--- title: 'Dangal (2016)' type: 'film' director: 'Nitesh Tiwari' released: '2016-12-21' runtime_minutes: 161 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'India' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/dangal-2016' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5074352/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Dangal (2016) 2016 · 161 min · Drama · India Original title: दंगल ## Synopsis Dangal is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama film directed by Nitesh Tiwari and produced by Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao, and Siddharth Roy Kapur under Aamir Khan Productions and The Walt Disney Company India. The film stars Khan as Mahavir Singh Phogat, a pehlwani amateur wrestler who trains his daughters Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari to become India's first world-class female wrestlers. Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanya Malhotra portray the adult versions of the two Phogat sisters, Zaira Wasim and Suhani Bhatnagar their younger versions, Sakshi Tanwar their mother, and Aparshakti Khurana adult version of their cousin, Ritvik Sahore his younger version, all of them except Shaikh, Tanwar and Sahore in their film debuts. ## Credits - **Producer:** [Aamir Khan](https://cinepixo.com/people/aamir-khan), [Kiran Rao](https://cinepixo.com/people/kiran-rao) - **Director:** [Nitesh Tiwari](https://cinepixo.com/people/nitesh-tiwari) - **Screenplay:** [Nitesh Tiwari](https://cinepixo.com/people/nitesh-tiwari) - **Original Music Composer:** [Pritam Chakraborty](https://cinepixo.com/people/pritam-chakraborty) - **Director of Photography:** [Sethu Sriram](https://cinepixo.com/people/sethu-sriram) ## Cast - [Suhani Bhatnagar](https://cinepixo.com/people/suhani-bhatnagar) - [Sanya Malhotra](https://cinepixo.com/people/sanya-malhotra) as Babita Kumari - [Girish Kulkarni](https://cinepixo.com/people/girish-kulkarni) - [Vivan Bhatena](https://cinepixo.com/people/vivan-bhatena) - [Aamir Khan](https://cinepixo.com/people/aamir-khan) as Mahavir Singh Phogat - [Fatima Sana Shaikh](https://cinepixo.com/people/fatima-sana-shaikh) as Geeta Phogat - [Zaira Wasim](https://cinepixo.com/people/zaira-wasim) - [Sakshi Tanwar](https://cinepixo.com/people/sakshi-tanwar) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/dangal-2016 Film facts: Wikidata (Q20762668); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.