What's it about?
The film has dealt with subjects India is talked about around the world - cricket, Punjabi flavour and colour and the Indo-Pak relations. And looks like it's Yash Raj banner's forte too-the whole Punjab angle, replete with sarson ke khet, bright hues, the bhangra, the lassi, the ganna and coming home from London thing.   

The film is set in a pind (village) of Punjab. The crux of course is cricket, cricket and cricket, with the film beginning with the cricket match, lots of field practice interspersed, and the finale of the cricket match in Pakistan. Yet, it's not just that. There are gripping twists like the gender bias in sports and falling in love with your roots and falling in love with the girl with true Indian values, even with a Miss Chandigarh falling all over for attention. 

The cricket team of this village has been losing matches for eight years, when finally it's owner Anupam Kher decides to fall upon his only son Rohan (Shahid Kapur), who is settled in London with his mom (Poonam Dhillon). Rohan is a famous county cricket player there and his dad is confident that he will not let him down.

Team selections are on for the Aman cup, where Veera (Rani Mukherjee) who works with a local theatre group, the Jigri Yaar Dance company walks in with dreams of playing cricket with Sachin paaji. She has to garb the disguise of a Punjabi munda to fill in a guy in one of the dance dramas, when she chances upon the idea of donning the role of a cute sardar, and play with the boys in the cricket team, which otherwise is strictly against women entering the team. Veera Kaur becomes Veer Pratap Singh with a pagdi and a beard. The rest is typical Hindi filmy ishtyle comedy and drama.

What's hot?
Veera's masquerade as Veer is brilliant, kudos to the make up man who was called in all the way from London to work on Veera. Loads of rib tickling humour, cute romantic interludes, and patriotic incitements - the perfect ingredients of the Yash Raj films. Veera's speech at the end about allowing girls to give flight to their dreams, though a little drab, might make a few quite emotional. Rani's well-toned body and Shahid's muscles are quite a treat too. The first time pairing of Rani and Shahid isn't quite a bad idea after all. They do share some chemistry on-screen. Shahid sure has matured from his first video album cameo for Aryans in Aankhon Mein Tera Hi Chehra and looks like has a long way to go.
 

What's not?
A steal from 2006 high school romantic-comedy 'She's The Man' where the actress disguises herself as her brother to play for a soccer team, but then most of the Bollywood films are inspired from here and there, aren't they?