Chak De! India

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Re: Chak De! India

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SRK’s ‘Chak De India’ is based on the true life story of coach Mir Ranjan Negi.
Filed under: All News Posted: Jun 8th 2007 by Kimaya De

Shahrukh, as we all know, plays a hockey coach in the movie but, you would be surprised to learn that the movie is based on the journey of Negi, a player, who was charged with match fixing allegation in 1982 when India lost to Pakistan in the Asian Games in Delhi.
Negi later went to coach the women’s team that made India proud at the Manchester Common Wealth Games in 2002 as the team won Gold. Before shooting for the movie, Shahrukh spend a lot of time with Negi to understand the character better and in fact, King Khan also insisted Negi to do a cameo in the movie.

In the movie they showed India won the world cup whereas India never finished in top 6 in any of the women’s world up so far.