Chak De India : The movie of the year
A few more days to go, the excitement is in the air. The PR so far has been very well handled. Shimit Amin, Jaideep Sahni and SRK have been all over the media talking about the movie. By now everyone knows what the movie is about. It is clear that this is not your typical non Yash Ji and non Adi directed YRF movie. Had it been a typical YRF movie then there would have been, without fail, the not so big, Big B in a yet another awfull get up. Perhaps this time playing a street urchin recovering from cancer. Not just any cancer (how can it be, with Big B it has to be something bombastic), but bum cancer (similar to breast cancer, but mainly suffered by Bachchalan men). So imagine if you will, Big B in street urchins clothes, a tattered “kurta” (a oversized long shirt) and a hole ridden “lungi” (a kind of male sarong), with one butt cheek unusually swollen and convex and the other butt cheek eroded by cancer (and therefore concave), singing “Maula Mere Lele Meri Jaan”. Imagine him doing those delicate hip movements that he did in JBJ but this time imagine him doing that in a hole ridden “lungi” with one convex butt cheek and one concave butt cheek. Big B fans would have watched that with tears in the eyes, sobbing loudly and pulling their hair out every time Big B burst out into “Maula Mere Lele Meri Jaan”. Meanwhile normal people like you and me would have laughed, as usual, at Big B.
Well guys, sorry, you won’t be seeing Big B with mismatched butt cheek in “Chak De India”. This is not your typical YRF movie. But before you read any further please go and download that song, “Maula Mere Lele Meri Jaan”. It is a masterpiece. From all the songs in the “Chak De India” CD, I like this song the most. Although “Kuch Kariye and “Ek Hockey” are almost as good.
If you have seen and liked Shimit Amin’s earlier work, then you are for a treat. ATC compared to CDI seems like a graduating movie of a film student. CDI is slick, uplifting, positive and very gripping. You will not even notice that SRK is not singing songs and not romancing any heroine. It is without doubt the best Bollywood made sports movie you have ever seen. It is also by far the most Hollywood like narration but with a pure Desi soul.
But to say that CDI is just a sport movie would be very misleading. CDI is also a story of a bunch of girls, their dreams, their aspirations, and their struggles. The emotions are so real that you will get sucked into it. The coming together of these girls under the coaching of SRK is very well handled. These girls act like seasoned actresses.
Above all, CDI is about SRK and his fight to regain his honor You will see SRK at his best, he is all SRK with a hint of the great Vince Lombardy (“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing”) and a garnish of Manoj Kumar (“Mere Desh Ki Dharti”). CDI is proof positive why SRK is the Ronaldinho of acting, the Don Jungli Billa Khan of Bollywood. SRK was born to play Kabir Khan.
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i never spoke about Bend it…your are mistaken and utterly confused …
itna shor kyon hai bhai……ASHOK……CDI IS A HIT IN IT’S 1ST WEEK……SRK WILL GET D AWARD FOR DIS(BAADSHAH TO WOH HAI HI)……AB BATA TUJHE PARESHANI KYA HAI……FILM SE YA APNE AAP SE……BYEEEEEE TC.