Discovery+ released the trailer of its upcoming documentary, Dangals Of Crime – The Untold Truth About Indian Wrestling, today, January 28. The series depicts the ground realities and untold truths about wrestling, India’s home sport.
Sushil Kumar’s dark journey is shown in the trailer of Dangals Of Crime – The Untold Truth About Indian Wrestling.
Discovery+ released the trailer of its upcoming documentary titled Dangs of Crime – The Untold Truth About Indian Wrestling. Based on ground realities and untold truths about India’s domestic sport, wrestling, the documentary sheds light on the rise and fall of Indian wrestler Sushil Kumar. Dangals Of Crime – The Untold Truth About Indian Wrestling is directed by award-winning director Niyantha Shekhar.
Riot of Crime explores the rise of meteorites and the dark underbelly of wrestling
Discovery+ Dangles of Crime – The Untold Truth About Indian Wrestling is an informative and investigative documentary that traces the journey of the meteoric rise of wrestling in India. The sport’s popularity peaked after wrestlers Sushil Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt collectively won three medals in two consecutive games (Beijing 2008 and London 2012). The documentary highlights how the sport of wrestling brought honor to the sport for India, but also witnessed dark moments that shocked the entire nation. Produced by Vice Studio Production, Dangal Of Crime is directed by Niyantha Shekhar.
Dangals of Crime – The Untold Truth About Indian Wrestling also features notable former coaches and wrestlers whose views are reflected in the documentary. Some of them are Satbir Singh, Virendra Kumar, Anil Mann and Ramphal Mann. Dangals Of Crime – The Untold Truth About Indian Wrestling is streaming on Discovery+ app from today, January 28.About Sushil Kumar
The son of a bus driver, Sushil Kumar is the only Indian athlete to win two individual medals at the Olympics—bronze in 2008 and silver in 2012—and the only Indian wrestler to win a world championship title. He also has bronze medals in Asian Games, four Asian Championship medals and three Commonwealth Games gold medals. After a competitive peace, Sushil Kumar was hoping to make a comeback by qualifying for the Tokyo Games. Those plans went awry after the country’s most celebrated wrestler went to jail for the murder of 23-year-old wrestler and former junior national champion Sagar Dhankhar.
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