Saturday WachAlong: Chak De India! 7:30am Chicago Time!

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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.

428 thoughts on “Saturday WachAlong: Chak De India! 7:30am Chicago Time!”

  2. Also, I JUST now put it together that the reason Bindiya so so incredibly difficult is because she is a rape survivor. The movie knows it, this scene is supposed to make us understand it. Why she resists trusting anyone, why she goes on the offensive immediately, and so on. Maybe even why Shahrukh cuts her a little slack, because he sees it too.

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  5. By the way, from what I have learned in movies and I think is maybe true in real life, the female athletes in India really do have a big problem with rape from superiors. You have to be “nice” to get the good promotions and positions in the government sports program. Another reason it is so awesome that Shahrukh is coaching the girls here. They are used to people who either don’t care at all, or are only in it for sex.

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    • What I like about it is it makes both of them better because each wants to score more goals than the other, but in the end they have to unite to defeat the hardest foe. Perfect arc.

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  14. Ohhhh!!!! I love seeing all the girls touching his feet like nothing because that’s how they feel about him now, and how Preety immediately feels his disapproval because that’s how attunned they all to his moods by now.

    He’s gonna go to all their weddings and baby showers and stuff for the rest of their lives, and they will always snap to attention and touch his feet.

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  24. Okay, now I am feeling Procrastinatrix’s theory. 2 years from now they can meet again at a Aliya’s wedding and he can ask her to dance and they can verbally spar and then she can invite him out for coffee and they will fall in love.

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  26. I’m seeing like three different spellings for so many of the girls’ names. One on google, one on wikipedia, and one in the subtitles. Meaning no disrespect if I’m using the wrong spelling for anyone.

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      • I think I like Vidya in it because she looks comfortable in it. Most of the others players you can tell are uncomfortable in the sari, which is natural because wearing a sari is really hard if you are not used to it. I have to get it basically stitched like a skirt and even then it is uncomfortable!

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  36. Song lyrics and translation. Someone on DCIB said that it is an unrequited love song, and it is:

    eeja Tera Rang Tha Main Toh… (x2)
    I was Your third color
    (The national flag of India, sometime also known as Indian tri-color has three colors in it, saffron,
    white and green, top to bottom. Shah Rukh Khan is portraying a Muslim character in the movie and
    as green is also the color of Islam, he is referring himself to that green color)
    Jiya Tere Dhang Se Main Toh
    I lived my life in Your ways (according to Your traditions)
    Tu Hi Tha Maula, Tu Hi Aan
    You are my God, You are my pride (Calling out to his country)
    Maula Mere Le Le Meri Jaan… (x2)
    Oh God (my country)! My life is Yours to take

    Teeja Tera Rang Tha Main Toh… (x2)
    I was Your third color
    Jiya Tere Dhang Se Main Toh
    I lived my life in Your ways
    Tu Hi Tha Maula, Tu Hi Aan
    You are my God, You are my pride
    Maula Mere Le Le Meri Jaan… (x2)
    Oh God! My life is Yours to take

    Tere Sang Kheli Holi, Tere Sang Thi Diwali
    I played Holi with You, and I also celebrated Diwali/Deepawali with You
    (Holi-Festival of colours; Diwali-Festival of lights)
    Tere Anganon Ki Chhaya, Tere Sang Sawan Aaya
    Your courtyard provided shade to me, You also brought the rains
    Pher Le Tu Chahe Nazaren Chahe Chura Le…
    You may turn Your head away from me and not look into my eyes now
    Laut Ke Tu Aayega Re, Shart Laga Le…
    But You’ll come back, I’m betting on it

    Teeja Tera Rang Tha Main Toh… (x2)
    I was Your third color
    Jiya Tere Dhang Se Main Toh
    I lived my life in Your ways
    Tu Hi Tha Maula, Tu Hi Aan
    You are my God, You are my pride
    Maula Mere Le Le Meri Jaan… (x2)
    Oh God! My life is Yours to take

    Mitti Meri Thi Boori
    The land/soil I belong to is also brown
    (I am also pure at heart)
    Wohi Mere Ghee Aur Churi
    I ate the same ghee and sweets (like my fellow countryman)
    (Ghee is a fat produced from milk, richer than oil
    which is used in India for cooking and or decorating food with richness)
    Wohi Raanjhe Mere Wohi Heer
    I believed in same Raanjha’s and Heer’s that lived in Your country
    (Referring to Heer-Raanjha/Raanjhanaa, a famous romantic couple in Indian History,
    similar to Romeo-Juliet)
    Wohi Sevaiyyan Wohi Kheer
    I ate the same Sevaiyaan and Kheer, which is a specialty of Your country
    (Sevaiyyan is a sweet-dish made using vermicelli and Kheer is rice-pudding)
    Tujh Se Hi Rooth Na Re Tujhe Hi Manana…
    You’re the one who’s upset with me and You’re the one whom I have to appease
    Tere Mera Naata Koi Dooja Na Jaana…
    No one can understand the depth of our relationship

    Teeja Tera Rang Tha Main Toh… (x2)
    I was Your third color
    Jiya Tere Dhang Se Main Toh
    I lived my life in Your ways
    Tu Hi Tha Maula, Tu Hi Aan
    You are my God, You are my pride
    Maula Mere Le Le Meri Jaan… (x4)
    Oh God! My life is Yours to take

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  39. I love picturing the filming for these scene. They totally filmed it at like 4am when the stadium was empty, and they totally put out a call in the Australian desi press “hey, want to be int he crowd scene of a Shahrukh Khan movie? Bring your kids at 4am to the stadium!!!”

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  41. I love how he pulls out allll the emotional stops in this speech – hints that they’ll be throwing the game, points to how much they wanted to play for India, breaks out his own pain at coming in second – and still at the end Preety is like, whatever, I’m getting the most goals, don’t get in my way. The movie never lets him overpower the women.

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  43. Ooooo, the Sattar minute speech! Do we think this is one of his mirror speeches written over the past 7 years? Or is it one he wrote over the past week specifically now that he has gotten to know these players? I vote the second

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  46. By the way, I did some googling, and I still don’t know why India and Australia have a sports rivalry. I was just able to confirm that they do, for instance some articles saying “this is odd, at the last Australia-India match, the players actually shook hands, normally they hate each other too much for that.”

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