Chak De! India is a 2007 Indian sports drama film directed by Shimit Amin, written by Jaideep Sahni, and produced by Aditya Chopra, under the banner of Yash Raj Movies. It stars Shah Rukh Khan as Kabir Khan, the fictional former captain of the India men's national field hockey group and coach of the India women's national field hockey group, nearby a cast of 16 actresses, both professional and non-professional hockey players. The soundtrack was composed by Salim–Sulaiman.

Chak De! India explores religious bigotry, religious prejudice, and sexism. The film follows Kabir Khan, an banished hockey player, removed from the don as a result of devout preference, taking after a sad misfortune to Pakistan. 7 years afterward, in an endeavor to recover himself, he gets to be the coach of the Indian national women's hockey group, with the objective of turning 16 of its players into an award-winning team.

Sahni was motivated to create the Chak De! India's script after perusing approximately the India women's national field hockey team's win at the 2002 Commonwealth Diversions in a daily paper. In spite of the fact that Kabir Khan's battles bore likeness to those confronted by real-life hockey player Mir Ranjan Negi, Sahni was uninformed of Negi's tribulations whereas composing the script. His screenplay is a work of fiction, and the characters, whereas motivated by the genuine group and coaches, were designed by Sahni. On the proposal of Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, at that point coach of the women's hockey group, Sahni welcomed Negi to connect the film's generation group. They conducted workshops for preparing the on-screen characters in hockey, and the players in acting. Kaushik and Negi would prepare Sahni, Khan and the other cast individuals over a period of six months.

Chak De! India released worldwide on 10 August 2007, coinciding with the country's 60th Independence Day, and grossed ₹109 crore (US$26.36 million) on a ₹20 crore (US$4.84 million) budget, thus becoming the third-highest grossing Hindi film of 2007. It gotten far reaching basic recognition upon release, with commend for its heading, story, screenplay, discoursed, women's activist topics, and exhibitions of the cast, with tall laud coordinated towards Khan's execution. A beneficiary of various awards, Chak De! India won the National Film Grant for Best Well known Film Giving Wholesome Amusement at the 55th National Film Grants. It gotten a driving 10 designations at the 53rd Filmfare Grants, counting Best Film, Best Executive (Amin) and Best Supporting Performing artist (Shukla), and won a driving 5 grants, counting Best Film (Pundits) and Best Performing artist (Khan).

Shah Rukh Khan's depiction of Kabir Khan is considered one of his best to date. In expansion, the title tune is played frequently at sports occasions in India.

Plot
Chak De! India opens in Delhi amid the last minutes of a Hockey World Glass coordinate between Pakistan and India, with Pakistan driving 1–0. When Indian group captain Kabir Khan is fouled, he takes a punishment stroke. His shot fair misses, in any case, causing India to lose the coordinate. Before long a while later, media outlets circulate a photo of Khan shaking hands and grasping the Pakistani captain. The wearing signal is misjudged, and Khan (who is a Muslim)[8] is suspected of tossing the amusement out of sensitivity towards Pakistan. Devout partiality in this way powers Khan and his mother to take off their genealogical home.
Seven a long time afterward Mr. Tripathi, the head of India's hockey affiliation, meets with field hockey advocate Uttam Singh to examine the Indian women's hockey group. Concurring to Tripathi, the group has no future since the as it were long-term part for ladies is to "cook and clean". Uttam, in any case, tells him that Khan needs to coach the group. At first doubtful, Tripathi concurs to the arrangement.

Khan finds himself in charge of a bunch of 16 youthful ladies partitioned by their furiously competitive natures and territorial biases. Komal Chautala, a town young lady from Haryana, clashes with Preeti Sabarwal from Chandigarh; short-tempered Balbir Kaur from Punjab bullies Rani Dispotta and Soimoi Kerketa, who are from inaccessible towns in Jharkhand. Mary Ralte from Mizoram and Molly Zimik, from Manipur in Northeast India, confront far reaching racial separation, and sexual comments from a few outsiders. Group Captain Vidya Sharma must select between hockey and the wishes of her spouse Rakesh's family, and Preeti's fiancé—Abhimanyu Singh, Vice-Captain of the India national cricket team— brushes off hockey as insignificant to their future as a couple.

Khan figures it out that he can make the young ladies champs as it were if he can offer assistance them overcome their contrasts. Amid his to begin with few days as coach, he seats a few players who deny to take after his rules—including Bindiya Naik, the most experienced player. In reaction, Bindiya over and over energizes the other players to oppose Khan. When she at last succeeds, Khan furiously leaves; be that as it may, he welcomes the staff and group to a goodbye lunch at McDonald's. Amid the lunch, nearby boys catcall Mary; Balbir assaults them, activating a brawl between the boys and the group. Khan, perceiving that they are at long last acting as one for the to begin with time, avoids the staff from mediating; he as it were stops a man from hitting one of the ladies from behind with a cricket bat. After the battle, the ladies figure it out Khan's eagerly and inquire him to stay their coach.

The group faces unused challenges. When Tripathi denies to send the women's group to Australia for the World Glass, Khan proposes a coordinate against the men's group. In spite of the fact that his group loses, their execution motivates Tripathi to send them to Australia after all. Bindiya is disturbed with Khan for choosing Vidya over her as the captain of the group. Her ensuing conduct comes about in a 7–0 misfortune to Australia. When Khan goes up against Bindiya almost her activities on the field, Bindiya reacts by endeavoring to tempt with Khan, to which he rejects & inquires her to remain absent from the amusement. Khan goes on to prepare the young ladies once more, which is taken after by triumphs over Britain, Spain, South Africa, Unused Zealand, and Argentina. Fair some time recently their diversion with South Korea, Khan approaches Bindiya, inquiring her to start playing once more and break the procedure of 'Man to Man' checking utilized by the Korean group so they can win the coordinate. Bindiya goes onto the field and with the offer assistance of Gunjan Lakhani oversees to beat South Korea and enter the finals.

They are once more coordinated with Australia for the last. Khan inclinations Komal and Preeti to put aside their contrasts for the team's purpose. Preeti, in arrange to demonstrate Abhimanyu a point, is decided to wrap up as the tournament's driving objective scorer. In the last few minutes of the diversion, the Indian ladies are trailing 1-2 when Komal passes the ball to Preeti, who scores and pushes the diversion into punishment shootouts. There, they go down 2-0 at first but come back to win the punishment shootouts 3-2 and hence claim the world container against all chances. When the group returns domestic, their families treat them with more prominent regard whereas Khan, his great title reestablished, returns with his mother to their town and genealogical domestic, where once irate neighbors welcome them with gigantic pride.

Cast
Shortly after the film's discharge, the media started alluding to the 16 on-screen characters who depicted the players as the "Chak De! Young ladies". The board of judges at the Screen Grants moreover utilized the term, granting the Best Supporting On-screen character grant to the "Chak De Young ladies" at the 14th Screen Grants in 2008.

Team
Actor Character
Shah Rukh Khan Kabir Khan
Vidya Malvade Vidya Sharma
Shilpa Shukla Bindiya Naik
Nichola Sequeira Nichola Sequeira
Sagarika Ghatge Preeti Sabarwal
Chitrashi Rawat Komal Chautala
Tanya Abrol Balbir Kaur
Shubhi Mehta Gunjan Lakhani
Sandia Furtado Nethra Reddy
Anaitha Nair Aliya Bose
Arya Menon Gul Iqbal
Kimi Laldawla Mary Ralte
Masochon Zimik Molly Zimik
Kimberly Miranda Rachna Prasad
Seema Azmi Rani Dispotta
Nisha Nair Soimoi Kerketa
Raynia Mascerhanas Raynia Fernandes

Supporting Cast
Anjan Srivastav as Mr. Vishal Tripathi, the head Indian hockey official
Vibha Chibber as Krishnaji, assistant coach for the Indian women's field hockey team
Javed Khan as Sukhlal
Mohit Chauhan as Uttam Singh, Kabir's former hockey teammate and friend
Vivan Bhatena as Abimanyu Singh, Vice captain of the Indian national cricket team and Preeti's fiancé
Nakul Vaid as Rakesh Sharma, Vidya's husband
Joyshree Arora as Kabir's mother