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6 days, 3 hours ago

Nitesh Tiwari Shares Why Aamir Khan's Absence In Dangal’s Ending Was A Masterstroke

ABP News

National Award-winning filmmaker Nitesh Tiwari has opened up about the creative challenges he faced while writing the sports drama “Dangal.” In a recent episode of Komal Nahta’s podcast "Game Changers," Tiwari revealed that one of the key hurdles was making the story engaging despite the audience knowing Geeta Phogat would win the gold medal. To keep the suspense intact, he …

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6 days, 21 hours ago

Nitesh Tiwari And His Team Wrote Five Different Versions Of Dangal’s Ending Scene

ABP News

Filmmaker Nitesh Tiwari recently opened up about the creative challenges he faced while writing ‘Dangal’. In a conversation on Game Changers, a podcast hosted by film trade analyst Komal Nahta, the National Award-winning director revealed that since the audience already knew Geeta Phogat would win gold, the challenge was to keep them engaged in the journey. Tiwari revealed that they …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Mahavir Singh is new chief commissioner of Chandigarh RTS panel

Hindustan Times

Mahavir Singh, a retired 1989-batch Haryana-cadre IAS officer, has been appointed as the chief commissioner of the Chandigarh Right to Service Commission. Before his retirement on February 28, 2023, Mahavir Singh’s last posting was as additional chief secretary for school education, sports and youth affairs, Haryana. The oath-taking ceremony for the new chief commissioner, whose appointment has been confirmed by …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Inside the big, fat $30 billion Maha Kumbh economy

Live Mint

Prayagraj: About 40 years ago, Mahavir Singh tasted his first success in business. “Assuming an average expenditure of ₹6,000-8,000 per person, incurred by approximately 80% of the anticipated 400-450 million devotees, the Kumbh mela could generate transactions totalling ₹2-2.5 trillion over 45 days," the report stated. View Full Image Changing rooms at Maha Kumbh mela. “These zones would help spread …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Contractor held, officials booked for illegal mining in Punjab’s Ferozepur

Hindustan Times

Chandigarh : The Punjab vigilance bureau has arrested a contractor involved in illegal mining in Ferozepur district between 2018 and 2019 allegedly in collusion with officials and employees of the state mining department. The Punjab vigilance bureau has arrested a contractor involved in illegal mining in Ferozepur district between 2018 and 2019 allegedly in collusion with officials and employees of …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Contractor held, officials booked for illegal mining in Punjab’s Ferozepur

Hindustan Times

Chandigarh : The Punjab vigilance bureau has arrested a contractor involved in illegal mining in Ferozepur district between 2018 and 2019 allegedly in collusion with officials and employees of the state mining department. The Punjab vigilance bureau has arrested a contractor involved in illegal mining in Ferozepur district between 2018 and 2019 allegedly in collusion with officials and employees of …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Gym owner shot dead by wife’s friend in Tarn Taran village

Hindustan Times

A 35-year-old man was shot dead allegedly by his wife’s friend at his home in Gharyala village falling under the Patti sub-division of Tarn Taran district. Ranjit Singh who was shot dead allegedly by his wife’s friend at his home in Gharyala village falling under the Patti sub-division of Tarn Taran district. “At around 1 am, two unidentified persons barged …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Nitesh Tiwari: ‘I always make films for the audience and not for myself’

Hindustan Times

I never thought, when I went to IIT Bombay, that cultural activities like dramatics would be given so much importance; and I never knew that I had it in me. Today, my kids live in Mumbai and I don’t even let them go alone to the shop, but in the 9th standard, 11 of us kids would cycle for half …

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5 years, 7 months ago

Wrestler Babita Phogat and father Mahavir Singh Phogat join BJP

Op India

The famous wrestler Babita Phogat along with her father Mahavir Phogat have officially entered the political fray by joining the BJP today. Delhi: Wrestler Babita Phogat and her father Mahavir Singh Phogat join Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Union Minister Kiren Rijiju. pic.twitter.com/p4itp7hxMX — ANI August 12, 2019 Wrestler Babita Phogat and her father Mahavir Singh Phogat joined …

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5 years, 7 months ago

Wrestlers Babita Phogat and Mahavir Singh Phogat join BJP, say they were 'impressed with policies of Narendra Modi govt'

Firstpost

Wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat and his medal-winning daughter Babita Phogat join the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday Chandigarh: Wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat and his medal-winning daughter Babita Phogat, who inspired the Bollywood film ‘Dangal’, join the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday. Wrestler Babita Phogat with father Mahavir Singh Phogat join BJP https://t.co/0PQ2WjPJIr — BJP August 12, 2019 Asked the reasons …

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6 years, 11 months ago

Women’s wrestling in India: Why Navjot Kaur’s gold medal is a watershed moment

Live Mint

That’s all that separated Navjot Kaur from the gold medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships in Kyrgyzstan on 2 March. “We felt sad when Navjot didn’t qualify for the Commonwealth Games,” says Sakshi Malik. “I couldn’t imagine what they would have done if I had won gold.” The turning point in Navjot’s wrestling career came a year later, when Navjeet …

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8 years, 2 months ago

From the wrestling arena to the poll fray: Babita on the Phogat sisters’ latest challenge

Hindustan Times

In 2010 wrestlers Geeta and Babita Phogat became household names after winning gold and silver medals respectively at the Commonwealth Games. Six years later, months after Sakshi Malik became the first Indian woman wrestler to get an Olympic medal and thus the new poster girl for women’s wrestling in the country, Aamir Khan has again put the spotlight firmly on …

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8 years, 2 months ago

‘Dangal is not real’: Geeta Phogat’s India coach says why Mahavir had to be ‘banned’

Hindustan Times

Dangal portrays wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat’s tough training methods which pushed daughters Geeta Phogat and Babita and niece Vinesh to sporting stardom in wrestling. However, unlike the reel character in Dangal, the real chief national coach, PR Sondhi, was the one who invited Mahavir to the pre-CWG camp in Patiala and only banished him because the overzealous father was providing …

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8 years, 3 months ago

‘The real Mahavir Singh Phogat ‘10 times stricter’ than Aamir Khan in Dangal’

Hindustan Times

‘Dangal’ has pushed renowned wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat into the limelight, at the national level and beyond. Vinesh Phogat joked that uncle Mahavir Singh Phogat was “10 times stricter” than the ‘bapu hanikarak’ Aamir Khan portrays in Dangal. DANGAL INSPIRES PWL Geeta Phogat, Mahavir’s elder daughter, has said the film was a big motivation to battle for fresh honours, starting …

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8 years, 3 months ago

Dangal queens: Haryana’s women wrestlers claim their place in patriarchal society

Hindustan Times

“Radhika ruk na nahin, attack mare ja”. And yet, despite this, it is a state which has a high, if not the maximum, number of women in sports – “there are as many women wrestlers in Haryana alone as in the rest of India put together,” says 31-year-old Geetika Jakhar, the first woman wrestler to be awarded the prestigious Arjuna …

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8 years, 3 months ago

Of Dangal fame, Geeta Phogat and her wrestling sisters’ hair-raising story

Hindustan Times

For ‘Dangal’ fame Phogat sisters --- Geeta, Babita, Ritu, Sangeeta, Vinesh and Priyanaka --- sporting long hair was the biggest luxury. Like any other teenage girl, the Phogat sisters too fancied long hair, but Geeta’s father, wrestling’s Dronacharya Mahavir Singh Phogat, was a hard taskmaster Even as the movie opened to a full house on Friday --- and they were …

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8 years, 3 months ago

Dangal's real star: How Mahavir Singh Phogat made his six daughters wrestling champs

Firstpost

In Enter The Dangal, Rudraneil Sengupta tells the story of Mahavir Singh Phogat, his six girls — including Geeta Phogat, Babita Kumari and Vinesh Phogat — and wrestling in Haryana As Aamir Khan’s Dangal opens in theatres on Friday, 23 December, the film has already been lauded as being the among the best of 2016. It tells the story of …

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8 years, 3 months ago

Geeta Phogat’s wrestler dad Mahavir Singh glorified in Aamir Khan’s Dangal

Hindustan Times

Bollywood’s increasing love for sporting subjects has now brought women’s wrestling under the spotlight and more importantly, how a family in Haryana grappled with social issues to produce a slew of champions. Mahavir Singh Phogat produced a string of women champion wrestlers staring with his eldest daughter, Geeta Phogat Amir Khan’s latest movie, Dangal, is based on the life of …

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8 years, 3 months ago

Dangal movie review: Aamir Khan proves why he is the sultan of great Indian cinema

India Today

Dangal, starring Aamir Khan in the lead role as wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat, is the big Christmas release this year. Dangal Cast: Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Zaira Wasim, Suhani Bhatnagar, Aparshakti Khurrana Dangal Director: Nitesh Tiwari Dangal Rating: A middle-aged, overweight Mahavir Singh Phogat challenges his elder daughter Geeta Phogat to a wrestling match after …

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8 years, 3 months ago

I was willing to wait for 5-10 years for Aamir Khan to be part of ‘Dangal’: Nitesh Tiwari

Live Mint

New Delhi: Aamir Khan-starrer Dangal has been garnering a fair of share of attention though there’s still a couple of weeks left to its release. In an interview with Mint, adman-turned-director Nitesh Tiwari, who earlier helmed money-spinning children’s films Chillar Party and Bhootnath Returns, talks about waiting for a year for the conscientious Khan, the exhaustive process of putting the …

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19 years, 11 months ago

India slips yet captures 12 golds

The Hindu

THE leading stars did not strike it as hot as they could have, and some of the youngsters faltered when it mattered, but India was still able to strike it rich in the fifth Commonwealth Shooting Championship in Melbourne as it captured 12 gold, 10 silver and six bronze medals. For Anjali Bhagwat who had won the individual gold medals …

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Nitesh Tiwari Shares Why Aamir Khan's Absence In Dangal’s Ending Was A Masterstroke

Nitesh Tiwari And His Team Wrote Five Different Versions Of Dangal’s Ending Scene

Mahavir Singh is new chief commissioner of Chandigarh RTS panel

Inside the big, fat $30 billion Maha Kumbh economy

Contractor held, officials booked for illegal mining in Punjab’s Ferozepur

Contractor held, officials booked for illegal mining in Punjab’s Ferozepur

Gym owner shot dead by wife’s friend in Tarn Taran village

Nitesh Tiwari: ‘I always make films for the audience and not for myself’

Wrestler Babita Phogat and father Mahavir Singh Phogat join BJP

Wrestlers Babita Phogat and Mahavir Singh Phogat join BJP, say they were 'impressed with policies of Narendra Modi govt'

Women’s wrestling in India: Why Navjot Kaur’s gold medal is a watershed moment

From the wrestling arena to the poll fray: Babita on the Phogat sisters’ latest challenge

‘Dangal is not real’: Geeta Phogat’s India coach says why Mahavir had to be ‘banned’

‘The real Mahavir Singh Phogat ‘10 times stricter’ than Aamir Khan in Dangal’

Dangal queens: Haryana’s women wrestlers claim their place in patriarchal society

Of Dangal fame, Geeta Phogat and her wrestling sisters’ hair-raising story

Dangal's real star: How Mahavir Singh Phogat made his six daughters wrestling champs

Geeta Phogat’s wrestler dad Mahavir Singh glorified in Aamir Khan’s Dangal

Dangal movie review: Aamir Khan proves why he is the sultan of great Indian cinema

I was willing to wait for 5-10 years for Aamir Khan to be part of ‘Dangal’: Nitesh Tiwari

India slips yet captures 12 golds