Not as great as hyped!

Rating: 6/10 (2 January 2017)

Though story is based on real life story, the movie fails to impress! I had a lot of expectations from the movie but was disappointed after watching it. The story is supposed to be about women wrestlers fighting against patriarchal society to win a gold medal. But in the movie, there is little to show that those girls were discriminated because they were girls! The movie would still be same if the protagonist were boys instead of girls (apart from a couple of dialogues)! There seems no struggle for phogat girls because they were girls! Many talk about this movie telling its patriotic! I fail to see there point! Patriotism is just a masala in the movie. Basically, Mahavir phogat wanted to win gold but failed, so he prepares his daughters for the win. Thats it! It's the dream of any sports person to win gold for the country and that is what is shown here! Thats it! Nothing different! Good thing about the movie is you won't get bored. There is a lot humour throughout the movie which keeps you entertained. Overall its just a one time watch.