Raynia mascarenhas biography of albert

A coach with a sticky past motivates a raggedy bunch of women’s hockey players to go for gold in “Chak de! India,” a patriotic heartwarmer that scores some old-fashioned entertainment goals despite its flaws.

Raynia mascarenhas biography of albert einstein

Not as conventional as it sounds on paper, Shah Rukh Khan starrer has opened only OK both in India and overseas, but seems to work with auds who actually enter the stadium.

Pic is one in a mini-wave of sports-themed Bollywood movies this year, following racing car drama “Ta ra rum pum” (also from major banner Yash Raj) and preceding UTV’s upcoming soccer movie, “Dhan dhana dhan … Goal.” In “Ta ra,” the sport was only a hook on which to hang a family drama in which overseas Indians were shown to be totally assimilated into a Western culture.

In “Chak de! India,” the sport is virtually the whole thing, used here as a metaphor for the chronic Indian problem of pulling together