Sunday, April 5, 2020

Movie Review : Dangal (Everything right except Aamirs character Nuances)

From my FB Post Dated 15th Jan 2017

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Aamir khan gets everything right except his own character nuances


Watched Aamir Khans Dangal...The good things 1st....A truly inspirational story about fighting against all odds to back your dream..An able man with an unfulfilled dream and passion..His journey to achieve that dream..Fighting so many stereotypes along the way...Girls from a rural village in Haryana or perhaps any other part of North India(being a hard core patriarchal society)would be subject to several of such gender bias in their daily lives...Where dangal is special in a way is that it very beautifully touches upon the bond between a father and his children...Parent children relation0ships in bollywood have made a ritual out of mother children relationships, and almost ignoring the role that fathers play in our lives...It's a story which inspires you on so many counts...A girl beating the shit out of guys, almost replays the classic David vs goliath story..A father without much resources at his disposal, manages to get the best for his children, struggle of an athlete who dips after a  huge success and rebuilds herself bit by bit, or at a slightly different level, it is also about how children, at times, on achieving much deserved success after years of labor, tend to completely think of it as their own self made success and forget the role that their parents played....

Super impressed by some of the performances ...The young girls who played Geeta and babita, just nailed it with such mature and nuanced performance....They looked and lived the part perfectly on screen...Even the elder Versions of Geeta and Babita, was played to perfection..The complexities, the insecurities, the frustration ..All of it was brilliantly captured...

I expected much more depth from Aamirs role....To begin with, he didn't get the accent right..For a man known to be Mr perfectionist, his accent, just didn't sound convincing....Dangal has the kind of story , screenplay and direction, that even with average to good performances, one can create a huge impact ...Aamirs character lacked nuances, emotional layers and the pathos of a highly passionate man...Obviously with his calibre, he was good, but a biopic, needs much more than accent and putting on and losing weight..

For me, Aamir felt short of living the character...He was definitley good...but such a role and screenplay, deserve great and not just good

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