 Shubhra Gupta of "The Indian Express" called the film "the most authentic, meticulously researched sports movie India has made".In Kolkata's "Telegraph", Bharathi S. Pradhan wrote that the film combines "an extremely well-knit screenplay with unrelentingly deft direction, 16 unknown, and not even glamorous, girls simply carried you with them, with one single known actor compelling you to watch Chak De India without blinking".Jaspreet Pandohar of the BBC gave "Chak De!