New movie released in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
Dangal
Dangal
(English: Wrestling competition) is an Indian Hindi-language biographical
sports drama film directed by Nitesh Tiwari. It stars Aamir Khan as Mahavir
Singh Phogat, who taught wrestling to his daughters Geeta Phogat and Babita
Kumari. The former is India's first female wrestler to win at the 2010
Commonwealth Games, where she won the gold medal (55 kg). Her sister Babita
Kumari won the silver (51 kg). "Dangal" is the Hindi term for "a
wrestling competition".
The music
for Dangal is composed by Pritam, while the lyrics are written by Amitabh
Bhattacharya. Kripa Shankar Bishnoi, a coach with the Indian women's wrestling
team, trained Aamir Khan and the entire crew for the wrestling sequences.
The movie
has an interesting story. Mahavir Singh Phogat is a former champion wrestler.
He is married to Shobha Kaur. Phogat's dream is to win a gold medal for India
in wrestling. He is unable to do this. He promises that his son will do what he
couldn't do. However, although he loves them dearly, Phogat is disappointed
when Shobha gives birth to four daughters. He does not believe girls can
wrestle well. However, when two of his daughters, Geeta and Babita, come home
after beating up two boys. Phogat realises how wrong he has been and begins to
train his daughters in wrestling. The film is the story of how Phogat trained
his daughters to become professional wrestlers. Thus Dangal is a biopic based on
star wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat’s inspirational life and his daughters’
journey towards International Gold Medal. Hailing from a remote village in
Haryana state, Mahavir is natural-born talented wrestler who gives up his
career dream due to lack of financial support. When he witnesses this two elder
daughters thrashing couple of boys in a street brawl, Mahavir reinstates his
goal and turns into a ruthless father cum coach to train his daughters Geeta,
Babita in wrestling sport. Rest of the story highlights how the two girls
overcome the physical hardship and the social struggle in the rural India where
it is a taboo pursuing a career in sports, especially in wresting. Finally,
they turn their father’s dream into a reality winning an International Gold Medal
and make everyone proud. In reality, Mahavir's daughter Geeta Phogat became the
first female wrestler to win a gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Her sister
Babita Kumari won the silver in the 51 kg group. Thus the film follows the
journey of Phogat and his daughters, as they defeat all odds. The film depicts
sweaty bodies gripping each other in places strangers should not touch,
violence as a form of entertainment, our baser human instincts getting official
and mass encouragement. The movie talks about contact sports. Young Geeta and
Babita Phogat have far more mundane reasons for hating wrestling: no girl they
know does it, so why should they? Dangal is the story of their father’s
bulldog-like determination to make them gold medal winners for India, and the
girls’ own passage from aversion to passion for the sport. Dangal depicts
marvelously Mahavir’s single-mindedness which brings him into conflict with his
wife, his community, the country’s sporting establishment and ultimately, even
Geeta. In fact, in 2012, Divya Rao, a member of Disney's creative team, read an
article in a newspaper about Mahavir Singh Phogat, who trained his daughters to
become world class champions. She thought this would make for a great film, and
spoke about this to Siddharth Roy Kapoor and other Disney personnel. Disney
approached Nitesh Tiwari to write and direct the story. Tiwari met Mahavir
Singh Phogat and his daughters, who instantly agreed to tell the story. The story
is very dramatic. It highlights the discrimination that is meted out to the
girl child in India. The movie is made in a very entertaining manner. The heart
of the story is emotional, but it also has a lot of humour.
The film has
Aamir Khan as Mahavir Singh Phogat, Sakshi Tanwar as Daya Shobha Kaur, wife of Mahavir
Singh Phogat, Fatima Sana Shaikh as Geeta Phogat, daughter of Mahavir Singh
Phogat, Zaira Wasim as young Geeta, Sanya Malhotra as Babita Kumari, daughter
of Mahavir Singh Phogat, Rohit Shankarwar, Suhani Bhatnagar as young Babita, Vivan
Bhatena, Aparshakti Khurrana and Rajkummar Rao as Krishna Singh Phogat, brother
of Mahavir Singh Phogat.
The film's
music is composed by Pritam with lyrics are penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya. The
film has songs like "Haanikaarak Bapu" sung by Sarwar Khan &
Sartaz Khan Barna, Saddy Ahmad (additional vocals: Kheta Khan & Dayam Khan),
"Dhaakad" by Raftaar, "Gilehriyaan" by Jonita Gandhi, "Dangal"
by Daler Mehandi, "Naina" by Arijit Singh, "Dhaakad (Aamir Khan
Version)" by Aamir Khan and "Idiot Banna" by Nooran Sisters.
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