Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Shah Rukh Khan | ... | Kabir Khan | |
Vidya Malvade | ... | Vidya Sharma | |
Sagarika Ghatge | ... | Preety Sabharwal | |
Shilpa Shukla | ... | Bindia Naik | |
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Arya Menon | ... | Gul Iqbal |
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Seema Azmi | ... | Rani Dispotta |
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Nisha Nair | ... | Soimoi Kerketa |
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Sandia Furtado | ... | Nethra Reddy |
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Masochon V. Zimik | ... | Molly Zimik |
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Kimi Laldawla | ... | Mary Ralte |
Chitrashi Rawat | ... | Komal Chautala | |
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Shubhi Mehta | ... | Gunjun Lakhani |
Anaitha Nair | ... | Aliya Bose | |
Tanya Abrol | ... | Balbir Kaur | |
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Kimberly Miranda | ... | Rachna Prasad |
Kabir Khan (Shahrukh Khan) knows what it's like to come back from the dead. The ex Indian Captain has now come back in the avatar of the Coach of the Indian Women's National Hockey team. A team that exists more on paper and less in reality. 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. They have all forgotten the sharp thrill of just holding the hockey stick, keeping their eyes on the ball and playing for all they are worth. They have played every game but hockey to make sure they get selected every year in the Indian National team. But what does it really mean to play for the Indian National team? To play for India? The girls have never known the thrilling energy of being Team India. Of giving their all to see their country's name on a trophy. But Kabir Khan, once a captain, ... Written by Official Source
It is so refreshing to see an actor as good as ShahRukh Khan, being given a good role. Here he is stripped from all the gloss and sheen and most of the unnecessary melodrama and the final result is surprisingly entertaining! The story is really simple and there are not really very many surprises in the plot but you really don't care. ShahRukh shows again how much he can entertain given a chance and the director gives him the space to do so. The girls who make up the team he is coaching are really delightful and the time spent developing their stories was time well spent. The director could have eased of a little bit on patriotism where it was not directly relevant, but it doesn't really mar the whole experience.
Overall a fun experience! You will not even notice the absence of many songs!