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Michigan Technological University Mail    Faith Morrison <fmorriso@mtu.edu>
Movie is Thursday for this week : Dangal
Tomas Co <tbco@mtu.edu>    Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 11:54 PM
To: ", filmlover-l" <filmlover-l@mtu.edu>
Hello everyone,

Due to scheduling conflicts, the movie this week
will be moved to Thursday instead.

For this Thursday, we are showing an Indian movie
"Dangal", directed by Nitesh Tiwari (more details below).

Note that this will be a 3 hour movie.

Please feel free to pass the message around and
invite your friends. Hope you can join us.

Regards,

Tom Co

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Title: Dangal

Date and Time:  Thursday, July 6, 6:30-10

Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock

Director: Nitesh Tiwari

Partial List of Characters:
  Aamir Khan
  Sakshi Tanwar
  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  Sanya Malhotra
  Aparshakti Khurana
  Zaira Wasim
  Suhani Bhatnagar
  Ritwik Sahore

US Rating: PG

Language: Hindi (with English subtitles)

Length: 161 mins

Media: DVD,color

Summary: (via www.imdb.com)

  "Former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat
  and his two wrestler daughters struggle
  towards glory at the Commonwealth Games
  in the face of societal oppression."

My Comments:

  Just for a change of pace and mood from
  the previous films we showed... this film
  is more of a lighter mood.  It is based on
  real-life events in which India was able
  to win the first time in the Commewealth
  games for women wrestling.

  The film goes through the standard format
  similar to Rocky, but with some melodrama
  peppered in.  So, the film is a little
  predictable, but it is still very well made
  and manages to remain suspenseful. 

  As a Bollywood film, it does have some music
  included, but with less dancing than usual. It
  does however focus on the wrestling sport.

  Aamir Khan was quite devoted to the film
  that he gained so much weight as well as
  trained later to have a wrestler's body. The
  female actors were also very good and believable
  in their roles as olympic-level wrestlers.

  Hope you can join.    

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