Shahrukh Khan, it is said, was chosen to coach the Indian Hockey Team for India's first World Cup in April 1986. He is not happy with the choice of the Indian Hockey Team and feels the future of Indian hockey depends on him. He feels the Hockey players in India have little to say about the team. He feels he is put in an awkward position because of the political clout of Hockey stalwart, Lallan Singh. The movie focusses on the bitter rivalry between the Hockey players and the politicians.
This biographical sports movie of the 1980s was scripted by the well known hockey writer Romesh Sharma. Romesh Sharma, author of famous books like Hooping with The Devil, Hooping with the Devil – The Ashish Bagri Story and The Better Team, was a well known player and coach. He was known for his imagination and love of hockey. The film was directed by the acclaimed Punjabi film director Sharat Mohan and co-starred with the great hockey players of that era, Kapil Dev, Ramu (Parupalli Kashyap), Ashish Bagri, Jaidev Singh, Bhaskar Das and Sunny Deol. The film was produced by Prasad Mudgal who became the Chairperson of the International Hockey Federation. The music for the movie was composed by Rajesh Roshan who also wrote the song Yere Yere Yere. The film was a huge success at the box office.
Gopal Singh managed to set new records by becoming the first Indian to score a hat trick in a Hockey World Cup. All of the players in the movie became World Cup Champions. The film is based on true events and followed the true story of Indian Hockey. The movie based its script on the story of an Indian Hockey player Ashish Bagri who was renowned for his clean behaviour and took him a world record 50 penalty shots in a single match. The movie also focused on the role played by the Indian Hockey administrators of the 1980s, its inability to understand the needs of the players and the young team captain.
The film was a reunion of all the Hockey legends, who had made the Hockey world proud by playing for India. The team in the movie was called the New Heroes team, a tribute to the young Indian hockey players who played for India in the '80s. The team is headed by Ramesh Kumar Yadav. The film was shot in the mountains of Kashmir, in Ludhiana
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