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.
The girls in the cast were trained in a 3-4 month hockey camp so that the game play doesn’t look artificial in the movie