(Tang Dynasty polo players. Like equality, polo came quite late to England.)Title: Chukk It Like Chinar
Release Date: April 20, 2008
Plot:
Dagar, a young Pashtun living in war devastated Afghanistan, spent his whole life looking for a way out. One day, when a British officer sees Dagar and his friends play the ancient game of polo, he asks them to play a friendly match against other British soldiers who played polo during their schoolboy days. At first the British troops scoff at the unorthodox style of play used by Dagar and his friends, but when the boys pull off a stunning upset, they win the trust and friendship of the British.
Word about the match spreads and the British government soon invites Dagar's polo team to tour Great Britain as a friendship building exercise. Dagar greets the tour as the opportunity he always wanted to see the world, but he soon realizes that he is caught in a diplomatic performance more complicated than he could have imagined. Once a boy who simply loved polo, Dagar finds himself transformed into a puppet for the British and Afghan governments.
Meanwhile, the Eton polo team, determined to show the Afghans that the British are the preeminent polo nation of the 21st century, try and win their match against Dagar's squad . . . by any means necessary. Instead of playing an honest game of polo, Dagar must fend off threats from all sides, all while trying to win the heart of the beautiful and mysterious Amelia Rigglesby, the Eton student assigned to accompany the Afghan team on their tour.
It was an attempt to forge peace. Instead, it became a war. This April, four boys from the mountains of Afghanistan discover what happens when the game they love brings out the worst kind of hate. In a foreign land, without friends or allies, they come together as brothers to show the world what they -- and their horses -- are made of. Are you ready to get your Pol-ON?
Release Date: April 20, 2008
Plot:
Dagar, a young Pashtun living in war devastated Afghanistan, spent his whole life looking for a way out. One day, when a British officer sees Dagar and his friends play the ancient game of polo, he asks them to play a friendly match against other British soldiers who played polo during their schoolboy days. At first the British troops scoff at the unorthodox style of play used by Dagar and his friends, but when the boys pull off a stunning upset, they win the trust and friendship of the British.
Word about the match spreads and the British government soon invites Dagar's polo team to tour Great Britain as a friendship building exercise. Dagar greets the tour as the opportunity he always wanted to see the world, but he soon realizes that he is caught in a diplomatic performance more complicated than he could have imagined. Once a boy who simply loved polo, Dagar finds himself transformed into a puppet for the British and Afghan governments.
Meanwhile, the Eton polo team, determined to show the Afghans that the British are the preeminent polo nation of the 21st century, try and win their match against Dagar's squad . . . by any means necessary. Instead of playing an honest game of polo, Dagar must fend off threats from all sides, all while trying to win the heart of the beautiful and mysterious Amelia Rigglesby, the Eton student assigned to accompany the Afghan team on their tour.
It was an attempt to forge peace. Instead, it became a war. This April, four boys from the mountains of Afghanistan discover what happens when the game they love brings out the worst kind of hate. In a foreign land, without friends or allies, they come together as brothers to show the world what they -- and their horses -- are made of. Are you ready to get your Pol-ON?
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