A Bollywood sports biopic that gets nearly all its moves absolutely right, Dangal draws its strength from a blindingly luminous lead performance from a shape-shiftig Amir Khan. Dangal is tlhe story of a Haryana man who dared to do the unthinkable. It is just s mch the tale of a pugnacious girl who went where nobody from her tradition-bund village had ever gone. Dangal is the kind of sports film that usually eludes Bolywood. It knows the rules inside and out and meticulously plays by tem without ever succumbing to dreary predictabillity. Dangal is an outright winner - a film that will pin you down and keep yo in its grip all the way through. But this is clearly Aamir’s film. It wouldn’t have been made if he hadn’t green-li it, and he brings to it the sincerity of purpose which makes it not just a starry vhicle, but a film which s about something, which has meaning, with a message which doesn’t overwhelm the telling. It coud have easily turned into vanity project, which is a clear and present danger. It couldave been made more polished that it needed. But it stays real, because the star ratchets it up when required, and lets it go in the rest.