Aamir Khan photographed at an event in Mumbai.
Highlights
- The first poster of Dangal was greeted by a sniggering social media
- Aamir Khan tweeted an uplifting comment with the second poster
- One Game of Thrones fan compared the girls to the Red Viper's daughters
When Aamir Khan tweeted the first poster of
Dangal last September, it was greeted gleefully by a
sniggering social media who compared it to chocolate ice cream,
multani mitti and more.
The
second poster of the film was released on Monday and this time round, the jokes are absent. #Dangal trended on Monday afternoon after Aamir, 51, tweeted an uplifting comment with the image, which features him as wrestler Mahavir Phogat and his four daughters, two of who are champion wrestlers Geeta and Babita.
Twitter was delighted.
Make that mostly delighted. One
Game of Thrones fan compared the
Dangal girls to the Red Viper's daughters.
Aamir Khan launched the poster of the film at an event in Mumbai, where he also offered the only
unqualified piece of criticism about colleague Salman Khan's rape analogy that we've heard from a top Bollywood star so far. "I wasn't present when he made the comment but going by media reports I think what he said was unfortunate and insensitive," Aamir said. Salman Khan has been summoned by the National Commission of women for saying that filming his own wrestling movie Sultan made him feel "like a raped woman."
Dangal, which co-stars TV actress Sakshi Tanwar, releases this December.