Yes, I have seen Chak de, and like the majority, I am impressed by the movie. I have always been a SRK fan, and it gives me great pleasure to see the so-called SRK 'critics' silenced by the star's remarkable performance in the movie.
While the essence of the movie is team spirit, another notable aspect is how team India's victory in the women's hockey world cup does not seem like a far-fetched idea. The public nowdays does not ridicule those who have such dreams, thanks to Sania Mirza. We all are proud of her. In the movie hall, the ambience was tense before the last penalty hit of the game. It might as well have been the sight at a hockey ground. Yes, we are proud to be Indians, and it shows.
But beneath the layers of our pride, is an Indian who is ashamed to be one. There was this man sitting next to me with his 6 year (I think) old kid. After almost every dialogue in the movie, the kid would ask his father "Papa what is he saying?". The doting dad would then translate it into English and expalin it to the kid. What an irony! We are proud to be Indians - or are we?
While the essence of the movie is team spirit, another notable aspect is how team India's victory in the women's hockey world cup does not seem like a far-fetched idea. The public nowdays does not ridicule those who have such dreams, thanks to Sania Mirza. We all are proud of her. In the movie hall, the ambience was tense before the last penalty hit of the game. It might as well have been the sight at a hockey ground. Yes, we are proud to be Indians, and it shows.
But beneath the layers of our pride, is an Indian who is ashamed to be one. There was this man sitting next to me with his 6 year (I think) old kid. After almost every dialogue in the movie, the kid would ask his father "Papa what is he saying?". The doting dad would then translate it into English and expalin it to the kid. What an irony! We are proud to be Indians - or are we?
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I just came to see, but your last paragraph pulled me into commenting.
Though I disagree with you mostly about the film & SRK and wonder what a film can do to make you proud of your country (if we really are, why are we so minimally civilized?), I must narrate to you another such incident I noticed in Kala Ghoda Fest, two years back, at Mumbai.
We were watching a Hindi play and sitting beside me was a little child. Next to him was his father. The child was quiet but the father, on every mention of something he thought an opportunity to educate the child about, went on like, "You know Rana Pratap? He was a great warrior of Rajasthan who fought against Akbar! Brave man!" Finally, the child got really pissed off and almost shouted, "I know papa!"
Perhaps the fault is in over-educating, in protecting from what could perhaps be more favouring than protection itself :)
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