Chak De India
What does winning a game require? Skill? Yes! Strength? Yes! Will power? Yes! But is it possible to win just with skill, strength and will power? No, what you need is also the strong sense of belief! A belief which tells you that you can!
This is what Kabir Khan [Shahrukh Khan] wanted to tell his team of girls as a coach.
A team which was hardly the one before Kabir stepped in
A team which had lost focus when it came to playing hockey
A team which just didn't have enough ammunition left to strike and make it to the top league
A team which had had to be taught about the virtue of belief. A belief in realizing that if you want, you can!
This was a team of women hockey players who were just lost in oblivion. In the times when even male hockey team isn't anywhere close to the legendary status it had once achieved, it was nearly impossible for a turnaround to happen.
Still, Kabir Khan thought otherwise. And he 'believed' that he could bring a revolution in the way the sports is played and followed. He wasn't an outsider after all! Years back, he had led the Indian hockey team and unfortunately experienced failure.
But he won't take failure now. Because he seemed to have caught hold of the 'mantra' of success! The 'mantra' which told you that it's 'just about winning'! The 'mantra' which had to come from your own self rather than being handed over.
Because Kabir's 'mantra' was "Jo nahin ho sakta hai, wahi to karna hai... "!
Kabir's biggest challenge lied not in training his team and making them skilled professionals. His challenge lied in bringing them together and instill confidence to make them play together as a team.
But how easy was it to bring together girls who were as different as they could be. Belonging to states as diverse as Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, each of them came with their own traits, background, style of living, culture and lingo.
Will Kabir manage to create a well knit team out of these individuals? Will he make them all play with just the right honesty, sincerity and integrity which is required to beat the toughest of opposition?
Will he make everyone stand up and say - 'Chak De India'?
With music by Salim Sulaiman and lyrics by Jaideep Sahni, the film is looking at an August 10 release.