Dangal Dangal

So then watched Dangal.. the quintessential sports movie where the underdog is the winner against all the odds and it’s a very neatly taken with all apt commercial ingredients intact to give the audience many goosebumps inducing moments and a much welcome non-stereotypic climax..it’s a story told a lot of times in all sports based movies but the take, the effort put in by the four girls to learn the sport and narration definitely deserves to be given a very special mention.

The entire cast did a perfect job, perfectly led by the perfectionist of Bollywood himself, Aamir Khan.. I could draw a lot of parallels with his intense eyes where they did most of the acting and communicating to that of tollywood’s megastar Chiranjeevi, but sadly unlike Aamir, Chiru summons his supreme acting skills only 10-15% of the movie in garb of ‘Entertaining the masses’, citing which he successfully almost negated the actor in him..

Aamir also reached a different level by consciously keeping away his Satyameva Jayate emotions while playing the role..Till the arrival of Sarfarosh, he was pretty much in the shadow of the King Khan himself but with the advent of Y2k, he easily held his own with a series of memorable performances to the extent that the Badshaah once advised on national television talk show to the new Sahenshah that he should be content with what he does and try not to improvise all the time..

His momentarily lapse of reason last year when he echoed with the tide of the award wapasi brigade on intolerance was more than made up when he included the National Anthem in the climax scene and few scenes leading to the climax (which a keen {read cynical} observer will quickly notice)..

He was also quite honest in the beginning about the cinematic liberties taken to add some drama to the elements but personally, I still feel MSD’s biopic is the one I liked the most on real stories of sportsmen and was told the great Mohammed Ali liked Madhavan’s Saala Khadoos as one of the best films ever made on boxing..