At the 64th National Film Awards, Wasim won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Geeta's younger self. At the 62nd Filmfare Awards, it won four awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Khan) and Best Action (Shyam). It was also screened at the Beijing International Film Festival in April 2017 and second BRICS festival in June 2017. Īfter a North American premiere on 21 December 2016, Dangal was released worldwide on 23 December and received positive reviews from critics, with praise centered on the film's 'honest' depiction of a real-life story and Khan's performance, emotional weight.

Kripa Shankar Patel Bishnoi, a coach with the Indian women's wrestling team, trained Khan and the cast for the wrestling sequences. Pritam scored the film's background music and soundtrack, lyrics for which were written by Amitabh Bhattacharya. Satyajit Pande served as the cinematographer and Ballu Saluja as the editor. Set primarily in the Indian state of Haryana, principal photography commenced in September 2015 in the neighbouring Punjab. 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. 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 their cousin, all of them except Tanwar in their film debuts.ĭevelopment on the film began in early 2013 when Tiwari began writing the script. 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. '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.

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