SRK's love interest in Chak De ! India

After watching Yash Chopra’s Chak De India directed by Shimit Aman, I am now sure that there is hope as far as Hindi Cinema is concerned.

Chak De India makes a riveting viewing and when the film is on you do not even feel like going to the loo. Shah Rukh Khan who had mesmerized me with his natural acting when he had sauntered in with Raj Kanwar’s Deewana almost seventeen years ago has actually ‘acted’ in a film of his after a long time.

It is great to see Shah Rukh Khan in great form as a coach whose singular am is to train the women hockey team in Chak De India. He does not carry with him his typical mannerisms as a star. He does not cavort around the trees with any nubile nymphet. In fact, there is no leading lady for Shah Rukh Khan in Chak De India though there is a veiled reference to his affair with Vidya Malavade. I am told that though Shimit had shot a flash back sequence of SRK with Vidya, it was edited out keeping in mind the tight narrative of the film, since after two debacles like Tara Rum Pum and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Yashraj Films did not want to take yet another panga with the audience.

With Chak De India , SRK has at last come of age, as an actor. SRK has always been frank and does not mince words when he chooses to give you an interview. Kudos to SRK for going on record stating that it was a different experience for him to work with most of the sixteen young girls who had acted in the film with him since they must have been around six yearsold when he had made his debut seventeen years back.

Like Parineeta and Lage Raho Munnabhai earlier and Chak De India now, like SRK, I also have had a reality check and am beginning to feel ancient, like SRK. Because Sagarika Ghatge who has rendered a brilliant performance for a first timer in Chak De India as Chandigarh‘s hockey player Preeti Sabharwal happens to be the daughter of my good friend Vijay Ghatge who had directed Shubh Yatra earlier. Though Vijay does not want Sagarika to be known as the daughter of the director who had made Shubh Yatra, I have told Vijay that Sagarika need not be ashamed to admit that she is his daughter since he had made an off beat film like Shubh Yatra and not a C grade film like say Reshma Ki Jawani.

Time For a Reality Check in Bollywood!

The new generation is now all set to rock Bollywood in a big way. Chak De India!

Source: Afternoon & DespatchCourier