Dangal (Wrestling Competition)

I want to recommend you to see a good movie this week, and it's Dangal, which is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama film. 

It was adapted from true story. Aamir Khan (the main character in the 3 idiots) acted as Mahavir Singh Phogat, who taught wresting to his daughters, Geeta and Babita. 

This is Mahavir and his daughters.

Mahavir was an amateur wrestler, and he gave up wrestling in order to obtain better employment. His dream is to win a gold medal for India. Therefore, he hoped that his wife could give birth to a son who might get the chance to achieve his goal. However, his wife only gave birth to four girls. Just as he was ready to give up his dream, he found that his daughters might have the talent to wrestle. Then , he started a severe training with his daughters. 

The father did many cruel things, for example, he asked his daughter to jump in to cold water to train their bravery or cut their hair so that they won't be distracted from wrestling. I went to see the movie with my father, and I thought of many things that my dad did to me when I'm still a little girl. He also cut my hair while I was in junior high, thus, I could fully understood the sadness of being cut the most important part of a girl. ( Not to say how serious it is in India!) The two girls also felt sad and thought that their papa didn't love them. (Just as what I thought then.) After some incidents, they comprehended that their father was trying to give them the chance to change their future. 

However, the road to success wasn't that kind of easy. The daughters would meet different coaches and left their father someday. They would know what liberty is once they left their father. Geeta left first, and she started to change. She became a superficial girl then started to lose many games. Luckily, due to her father, she finally won the game. (Well, I shouldn't talk too much about the content. So please see it by yourself.😆)

I think this is quite an inquiring movie. It clearly shows out the striving behind the glory. Also, the affection between the father and the daughters made me cry several times. It makes me think of my parents who were also quite strict while I was still little. At the end of the movie, I even applauded for the championship Geeta won. (I promised there are still others applauded as I did.😅)

By the way, I really want to praise the perseverance of the main character, Aamir Khan. It's said that he ate so much and became a 97 kilos fat guy for the movie. Then, he had to lose weight again (lose 28 kilos) in five months for some of the part of the movie. It's almost impossible.😟

Well, I really really really recommend you to see this movie. Spare 3 hours for this fantastic movie, and you will surely learn a lot from it.💓