The 2004 film starring Shah Rukh Khan is often described as the actor's best ever performance. The movie was based partly on the story of NRI couple Aravinda Pillalamarri and Ravi Kuchimanchi, who returned to India and developed a pedal power generator to light up remote, off-the-grid village schools.
This film is also arguably among SRK's best ever performances. SRK’s character Kabir Khan is based on hockey coach Maharaj Krishan Kaushik. Though the Indian women’s hockey team never actually won the World Cup, this movie too is based loosely on true events. In 1982, Indian hockey player Mir Ranjan Negi had been accused of deliberately throwing a match against Pakistan in the Asian Games much as Khan was in the movie.
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