Seventy Minutes

In the film Chak De! India, the coach Kabir Khan, played by Shah Rukh Khan, speaks to the national women’s hockey team: Aaj tum achha khelo, ya bura, yeh sattar minute tumhein zindagi bhar yaad rahenge. Whether you play well or badly today, these seventy minutes will stay with you all your life.

In another scene he tells the players: Mujhe states ke naam na sunayi dete hain na dikhayi dete hain, sirf ek mulk ka naam sunayi deta hai, I-N-D-I-A. I neither hear nor see the names of states. I hear only the name of one country, India.

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