Promo Watch: Chak De India

Ek hockey doongi rakh ke!'

Loosely translated as 'I'll whack you with a hockey stick,' the energetic chorus from the Chak De India [ Images ] theme song sticks to the colloquial. North India has appropriated the name of the sport and applied it to the equipment, and thus is a hockey stick called, quite simply, 'a hockey.'

And so it is that Shah Rukh Khan [ Images ] raps energetically about the girls in his hockey team, a tough-looking bunch of no-nonsense ladies with considerable sass. Music composers Salim-Suleiman come up with a rousing 'Team India' track, and the girls are introduced mostly one-by-one in the film's promo.

The team looks fresh as does the overlong promo for Shimit Amin's [ Images ] upcoming film -- reportedly inspired by Tom Hanks [ Images ] starrer In A League Of Their Own -- but you can't help wondering why Khan started the count with Chak 2 for Girl 1 and kept counting ahead.

Oh but then, as he winds up, all the girls stand in a row and talk about Chak 1, Coach Kabeer Khan, Shah Rukh.

On cue, an elevated Khan silhouette, towering over the girls, raises his arms in trademark SRK-style.

Okay, so it really is a Yash Raj film. We were beginning to wonder.