By:
Subhadeep
Bhattacharjee
Friday,
October
19,
2007
Shahrukh
Khan
starer
Chak
De!
India
has
won
the
Best
Film
Award
in
the
Fifth
Australian
Indian
Film
Festival
(AIFF).
A
major
part
of
the
movie
directed
by
Shimit
Amin
was
shot
in
Melbourne
and
Sydney.
The
movie
also
featured
90
Australian
hockey
players
huge
number
of
spectators.
The
movie
which
is
strikingly
similar
to
Indian
women
hockey
team's
win
in
the
2002
Manchester
Commonwealth
Games
under
coach
Mir
Ranjan
Negi.
In
the
movie
Shahrukh
plays
the
role
of
the
coach
and
turns
a
bunch
of
ordinary
players
into
a
world
beating
outfit.
The
awards
which
were
announced
at
Sydney's
Museum
of
Contemporary
Art
also
saw
Akshay
Khanna
winning
the
Best
Actor
Award
for
his
of
Harilal
Gandhi
in
the
movie
Gandhi
My
Father
directed
by
Feroz
Khan.
The
ten
day
long
festival
is
said
to
be
the
largest
foreign
film
festivals
in
the
nation
down
under
and
will
be
screening
some
of
best
movies
from
India.
It
kicked
off
with
the
screening
of
Gandhi
My
Father.
A
lot
of
Bollywood
celebrities
are
expected
to
take
part
in
the
event
which
will
be
screening
more
than
20
movies.