Veera (Rani Mukerji) has one dream in life. To play for her country on the men's cricket team. They have played Pakistan and lost to them for the past nine years. However, Veera is stuck working for her father at her village's theatre company while she waits for chance to fulfill her dreams.
Sick of losing to Pakistan year after year, Choudhary (Anupam Kher) decides to recruit his son Rohan (Shahid Kapoor), who happens to play cricket in London where he lives with his mother. He tricks Rohan into coming to India and once there convinces him to stay for 6 months while he trains the Indian team so they can win against Pakistan. He agrees to please his dad and holds open try outs for people to join the team. Veera hears about the open try outs but when she goes to the field, they won't let her participate because she is a woman. But when she is forced to play a man onstage for her father, she gets the idea to dress as a man and try out for the team.
She ends up making the team disguised as Veer and starts training with the team. It's only when she accidentally falls on top of a model trying to get with Rohan that he cover is close to being blown. When Veer lands on top of the model, she dumps her drink all over her. Veer goes to the locker room to clean up and ends up taking a shower. When Rohan comes to see what the model is screaming about, he follows Veer to yell at him about being disrespectful. He opens the shower and before him stands a naked Veera. She quickly recovers telling him that she is Veer's sister. Embarrassed Rohan leaves and apologizes to Veer. When he realizes that he never apologized to Veera he goes onstage in the style of Shah Rukh Khan (is it sad that I know that). Afterwards the two start hanging out more and he even confesses that he is in love with her and he wants her to be his girlfriend. This however came the night before the big game. So instead of answering his question right then and there, she tells him she will let him know depending on how he plays during the game.
The game is off to a good enough start, but when Veer makes a great catch and everyone jumps on top of her, one of her colored contact lenses comes out. Rohan finds the lens and when he looks into her eyes he sees who she really is. Bum bum bum.
Friggin Bollywood. I have no idea why I love these movies so much. They are over the top and just a ball of cheese (hmmm maybe that's why I love it). Plus add in the classic storyline of disguises and mistaken identities. You had me hooked since she put on a fake beard. Although it was still kind of obvious she was a woman (wrap those twins down girl). Plus strong female characters always a plus. It was an enjoyable movie. There were a few things I didn't understand. The model girl just tends to disappear. Plus he seems to get super pissed when he finds out she was lying the whole time. And then (SPOILER) when he blows her cover, shouldn't India lose the game based on a technicality? Whatever. Don't care. Loved it.
Ratings: ****
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