Dangal

दंगल (2016)

Timing: 2:41 (161 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2016-12-21

Country

India, United States

Production

Walt Disney Pictures, UTV Motion Pictures, Aamir Khan Productions, Disney World Cinema

Genre

Drama, Family, Comedy, Action

Budget

$10 400 000

Revenue

$311 000 000

Website

Director

Nitesh Tiwari

Actors

Aamir Khan, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Zaira Wasim, Suhani Bhatnagar, Aparshakti Khurana, Girish Kulkarni, Sakshi Tanwar, Vivan Bhatena, Ritwik Sahore
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Scenario

Producer

Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Alan McAlex

Operator

Satyajit Pande

Composer

Pritam Chakraborty

Artist

Audition

Editing

Ballu Saluja
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• To play Mahavir at age 60, Aamir Khan gained 30 kg, and later lost weight to play Mahavir at age 20.
• For the filming, Aamir Khan studied the Haryanvi language.
• In 2012, Divya Rao, a member of Disney's creative team, read an article in the newspaper about Mahavir Singh Phogat, who trained his daughters to become world champions. She thought it would make a great film and told Siddharth Roy Kapur about it. Disney approached Nitesh Tiwari to write the screenplay and direct the film. Tiwari met with Phogat and his daughters, who immediately agreed to share their story.
• In 2013, Siddharth Roy Kapur and Nitesh Tiwari visited Aamir Khan and told him the plot, which he immediately liked. He wanted to make the film in 5–10 years, when he was older, as the role required him to portray a 55-year-old. But the story stuck in his head, and a few months later he called Tiwari and asked him to tell the script again. Eventually, he agreed to play the lead role.
• Kripa Shankar Patel Bishnoi, the coach of the youth women's freestyle wrestling team, trained Aamir Khan and other actors and actresses.
• Divya Rao stated that if Aamir Khan had refused the role, it would have been offered to Mohanlal and Kamal Haasan.
• Filming took place in the villages of Gujjarwal, Narangwal, Kila Raipur, Dango, and Lil in the states of Punjab and Haryana.
• On November 14, 2015, during filming in Ludhiana, Aamir Khan suffered a back injury and underwent shoulder surgery a few days later. After recovering, Aamir returned to filming in December 2015.
• Part of the filming took place inside and near the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Pune. At that time, the 2015 Rollerball World Cup was being held there, and members of the Netherlands and Slovenia national teams played extras in scenes depicting sporting events and training.
• To play Mahavir at age 60, Aamir Khan gained 30 kg, and later lost weight to play Mahavir at age 20.