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By IndiaFM News Bureau, July 19, 2007 - 16:49 IST
Synopsis
 Jo
nahin ho sakta hai, wahi to karna hai...
Kabir Khan (Shahrukh Khan) knows what it's like to
come back from the dead. The ex Indian Captain has now
come back in the avatar of the Coach of the Indian
Women's National Hockey team. A team that exists more
on paper and less in reality.
The team is a rag-tag bunch of girls with their own
agenda. A bunch of girls who have forgotten what it is
like to play for the love of the game. Of playing
because you want glory for your country. Not because
you want a pensioned job or a government flat. They
have all forgotten the sharp thrill of just holding
the hockey stick, keeping their eyes on the ball and
playing for all they are worth. They have played every
game but hockey to make sure they get selected every
year in the Indian National team. But what does it
really mean to play for the Indian National team? To
play for India?
Mujhe sirf ek mulk ka naam sunaai deta hai –India
The girls have never known the thrilling energy of
being Team India. Of giving their all to see their
country's name on a trophy. But Kabir Khan, once a
captain, now forgotten, does. He knows what it takes
to get there. And what it means to return empty
handed. This time, he wants to make sure that it's
different. He knows there are no second chances.
Despite his past, he believes that if only the girls
played as one, anything would be possible.
Because Kabir Khan believes that it is not that we
can't win. It's just that we have never believed we
can.
Chak De India is the story of a coach's fight of
making his team, Team India by overcoming their
diverse backgrounds, by learning to use everything
that life hurls on them as a secret weapon. It's a
story about honesty, sincerity and integrity. A story
to remind the nation of its National sport.
Character Sketch
 The
Coach
Shahrukh Khan as Kabir Khan
Once the hero of Indian Hockey, the best centre
forward in the world, the man a nation found a hero
in. And the man it sentenced to hell.
Now he has decided to make a last comeback to the game
he once loved, to reclaim his lost honour and prove
his point to the nation he still loves.
By doing the impossible.
Making a rag-tag bunch of loser girls a team.
And the World Champions.
The only problem is – it is easier said than done.
The Girls
Preeti Sabarwal
Position: Center Forward
Jersey Number: 9
Home State: Chandigarh
Preeti went to the best public schools, but on her way
to the U.S. from there, took a sharp left towards the
Punjab University and its hockey team for reasons best
known to her. Chandigarh captain, she looks like a
Princess and plays like the Terminator. The only one
she is close to is her iPod. Would you then blame the
rest of her mostly rural team-mates for calling her
mem? She has a secret, but then, that's a secret.
 Komal
Chautala
Position: Right In
Jersey Number: 8
Home State: Haryana
The Rohtak Express, also known as chhokra in her
village for her tomboyishness, and as chhipkali in the
field for her devious dribbling. Born to tough Jats,
she has just one regret -that she wasn't born a boy.
But she's doing all she can to make up, including not
using make-up. Ever.
Bindia Naik
Position: Center Half
Jersey Number: 5
Home State: Maharashtra
Experience corrupts, and too much experience corrupts
completely. A veteran of field positions, federation
politics and award manipulations, she could make any
team's dirty tricks department proud, if she wasn't
the department herself in real life.
Vidya Sharma
Position: Goalie & Captain
Jersey Number: 18
Home State: Madhya Pradesh
Just married. And it already looks like she will have
to divorce hockey. She knows this is probably her last
tournament but can she give up hockey for marriage?
 Balbir
Kaur
Position: Left Defender
Jersey Number: 3
Home State: Punjab
Known as tataiya, bhootni, rakshas and ghatotkach on
any given day depending upon what she has done lately,
everybody in the team is terrified of her temper.
Fearless, sometimes to the point of being brainless,
she is the team's main hope against the giant
Australian girls and the ruthless Argentinean
zagalonas. Heart of gold, in a body of armour-plated
steel.
Aliya Bose
Position: Right Out
Jersey Number: 7
Home State: West Bengal
Sexy Aliya should have been born in the swinging
seventies. The world is a winery of boys and she is
the taster-in-chief. And she takes her job very
seriously. In her spare time she also plays hockey.
Unfortunately, she is good at it and so year after
year, team managers and coaches have tolerated her.
Gunjan Lakhani
Position: Right Half
Jersey Number: 4
Home State: Andhra Pradesh
This Hyderabadi potti has seen it all, because she
knows when to shut her eyes. Playing with seniors
Bindia and Aliya has taught her only one thing there
are more games off the field than on it. And a smart
player knows how to stay out to stay in.
 Rani
Dispotta
Position: Right Defender
Jersey Number: 2
Home State: Jharkhand
Rani still remembers the time she moved from her
jungle village to Ranchi Sports School. And that makes
her an expert on how to handle the city-breds, or
manhandle them if need be. She knows enough Hindi to
offend anyone and enough English to defend herself,
especially on the field.
Soimoi Kerketa
Position: Substitute
Jersey Number: 17
Home State: Jharkhand
From Jharkhand Grameen Adivasi Balika Kalyan Kendra
Vidyalaya on the edge of Ghamorni jungle, straight New
Delhi. Dicey Hindi and devious English confound her as
much as hair-raising roads, blood-curdling cars and
monstrous skyscrapers. Not to mention the other
creatures around her who call themselves girls. But
she knows what to do with a stick and a ball. That she
knows.
Nethra Reddy
Position: Left Out
Jersey Number: 11
Home State: Andhra Pradesh
The grounds-man's little daughter who grew up in
stadiums among players and dreamt of being one
herself. All she ever wanted to do was to make her dad
proud and finally, she's an inch away from her
dream...
 Gul
Iqbal
Position: Left In
Jersey Number: 10
Home State: Uttar Pradesh
Hockey legend Mohammad Iqbal's grand-daughter. Her
family's history is Indian Hockey's history. And
nobody ever lets her forget that. Whether she wants it
or not.
Molly Zimik
Position: Left Half
Jersey Number: 6
Home State: Manipur
Mary Ralte
Position: Substitute
Jersey Number: 15
Home State: Mizoram
The talented hockey duo from the North East. Their
school books taught them that they are Indians but
Indians taught them otherwise. The only reason they
play for the National team is that it is the only
National team they can play for. They would love to
belong but not to the team that calls them 'foreign',
and definitely not to the people that call them
'loose'. So they stick together and play. For the love
of the game and the honour of their people.
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