Dangal (film)

Dangal

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Nitesh Tiwari
Produced by Aamir Khan
Kiran Rao
Siddharth Roy Kapur
Written by Nitesh Tiwari
Piyush Gupta
Shreyas Jain
Nikhil Meharotra
Based on Mahavir Singh Phogat
Starring Aamir Khan
Sakshi Tanwar
Fatima Sana Shaikh
Sanya Malhotra
Music by Pritam Chakraborty
Cinematography Sethu Sriram
Edited by Ballu Saluja
Production
company
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
Release dates
  • December 23, 2016 (2016-12-23)
Country India
Language Hindi

Dangal (English: Wrestling competition) is an upcoming 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.[1][2][3] 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 was composed by Pritam, while the lyrics were 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.[4]

Dangal is scheduled for release on 23 December 2016.[5]

Plot

Mahavir Singh Phogat (Aamir Khan) is a former champion wrestler. He is married to Shobha Kaur (Sakshi Tanwar). 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.

Cast

Production

Development

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.[6][7]

In 2013 Siddharth Roy Kapoor and Nitesh Tiwari went to Aamir Khan with the story, and Khan loved it in its first narration. Khan had just finished Dhoom 3 and started shooting for PK. Khan wanted to do the film after 5-10 years when he would be turning 60, because the script of the film demanded Khan to be 55 years old and he was still doing younger roles. But somewhere the story remained in his mind. After a few months he called up Nitesh Tiwari and asked him to narrate the script once again.[8]

In 2014, after the release of PK, Aamir Khan announced that he would play the role of a wrestler in his next film titled Dangal directed by Nitesh Tiwari, a cinematographic biography of the former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat. It would be produced by Khan himself and Disney's India. Khan said to reporters, "Nitesh has written a wonderful story. The topic is very important, it's very dramatic. It highlights the discrimination that is meted out to the girl child in India. The best part is that he has done it in a very entertaining manner. The heart of the story is emotional, but it also has a lot of humour. Raju Hirani has this unique way to tell a story where he says something socially very relevant but he tells his story in a very entertaining manner. Similarly Nitesh has written a very entertaining lovely script, the dialogues are very entertaining. Each time I listen to the dialogues, I laugh a lot. I cry as well as laugh."[9]

In March 2015, Junior Indian women's wrestling team coach Kripa Shankar Patel Bishnoi was approached by Aamir Khan Productions to train Khan and the entire crew of Dangal. Bishnoi said about the film in a Hindustan Times interview, "Very few Indians encourage women for wrestling, especially because of the uniform. This film will change that perception too. People would hopefully want to see their daughters taking up wrestling as a sport."[10]

Khan lost some weight and took Haryanvi lessons and dialect training for the film.[11][12] He played two distinct roles in the film: the 60-year-old wrestler Mahavir Phogat, and the 20-year-old version of Phogat.Khan reportedly gained 30 kg and weighs 98 kg to play the role of the older Phogat, then lost the weight to play the younger role in Dangal.

Casting

In March 2015 Taapsee Pannu, Deeksha Seth and Akshara Haasan were being considered for the roles of Khan's on-screen daughters.[13] In April 2015, Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanya Malhotra were cast as the daughters, who hailed from the Jat community of Balali village of Bhiwani, Haryana. [14][15][16] Geeta Phogat had participated in the London Olympics in 2012.[17] Babita won gold in 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.[18][19] In June 2015, child actors Zaira Wasim (from Kashmir) and Suhani Bhatnagar (from Delhi) were roped in for Dangal.[20] Ayushmann Khurrana's brother Aparshakti Khurrana was also cast.[21] Mukesh Chhabra was the casting director of Dangal. Vikram Singh was recruited to play the role of the villain.[22][23] Aamir Khan's nephew Pablo (son of Mansoor Khan) was the film's assistant director.[24][25] Mallika Sherawat auditioned for a role.[26] In August 2015, Rajkumar Rao, who previously worked with Aamir Khan in Talaash, was approached for an important role in Dangal.[27] Finally, after auditioning 70 actresses for the role, Sakshi Tanwar was brought on as Daya Kaur, the wife of Mahavir Singh Phogat.[28][29][30] Ananya was chosen to play Sarita, the youngest daughter of Mahavir Phogat.[31][32] In October 2015, Vivan Bhatena was selected to play a negative role in the film.[33]

Filming

The shooting schedule of Dangal began on 1 September 2015.[34][35] The villages of Ludhiana were given a Haryanvi transformation.[36][37] The shooting took place in the villages of Gujjarwal, Narangwal, Kila Raipur, Dango and Leel in Punjab and Haryana.[38][39] Interestingly, the village of Dango, which is in the Pakhowal Tehsil in Ludhiana, is veteran actor Dharmendra's ancestral village.[40]

From September 2015 to December 2015, Aamir Khan gained 9% fat, weighing around 98 kg for Dangal, and from January 2016 to April 2016, he regained the shape that he had opted for in Dhoom 3 and will hear the script for next future films, halting shooting of Dangal for said period.[41]

The first scene was taken on 21 September 2015 in Ludhiana with the presences of Mahavir Singh Phogat and his both daughters Geeta Phogat, Babita Kumari.[42]

On 14 November 2015, while shooting in Ludhiana, Khan suffered minor injuries resulting in muscle spasms in his back.[43][44] On November 20, 2015, Khan collapsed after sustaining a shoulder injury on the set.[45] After suffering an injury Aamir Khan resumes shooting in Pune on 9 December 2015.[46]

The team filmed in and around stadiums at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Pune. At the time, the complex hosted the 2015 Rollball World Cup, and athletes of the Netherlands national rollball team and Slovenia women's national rollball team were recruited to play background athletes in the film. The team also shot some portions of the film in Symbiosis International University, Pune.[47][48]

On 19 January 2016, Khan and the entire crew of the film shot in Delhi, at Talkatora Stadium, to film wrestling sequences. The crew then moved to Thyagaraj Stadium to shoot sequences of Commonwealth Games and National Games.[49] The first schedule of shooting was also done in schools and in Dango village, located in Pakhowal Tehsil in Ludhiana.[50]

The second schedule of the film started on 16 June 2016 at the Akhada Leel near Toosa village, in Ludhiana district. It is one of the largest villages in Punjab, India. Khan said, "When I came to Ludhiana, I was very fat. At that time, we shot for the scenes where Mahavir has become old. 85 per cent of the film is about his 'old' look only. Now we are shooting for the portion when Mahavir was young."[51]

Release

Dangal is scheduled to be released on December 23, 2016.

Soundtrack

Dangal
Soundtrack album by Pritam
Recorded 2015–16
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Language Hindi
Label Zee Music Company
Producer Aamir Khan
Kiran Rao
Siddharth Roy Kapur

The film's music is composed by Pritam with lyrics are penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya.[52] It was reported that Daler Mehndi has sung a song in the movie.[53]

Track listing

No. TitleSinger(s) Length
1. "Haanikaarak Bapu"  Sarwar Khan & Sartaz Khan Barna, Saddy Ahmad (additional vocals: Kheta Khan & Dayam Khan) 4:22
2. "Dhaakad"  Raftaar 2:56
3. "Gilehriyaan"  Jonita Gandhi 3:40

See also

References

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