Happy Saturday! I got my coffee, I got my whipped cream on top, I got my dark chocolate mix added into the coffee, and I’ve got my bacon jerky. Let’s do this!!!
Chak De! It’s on Amazon, and also einthusan, and also your DVD shelf probably. Oh and remember, once we finish watching it we will need to give opinions on which team member is most attractive in a ladies-who-like-ladies kind of way. So head back to This Post for that!!!
I’ll put up a “And PLAY” comment at 7:30am and we will go straight along commenting from then on.
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Ok, I’m here with the movie cued up. Might not be able to stay for the whole thing, but I’ll start it at least if einthusan cooperates.
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And PLAY!
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I always forget this is a YRF film, it is so opposite the stereotypical YRF movie.
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Hello I’m here! I misjudged how long the movie was so I might have to run out at the end for an appointment.
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Spoilers: they win the game
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Is the longer hair supposed to make him look younger? And does it work?
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I mean, this movie came out in 2007, so by the logic of the passage of time, yes.
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Sports are so boring. Even on films, I just find them dull dull dull. And yet I can get very involved in reality show competitions, and in watching dance. Why are sports so dull for me? These are the things I think during these scenes on film.
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The little flappy bit at the bottom of the goalie helmet looks really dumb
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Don’t you think he could have just said “no, I didn’t purposefully throw the match” and none of this would have happened?
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Nah, they wouldn’t have believed him. He could have said “Don’t be stupid” but that probably wouldn’t work either.
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Not to get all political, but that’s always bothered me, that public figures could say exactly what they want to hear, or the truth, and people still won’t believe them.
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Joining now! Always shocked at how seriously people take sports
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Especially really really dull sports like Field Hockey. Baseball, that could make sense 🙂
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Oh geez! Baseball, like cricket, IRL to me is the worst. But if it is in a movie, I will watch it and love it!
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What TERRIBLE neighbors!!!! You are lucky to be leaving this neighborhood!
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Someone on this blog brilliantly said that this movie is a love story and that song is the love song of the film, between Kabir and India.
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My theory: Kabir moved away and was feeling all depressed and sorry for himself and then one day saw some girls in the park playing field hockey and coached them and then the neighborhood boys beat them up and they were forced into marriages by their parents and it made him realize Intersectionality and how being a religious minority is like being a woman and we all rise together.
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Actually, this whole movie is just “Intersectionality: the Film”
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This actor is doing a great job showing how women are worthless to officials.
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even female officials, like this woman, who has learned she has to be nasty and snide and agree with the boys to have a good life.
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This committee is TOO REAL. The whole casual relaxed dismissiveness, with snacks and tea, UGH
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Aanjjan Srivastav’s character is so despicable in this movie!
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And not even Evil!!!! He doesn’t care enough to be actively evil, he’s just sort of passively evil.
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Which is what makes him the WORST!!!
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This is such a great hero intro!!!! Perhaps ever so slightly too much, with “attack their minds”, but the very calm and precise attitude is lovely.
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Kabir the character is wound so tight, especially when compared to everyone else in the room.
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Because he actually CARES!!!! Unlike the committee who just want to eat their samosas and get through the day.
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Ok, it’s been 15 minutes and it still won’t load so I think it’s not happening tonight. Damn!
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oh no!
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Booooo!!!!
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Cultural note: his friend just called him “Kabir Miya”. “Miya” is an Urdu/Muslim term of endearment and his friend is Hindu (which is why he still has a job and Shahrukh does not). So it’s a little nod to how his friend doesn’t just ignore his religious background, but embraces it. Also, I like “Miya” as an endearment, it sounds really sweet, doesn’t it?
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Aww! Vidya Sharma!!!
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Filmiikudhi, I need your help. Is Vidya wearing the Maharashtrian style Mangalsutra which shows she was married recently because it is facing out? Or in?
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Maharashtrian mangalsutra are two cups facing in. I didn’t see Vidya’s mangalsutra, but Sharma is generally not a Maharashtrian name so I am not sure if she is married into a Marathi family. The actress in real life is Marathi.
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Komal is SO CUTE!!!!! I want her to start dating one of the Dangal girls.
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The interaction between the angry player and her grandma was adorable.
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My college roommate was Telugu and the Tamil-Telugu thing drove her INSANE. I got many lectures.
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Well from my limited film watching I would not say the two are alike. The Tamil film I saw was more racist than any other I had seen.
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That’s unusual actual, Tamil films tend to be super arty and deep and stuff. Telugu films are fun. In general. With big exceptions.
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It drives me insane too and I am not either.
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Ooh, Soimoi looks like the sister of a friend I had in high school.
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Sucky sucky boys. Komal should hit them with her stick.
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Older players, NASTY!!!!
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So upright! SRKs shoulders must have been so tired after filming this movie.
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It was back in his pre-back surgery days, maybe it made him have less pain standing that way? At least, I hope so.
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Shahrukh is so respectful and kind to his subordinates!!!! Already perfect in so many ways.
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Aww Vidya! So perfect in every way!
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Well sure Vidya got it, she came after all those others!!!!!
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And he doesn’t make fun of them for saying “Ho”! He is perfect!!!!
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Short haired player is adorable, even if I can’t remember her name.
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Komal
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Bindia is SO MEAN!!!!! Why? Why be mean? It’s so much easier to be nice.
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Hazing knows no gender.
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Punjabi girl doesn’t feel purposefully mean, but she’s not the best at human interaction.
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Nah she was mean. She told them to sleep on the floor.
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HER MOTHER’S LADOO!!!!!! I love that everyone immediately recognizes what a big deal that is.
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Morning, All! Slow start today. Please help–where are we?
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Half an hour, everyone’s being mean in the dorm room
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Yay, I’m in the right place, roughly!
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Do you think Shahrukh spent the past 7 years partly planning all his little speeches? I think so.
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“If I had a team, I’d say this!”
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Exactly!!!!! Like how you lie awake at night thinking “if I won the Oscar, this would be my speech”
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This is why I liked teaching the ten year olds in Sunday school. Too young to be rebellious and nasty to the teacher.
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I love that it is a loosing team, but the senior players are still full of attitude!
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Bindhya is SO mean!!!
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Look at Shahrukh giving physical comfort in the exact appropriate way! A supportive arm and shoulder pat, but still maintaining 6 inches of body distance. He’s the best.
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Is there any other man alive who could make the stopwatch necklace look sexy? Brad Pitt? Hrithik? Anyone?
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Has everyone here seen Hoosiers? I need to rewatch it, I feel like that is the origin of the whole “team has to learn to pass” concept.
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Honestly, Bindhya is such a good villain. Without her the movie would be so boring. And we wouldn’t have a chance to see so many shades of Daddy Shah Rukh. Daddy in either the naughty sense or just the straight sense.
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Yeah, he needs a reason to be nice and protective to the other girls.
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He looks really sexy from the back, but he is also a very tough coach.
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I’m actually interested in the girls playing, and I’m not interested in sports. This movie has achieved a miracle.
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YES!!!! I don’t care about sports, but I care about Bindiya getting her come uppance.
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All the girls are so culturally inappropriate to each other!
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Great, now Bindiya is racist!!!! And it feels like even her friend Aliya was maybe a little uncomfortable with that?
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