Author Topic: Live Chat With Meer Ranjan Negi(Chak De India Fame) On 27 Aug 2008 At 12:00PM  (Read 43359 times)

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He returned as a goalkeeping coach for the 1998 Asian Games in which the India national field hockey team won the Gold. This position, however, only proved temporary and he left the game once again.[1]Four years later, Negi was hired to be the goalkeeping coach of the India women's national field hockey team. The team won the Gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. [4] He was also the assistant coach for the Women's team when it won the Gold at the 2004 Hockey Asia Cup.[5]


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Chak De India

Negi would later become involved in the development of the 2007 Bollywood film, Chak De India. The screenplay for Chak De India was written by Bollywood screenwriter Jaideep Sahani. Sahani had read a small article about the winning of the Gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games by the India women's national field hockey team and thought that the premise would make an interesting film. Negi has often been compared with Kabir Khan in the media.[6][7][7][8][9]

On this connection Negi, himself, would later comment, "This movie is not a documentary of Mir Ranjan Negi's life. It is in fact the story of a team that becomes a winning lot from a bunch of hopeless girls [...] There is nothing called World Championships in international hockey. It would be stupid to believe that Yash Raj Films would pump in Rs.450 million to make a documentary on me. So it's illogical that it is a documentation of my life." [10]

Sahani further stated in an interview with The Hindu:

I felt why has the girls’ team been given so little coverage. I shared the idea with Aditya (Chopra). He liked it and said stop everything else and concentrate on it. I started my research by spending time with hockey players [...] It’s just a matter of chance that Negi's story matches with Kabir Khan. There are many cases, like in Columbia, football players are killed for not performing well for the club. I had no idea about Negi’s story while writing the script, and he joined us after the script was ready. In fact, his name was suggested by M.K. Kaushik, who was the coach of the team that won the Commonwealth Games’ gold. On day one, when Negi read the script, he cried and it was then that we came to know about his story. [11]
Sahani also stated in another interview with NDTV.com that the script was conceived before he met Negi:

"Our script was written a year and a half back. It is very unfortunate that something, which is about women athletes, has just started becoming about Negi. And if you would go and ask Negi, he would probably tell you that he came and read the script that was written a year and a half back, and he started crying. Next day, he came and said look, it had happened to me also."[12]
Both Kaushik and Negi did influence the development of the film after being approached by Sahini. Sahini first met with Kaushik and later recalled that, "M K Kaushik and his girls taught us all we knew about hockey. Then he recommended Negi to us, because when we finished writing and finished casting, we needed someone to train the girls. Negi assembled a team of hockey players to train the girls."[12] Kaushik also states in the same interview that, "I taught him everything about the game, starting from how the camp is conducted, how the girls come from different backgrounds and cultures, the psychological factors involved. Also how the coach faces pressure to select girls from different states and teams."[12] Sahini also contacted Negi and asked him to coach the actors portraying the hockey team. While not initially enthusiastic about being involved in the film, Negi changed his mind after reading the screenplay. He acted as the coach and trainer for the cast stating, "I trained the girls for six months. Waking up at 4, travelling from Kandivili to Churchgate. We would retire around 11 in the night. It was tiring. But we were on a mission [...] They couldn’t run; couldn’t hold the hockey sticks. I ensured none of them [would have to] cut their nails or eye-brows (as the players do). The girls have worked very hard. I salute them."[4] Some of the actors however, such as Chitrashi, Sandia, and Raynia were cast because they are actual hockey players. [13] Negi also had to train Shahrukh Khan for the film stating, "I had to plan every hockey move shown in the movie, including the penalty stroke that SRK missed. That shot alone took us nearly 20 hours as I was keen that it should be very realistic. I took the help of a lot of my former teammates. But more importantly, it was so easy working with SRK. He is unbelievably modest and was willing to do as many re-takes as we wanted

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Exclusive: Chak De's real-life hero

I am no film critic nor do I much care for the Bollywood stuff (the see-it, enjoy-it and forget-it types, I mean). However, I made it a point to watch Chak de India only because it was about a sport closest to my heart and more importantly because the film is based on the life of Mir Ranjan Negi, my friend of 25 years and the original Kabir Khan whom Shah Rukh Khan portrayed with customary élan.

Some three weeks ago, Negi called me from his hometown Mumbai. After due apologies for not keeping in touch for nearly six months, he said he was busy with an SRK film called Chak de India!. “It was a fantastic experience. You should see the film for the sake of our friendship and let me know your thoughts,” he told me. “I cannot tell you much about it since the film is yet to be released, but I will talk to you again soon.”

Watching Kabir Khan being branded a ‘traitor’ in the film after missing a goal against Pakistan, his subsequent ‘resurrection’ as the coach of a Team India that eventually goes on to win the ‘World Cup’ beating Australia in the tie-breaker and listening to many of the dialogues and incidents depicted in the film triggered waves of nostalgia in me. I actually lived my career as a professional hockey journalist during the screening.

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I had covered the 7-1 drubbing Pakistan handed out to India in the 1982 Asian Games final, which turned goalkeeper Negi’s life upside down. He was literally pilloried by armchair critics, the media and an ignorant public for letting in so many goals. Some of the tabloids even ran headlines crying out that Pakistan had bribed Negi and that he was a “traitor”. I was shocked by these insinuations and innuendoes. In my reports, I strongly defended Negi, while blaming the deep defence, especially Rajinder Singh (Sr) who played the game with a dodgy knee that hampered his mobility.

On my return to Bangalore, I was criticised for being ‘soft’ on Negi. Being much younger then, I argued vehemently, even with my own colleagues in the office. In the process, I lost some friends for good. It only made me doubly determined to get to the bottom of the entire episode and hear from Negi himself about what exactly happened that winter evening at Delhi’s National Stadium.

A few months later, I persuaded my Editor to let me cover the Bombay Gold Cup tournament. My hidden agenda was to track Negi down for an interview, as there was not even a quote from him in the media. It took me nearly a week to finally trace him to one of the many docks where he was posted (Negi was, and still is, in the Customs). When I met him, he simply refused to talk. “What’s the point? You guys in the media seem to know much more than I do. You guys have wrecked my life and my career. Please go away. I don’t want to see you,” he told me.

However, when I told him that I had defended him in my articles, he agreed to meet me the following day.

For the interview, Negi brought along a VCR and the video recording of the ’82 final. We went aboard a passenger ship and viewed the entire tape. It lasted nearly four hours as Negi replayed the goals, analysed the Indian mistakes and came to the same conclusions I had reached. He then bared his heart to me, often weeping like a child and narrated the horrifying days following the final.

“Everywhere I went, I was abused by the public. Nothing matters to me more than playing for my country. I am a proud Indian and will always be so. There were lots of things that happened in the run-up to the final. You find out. I will not speak about the politics that contributed to our defeat,” he said.

Back in Bangalore, I wrote a highly emotional piece and sent him a clipping.

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Within days, he wrote me a letter (no internet and emails those days), the first of the many we exchanged. I urged him to get out of the deep depression and stay away from alcohol, while challenging him to make a comeback. “I would like to see you back in at least the Bombay team, if not the Indian team. You still have plenty of hockey in you, so don’t waste it,” I told him.

In 1987, Negi called me up and said: “My friend, I am in the Bombay team. I will be coming to Bangalore for the National championship and let’s celebrate my comeback!” He treated me to a lavish lunch. It was an emotional outing as we laughed and even shed a few tears like a couple of kids, happy that Negi had fully recovered from the trauma of ’82. He was also married and blessed with children, and promoted.

 

Fast forward to 1998. Negi called again. “My friend, I am the goalkeeping coach of the Indian team. Please wish me luck on this happy day. I hope you will be there in Bangkok for the Asian Games. We will try and win a gold medal. That would be great, wouldn’t it?” As luck would have it, I was assigned for the Asiad coverage and we had a great reunion in Bangkok. I told Negi that the team was good enough to win the gold medal after a lapse of 32 years.

As in Chak de India, our team made it to the final, where we met Korea. The match ended in a draw, again as in the movie. Then came the barren extra-time and the tie-breaker. Goalkeeper Ashish Ballal came up with a couple of great saves and India clinched the gold medal. Again, as in the movie, the celebrations were wild and memorable. I jumped the barricades to get on to the field, seeking Negi. We hugged and cried, but said nothing to each other. Words were not necessary. The gold medal was the salvation that Negi was seeking and I was happy for him.

But then, on returning home, Negi and chief coach MK Kaushik were sacked along with six senior players, including Ballal. The Indian Hockey Federation, in typical fashion, had killed the goose that had laid the golden egg.

In the years that followed, Negi and I kept in touch. Yesterday, I messaged him to say I got tickets for Chak de... He replied: “Just sit back and enjoy. No finding faults.” A little past midnight, within a minute after the movie ended, Negi called me from Mumbai. “How did you like it? Hope you enjoyed the movie! Did you like the theme song? How was SRK?” Questions rained on me.

Over the next hour, we exchanged notes as he gave me an insight into the making of the movie, his experiences with SRK and the hours he spent coaching the girls, some of whom did not know even how to grip a hockey stick at first.

”I had to plan every hockey move shown in the movie, including the penalty stroke that SRK missed. That shot alone took us nearly 20 hours as I was keen that it should be very realistic. I took the help of a lot of my former teammates. But more importantly, it was so easy working with SRK. He is unbelievably modest and was willing to do as many re-takes as we wanted,” Negi gushed forth.

Negi’s life has changed since the release of the film. “I cannot believe the number of calls I am getting. Most people liked the film. My life has turned a full circle, but I cannot fully erase the pain of 1982. People, especially the media, always ask me about that final. Anyway, the film has done a lot of good for my wife. It has helped get her out of depression,” he said. The depression had been brought on by the death of their son in a road accident. Negi had called me up then. He could barely speak a word, choked as he was with sadness. “First, it was 1982 and now this. Why is God against me? What have I done to deserve this?” he cried out. I had no words to offer except to say: “He who takes, also gives. You are strong and you can get over this.”

I thought that SRK did a decent job portraying such an eventful life, though Negi is a far more sensitive personality. Acting as a ruthless coach determined to tame the arrogant seniors in the team, SRK also reminded me of the present coach of Indian men’s hockey team, Joaquim “Jack” Carvalho, whom I have known for over 20 years.

Like SRK, Jack too benched a couple of adamant senior players who now form the core group of the side. And again, like SRK, Jack does not wear headphones during a match to keep in touch with his assistants seated high up in the stands. Some of SRK’s dialogues are much the same as Jack uses during training sessions.

But most of all, the film flooded me with a good feeling that finally, for Negi, the ghosts of his past have been exorcised to an extent. In any case, he has now learnt to live with them.

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I am sure our people ask him a lot of questions related to connection with Uttarakhand, childhood etc etc.

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Mir Ranjan Negi, whose life story is the inspiration for the movie Chak De India, was much reviled for conceding seven goals to Pakistan in the 1982 Asiad final. In an interview to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, he describes the agony and despair of the years he was branded a traitor and talks about what made him stick to hockey and coaching. He also speaks of how he was roped in as a consultant for the film.

 
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 • My guest this week is the original Kabir Khan (of Chak De India), Mir Ranjan Negi, who didn’t quite fail to score the goal, but paid the price for consuming too many. But right now he is enjoying the fact that India scored just that many goals — seven — in the recent Asian Championships final against South Korea.

It’s something like that now.

• So the joy is back. After 25 long years. Take us back to 1982. What happened? I know everybody talks about the film Chak De India. Take us back to that day at the Asiad finals, when you were the goalkeeper. You were facing one of Pakistan’s finest-ever forward lines. In fact one of the finest-ever forward lines anywhere. Hassan Sardar, Kalimullah . . . they were the best.

It was the first time colour TV arrived. There was multi-camera shooting of the match. When the match started, there was a lot of pressure. The then prime minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi was there, Rajiv Gandhi, the then president Giani Zail Singh, all the dignitaries. Buta Singh used to visit the Games village every day, tell us so many things . . . that Mrs Gandhi was looking forward to a hockey victory.

• The other seven gold medals we won did not matter.

Slowly, the pressure built up. People used to come to us with prasad every day. There was a lot of pressure from all sides. To make matters worse, even the coaches would tell us, ‘You have to die for your country.’ My roommate was Mohammad Shahid. He couldn’t sleep for two days because of the pressure.

• And Mohammad Shahid was one of the finest forwards ever.

We scored the first goal. It was a penalty stroke by Zafar Iqbal. And then the whole team collapsed. One after another seven goals were scored. Overnight everything was lost.

• Zafar Iqbal actually figures in Chak De India. People only saw the image of you at the goalpost, helpless as seven goals were scored.

After the game, when I saw the footage, I saw the camera going from one direction to the other and maybe there was some editing problem but it showed me in very bad light . . . as if I had left the goalpost and run away.

• The impression was that you were charging too early.

No, they didn’t show me at the goalpost at all. People thought maybe I got scared and left my post. The next day there was talk that I had taken money from Pakistan, that I’d been seen going to the Pakistan High Commission, that somebody saw me coming down the steps of the Pakistan High Commission. So many things were said about me. A Hindi poet wrote a satire about me, there were cartoons about me.

• (Pointing to a newspaper clipping in Negi’s file) What does this say?

It says ‘Bharatiya hockey bik gaya. (Indian hockey has sold out).’

• Suggesting that you had sold out.

The Hindi poet Om Prakash Aaditya wrote this poem about me. (Points to a caricature with the poem, showing a bald Negi) At that time I wasn’t bald.

• It says, ‘Dharti gol, ambar gol, suraj chand sitare gol, goal hua toh hua, main bhi gol’ It goes on to suggest that you had compromised.

I was a victim of this sort of yellow journalism. I felt as if someone very close to me in my family had died. There was absolute silence. I think for two days we did not have any food. We were very scared to come out of the National Stadium.

• You did face shouts of, ‘Gaddar!’

Yes, yes. Everywhere I went. I faced whatever is shown happening to Kabir Khan (in the film).

• You faced more in life.

It was more horrifying than what is shown in the film.

• Give us some examples of what happened.

Two days we did not have food. Then we went to a restaurant near Pandara Road. I was accompanied by some team-mates. Suddenly we were gheraoed by some 50 people who were having a party. They shouted at us, shouted slogans and literally chased us away from the place. We had to forgo our food and go back. My uncle booked a first class ticket for me so that I wouldn’t be troubled. But after I got in, within no time there were 50-100 people outside the compartment shouting slogans. I came to my house in Indore and found all the window panes broken.

• What were they saying?

Maro, paisa khaya hai. Things like that.

• But the theory was: ‘Paisa khaya.’

Yes, that I’d been bribed.

• I think there was a price fixed — one lakh per goal or something?

Yes, one lakh rupees for each goal. Not actually true, but they said things like that. And the media added a lot of fuel to the fire. They said a CBI inquiry was on against me. Even when I was talking to friends in the customs department, where I worked, they would say I was being chased everywhere by the CBI. They would say, ‘Hamarey upar bhi aa jayega (We will be targeted too).’ My life became hell. I even thought of committing suicide. Then my family decided to get me married in 1983. But people’s anger hadn’t diminished. They put out the lights at my marriage reception. Someone took out the main fuse, they removed the main switch. And it was friends with scooters and motorcycles who provided light for the ceremony by turning on the headlights. And this is a fact. It can be confirmed.

• One year after the Asiad final.

Wherever I went, people would knowingly or unknowingly introduce me as, ‘Mr Negi, man of seven goals.’ That was a blot on my life and mind. It was very sad.

• Frankly, on Astroturf seven goals can be scored once the defence cracks up, because it is such a fast surface. After that particular game, we’ve scored seven now, we have conceded six or seven goals many times against Australia, Germany, Spain.

Actually, India was playing Pakistan on home soil in Delhi and people had paid up to Rs 1,000 for a hundred-rupee ticket. I don’t blame the people.

• How did your association treat you?

The players were always with me; they knew I was not at fault. About the officials, I don’t want to say anything.

• You became the fall guy who could be blamed for everything. Frankly, a goalkeeper comes into play only after the defence has failed. For all those seven goals, somebody got past our entire defence. Our defence crumbled that day.

There was some problem in the defence. In the morning they announced one team, and in the afternoon a different team played. A very good friend, Rajinder Singh, was a full-back. Unfortunately, he had a very bad knee that day and couldn’t play well. There were a lot of problems. But the whole team played badly. Just eight days later, however, we went and beat Pakistan.

• So you could have done better if you’d all been relaxed rather than charged up like that.

Of course.

• I see that you don’t hold very much against your defenders who let you down that day. Rajinder Singh figures in Chak De India.

No. Rajinder is a very good friend of mine. It happens. It’s not his mistake. It’s the mistake of the team management. They played him despite his injury. Everybody knew it. How could they have overlooked such a big mistake.

• He has a cameo in Chak Dey India, isn’t it?

Yes, he’s clapping when his team wins against the women’s hockey team.

• He’s the coach of the Indian men’s team that beats the women’s team.

He’s a very nice man. He was top scorer in the World Cup held in Mumbai. He’s a great full-back. But such things have happened in the past.

• He’s also a penalty corner specialist. Many squad mates, many full-backs are in the film, isn’t it?

I included them because I wanted people to be able to identify our great players.

• Zafar Iqbal is there.

Zafar Iqbal is there. M.K. Kaushik is there as Pakistani coach. We have these players who play for ONGC. They are all real hockey players.

• Zafar Iqbal was your captain, who scored the first goal in that Asiad final against Pakistan.

Yes. In the film he’s the manager of my team.

• Many thought he made a mistake by scoring the first goal and provoking the Pakistanis. Tell us briefly about each of the goals.

I remember one in which the ball was scooped from the left and was bouncing in front of me and Hassan Sardar took it over my head. Somehow, the umpire allowed it. Now, I could have hit him on the face without making it too obvious.

• You could have pretended it was an accident?

He’d have gone out. And my life would have been very different. But then there’s this thing called sportsmanship. Even today I keep thinking whether I should have hit him or not.

• The game was more physical then.

Yes. I could have hit him easily and his going out would have helped the team in a big way. We could have won the match. I still think whether I should have given it to him.

• Reset his face a bit. Describe the goal that bothers you the most.

In most of the goals, the Pakistani forwards used to come easily towards the goal. I was alone and had no option but to charge. And I was good at charging. But on that day, because of the pressure, I wasn’t moving properly. I wasn’t able to do things that I could have done easily. Usually, what I do is leave one post open for the forward (to try to score) and at the last moment I block it.

• He thinks it’s empty and he’ll go for it but you know you’ll cover it. It’s a deception.

Yes, but things were not working. I should have been replaced at half-time because I was not playing well. You can make out from a player’s movement he’s not doing his best.

• So you’d sort of lost nerve.

Naturally, after three-four goals. I don’t know why the coaches didn’t replace me.

• Did you ask the coach to change you.

No. But I still think if he had changed me, I’d have played for the country for another four-five years easily.

• So basically you became the fall guy. You were dropped after that match and never picked again.

Everybody went to Australia. They won there and proved themselves. But it took me 16 years to prove myself.

• And how did you prove yourself 16 years later?

I was always involved in hockey.

• You didn’t give up.

I feel the ground is a big stress-buster. You play golf, you play hockey, anything on the ground, and when you come to the ground you forget everything else. You just see the ball. My friends, Joachim Carvalho, Marvin Fernandes, they all pulled me back to the ground. ‘You must play, you must coach,’ they said. I continued playing for Bombay, and was playing well. Then I started coaching and continued to do so.

• Did you start coaching the women?

That was after the Asiad. In 1998, for the first time, I was called to coach the men’s hockey team and my wife was against it. She said it had taken her 16 years to forget whatever we had undergone. She was a little shaken. Suppose something happens again, the whole world will not spare us and they’ll think this man has really taken money. Anyway I went ahead and I won a gold medal for the country after 32 long years. Then in 2003 and 2004 I was with the women’s team and whatever tournament they played, we won the gold medal. It was a great feeling.

• Hockey is a sport that generates so much passion. What did Shahid Ali (former Pakistani captain) speak to you about?

Shahid Ali was sorry about my son. I’d lost my 19-year-old son.

• That was the second tragedy after that Asiad final.

It was the worst thing that could have happened.

• What exactly happened?

My son was doing the final year in hotel management at the Taj. These children have a habit of keeping their helmet hanging on the handlebars (rather than wearing it). He was riding a bike, hit a boulder and fell down. There was no one around for 15 minutes. He died later. Thirteen days after that, Yashraj films approached me for making a movie on hockey. I said it wasn’t possible for me to help them in any way. I said I’d introduce them to other players and they could help.

• Your squad mates.

Yes. I said I couldn’t leave my wife. But they wanted me. One day I went there and met Jaideep Sahni (the scriptwriter of Chak De India).

• So you agreed to work in the film. Good things and bad things happen. Not just the success of the film, you must also feel better that now there’s suddenly so much interest in hockey.

Yes, I’m absolutely delighted.

• It’s nice to see so many girls turning up for practice here. And I can see they are from different parts of India. Which team is this?

The Central Railway team.

• Thank you very much, Mr Negi.

I have a long way to go still and I’m laying a foundation for the game. I want to promote hockey in a big way.

• It’s been so inspirational to have you on Walk the Talk. I hope people are listening and I hope they learn from you. It’s a tough task to take setbacks in your stride and carry on with a smile. Thank you very much.

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मुम्बई। भारतीय हॉकी टीम के पूर्व गोलकीपर और बॉलीवुड फिल्म ‘चक दे इंडिया’ से चर्चा में आए मीर रंजन नेगी भारतीय हॉकी महासंघ (आईएचएफ) के अध्यक्ष की कुर्सी पर शरद पवार को देखना चाहते हैं। उन्होंने कहा है कि देश में हॉकी की बदहाली को दूर करने के लिए भारतीय क्रिकेट कंट्रोल बोर्ड (बीसीसीआई) के अध्यक्ष शरद पवार को भारतीय हॉकी महासंघ (आईएचएफ) की भी बागड़ोर सम्भालनी चाहिए।
        नेगी ने कहा, “पवार ने क्रिकेट के लिए जो किया है उसे वे हॉकी के लिए भी करके हमारे राष्ट्रीय खेल के खोए हुए सम्मान को वापस दिला सकते हैं। पवार को आईएचएफ का अध्यक्ष बनाया जाना चाहिए।” उन्होंने कहा कि आईएचएफ के मौजूदा अध्यक्ष के.पी.एस. गिल को इस्तीफा दे देना चाहिए क्योंकि वे हॉकी को तरक्की के रास्ते पर नहीं ले जा सकते।
        भारतीय हॉकी की व्यवस्था में आमूल-चूल बदलाव की जरूरत बताते हुए नेगी ने कहा कि टीम का पहली बार ओलम्पिक के लिए क्वालीफाई नहीं कर पाना न सिर्फ हॉकी के लिए बहुत बड़ा नुकसान है, बल्कि यह हार उनकी भी व्यक्तिगत क्षति है।

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मीररंजन नेगी जी की जिन्दगी कई उतार-चढावों से भरी है. देश की हाकी टीम के गोलकीपर रह्ते हुए उन पर हारने के लिये रिश्वत लेने का आरोप लगा. कई सालों के बाद उन्होने हाकी कोच बन कर देश को कई प्रतियोगिताओं में सफलता दिलायी.

इस बीच उनके नौजवान पुत्र की एक हादसे में हुई मौत ने उन्हें बुरी तरह तोङ दिया. "चक दे इण्डिया" से एक बार फिर उन्हें फिर प्रसिद्धि के शिखर पर पहुंचाया. इसके बाद उन्होने कई टी.वी. प्रतियोगिताओं में भाग लिया और देश में हाकी के पुनरोत्थान के लिये जुटे हुए हैं...

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