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Analysis Of Chatk De India

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Chak De! India – A Movie Review
Released in 2007, the year India celebrated its 60th Independence Day, Chak De! India is a film directed by Shimit Amin, starring Shahrukh Khan as Kabir Khan, former captain of the Indian men 's national field-hockey team. It explores nationalism and prejudice in issues such as religion and gender. After missing a penalty stroke which leads to a terrible loss to fierce rival Pakistan, Kabir is banished from the sport. Seven years later, Kabir becomes the coach of the Indian national women 's hockey team and seeks to bring together sixteen very different players and bring the World Cup home.
Chak De! India does follow the standard Bollywood template using flashback scenes, having a familiar three-act structure and then a narrative closure, using a famous actor to put forth an idea, and to a certain extent, an androcentric storyline (Kailasam, 2017) which shows the Kabir Khan’s road to redemption, as he shares the screen with the female hockey team. However, this film also diverges from the standard Bollywood template in many ways which will be discussed in this review.

The overlying theme of this movie is nationalism, but it deviates from jingoism, which has been the common form of nationalism portrayed in Bollywood movies. Chak De avoids violence and propagates the idea that nationalism today is not just about the fighting wars for the country against foreign dangers but that it also extends to the sporting arena. The antagonists in Chak De!

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