Le film raconte l'histoire de Veera Kaur (Rani Mukherji), une fille égocentrique qui vit dans un petit village du Pendjab et qui rêve de jouer au cricket dans une grande équipe. Rohan (Shahid Kapoor) est un capitaine accompli d'une équipe de cricket du comté de l'Angleterre. Rohan retourne en Inde pour diriger l'équipe de cricket de son père qui a perdu consécutivement tous ses matchs pendant ses 8 dernières années.
The story revolves around the life of Vijay Shekhawat (Harman Baweja) and his father Ram Shekhawat (Anupam Kher). Ram has great aspirations for his son Vijay, who he dreams will play for the Indian cricket team one day. His dream eventually comes true when Vijay makes it to the Indian team. His childhood friend Nandini (Amrita Rao) has believed in him since the very first time he spoke the name of cricket and never ever doubted him. However, this happiness is short-lived as Vijay soon loses his place in the team, as well as the respect he has earned, when he lets his new-found fame get the better of him.
The backdrop of the film is sports. The film deals with the game of Cricket. Antagonism for World Cup 2011, Indians team is going on and teams from different countries are participating. One of the very strong players Ravi Indulkar from India.
The documentary describes the ascension of West Indies cricket from being a team largely composed of highly talented, entertaining, "Calypso Cricketers" to a determined unit that dominated world cricket for nearly twenty years.
Golconda High School's Board’s Trustees' member Kireet Das comes up with a proposal of turning the cricket playground into an IIT coaching center. Principal K.Viswanath opposes that proposal vehemently with the support of few trustees. Kireet then tells the principal to show positive results in at least one sport if he wants to hold on to the playground. Viswanath comes up with a proposal that the playground should be retained if GHS’s cricket team manages to win the State level cricket league tournament. He summons his former GHS student, Sampath, an idealist who leads a dejected life. Sampath, after confronting Kireet, joins GHS as the cricket coach and he has three months to convert the disoriented GHS cricket team of 14 students into champions.
The movie is about Parghat Singh Kahlon alias Gattu / Kaali (Akshay Kumar) who is living the life his father Gurtej Singh Kahlon (Rishi Kapoor) chose for him. Gattu had been good at cricket and wanted to play for England though his dad would never let him become a member of the England team. His dad had told him if he played he would commit suicide. His siblings hated him as he was an exemplary in the house. He was always alone until Zeeshan and Simran (Anushka Sharma) come into his life.
Ashok (Madhavan) and Julie (Sridevi Vijaykumar) have been friends ever since childhood and they don't share any love interest. Ashok falls in love with Nandini (Jyothika), a rich girl with whom he marries, and although Julie's closeness to Ashok initially irritates Nandini, she subsequently accepts it. Julie falls in love with a guy called Michael D'Souza (Vineeth), a cricketer who's hoping for a place in the Indian cricket team and Ashok happens to be his main opponent.
Hook Ya Crook was to focus on an ex-cricket player, Mohit (John Abraham), who after having an argument with his wife, attacks her in a drunken rage. He is arrested, and is taken to Juvee, where the Jailor offers Mohit a chance to escape from the prison, with no-one stopping him, on one condition, he has to form a Cricket team with all the prisoners.