Dangal
Introduction of Dangal:
“Dangal” (literally, “Wrestling Competition”), a 2016 Hindi-language biographical sports drama film, was directed by Nitesh Tiwari and produced by Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao, and Siddharth Roy Kapur under the brand of Aamir Khan Productions and The Walt Disney Company India. In the film, Khan performs the role of Mahavir Singh Phogat, a pehlwani amateur wrestler who trains his daughters Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari to become the country’s first-ever professional female wrestlers.
Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanya Malhotra portray the older versions of the two Phogat sisters, Zaira Wasim and Suhani Bhatnagar their younger selves, Sakshi Tanwar their mother, and Aparshakti Khurana the adult version of their cousin Ritvik Sahore. Tanwar and Sahore, who are making their film debuts, play their younger selves. Its IMDb rating is 8.3 /10
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Tiwari started writing the script for the movie at the beginning of 2013. Before Tiwari approached him with the script a few months later and Khan became the lead actor and producer, Khan had conducted an interview with the Phogat sisters on his talk show Satyamev Jayate in 2014. Principal photography began in September 2015 in the neighbouring Punjab and is mostly set in the Indian state of Haryana.
Ballu Saluja handled editing duties, and Satyajit Pande handled cinematography. Amitabh Bhattacharya wrote the lyrics for the soundtrack and background music that Pritam composed for the movie. For the wrestling scenes, Khan and the ensemble received instruction from Kripa Shankar Patel Bishnoi, a coach with the Indian women’s wrestling team.
After having its North American premiere on December 21, 2016, Dangal garnered favourable reviews from critics who praised Khan’s performance, which carried emotional weight, and the movie’s “honest” portrayal of a true story. Additionally, in April 2017 and June 2017, it was shown at the second BRICS Festival and the Beijing International Film Festival. Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Khan), and Best Action (Shyam) were the four honours it received at the 62nd Filmfare Awards.
Wasim received Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Geeta’s younger self at the 64th National Film Awards. Dangal has received numerous awards abroad, including the first Best Asian Film honour at the 7th AACTA Awards in Australia, Best Foreign Film and Top Foreign Actor (for Aamir Khan) at the 2017 Douban Film Awards in China, two Jackie Chan Action Movie Awards, and a nomination for Asian Brilliant Stars at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.
A commercial triumph, Dangal broke multiple records at the box office, including the highest-grossing Indian picture, the 28th-highest-grossing non-English film, and the 19th-highest-grossing sports film globally. The movie, which cost 70 crores to produce, is said to have made $216.2 million in China, making it the highest-grossing non-English foreign picture there. According to various estimates, the movie has made 2024 crores globally. It continues to be the only Indian movie to ever gross more than 2000 crores, according to some estimations. In addition, as of November 2018, the movie had more than 400 million views on Chinese streaming services.
Cast:
Aamir Khan
Storyline:
National wrestling champion Mahavir Singh Phogat lives in Balali, Haryana, and is a former amateur wrestler who was trained in the pehlwani style of Indian wrestling. To find a job that pays well, his typical Indian father makes him give up his sport. He promises his unborn son will receive a medal after feeling defeated at not being able to represent his country. He loses faith after learning he has four daughters. However, when his older daughters Geeta and Babita return from attacking two boys in response to disparaging remarks, he recognizes they can be wrestlers and starts training them.
His regimen, which includes arduous morning workouts and short, forced haircuts, appears severe. He continues to work with them, instructing them in his homemade mud pit despite opposition from the townspeople. The girls initially take offence at their father’s behaviour, but they quickly come to understand that he is concerned about their future. Motivated, they voluntarily take part in wrestling competitions where they triumph over boys.
Mahavir teaches the wrestlers in freestyle wrestling on mattresses because he cannot afford to buy wrestling mats for them to use during competitions. After winning the junior and senior titles at the state and national levels, Geeta then travelled to Patiala’s National Sports Academy to begin her preparations for the upcoming Commonwealth Games. When she gets there, Geeta makes friends and, under pressure from her coach Pramod Kadam, whose training regimen and wrestling tactics are entirely different from those of her father, starts to violate the discipline established by Mahavir. She consequently loses every international match.
During a visit home, she brutally beats a worn-out Mahavir after egotistically taunting him. Babita explains to Geeta that she made a mistake and that she ought to respect Mahavir. Babita wins the national title shortly after and joins Geeta in the academy. Geeta tearfully reconciles with Mahavir after the two sisters have an emotional talk in which Babita offers her support. Before the Commonwealth Games, Geeta was compelled by Pramod to compete in the 51 kg weight division rather than her regular 55 kg division. Angered by this, Mahavir leaves for Patiala with his nephew Omkar and starts instructing the females covertly.
When Pramod learns of this and learns of Mahavir’s meddling, he is incensed and demands the girls be ejected; the sports authority issues a warning but permits them to continue. Both Mahavir and the females are prohibited from leaving the academy. Mahavir, who is adamant about helping his daughters, gets hold of recordings of Geeta’s earlier losses and calls her on the phone to correct her mistakes.
Geeta easily advances to the final while competing in the 55 kg division at the games. While watching from the audience, Mahavir frequently deviates from Pramod’s orders, and she instead adheres to those of her father. Jealous Pramod plots to confine Mahavir to a room just before the gold medal match.
Geeta succeeds in taking the first session of the match but fails in the second. With nine seconds left in the last session with a 1-5 deficit, she remembers the strategies her father had taught her and hits a 5-pointer to put the match in her favour at 6-5. She then wins the session and the match 2-1. By doing so, she made history by being the first Indian woman wrestler to win a gold medal at a Commonwealth Games. Pramod’s aspirations of getting attention from the news media are dashed when Mahavir unexpectedly returns and hugs his daughters.
Filming of Dangal:
Shaikh and Malhotra watched numerous wrestling movies to get familiar with “how wrestlers move, walk, and their body language” to prepare for the part. Malhotra and Sheikh underwent five rounds of physical testing, seminars with Tiwari and Khan, and auditions. Kripa Shankar Patel Bishnoi, a coach and former wrestler, provided their training. In the period between September 2015 and December 2015, Khan added 9% body fat, weighing approximately 98 kg for Dangal. From January 2016 to April 2016, Khan regained the physique he had chosen for Dhoom 3 and would hear the script for future projects, pausing the production of Dangal during that time.
Beginning on September 1, 2015, Dangal began filming. Haryanvi influences were applied to Ludhiana’s villages. In the Punjabi and Haryana villages of Gujjarwal, Narangwal, Kila Raipur, Dango, and Leel, shootings took place. Veteran actor Dharmendra’s ancestral home is the village of Dango, which is located in the Pakhowal Tehsil of Ludhiana.
In Ludhiana on September 21, 2015, the opening sequence was filmed with Mahavir Singh Phogat and his daughters, Geeta and Babita. Khan experienced back muscular spasms on November 14, 2015, while he was filming in Ludhiana. He had minor injuries. After suffering a shoulder injury on the set on November 20, 2015, Khan passed out. On December 9, 2015, he returned to shooting in Pune after regaining health.
At Pune’s Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, the production crew shot inside and outside stadiums. Athletes from the Slovenia women’s national roll ball team and the Netherlands men’s national roll ball team were chosen to play background athletes in the movie at the time the facility hosted the 2015 Roll Ball World Cup. The Symbiosis International University in Pune served as another location for some of the film’s filming.
Khan and the entire cast of the movie filmed wrestling scenes on January 19, 2016, at Talkatora Stadium in Delhi. The team then relocated to Thyagaraj Stadium to film the Commonwealth Games and National Games segments. Additionally, schools and the municipality of Dango participated in the initial shooting schedule.
The second schedule of the movie began on June 16, 2016, at the Akhada Leel in the Ludhiana area, close to Toosa village. One of Punjab’s biggest villages is this one. Khan declared, “I was obese when I first arrived in Ludhiana. At that moment, we recorded the scenes in which Mahavir has aged. Only his “old” look is the subject of 85% of the movie. Right now, we’re aiming for the early Mahavir period.
Because the movie is set over several decades, the colourist Ashirwad Hadkar and cinematographer Satyajit Pande ran a lot of experiments on skin tones and costumes during pre-production. The movie made extensive use of natural light. For the daytime scenes, “sources [were kept] white-hot and the skin tones yellow-warm,” but “a consistent bulb warm tone was maintained” for the nighttime scenes to accurately depict the 1980s. Visual effects plates and a digital intermediate process were used during the daylong, variable colour temperature filming, which took place from early morning to late evening.
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Box Office:
After its initial release, Dangal brought in 716 crore. 511 crore were spent in India, and 205 crore were spent abroad. After earning 345 crore in its third weekend of release, it broke PK’s previous record for the highest-grossing Indian film.
After its second phase of release in China and Taiwan, Dangal became the most-grossing Indian movie ever, earning an estimated 2,000 crore, according to some figures, in July 2017. Due to the lack of a reliable source, these data could be fraudulent. Aamir Khan’s publicist refuted allegations that Dangal earned over 2,000 crores worldwide in July 2017.
As of 1 June 2017, Dangal’s global distributor share was 525 crore. Dangal has a global revenue of US$307 million (about 2,000 crores) as of June 2017. Dangal ended up being the 30th highest-grossing movie overall in 2016 and the 5th highest-grossing non-English movie ever. A Mumbai-based company called Spice PR, run by Prabhat Choudhary promoted the film.
The first Indian movie to earn $300 million globally, Dangal is one of the top 30 highest-grossing movies of 2016. Dangal is also Disney’s fourth-highest-grossing picture of 2017 and the highest-grossing sports movie. By earning around 1,459 crore (US$224.04 million) in foreign markets by June 2017, Dangal became the first Indian movie to earn more than $100 million and 1,000 crore abroad.
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Release Date of Dangal:
On December 21, 2016, and December 23, 2016, Dangal was made available in the US. 4300 screens in India and 1,000 screens abroad are how many screens the movie was projected on. Yuddham, dubbed versions of it were also made available in Tamil and Telugu. It was made tax-free in six Indian states — Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, and Madhya Pradesh — to support the government of India’s social drive, Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, which aims to safeguard girls, minimize selective abortion of women, and educate and empower them. Streaming giant Netflix currently has the movie available as a VOD service.
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Beginning with Taiwan on March 24, 2017, the second phase of Dangal’s release was in the Chinese markets of East Asia. As Shuaijiao Baba (Let’s Wrestle, Father! ), Dangal was screened in the non-competing panoramic section of the 7th Beijing International Film Festival in April 2017 and garnered a standing ovation. It was the first Indian film to be screened at the festival.
Several well-known Chinese people attended the screening, including the actors Wu Gang and the actress Liu Yifei. It had “the widest ever release for an Indian film in any territory” when it premiered to an enthusiastic reception from both critics and viewers on May 5, 2017, when it was theatrically released in China on 9,000 screens. The movie was, however, cut by 20 minutes “to be in line with what the Chinese are used to.” On August 24, 2017, the movie had its Hong Kong premiere.
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