Dec 29, 2016 12:07 PM
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(Updated Jan 03, 2017 04:00 PM)
It is finest achievements in Aamir Khan's career. It is immaculately crafted, and the emotional highs and lows in the script reach a resolution that is most satisfying for the viewer-I cried at the end. It epitomises the best of Bollywood-–but despite this, it also reflects the worst of Bollywood.
Dangal is the story of Mahavir Singh Phogat from Balali in Haryana. The wrestler is consumed by the desire to see his son'win gold' for the country. But as fate would have it, he has four children but all daughters. When his young daughters Geeta(Zaira Wasim) and Babita(Suhani Bhatnagar) beat up the neighbour's sons for calling them names, Mahavir sees there's fight in them.
The quest for glory is not noble. It is, for both biological and cultural reasons, a fundamentally male quest. It is a bug and not a feature; not a strength, but a weakness to be overcome. Phogat doesn't overcome it in this story, and the film itself is consumed by this weakness.
