The Extended Canon
Dangal
दंगल · 2016
A wrestler trains his daughters to win the medals he could not, in a village that thinks he has lost his mind.
- Director
- Nitesh Tiwari
- Year
- 2016
- Genre
- Sports · Biography
- Cast
- Aamir Khan, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Sakshi Tanwar
Why it's in the canon
The highest-grossing Indian film for years, and the rare sports biopic where the technique is filmed correctly.
A wrestler trains his daughters to win the medals he could not, in a village that thinks he has lost his mind.
Dangal sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Nitesh Tiwari.
- Released in 2016, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Sports, Biography.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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