#MOVIEREVIEW – #DANGAL – (2016)
The two years long wait for Mr. Perfectionist, the Aamir Khan
has come to an end and he is there with his most anticipated movie DANGAL (2016) featuring himself, Sakshi
Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Aparshakti Khurrana & young
Zaira Wasim and Suhani Bhatnagar in lead roles. DANGAL, is a sports biopic, co-produced by Aamir Khan himself,
Kiran Rao & Siddhart Roy Kapur and directed, screenplay by Nitesh Tiwari.
DANGAL is based on true story of Mahavir Singh Phogat (played by
Aamir), who taught wrestling to his daughters Geeta & Babita, who both
brought laurels for India in international wrestling by winning gold/silver
medal/s in Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. The filmmaker has taken a challenging
subject of making movie on Mahavir Singh Phogat and his two wrestler daughters
but has passed with flying colours.
Mahavir
Singh Phoghat (Aamir Khan) is a National level wrestler who was forced to give
up his dream to won a medal for his country in wrestling to earn livelihood for
his family. As such, his only dream is to see his son fulfill his wish of
winning a Gold medal for India but the destiny has something else planned for
him as his wife (Sakshi Tanwar) gives birth to four daughters. A heartbroken
Mahavir, gives up his dream with no son in the picture.
After
a fight with local boys, Mahavir’s elder daughters, Geeta (Zaira Wasim) and
Babita (Suhani Bhatnager) beat the boys profusely and after receiving complaint
from their family, Mahavir realizes that his daughters are no less than boys
and starts to train them for wrestling.
The
young girls are unhappy with their new way of life and even try to get out of
it but later they are trained enough to take on the boys at a local Dangal where
Geeta starts to win against the best of trained male wrestlers. From there on
Geeta and Babita started winning sub-junior, junior, state, national and
finally Commonwealth Games.
It is a good story of a father in 80s in Haryana, who trained
her daughters for wrestling against the wills of the prevalent society of the
time but the most important and impacting thing is the way of execution.
Everything in the movie is perfect, be it the Aamir Khan playing the character
of Mahavir Phogat, Sakshi Tanwar’s class acting, Aparshakti Khurrana’s comic
timing or roles of wrestlers of Phogat sisters played by Fatima Sana Shaikh,
Sanya Malhotra and young Zaira Wasim and Suhani Bhatnagar.
The movie also took the issue of government not funding the
budding players to grow and win medals for states and country. The father-daughter relationship between
Geeta and Mahavir & Babita and Mahavir are explored well emotionally.
The music by Pritam
is good and complimenting the story. Dangal title track is an
energy booster and Haanikaarak Bapu is simply superb.
Loop holes in the movie:
A
cinematic twist in the climax seemed unnecessary. Babita’s wrestling should
also been given some screen space may be by curtailing some fights of Geeta.
Star Peformance:-
The
Best Ever performance of Aamir Khan. He performed the role of Mahavir Phogat so perfectly, that’s why he is called
Mr. Perfectionist.
Sakshi
Tanwar also played her role of Mahavir Phogat with perfection and ease.
Young
Zaira Wasim and Suhani Bhatnagar as young Geeta and Babita are absolutely
stunning. Especially Zaira acted like a real life wrestler.
Fatima Sana Sheikh as grown-up Geeta is marvelous. She clearly
has undergone immense training for this role and hence pulls off the wrestling
extremely well.
Sanya Malhotra as Babita does not get a big chunk since the
story focuses on Geeta’s journey more, yet she puts up a great performance. Also,
Ritwik Sahore as Mahavir’s young nephew is a delight.
Aparshakti Khurrana (Ayushmann Khurrana’s brother), does a great
job as Mahavir’s grown-up nephew. His comic timing is spot on.
Also, Ritwik Sahore as Mahavir’s
young nephew is a delight to watch.
Final words:
DANGAL
is an inspiring, emotional and perfect movie in all departments. Its a treat to
watch.
My ratings for this movie is 4.3 out of 5 stars.
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