how they achieve success when combined together. And finally it also got the touch of little thriller at the end. The most important is even after having all these things in it, it didn't leave its rhythm anywhere. A special hats off to the script writer and the director for achieving this.
Off course I haven't forgotten the King Khan. He certainly plays a major role in the success on this, but not all. SRK has done an excellent, no doubt award winning job in this movie. I personally will like him to do such on the ground roles rather than Raj, Rahul and Om Kapur, where he uses his style talent more that acting talent. SRK, you really rocks in this movie. There is no greater pleasure than watching you as Kabir Khan.
The movie has its own pace. Nowhere the audience feel bored, no unnecessary songs, unnecessary dramatic scenes, romantic scenes, and patriotic dialogs. The movie from start is sticked to its basic theme that is to tell the story of the Women Hockey team and their coach.
What else can I say? If I start writing all the good things, I will have to spend entire night for this. Hence I will say that "Just watch it and you will know".
But having said that there are some technical drawbacks in the movie. At the end, specially when the result is clear it just feels that its has been stretched. But that is understandable as it has made to add some thriller in it.
But some of the things are just can not be digested. After India loosed against Australia by 7-0, the team goes on winning each of the other match. This seems far stretched. Again Indian team after loosing to Australia by 7-0, England team saying that they will win by even greater margin is something unrealistic. No team will make such statement. Have ever heard Australia saying that "We will easily win this match."? This doesn't happen. Every team just says that they will play their best. No one underestimate other team like this.
And the thing that hurt me most is the characters of Cricketers. There is no need to show cricketers like this. In fact, all sport persons have equal respect to other sport. They know how much effort one has to give for becoming specialist in each sport. With this Indian Cricket team wise captain showing no respect for Hockey is something not acceptable. This is just like in Bhagat Singh movies Gandhi's character is shown gray. Shortening the image of other to make your thing high is something should not be done. It has been shown that the cricketer is having no respect for other game. Instead it would have been better if he has shown not caring about women sports specially. Again at the end, when the team arrives at airport people are cheering them. A real end would have been there is no one at airport as the people are watching one day match on TV. Something like that.
But these are very small points which can be neglected. This movie is a special milestone in Hindi Cinema. A hearty congratulations to the entire crew of the movie. I just hope Hindi cinema will come up with more and more of such intelligent movies.