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I first came to know about this film called “The Secret” a few months ago, and I’ve been hearing about it a lot in the last month or so from various sources. Last week, I finally got to watch the film. If you don’t already know about The Secret, it’s a ’self-help’ documentary film that talks about the power of positive thinking and the “Law of Attraction” — a law which can be roughly stated as, “You attract to you what you think of the most”. There is nothing new and there’s nothing secret about the concepts discussed in this film. Everything said in the film has been publicly pronounced by great thinkers and successful people all over the world from time to time in some form or the other. … Continue reading ‘‘The Secret’, ‘Law of Attraction’ and positive thinking’ »

I caught up with ‘Chak De India’ yesterday. It’s refreshing to see a bollywood / Indian movie about sports, that too, about women’s hockey, a movie without all the usual singing and dancing and romance. The film has has everything else to keep you entertained. Right from the start of the film till the very end, the film keeps the viewer totally involved. Not even for a single moment throughout the entire duration of the film does the narration deviate from the subject matter. Shahrukh Khan is brilliant, so are his team of 16 girls. The whole crew has done a fine job. I like this film more because it speaks about achievement, belief, faith, ambition, intent, commitment, selflessness, team work,… all good traits essential not just for a successful sportsperson, but for anybody in any walk of life. Chak De India is a nice film. Very well made.

I will leave with some quotes from the film. I am not well versed in Hindi, so I am not able to reproduce the original Hindi dialogues. Please forgive if there are imperfections.

(A cynical official from Indian hockey board interviews Kabir Khan, a potential candidate to coach the national women’s team)

Official: This Indian womens hockey team is so weak that it won’t beat even a school team from Europe

Kabir Khan: That’s exactly the kind of Indian team I wanna coach

Bindya (ego infested senior player): I’m always used to playing forward

Kabir Khan (the coach): But in this team, you play centre-half

Bindya: This team or that team, it doesn’t make any difference to me

Kabir: But it does makes a difference to the team

Kabir Khan says to egoistic Bindya: Listen… in every team, there can be only one goonda, even in this team there is only one… that’s me.

Kabir Khan: It’s not a question of strength, it’s the intent. To be successful, it’s not much of strength you have but the intention that matters.

Commentator: Indians miss one more chance… the same old impediment, lack of co-ordination.

Kabir Khan (to Komal and Preeti): If you both compete with each other and not co-ordinate, we will deifinitely lose the final tomorrow.

Komal: But sir, she’s the one who started it

Kabir: Yeah… Why don’t YOU, Komal, put a stop to it?

I will put a stop to my review here. Find more information about Chak De India at Wikipedia.