HOME | SCOOP!! & NEWS | INTERVIEWS 'Chak De India' about women's empowerment: Shah Rukh Khan17th Oct 2007 09.01 IST By Agencies Dismissing the view that his recent hit Chak De India was aimed at promoting the sport of hockey in India, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan said more than sports, it was about woman empowerment. ''Chak De India' is about sports - it could be any sport, be it hockey, cricket, football or chess. However, more than that it is about the empowerment of women, the right of the woman to choose what she wants to do in Indian society. Sports was just a backdrop for the story and that happened to be Hockey,'' SRK told media persons during a visit to the Capital to attend the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit. 
SRK said he personally liked sports so they made a film that focused on women's empowerment through the medium of sports. ''The attempt was not to glorify hockey or run down the game of cricket as is being construed from a dialogue in the film 'Hockey mein chakke Nahin Hote' (there are no sixers in hockey). It is just that I like sports and want to encourage all kinds of sports. So our team worked together to make a film that focused on problems faced by women in Indian society through a film made on the backdrop of sports,'' the 'King Khan', as he is popularly known in film circles, said. Refusing to take any credit for boosting the sport of Hockey in the country through 'Chak de India', SRK said, ''Many people say we won the Asia Cup because of 'Chak De India'. However, I do not think I have done anything for Hockey. On the contrary, I feel we made 'Chak De..' because we play very good hockey. So rather than attributing motives, we should just look at the fact that it is a film about sports - it could be any sport - and women's empowerment and just enjoy whichever team wins.'' SRK said he believes that the first and foremost purpose of any film was to entertain and in the process, if the message comes out well its good. At the same time, he admitted that as a producer, whose next film will be Om Shanti Om , his endeavour was that ''my film says good things''. Related Chak De India Shah Rukh Khan Om Shanti Om | CRICKET ZONE Live Cricket Coverage Song Lyrics ALSO READ scoop ~ John Abraham ready to go Full Monty ~ Katrina Kaif's acting fee keeps soaring ~ Imran Khan denies Aamir Khan is his mentor ~ Kangana Ranaut wants her boyfriend in 'Jail'? ~ 'Sarkar 3' with Deepika and Ranbir? ~ Tabu plays a sexually deprived woman ~ Dia Mirza hopes to bounce back in big way ~ Shahrukh Khan to make a superhero film ( more in scoop ) happenings ~ Shatrughan Sinha wishes speedy recovery to Amitabh ~ Amitabh Bachchan to stay in hospital for 2-3 days ( more in happenings ) AKC HOT INDEX ECARDS > New Year, Diwali, Birthday, Valentines, Love, Christmas MOVIES Hello, Drona, Kidnap, Welcome To Sajjanpur, Hulla, The Last Lear, 1920, Saas Bahu Aur Sensex, Ru-Ba-Ru, A Wednesday, Rock On, Phoonk, Chamku, Dostana , Heroes , Karzzzz , Golmaal Returns MUSIC Dostana , Karzzzz celebs » wallpapers » the celeb A-Z who's in » Katrina Kaif | Deepika Padukone | Ranbir Kapoor | Harman Baweja | Aishwarya Rai | Abhishek Bachchan | Imran Khan | Shahrukh Khan | Salman Khan | Aamir Khan | Hrithik Roshan | Akshay Kumar | Zayed Khan | Saif Ali Khan | John Abraham | Shahid Kapur | Kareena Kapoor | Vidya Balan | Priyanka Chopra | Rani Mukherjee | Mallika Sherawat | Bipasha Basu | Preity Zinta | Kajol | Neha Dhupia | Sameera Reddy | Juhi Chawla | Karisma Kapoor | Madhuri Dixit | Zeenat Aman | Payal Rohatgi | Sneha Ullal | Mahima Chaudhary | Meghna Naidu | Gayatri Joshi | Rakhi Sawant | Bhumika Chawla | Lisa Ray | Dimple Kapadia | Ayesha Takia | Dia Mirza | Sushmita Sen | Amisha Patel | Esha Deol | Amrita Rao | Amrita Arora | Genelia D'Souza | Arjun Rampal | Amitabh Bachchan | Vivek Oberoi | Raima Sen | Riya Sen | Rekha | Rimi Sen | Nigar Khan | Tanushree Dutta | Yana Gupta | Deepal Shaw | Shilpa Shetty | Celina Jaitley | Sonam Kapoor | Neha Oberoi | Nisha Rawal | Manjari Fadnis | Kamal Haasan | Rajnikant | Asin | Sanjay Dutt | Shahid Kapoor | Sherlyn Chopra | Farhan Akhtar | Prachi Desai | Koel Purie | Shahana Goswami | Adah Sharma | Kangana Ranaut | Anushka Sharma | Mugdha Godse | Masumeh Makhija | Minissha Lamba | Vidya Malvade | Malaika Arora | more... POPULAR WALLPAPERS Katrina Kaif wallpapers | Deepika Padukone wallpapers | Salman Khan wallpapers | Aishwarya Rai wallpapers | Shahrukh Khan wallpapers | Akshay Kumar wallpapers | Kareena Kapoor wallpapers | Ranbir Kapoor wallpapers | Priyanka Chopra wallpapers | Kajol wallpapers | Mallika Sherawat wallpapers | Rani Mukherjee wallpapers | Hrithik Roshan wallpapers | Vidya Balan wallpapers | Amrita Rao wallpapers | Genelia D'Souza wallpapers | Sneha Ullal wallpapers | Riya Sen wallpapers | Preity Zinta wallpapers | Bipasha Basu wallpapers | Minissha Lamba wallpapers | Ayesha Takia wallpapers | Imran Khan wallpapers | Nigar Khan wallpapers | John Abraham wallpapers | Sherlyn Chopra wallpapers MOVIE TRAILERS & VIDEOS Dostana trailers | Drona trailers | Kidnap trailers | Hello trailers | Fashion trailers | EMI trailers | Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi trailers | Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai trailers | Aashayein trailers | Paathshaala trailers | Toonpur Ka Superhero trailers | Ek Vivaah Aisa Bhi trailers | Rang Rasiya trailers | Chal Chala Chal trailers | Heroes trailers | Karzz trailers | Horn Ok Please trailers | Golmaal Returns trailers | Ghajini trailers | Yuvvraaj trailers | Kambakth Ishq trailers | Dil Kabaddi trailers | Billoo Barber trailers | | 
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