In a CCTV interview program with Deng Yaping, when Deng Yaping talked about how her father trained herself strictly when she was a child, Zhu Xun asked: "I have seen the Indian movie "Wrestling!" Daddy?' Deng Yaping then replied: "I have seen it more than once, and I cried from beginning to end." It was Deng Yaping's answer that aroused my great interest in this film.
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WrestleMania! Daddy is a biopic directed by Nitsh Tevari and starring Amir Khan, Sakashi Tewa, Sanya Mahota, Fatima Sana Saka. Based on the true story of Indian wrestler Mahavira Singer Perga, the film tells the heartwarming story of former wrestling champion Singer who trained his two daughters to become women's wrestling champions. The film was released in India on December 23, 2016, and in Chinese mainland on May 5, 2017.
The film grossed 350 million yuan in India. In China, it grossed more than 500 million in less than two weeks of release, and ended with a combined box office of 1.295 billion on July 4, 2017. WrestleMania! "Daddy" is an Indian film with a high Douban rating and the highest box office in China.
In fact, the story of this movie is neither complicated nor novel. As many viewers say, it is a story that knows the end after watching the beginning. However, the father's love for his daughter in the film left a deep impression on the audience.
1: In the fight, the father's love made him discover that his daughter had a talent for wrestling, and he still decided to let the child go his own way.
Singer, once a good wrestler, left the arena for various reasons to pin his hopes on his son. Fate tricked him, and his wife gave birth to four daughters in a row, without sons.
One day, two of Singer's girls, Geeta and Babita, got into a dispute with the neighbor's children and started to move, only to have the strong boy beaten up and his family rushing to the door. Instead of blaming his children, he asked them in detail about the details of the fight. Suddenly, he had an epiphany and discovered that his daughter had an amazing talent for wrestling. In an instant, he had the unfinished dream of cultivating his daughter into a wrestling expert and fulfilling his world wrestling champion.
Let the daughter abandon the traditional marriage and childbirth, laundry and cooking, take care of the housework, can see the bottom of the ordinary life at a glance, take a different new road, reflect the father's wise love, and choose the right sunshine road for the daughter.
2: Resist the pressure and firmly follow the path of your own championship with your children.
In order to train his two daughters to become wrestlers, Singer broke with traditional concepts, withstood invisible pressure, allowed others to talk nonsense, sneered, and always trained strictly according to his own plan.
In order to facilitate training, his first appalling move was to dress up his daughter as a boy: change the skirt that girls like and put on the boy's costume; cut off her daughter's waterfall-like hair and cut it into the shape of a boy's hair. They cut not just ordinary long hair, but cut off obstacles on the wrestling road, overcame the shackles, and determined the signs that distinguished them from the fate of girls of the same age. A simple wrestling field was built in his own land, and he practiced long-distance running with his children at five o'clock every day in the eyes of others, and accompanied his children to wrestle. After all, he is the father of four children, the years are not spared, and along the way, he has paid far more blood and sweat than his daughters.
Dad continued to pay what he preached, and deeply touched the child. It is also the source of motivation for children to train hard.
3: Seemingly small things, it shows the father's love for the heart of the fist.
The growth path of any sports champion is bumpy and arduous. Especially as a competitive sport of wrestling, he is very clear. Therefore, in the training, the children can't bear the suffering for a while, can't stand the sin, and even have the idea of retreating, he understands and tolerates. His training of his children is both harsh and serious, and full of fatherly love.
In order to improve the physical fitness of the child, he can put down his body, bargain with the boss, buy more cheap chicken, and nourish the child's body. When the child has made a little progress and achieved good results, he is happy and cheers for the child, and loses no time in encouraging and cheering the child. Make children full of confidence and hope for the future.
In order to improve the daughter's vision of the future life, the film consciously designed the child to attend the cousin's wedding. Seeing that her cousin of the same age is going to marry, then the little girl is going to become a woman, and the daughter's heart is full of mixed feelings. The cousin was very envious of the life path that dad chose for his two daughters, and it was dad who gave the two sisters full freedom to fight. They avoided the traditional fate of marrying at a young age like other girls, and gave their daughters a precious opportunity to fight for tomorrow with their own hands.
This wedding made the two sisters know that not only was they under great pressure, but that their father was under greater pressure than they were. The children have since understood that it is not the father who ruthlessly deprives his daughter of the right to choose a path freely, but that it lays the foundation for them to embark on a different path in life.
Strict requirements during training, never sloppy, careful care in life, thoughtful care, considerate, reflecting Dad's fiery love.
4: Dad teaches wrestling, but also teaches the true meaning of being a man, so that children can firmly believe in life in the abyss.
The hard work and sweat of the father and daughter were finally rewarded, and the victories made their faces smile. After her daughter entered the national team, due to changes in the environment and the improper method of the new coach, she repeatedly lost in the game. The father was so anxious that he rented a room and came to his daughter to take care of her, encourage her, and cheer her on. At the same time, she also told her daughter that she could not be around her for a lifetime, everything depended on herself, even if she failed, even if the abyss had to face bravely and challenge boldly.
"Boy, you are my pride!" Fathers encourage their children in this way more than once. At the same time, she also made it clear that the road ahead will depend on herself.
When the Commonwealth international competition was about to start, her father encouraged her: When you become a champion, it is not an honor for you alone, but it will inspire many people like you who have dreams, and everyone is worthy of having dreams and trying to achieve them.
Unfortunately, at the critical juncture of the final showdown, Dad was secretly calculated by the villain and could not appear on the field. Geeta's initial battle was not smooth, and she lost points one after another, but she did not forget her father's teachings, and in the last few tens of seconds, she finally achieved a shocking reversal, won the decisive victory, and won the world championship.
When the Indian flag was slowly raised, in the cheers of the crowd, she had tears in her eyes, wept with joy, and kissed the earth. This action of hers is not only the reverence for Mother Earth, but also the excitement of her tenacious struggle to win glory for the country, and it is also grateful for her father's teachings and care for many years.
This film tells children who have dreams, including girls, to dare to break through backward worldly concepts and boldly pursue the meaning of their own existence. Be confident in pursuing your own life, not just simply living.
A few thoughts:
1: Singh's raising of his daughter to eventually become a world champion is not an accidental phenomenon that is difficult for others to replicate. The daughter has a talent for wrestling, and the father is an excellent wrestler, and both are indispensable.
2: Teach according to people, teach according to talents. The reason why Dad's training methods are effective is because Dad knows his children better than other coaches. Dad is not only a strict coach, but also a loving father who loves his daughter.
3: Point out clear goals and lofty ideals for children. Let the child understand what to practice, and consciously improve the child's training motivation.
4: Father's love runs through the whole process, and the plot of father-daughter interdependence has left a deep impression on people.
The success of this film is inseparable from the hard work and huge efforts of these protagonists. In particular, Amir Khan, who plays his father, was originally an idol of a large number of Chinese audiences, and in order to play this role well, he also fought hard, gained weight and lost weight, and left a deep impression on people.