Dangal is indeed a 2016 Hindi-language Bollywood biographical sports movie directed by Nitesh Tiwari as well as written by Tiwari, Piyush Gupta, Shreyas Jain, and Nikhil Mehrotra, and produced by Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao under Aamir Khan Productions, with Siddharth Roy Kapur producing the original Hindi version under the Disney banner and the dubbed local and overseas versions under the UTV Motion Pictures banner.
This Bollywood movie stars Khan as Mahavir Singh Phogat, a pehlwani amateur wrestler who trains his daughters Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari to become India’s first world-class female wrestlers, premised on such a storey idea by Disney creative member Divya V. Rao, who came up with the idea of a movie about the Phogat family. The adult versions of the two Phogat sisters are played by Fatima Sana Shaikh as well as Sanya Malhotra, while the younger versions are played by Zaira Wasim and Suhani Bhatnagar, Sakshi Tanwar, and Aparshakti Khurana.
Tiwari began drafting the script for the movie in early 2013, and production began in early 2014. Khan had interviewed the Phogat sisters on his discussion programme Satyamev Jayate in 2014, and months later, Tiwari contacted him with the screenplay, and Khan was cast as the lead actor and producer. Principal filming began in September 2015 in neighbouring Punjab, with the film predominantly set in the Indian state of Haryana. The cameraman was Satyajit Pande, while the editor was Ballu Saluja. Pritam composed the film’s background music and soundtrack, with Amitabh Bhattacharya writing the lyrics. Khan and the actors were taught for the wrestling sequences by Kripa Shankar Patel Bishnoi, a coach with the Indian women’s wrestling team.
Dangal was released globally on December 23, 2016, following a North American premiere on December 21. It got favourable reviews from reviewers, with praise focusing on the film’s “honest” representation of a true storey and Khan’s acting.
Tiwari began drafting the script for the movie in early 2013, and production began in early 2014. Khan had interviewed the Phogat sisters on his discussion programme Satyamev Jayate in 2014, as well as months later, Tiwari contacted him with the screenplay, and Khan was cast as the lead actor and producer. Principal filming began in September 2015 in neighbouring Punjab, with the film predominantly set inside the Indian state of Haryana. The cameraman was Satyajit Pande, while the editor was Ballu Saluja. Pritam composed the film’s background music and soundtrack, with Amitabh Bhattacharya writing the lyrics. Khan and the actors were taught for the wrestling sequences by Kripa Shankar Patel Bishnoi, a coach well with the Indian women’s wrestling team.
Dangal was released globally on December 23, 2016, following a North American premiere on December 21. It got favourable reviews from reviewers, with praise focusing on the movie’s “honest” representation of a true storey as well as Khan’s acting.
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