Vidhu Vinod Chopra is impressed with the trailer of Aamir Khan's film "Dangal". The filmmaker says Aamir is excelling himself as an artiste in the forthcoming biographical sports drama.
"I watched the trailer and I think it's incredible. I really like Aamir as an actor. He is excelling himself," said Chopra, who produced Aamir-starrers "PK" and "3 Idiots".
He added: "Aamir is a crazy person. We call him an idiot. Only an idiot can do a film like this."
Chopra expressed his views about "Dangal" when he attended the 18th Jio MAMI Mumbai International Film Festival with the superstar here.
Nitesh Tiwari's film sees Aamir portraying the role of Mahavir Singh Phogat, who taught wrestling to his daughters Babita Kumari and Geeta Phogat. Geeta was India's first female wrestler to win at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where she clinched the gold medal while Babita won the silver.
Aamir plays both the younger and older characters of Phogat in the film. "Dangal" is scheduled to release on December 23.
‘DANGAL' TRAILER IS HEART-WARMING
The shot of an overweight Aamir Khan riding a rickety two-wheeler through a ramshackle town, brings back memories of Salman Khan in "Sultan" all over again. But "Dangal" opens up a different realm of wrestling.
It is the story of a proud but kindhearted, gentle and guardedly liberal patriarch who, when the trailer opens, hopes his fourth-born would be a son whom he can nurture into a gold-medalist wrestler.
That's the crux of this simple heart-warming story. The trailer strings together moments that bead a beautiful bouquet of unfulfilled dreams and fulfilled aspirations. It seems that Nitesh Tiwari directorial is not keen on creating complex gender dynamics through the film.
"Dangal" is the story of a retired, unsuccessful wrestler with four daughters -- who decides to make his daughters do what is conventionally the male heir's domain -- fulfil the father's unfinished dreams.
There is an interesting little scene in the trailer where the mother of two boys beaten black and blue comes to complain. The wrestler patriarch presumes it's his nephew who thrashed the boys. But no, it's the wrestler's two daughters who quietly tell their dad they beat up the boys for calling the girls unflattering names.
This is a turning point in the script.
The trailer gives us an array of solid performers. The four girls playing the two wrestler-daughters at two different stages are amazing at their job. Sakshi Tanwar as Aamir's wife is quietly expressive. But make no mistake this is again an Aamir Khan vehicle. He gets flabby for the first segment and sinewy and muscled for the second segment.
All of it, will add up to a complete family drama where the girl child will be given the chance to dazzle in the 'akhaada' (ring). This is what makes the trailer of "Dangal" special.
