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I am watching "Chak De! India" for the 2.5th time and I think it would qualify as Great. Its a straightforward but man, there are so many facets that are explored in it. Its funny as hell in places, I love the music and songs, it makes me feel patriotic (pretty hard to do) and teary-eyed (quite easy to do), it sets up lot of team dynamics (perhaps simplistic), it takes a shot (perhaps simplistic again) at understanding what it takes to make a world-class team, and it takes excellent potshots at the sporting establishment in India. A lot of the stuff is really intelligent and I think it could teach a lot of people how excellence or greatness happens. Oh and its a great cheerleader for empowering women.

I urge those of you who haven't seen it yet to see it.

I have this habit of picking up on particular strings of words that I feel really click and in this movie I really loved the title song. It has a strong rousing urgency, something we could do with as a nation if you ask me. "Do something, do something, enough of big talk!!" . (In Slumdog Millionaire I liked "D: It is written". See the movie again if you don't know what I'm talking about.

Slumdog Millionaire: The list of subtleties that you mentioned -- pretty cool and I bow to you. But using something like your Usual Suspects argument, cool though these tricks are, they don't really make for a great movie. A significant flaw in the movie is how flat the characters are -- even the main one. And in particular the girl is just a doll, a symbol - she is just tossed around by fate and nothing of her own motivations or feelings really comes through.
BTW -- all those people who felt offended that the movie emphasized poverty or something : kiss my ass. Go make your own movie glorifying Mukesh Ambani if that's what you want stupids.

Rohit -- "Forrest Gump" , interesting choice. I'm not sure. Make your case !

Arvind -- haven't watched your tubes properly yet. But look interesting.