Mahavir takes on the office wrestler
A colleague brags about his wrestling; Mahavir, years retired, steps into the pit and flattens him with ease.
Mahavir Singh Phogat
Every Dangal moment featuring Mahavir Singh Phogat, in story order. Played by Aamir Khan.
23 moments · 58 min
Dangal title song: wrestling in the blood
The title track plays over Mahavir's wrestling past and ends with a boy winning his first bout.
Why Mahavir quit, and the gold he wants for India
Mahavir tells his wife he gave up wrestling for a wage, then vows their son will win the gold he never could.
Geeta and Babita beat up the boys, and Mahavir sees wrestlers
Angry parents demand punishment, the girls re-enact how they fought back, and Mahavir decides his daughters will train.
Haanikaarak Bapu: the girls' protest song
Geeta and Babita sing their misery through dawn runs, bland food and drills under their hazardous father.
Chicken in a vegetarian kitchen: Mahavir cooks it himself
Daya Kaur refuses meat in her kitchen, so Mahavir haggles a chicken down to 25 rupees and learns to cook it.
The haircut: Geeta and Babita beg their father
The girls plot excuses to quit, mention lice, and Mahavir sends for the barber over their tearful pleas.
The girls' revolt: alarm clocks, bulbs and fake fights
Geeta and Babita sabotage training one trick at a time while Omkar narrates the village revolution.
The bride wishes she had a father like Mahavir
After Mahavir slaps Omkar at the wedding, the young bride tells the girls what her future holds and why their father is different.
Dangal reprise: the girls train in earnest
The title song returns as Geeta and Babita throw themselves into training for the first time.
Rohtak: the organiser who won't let a girl wrestle
Mahavir enters Geeta in a boys' dangal; the organiser laughs him off until his partner smells a sell-out crowd.
Geeta's first dangal: she picks the biggest boy
Geeta chooses the strongest opponent, loses narrowly, and asks her father when the next bout is.
Dhaakad: Geeta tears through the boys
The Dhaakad anthem over a montage of Geeta winning dangal after dangal as the village talk changes.
Coach Kadam tells the girls to forget everything
At the academy the new coach dismisses everything Geeta learned, then brushes Mahavir off mid-sentence.
Geeta wrestles her father in the mud pit
Home from the academy, Geeta challenges Mahavir's old techniques and they settle it in the pit while Babita and Omkar watch.
Naina: a father and daughter grow apart
A quiet song over the silence after the fight, Geeta leaving for Patiala and Mahavir alone with his hurt.
Babita talks Geeta into calling home
After Geeta's string of first-round exits, Babita reminds her who she was, and a phone call ends in two words.
Dangal reprise: secret training outside the academy
Mahavir trains both daughters at dawn in Patiala, out of the academy's sight.
The academy hearing: Mahavir's crumpled prize money
Facing the girls' expulsion, Mahavir lays out every rupee they ever won and asks the committee for one more chance.
Mahavir screens Geeta's bouts in a seedy cinema
Barred from the academy, Mahavir rents an adult-film cinema's projector to study Geeta's tapes, then coaches her by phone.
The night before the final: silver is forgotten, gold is remembered
Mahavir tells Geeta tomorrow's fight is for every girl written off as less than a boy, not just for a medal.
The final: five points in the last seconds
Down by four with the clock running out, Geeta remembers her father's words and throws for five to take the gold.
The anthem from a locked room, then the words Geeta waited for
Mahavir hears the national anthem from where he was shut away, then finally tells Geeta he is proud of her.