After a slight lull at the box office for a few weeks, there was a huge respite with Chak de India proving to be a blockbuster. The movie fares well in most of the aspects be it direction, acting, screenplay, pace of the film, dialouges, etc. And not surprisingly, the SRK factor works again. All the 16 new comers have done proper justice for what they were called for (were they Hockey players who could act? or actors who could play hockey? ) But Shimit Amin has done a fairly good job to manage both the skills of the new girls.
Most promising of the lot was Komal Chautala the tom boy of the team, followed by Vidya the captain of the team. But it was really difficult to get my eyes off Preeti Sabharwal- a pleasure to watch her. However, the screenspace shared by 16 girls for 3 hrs makes it difficult for few to get noticed. still a good job by all. The film also does well in teaching us a few lessons (that is if we want to take them)
Another area where the film does well is the timely doses of good dialouges.. my favourites being "kyunki hamari hockey mein chhakke nahi hote", "pehli baar kisi gore ko tiranga lehrate dekh raha hoon", and of course the famous, "har team mein sirf 1 hi gunda hota hai aur wo main hoon..."
Even after being praised allover there were a few areas where the film miss the goals and the shootouts. Firstly, the story was very predictable and then the MUSIC. Very important scenes at the end were appearing dull because of the background score.
(And ya the trailer of Aaja Nach le stating " Madhuri is Back" is good enough to create the excitement in the minds of people)
Overall a good movie.. i would give it a 8.5 on 10. wont be surprised to see any of the girls in newer projects. CHAK DE!! ( May be Azhar or Jadeja might get inspired and take up the job of coaching Indian cricket team and hopefully win us a World cup.)
