37/43
If you win gold, you will be an example, child
Chronology
The movie is a real life story based on Mahavir Singh Phogat who trained "dangal" to 6 girls, 4 of them were his very own while 2 were that of his brother. Interestingly, all of them won medals at some or the other level!. The movie is a real life story based on Mahavir Singh Phogat who trained "dangal" to 6 girls, 4 of them were his very own while 2 were that of his brother. Interestingly, all of them won medals at some or the other level!. Teenage Babita is left-handed, which you can see from the way she claps during Geeta’s Dangal matches. But she becomes right-handed when she gets older, which you can see from the way she claps during Geeta’s Commonwealth games.. Mahavir Singh Phogat: You have to fight in a way that people will remember you. If you win silver, sooner gold later, you will be forgotten.
See those girls?
don’t forget. If you win tomorrow, you won’t win alone. Millions of girls like them will win along with you. It will be a victory for every girl who is considered inferior to boys; who is forced into household chores, who is married off to just raise children. Tomorrow’s match is the most important one. Because tomorrow, we are not fighting just that Australian, but all those people who think lesser of girls.. Featured in 62nd Jio Filmfare Awards (2017). Haanikaarak BapuLyrics by: Amitabh BhattacharyaMusic by: Pritam ChakrabortyPerformed by: Sarwar Khan, Sartaz Khan Barna, Kheta Khan and Dayam Khan.
No over the top gimmicks
If I would I’ve seen this movie in 2016, it certainly would have been on my list of best movies. If you’re going to this movie thinking Aamir will be flexing and showcasing his acting prowess then well and good but the girls are the highlight of the movie, hands down. SCRIPT – Major props to bringing out a story which is inspiring and one which India needs right now. The story is kept grounded in reality. The songs blend in very well with the premise. None of the scenes linger on for a long period of time. There was a very natural flow to the story which helped engage the audience for 2 hours and 41 minutes. Even movies like Mary Kom or Bhaag Milkha Bhaag started to drag through the end but hats off to Piyush Gupta and Shreyas Jain.
If it didn’t happen in reality then it was really unnecessary
I have said this that dialogue shouldn’t seem like dialogue unless it is a musical or a re-imagining of a play. The dialogue in this movie is a lesson in how dialogue should be used. Little nods and grunts and expressions serve more than an explanatory conversation. I am not a fan of narrative and I wasn’t really liking it here either. It was fine for the light-hearted scenes but the serious scenes required silence but I can give it a pass. The only scene which felt a bit off is where Mahavir gets locked up in a room before the final fight. DIRECTION – Chillar Party was a movie with some serious message but was a little preachy and Bhootnath Returns went full preachy. Nitesh Tiwari toned down that preaching to a very natural level in this movie.
None of that brought the movie to a halt
Every single topic that has happened or still happens in a family was touched upon. Beginning from the sleaziness of men to child-marriage to the sacrificing parents make, everything was utilized to the advantage of the movie. The first half of the movie had a good amount of comedy and that gelled into the second half with ease. The thing that many might not notice that there are no pay-off scenes except for the last scene. If the audience reaches a peak before the ending then the pay-off wouldn’t have a solid effect, if used multiple times. Pay-off scenes are those scenes where the characters are shown to be doing things in extra slow-motion to have an orgasmic effect on the audience and the director cleverly used it at the end in order to give proper tribute to the art and the character .