Aamir Khan

Fatima Sana Shaikh

Sanya Malhotra

Zaira Wasim

Suhani Bhatnagar

Aparshakti Khurana

Girish Kulkarni

Sakshi Tanwar

Vivan Bhatena

Ritwik Sahore

Ravi Aneja

Anuraag Arora

Mahesh Balraj

Anmol Charan

Karamveer Choudhary

Ishika Gagneja

Badrul Islam

Jagbir

Olamilekan Akanbi Jason

Hafiz Khan

Sumit Khanna

Meenu Prajapati

Ansh Rathore

Shishir Sharma

Gurpreet Toti

Satyajit Pande

Nitesh Tiwari

Ballu Saluja

Siddharth Roy Kapur

Kiran Rao

Amrita Pandey

Alan McAlex

Navmeet Singh

Vishesh Agrawal

Nishith Dadhich

Nikhil Mehrotra

Piyush Gupta

Shreyas Jain

Pritam Chakraborty

Shajith Koyeri

Laxmi Keluskar

Sandeep Meher

Maxima Basu

Jogendra Gupta

Vikram Gaikwad

Avan Contractor

Nanao Soyam

Prasad Sutar

Sandeep Mane

Sham Kaushal

Jonita Gandhi

Raftaar

Sarwar Khan

Sartaz Khan Barna

Neha Kakkar

Daler Mehndi

Arijit Singh

Jyoti Nooran

Sultana Nooran

R. S. Rakthaksh

V. Harini

K. Haripriya

R. Snjeevi

Rajesh A. Malarvannan.

Amitabh Bhattacharya

Vanamali

Puneet Issar

Drama

Family

Comedy

दंगल

Aamir Khan Productions

UTV Motion Pictures

Disney World Cinema

India

United States of America

An inspiring feel-good true story about fighting for a dream that only you can see.
Most importantly this movie dares to put up a fight fighting against old Indian traditions and female prejudice.

Two daughters overcome heavy obstacles to become world famous Indian wrestlers, with the support and motivation of their father and trainer.

It is a very colorful, well-made lighthearted entertainment. The acting is fine, and the characters are relatable. 

A drawback is that it is way too long for a one-night-movie, and should have been made into a mini-series. 

Overlooking the abuse-aspect:
I think it is important to say that personally, I don't agree with most of the methods the father used to train, strengthen and harden his daughters, as a lot of actually was serious child abuse. Their mother also acts as the passive typical enabler. To make it worse, the movie dismisses and jokes about the psychological hurt on the daughters as if it didn't do any damage. In Europe, the father would have been jailed and the kids taken away by CPS.
I think it is a big misunderstanding to glorify abusive behavior, but I guess Indians still have to learn that you can motivate your children without abusing them.

Too long, too predictable and too slow.

After the 161 minutes were over, I didn't hold anything majorly negative about 'Dangal' as it does improve as it goes on. However, the first chunk of this film is yawnful, with the story falling to initially inspire - just a guide on how to be a bad parent, in anything. The ending is also pretty cartoonish, with the broom cupboard stuff.

The cast performances are, in fairness, very good. Aamir Khan does great as Mahavir, while Fatima Sana Shaikh (and Zaira Wasim) are impressive as Geeta. Sanya Malhotra (and Suhani Bhatnagar) deserve praise also.

With that noted, It isn't really anything all that fresh for Bollywood sport biopics either. It follows similar beats to 2014's 'Mary Kom' and 2015's 'Brothers'... even 2011's 'Patiala House'.

For me, this 2016 production just feels so bloated and forced that it hampers the, admittedly noteworthy, hearty narrative. The leads are the only strong points to it in my opinion. It has been very highly received by others, so what do I know? Opinions and all that.

हिन्दी

Dangal

Dangal | Official Trailer | Aamir Khan | In Cinemas Dec 23, 2016