Directed by Nitesh Tiwari
Produced by Aamir Khan
Kiran Rao
Siddharth Roy Kapur
Written by Nitesh Tiwari
Piyush Gupta
Shreyas Jain
Nikhil Meharotra
Based on Mahavir Singh Phogat
Starring Aamir Khan
Sakshi Tanwar
Fatima Sana Shaikh
Sanya Malhotra
Zaira Wasim
Suhani Bhatnagar
Music by Pritam
Cinematography Sethu Sriram
Edited by Ballu Saluja
Production
company
Walt Disney Pictures
Aamir Khan Productions
UTV Motion Pictures
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
Release dates
December 23, 2016
( India)
December 22, 2016
( United Kingdom)
Running time
160 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi
Budget ₹70 crore[1]
Box office est. ₹209.54 crore ( 3 Days) [2]
Dangal ( English: Wrestling competition) is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama film directed by Nitesh Tiwari. It stars Aamir Khan as Mahavir Singh Phogat, [3] who taught wrestling to his daughters Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari.[4][5][6] The former is India’s first female wrestler to win at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where she won the gold medal ( 55 kg) . Her sister Babita Kumari won the silver ( 51 kg) . Dangal is the Hindi term for a wrestling competition.
The music for Dangal was composed by Pritam, while the lyrics were written by Amitabh Bhattacharya. Kripa Shankar Bishnoi, a coach with the Indian women’s wrestling team, trained Aamir Khan and the entire crew for the wrestling sequences.[7]