Chak De India - Splendid performance from Shahrukh Khan

Starring: Shahrukh Khan, Vidya Malvade, Sagarika Ghatge, Chitrashi Rawat, Shilpa ShuklaDirector: Shimit AminProducer: Aditya Chopra

Chak De India' is the story of a coach's fight to make his team, Team India, the best in the world. It is a film about self-belief, perseverance, determination and the human spirit to fight and win.The movie is about a disgraced hockey player, called Kabir Khan, pulling together a team of misfits to do the impossible - winning the World Hockey Championship. Kabir, India's most successful Centre Forward of all time, bungles a crucial penalty and is castigated by the nation - as Pakistan win the cup.

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Seven years later, this never-say-die Kabir Khan is raring to go. His plan is simple: to start from the very bottom of the Indian Women's Hockey Team whose administrators aren't even serious in their approach looking for a coach.
His has taken seriously the task of coaching the bunch of 16 indisciplined non-actresses, trying to keep up with him. And pushes them hard.The team is a rag-tag bunch of girls with their own agenda. A bunch of girls who have forgotten what it is like to play for the love of the game. Of playing because you want glory for your country. Not because you want a pensioned job or a government flat.

Khan, of course, is King. This is a bravura performance, a gritty drive by an actor who clearly has sport in his blood. The fit of Shah Rukh as a hockey coach -- inspiring, canny, frustrated, helpless and profoundly hopeful -- is so naturally perfect that it's a wonder he hasn't done a sports film before. The film is shot nicely, the direction is superb, and it is a perfectly good sporting film, and its a fine, true-blooded sports movie though, and deserves applause.

- Amarjeet Mehta

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Naqaab - A thriller from Directors Abbas Mustan

Directors: Abbas MustanProducers: Kumar S. Taurani, Ramesh S. TauraniMusic Director: PritamLyrics: SameerStarring: Bobby Deol, Akshaye Khanna, Urvashi Sharma, Vishal Malhotra, Vikas Kalantri, Raj Zutshi

The story is based on the scenic locales of Dubai.A middle-class girl called Sophie (Urvashi Sharma) meets Karan (Bobby Deol) belonging to the upper echelon of the society.Opposites attract, Sophie falls in love with Karan and gets engaged to him.While Sophie treats her friends post engagement in an Egyptian restaurant, the brash, awfully dressed Vicky (Akshaye Khanna) ends up dancing with her after being prompted by an usher who harps about Egyptian traditions and they dance to a Hindi song.

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This just-engaged girl shares a tremendously intimate song with the upstart, coming close enough to an actual kiss, and just then the spell breaks. Vicky too belongs to the girl's strata of the society. Positives come close too, hence Sophie, inspite of being engaged to Karan, starts falling for Vicky.The girl Sophie has a past that seems to be threatening her future. The guy - Vicky also has a past that can jeopardize the girl's future. And the rich guy Karan, too has a gruesome past that will.... if unleashed - shatter all the three lives.There's also a fourth element to the story, a mysterious guy who seems to be monitoring these three characters.

The film is neatly shot, progresses breezily with a fair share of contrived contertwisting and ends with a climax layered on and on...

- Aniz Filmvala

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Gandhi My Father - A troubled father-son relationship.

Starring: Akshaye Khanna, Darshan Jariwala, Bhumika Chawla and Shefali Shah
Producer: Anil Kapoor
Director: Feroz Abbas Khan

This movie is about Mahatma Gandhi's family - the father of our nation. It tells the story of Gandhi's eldest son Harilal Gandhi, who rebelled against his father and carried the identity of his father like a curse around his neck. Its a story of a principled father and an unfortunate son.

Mahatma Gandhi's wife Kasturba (played by Shefali Shah) raised her eldest son Harilal all by herself when Gandhi left to study in London in 1888. Later, she gave birth to three more sons.

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Being rebelious natured, Harilal converted to Islam and adopted the name Abdullah Gandhi. He also sought to remarry after the death of his first wife Gulab (played by Bhumika Chawla). All this prompted Harilal think that his father would disown his own son. Even though Harilal later converted back to Hinduism, he lived the life of a derelict, roaming the streets of India like a beggar and finally drinking himself to death.In Harilal’s words: 'He (Mahatma Gandhi) is the greatest father you can have. But he is the one father I wish I did not have.'