Dangal (2016 film)

Dangal
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNitesh Tiwari
Written byNitesh Tiwari
Piyush Gupta
Shreyas Jain
Nikhil Mehrotra
Story byCuration:
Nitesh Tiwari
Concept:
Divya V. Rao
Produced byAamir Khan
Kiran Rao
Siddharth Roy Kapur
Starring
Narrated byAparshakti Khurana
CinematographySatyajit Pande (Setu)[1]
Edited byBallu Saluja
Music byPritam
Production
companies
Aamir Khan Productions
Walt Disney Pictures India
Distributed byUTV Motion Pictures
Release dates
  • 21 December 2016 (2016-12-21) (United States)
  • 23 December 2016 (2016-12-23) (India)
Running time
161 minutes[2]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi[a]
Budget₹70 crore (US$8.4 million)[3]
Box office₹2,024 crore (US$340 million)[b]

Dangal (transl. "Wrestling Competition") is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama film directed by Nitesh Tiwari and produced by Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao under Aamir Khan Productions with Siddharth Roy Kapur under The Walt Disney Company India. The film 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.[8] Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanya Malhotra portray the adult versions of the two Phogat sisters, Zaira Wasim and Suhani Bhatnagar their younger versions, Sakshi Tanwar their mother, and Aparshakti Khurana adult version of their cousin, Ritvik Sahore his younger version, all of them except Tanwar and Sahore in their film debuts.

Development on the film began in early 2013 when Tiwari began writing the script. Khan had interviewed the Phogat sisters in 2014 on his talk show Satyamev Jayate, before Tiwari approached him with the script months later, after which Khan became the lead actor and producer. Set primarily in the Indian state of Haryana, principal photography commenced in September 2015 in the neighbouring Punjab.[9] Satyajit Pande served as the cinematographer and Ballu Saluja as the editor. Pritam scored the film's background music and soundtrack, lyrics for which were written by Amitabh Bhattacharya.[10][11] Kripa Shankar Patel Bishnoi, a coach with the Indian women's wrestling team, trained Khan and the cast for the wrestling sequences.[12]

After a North American premiere on December 21, 2016, Dangal was released worldwide on December 23 to universal critical acclaim, with praise centered on the film's "honest" depiction of a real-life story and Khan's performance, including the emotional weight. It was also screened at the Beijing International Film Festival in April 2017 and second BRICS festival in June 2017.[13] At the 62nd Filmfare Awards, it won four awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Khan) and Best Action (Shyam).[14] At the 64th National Film Awards, Wasim won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Geeta's younger self. Overseas, Dangal won the inaugural Best Asian Film award at Australia's 7th AACTA Awards,[15][16] 2017's Best Foreign Film and Top Foreign Actor (for Aamir Khan) from China's Douban Film Awards,[17][18][19] and two Jackie Chan Action Movie Awards,[20] and was nominated in the Asian Brilliant Stars category at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival.[21]

Dangal was a commercial success, setting several records at the box office including highest-grossing Hindi film, highest-grossing Indian film, the 32nd highest-grossing non-English film (5th highest at the time of release),[22][23] and the 18th highest-grossing sports film worldwide.[24] Produced on a budget of ₹70 crore (US$8.4 million),[3] the film grossed ₹2,024 crore (US$340 million) ,[4][5][25][26] worldwide by various different estimates, including $216.2 million in China,[27] becoming one of the country's top 20 highest-grossing foreign films.[28] According to some estimates, it remains the only Indian film to cross the ₹2000 crore mark, to this day.[29] The film has also been watched more than 400 million times on Chinese streaming platforms, as of November 2018.[30][31][32]

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