Absolutely magnificent Experience – Game Changer movie -- DANGAL

DANGAL is a stroke of genius. This is an absolutely magnificent movie experience.  An excellent film that will be game-changer about how sports movie should be made and directed in this country.  A brilliant film that raises the bar of the Indian Cinema. It is a combination of drama, emotions, sportsmanship and patriotism and it is coupled with Aamir Khan’s gigantic act .!

It is Biographical sports drama on former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat and his two wrestler daughters' fight towards glory at the Commonwealth Games despite the challenges posed by society.

In theory, Sports movies are never just sports movies — they're tales of the human spirit triumphing over hard times, or symbols for the little guy/girls taking on the massive Goliaths and international rich kids and beating them at their own engineered game. Dangal is one of them. The movie also drives a feminist point that girls are equal to boys or even better than them..!

Few directors fail to create emotions in entire three hours and grip the audience, and here the director Nitesh Tiwari touches you in first fifteen minutes and captures your heart and maintains the grip throughout the movie. The inaugural scene of the film is just an indication of Phogat's passion for the sport – wrestling. The first half of the movie works exactly like accomplished warrior – invariably sure of its moves.

This is compelling narrative based on a true story. Full credit goes to a scriptwriter who maintained the local language and yet managed to the golden combination of emotion and humor. The characters are developed with small events and amazing details.

 If I have to call-out few scenes like when daughters are growing up, their emotions and thinking about their father has been captured very well. Later on, their transformation is captured with their discipline of waking up early and starting up their daily exercise. Such small details hold audience throughout the movie. Also in the last scene, the audience feel the frustration that Mahavir Singh Phogat feels and the audience claps after each of Geeta's bout as if we there was a live fight at display shows how engaging the film is.

Full marks to the director and way he developed his main character as well as supporting characters. Here, nephew of Phogat has been used as our anchor and briefs us about the initial story and brings humor to this epic saga. The Phogat definitely is larger than life character and yet very grounded. His ambition and his passion for winning gold for the country are immeasurable. People look beautiful and admirable when they are connected to ground reality. Here, dreams are so big, the task is so challenging, and finances are so less, and there you see one man defeating everything with his discipline, skill, and determination. Also, the scriptwriter catches the father side of the Aamir Khan as well the coach perceptive and this twin narrative make the character believable.

This is definitely the best movie of the year as per me. This is certainly inspiring, and this brings tears occasionally and humor too..! Sometimes,  you get so much involved in the film that it is tough to find a weakness for the movie. Same happens with Dangal. Even if I look for weakness, then it has to related sports movies genre. Most sports film are spoiled by clichés. Avoiding the conventional trappings known as an excess dramatization of the film genre is impossible for few directors. However, Dangal performs better in this segment as well. Dangal has its good share dramatization, but the exceptional thing is that director and scriptwriter know when and where to stop dramatization, and that's what makes it a stadium like a live experience and brings seamless Dangal experience to the audience.

Another important part is songs of the movie. The songs are relevant; they are touchy and carry the story forward. The core Dangal song has inspiring flavor. We must applaud for music director Pritam for the title song.

On acting front – everyone's performance was excellent. Aamir Khan shines in the role of Mahavir Singh Phogat.  For twenty minutes wrester scenes, he did work out of six months. That shows a dedication and his commitment. He is so exceptional in his performance that this could be considered as one of his best works ever.  All four girls depicting Geeta and Babita in both age brackets have done a marvelous job bearing in mind that wrestling is challenging stuff and this is not just one chick flick wherein just emotions would help them carry off a portrayal. This required both the mental as well as the emotional strength and stamina and very importantly determination.

Finally, I say Dangal is one of the best films of recent years, a memory of a time when you could win anything or defeat anything if only- you really wanted it badly enough.

This is best of the movie of the year, and every movie lover should see it once at least..!