Dangal (2016)

• Year: 2016
• Released: 21 Dec 2016
• Country: India, United States
• Adwords: 29 wins & 19 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5074352/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dangal
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/dangal
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Hindi, English
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
• Runtime: 161 min
• Writer: Piyush Gupta, Shreyas Jain, Nikhil Mehrotra
• Director: Nitesh Tiwari
• Cast: Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh
• Keywords: biography, sports, parent child relationship, small town, father daughter relationship,

	8.3/10
	88% – Critics
	93% – Audience

Dangal Storyline

Dangal is a biography of a real life patriotic fighter Mahavir Singh Phogat who raises his daughters and evolves them into World Class Fighters. The movie begins with a crochy brawl between Mahavir (Aamir Khan) and his colleague who was also former wrestler, thus embalming the terrific Dangal Theme, discovering Mahavir’s past life of a Wrestler. Mahavir admires to make his dreams come true by his sons but on contrary, four daughters take birth. They come with a complaint of beating down a boy in their locality. Hence Mahavir hopes they would be future Wrestlers. So he trains his daughters Gita and Babita, thus proving they’re no less than a professional male wrestler. After a long struggle, Gita enters the National level Wrestling and acquires victory. When she is up to the Internationals, she opts to get trained from the NSA(National Sports Academy) where a coach mis-trains Gita, due to which she deliberately fails every match she attempts. Her sister Babita also attains an age to get into Wresting. Now, Mahavir plans to train both by his own norms. Finally, Gita defeats an Australian Wrestler by following the predominant path of her father, not of the coach. The movie is par excellent, enridges Women Empowerment in the Nation.

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Dangal Movie Reviews

Another great film from Aamir Khan.

“Dangal” is the highest grossing Indian film of all time and among the highest grossing non-Chinese films in China. Why? I assume it’s because in both countries, women’s roles are very traditional and the film celerates women stepping outside the normal female roles and succeeding…a great message of empowerment.

The story is about a frustrated man. Mahavir (Aamir Khan) was an Indian national wrestling champion but his father insisted he give up the sport and get a job. As a result, he never had a chance to compete internationally.

Mahavir comes up with the idea of him and his wife having a son….and he could teach the son to be a great champion wrestler. But he ends up having daughters. Instead of abandoning the idea, Mahavir decides he’ll teach his daughters and make them champions….even though women generally don’t compete in the sport in India. So, he has his daughters wrestle boys….and they win.

Eventually, his oldest, Geeta, becomes the Indian women’s champion and is sent to the national training center. Things do not go well there and Geeta experiences loss for the first time. What will Geeta do? And, what of Mahavir’s plans for producing a champion?

Aamir Khan has an incredible record and has produced some of India’s best films. While I wouldn’t say this film is quite as good as his “3 Idiots” or “Like Stars on Earth”, it is an extraordinary film…and I can see why it did so well at the box office. Well made from start to finish and a most enjoyable story.

By the way, I was shocked at what Khan went through in order to make this movie. His weight loss, gain and muscle mass is incredible. I was especially shocked when I saw him take off his shirt early in the film…the guy was ripped!

one of the best from Bollywood

Mahavir Singh Phogat is a former Indian national champion wrestler. With no support from the government, he failed to get an international gold medal for his country but hoped to be redeemed by a son. He is disillusioned after getting four daughters and no sons. Even the Gods have turned against him. Then neighborhood parents complain that Mahavir’s daughters Geeta and Babita had beaten up their boys. He is inspired to train them for girls’ wrestling.

This is based on the real family of wrestlers. As soon as he had the first daughter, it seems obvious where this is going. For an hour, this is a formulaic underdog sports movie. At that point, my main complaints are that it uses way too many montages and I thought cutting the girls’ hair is a step too far. It follows the formula well and the characters are appealing. It’s a solid sports movie. Then the movie keeps going and going. The darn thing is almost three hours and unlike other Bollywood movies, there are no long song and dance sequences. The story takes another step and the relationships get deeper. There is a fight between father and daughter that is tense and emotional. It takes the movie to a higher level. Even the hair has a nice payoff later on. The wrestling at the end is compelling. This is one of the better movies from Bollywood.

Going for gold

Dangal is the name of a wrestling competition in India. Former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat (Aamir Khan) discovers that his two daughters have a natural skill in grappling as they beat up two boys who were teasing them.

So he decides to train them as wrestlers and enter them into wrestling competitions where they have to fight others boys as competition for girls did not exist. In the face of ridicule his daughters impress the onlookers with their strength and skill.

Dangal inspired by films such as Rocky and The Karate Kid have training montages set to music, a stern father who coaches them to a strict rigorous schedule. The father then loses his daughters to a national coach who trains the daughters for international competitions but gets the girls to unlearn what their father has taught them which causes a crisis of confidence.

The film has good performances from actresses Fatima Sana Shaikh (Geeta Phogat) and Sanya Malhotra (Babita) who looks to have done a lot of intense training for their roles. Aamir Khan’s character is too one-note with very little shade to his performance and I think the film suffers as a result along with the long running time which is par for the course with Hindi films.

This is an inspiring film of the rise of female wrestling in a patriarchal society as the now young women enter the Commonwealth Games in Delhi and go for gold with their father helping them from the sidelines much to the irritation of the Indian team coach. The film is based on true events.