The relationship between young Mumbai footballer Bhumika Mane, 16, and her father Bharat is a lot like that of the famous Mahavir Phogat and his Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning wrestler daughter Geeta on whom the Bollywood super hit Dangal (2016), starring Aamir Khan, was made.

Mahavir Phogat, an aspiring wrestler, went against the wishes of his family to first cut his daughter’s hair short, then changed her diet to non-vegetarian food and eventually trained her punishingly day-in-and-day-out to help her achieve what he couldn’t.