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Gosling is so right here!! “It’s not your job to keep the theatres open. It’s OUR job to make things that make it worth you coming out!” Someone’s gotta mention this to every TFI producer.
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jaha outrage karna hai waha karte nhi movie ko 3 din se discuss kar rhe hai
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And all along we blamed our incapability of sitting through movies in movie hall, of watching web series by fast forwarding and skipping some scenes...on our short attention spans.
It was somehow the audiences fault and our obsession with short form content, reels and Yt shorts but turns out it was poorly made content all along.
Give us a Dhurandhar and we will finish a 4 hr movie in one sitting. Infact we will go back to re watch it again. Message is clear, If you want attention of today's audience you need to make good content. No excuses will work now.
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The difference in this scene from 2004 to now is, back then all of them were at least listening to Mohan and his reasoning now they'll mob up and beat his ass for lecturing them ki videsh se aake gyaan de rahe.
siiuuuuu@wakeupsahil_
1. True progress starts when we rise above caste and stand for equality - Swades (2004)
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One of the biggest Mandela effects (phenomenon where a large group of people collectively misremember the same detail) on Indian social media is the widespread belief that Mir Ranjan Negi was the coach of the Indian women’s hockey team when it won the gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. The mandela effect here is so strong that it is very likely that if you ask Grok or ChatGPT who was the coach, it is likly to tell you it is Mir Ranjan Negi (which in part is due to lack of extensive reporting on sports in India barring cricket).
But he was not.
The head coach of that team was Gurdial Singh Bhangu (who is also the first hockey coach to receive the Dronacharya Award, India’s highest sporting honour for coaches).
The team had M.K. Kaushik as a mentor during the preparation camp. Kaushik was the coach of Indian Men's Hockey team in 1998 Asian Games when team won gold medal the event after 30 years. And due to his expeience with training many women players at SAI, New Delhi, he was asked to assist as a mentor. He became second hockey coach to be awarded the Dronacharya Award in 2002, the same year India won that historic gold. He took over the coaching for Women's team from Gurdial Bhangu in 2002 just after the event.
When Yash Raj Films began work on Chak De! India, the screenplay writer Jaideep Sahni loosely based the character of Kabir Khan on M.K. Kaushik, who had just taken over as the full-time head coach of the women’s team in 2002. Several details in the film came directly from Kaushik’s life. Even the scooter used by Shah Rukh Khan’s character was Kaushik’s.
So where does Mir Ranjan Negi fit in and why does almost everyone remember him as the coach?
Mir Ranjan Negi was the goalkeeping coach of the 2002 women’s team. His association with the gold medal was real, but his elevation in public memory had little to do with coaching hierarchy and everything to do with being at the right place and the right time.
YRF wanted Kaushik to be the consultant for hockey scenes in the movie and prepare the cast for shooting. But Kaushik was actively coaching the national team so he couldn’t commit time as an on-field consultant during the film’s shooting. He suggested Mir Ranjan Negi (who at that point did not have a coaching job and needed something positive going for him in his life after losing his 19-year old son to a bike accident) to help YRF with hockey-specific inputs. Mir Ranjan Negi was close to Kaushik since they both played together for the national team and Mir was goalkeeping coach for the 1998 Asian Games too.
Once Negi became involved with the film, he realised that Kabir Khan’s fictional backstory closely resembled his own real-life experience particularly the events of the 1982 Asian Games, where India lost 7–1 to Pakistan and Negi, then the national team goalkeeper, was accused of match-fixing, which was partly due to his first-name 'Mir' which can be perceived as a Muslim name.
What’s crucial to note is this:
the screenplay was already written by then.
Chak De! India was not based on Mir Ranjan Negi’s life.
But the film’s marketing machinery latched onto the emotional overlap. Negi accompanied the cast on reality shows and promotional tours. This was the early era of Indian reality TV, when personal struggle narratives were aggressively foregrounded.
Even Jaideep Sahni later expressed discomfort at how someone who was only coincidentally associated with the real team began receiving disproportionate limelight, as if the film were an adaptation of his life. Even Mr. Mir has since clarified multiple times that the movie was not his biopic at all.
However two decades later,
Gurdial Singh Bhangu, the actual head coach, is barely remembered. M.K. Kaushik, also almost forgotten, passed away during COVID. While Mir Ranjan Negi remains in public memory synonymous with the 2002 triumph.
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Chak De India movie -It was based on a coach named Ranjan Negi -Makers changed the name of the character as Kabir Khan -The movie was directed by Shimit Amin, played by Shahrukh Khan -When it’s a hero, they change it to a Muslim -When it’s a villain, they change it to a Hindu
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I’m no one to judge, but real journalistic bravery isn’t just flying into war zones for dramatic proof - it’s speaking the truth from where you are. Courage begins with calling out the injustice right in front of you. We always have enough and more visuals. Visual evidence is not scarce. What is scarce is journalistic responsibility
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@AbhiBSarda Oh absolutely. Spot on.
The utter disregard for everyone and everything and treating the surroundings as a dumpster is baffling!
And the sheer entitlement that follows is worse.
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@anuj10trivedi This is where being responsible hits hard. You got this thought because you want to make it better and it affects you. On the other hand, Gutka guy would be enjoying his journey all along without even having a thought of how his actions have an impact.
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