Their father realizes he has some potential champions living under his roof, but he and his girls will have to fight back against centuries of tradition to make it happen. In a charming early scene, young teenager Geeta and her little sister, Babita, come home dusty and disheveled - and victorious - after a tussle with some neighborhood boys. He longs to pass on the tradition to a son, but when his wife gives birth to a daughter, and then another (four in all), he assumes his dream is finished. Mahavir Singh Phogat (Khan) is a talented wrestler from a small town in Haryana who has won national gold medals but can’t afford to pursue an international career. Very solid, very sound entertainment, with thumpingly good Pritam songs that make Eye of the Tiger seem like pipsqueakery.Bollywood Star Aamir Khan Talks Female Empowerment Found in New Film 'Dangal,' Hollywood Aspirations If the sports-movie framework ensures Dangal takes fewer risks than PK, Khan’s religion-razzing megahit of Christmas 2014, it provides a foursquare showcase for both the star, radiating paternal devotion beneath a stern exterior, and the fiercely supple actresses: the match-ups grapple appreciably with wrestling tactics, aware their outcomes have long been on the record.
As with most of this Khan’s crowdpleasers, it’s acutely attuned to wider realities: beyond the mat, the Singhs encounter superstition, child brides and institutional slackness, each sidebar reflecting a social struggle.
Here, Aamir Khan’s latest composes a study in flexibility around the real-life figure of Mahavir Singh, a champion wrestler turned potbellied clerk who secured his sporting legacy with a rethink on realising his girls Geeta and Babita had more fight in them than any male heir might have.
Action man Salman Khan played chaperone in 2015 blockbuster Bajrangi Bhaijaan Shah Rukh Khan provided therapeutic guidance to a mixed-up Alia Bhatt in last month’s Dear Zindagi. B ollywood’s three King Khans have adapted to changing times and mores by recasting themselves as protectors of the nation’s daughters.
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