Dangal, An Inspirational Saga of Women Wrestling

Abstract

For decades, filmmakers all over the world have got influenced from great personalities, sports celebrities, iconic figures and literature and transcribed it into movies. Adaptation of biography into cinema is nothing new for the Indian film industry too and the impact of great personalities and literature on our films is almost as old as filmmaking itself. From Raja Harishchandra to Milkha Singh and Mahender Singh Dhoni and Saina Nehwal, Indian cinema has been inspired and adapted many legends, sportspersons and literary figures. Since then, Indian filmmakers have directly or indirectly taken references from various mythological characters, biographies, auto-biographies and social stories in order to make their films. The recent one being Nitesh Tiwari’s Dangal, which is regarded Geeta Kumari Phogat as a modern day “Harbinger of Women Wrestling” or “Cyclone in Dangal”. It is a blockbuster and still attracts the masses to admire and appreciate the caliber and capabilities of “Heralder of Women Wrestling” in India.