Chak de India in Trouble
17
July
After three disappointing films, Kabul Express, Tara Ra Rum Pum and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, there is still no peace for Yashraj Films. Their trump card, Chak De India, reportedly, has run into trouble even before it has released. The Women’s Hockey Association of India is pretty upset with Yashraj Films and has demanded a screening of the film to see if they have portrayed the players in the right manner.
Vidya Stoke, President of the Women’s Hockey Association of India says, “We want to see the movie before its release. Couple of years ago, when the movie was in the planning stage, Yash Chopra sought help from us. We were more than happy to help them thinking that it would create awareness about the sport in the country. They took a lot of inputs from us and it has helped them big time in making the movie. It’s only fair that we get to see it before the release”.
She added, “However, after we helped them out with research, we never heard from them. Now, we got to know that the movie is releasing very soon, but they have not kept us posted about it. We should have been given the script of the movie so that we could have an idea about how they have portrayed women’s hockey in the film. We want a pre-release screening of the film. That’s it.”
Chak De India is based on the women’s hockey. The movie shows women players from different corners of the country. The entire team enacts a team of underdogs and how things change with a new coach (Shah Rukh Khan) at the helm of affairs.
The team of underdogs gets their self-confidence, and finally wins a championship.
Stoke lets us in on the reason behind her displeasure. “Our women’s hockey team is doing really good. If they are showing that they are turning women hockey players from zero to hero, that’s really unfair. That will reflect badly on our team. A coach enables players to perform well and never transforms them from zero to hero, not in our team at least,” she said.
She finally says “If they are portraying us in a bad light, we are going to take serious action against them.”
Yashraj Films’ spokesperson remained unavailable for comment.
Source: Times of India
7 Responses to “Chak de India in Trouble”
1. WolfHi, Just read the comments about why the womens hockey team’s president js upset, all i can say is i understand that if shown in a bad light its demotivating but then look on the bright side how many people watch womens hockey any publicity is good publicity and besides i personally feel if they screen the movie to the womens hockey team president she is no movie expert to say whats right and whats wrong so she may like to change a few things and if yash movies release the movie without showing it she will not like it and will still take it offensive so anyways the point she is trying to make i guess is that they want to be the first ones to see the movie and are not looking at it from a point of view which says its going to be good if the public like it and it helps the sport…. [this is only my personel feelings and not meant to hurt any ones feelings]
2. IronThis women only wants to see the film before any one of us….Thats the reason she’s throwing tantrums.
3. Vidya StokeThis way every director/producer will have to arrange special screenings everytime they come out with such unique subjects depending upon the group of people related in movie from society. I really dont appreciate Vidya Stoke for this.(just sharing my point of view) may be she’s got her own reasons too.
4. Rahim PatelAll bull-****…….
5. Manish Kembral1st of all woman’s president should thank yashraj films & shshrukh khan for such a kind support for womans hockey…… who does in india watches hockey & tht to womans hockey may be 1 in crore ……. football is much more appreciated thn hockey in india… & whn yashraj films are trying to gamer support & awareness about womens hockey thn these people started making havoc of it…..
i think its nothing to do with, president is trying to gather publicity & thy wanna see the movie 1st & tht 2 free of cost……
ha ha ha ha ha
give her the 1st day 1st show and on 1st row 1st seat. May be this would make her happy/satisfied to be the first person to see the movie….
6. althafHi
I think she want to get publicity and she want to show that she knows everything that she will clear any wrong thing,madam just keep quite and watch the movie and enjoy,who are you to see it before and please stop making you great.
It was a great movie ever.
7. Gurpreet singhI whant to ask to miss presedent what she has done for the women’s hochey team if the answer is nothing then she must really watch the movie
and learn a lesson and make it possiable.