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Tokyo Olympics 2020: Fans Thank Salman Khan’s Sultan And Aamir Khan’s Dangal For Motivating Wrestlers Ravi Kumar And Deepak Punia

As Ravi Kumar is fighting for the gold medal and Deepak Punia for the bronze medal at Tokyo Olympics 2020, fans are crediting Salman Khan’s Sultan and Aamir Khan’s Dangal. Read netizens comments here

Saheli Maity

Thu Aug 05 2021, 09:42:46 10785 views
Indian players are taking Tokyo Olympics 2020 by a storm. Although the players are bagging different medals, their performance is surely turning out to be gold. Currently, India has won 4 medals that we got from weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, Badminton champ PV Sindhu and boxer Lovlina Borgohain, Indian Men's Hockey.  However, now, wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya is entering the gold medal match of the 57kg category. His win will assure India its fifth medal of the Tokyo Olympics. On the other hand, Deepak Punia fights for the bronze medal. Seeing their performance in the matches, fans are crediting Salman Khan’s Sultan and Aamir Khan’s Dangal.

As per netizens, these movies which are based on wrestling are motivating the younger generation to choose wrestling as their career. A fan commented, “Since I saw #Dangal I literally fell in love wid this game #Wrestling But today's #DeepakPunia 's consecutive bout agnst the opponent which eventually drove him to the #SemiFinals really enhanced my luv for the game. Wishing him luck #Tokyo2020 #Cheer4India #teamindia #Olympics” while another fan said, “Well done champ #RaviKumar but first of all Thanks to Salman and Aamir for their movie #Sultan & #Dangal and motivating the young generation to choose #Wrestling as their professional career. #RaviKumarDahiya #Olympics #Wrestling.” 

There was another one who said, “congrats #RaviKumarDahiya u reached In Olympic final. #Dangal movie nd #AmirKhan inspired every wrestler” Well, now India is pretty anticipated to know Ravi and Deepak’s performance in the next match.


Meanwhile, Sultan starring Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma is about wrestling and how he bounced back into wrestling after failing in life and career.

Speaking of Dangal, it is based on the real-life story of Mahavir Singh Phogat, who fought against all the odds to make his daughters world-class wrestlers. The film stars Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar.



Image source: Instagram/ ravi_kumar_60/ deepakpunia86/ IMDB/ Amazon

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