DANGAL for China release

Bollywood star Aamir Khan will share stage with a top Chinese boxer and a celebrity basketball player besides going on a high-profile three-city tour next week in the run-up to the release of `Dangal` across China in May. A coveted opening movie slot in the non-competing panorama section of the 7th Beijing International Film Festival starting next week means `Dangal` will be the first Indian movie to get that niche.Dubbed in Chinese, the movie on the rise of two Haryana sisters, Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari, from a deeply patriarchal society in women`s wrestling, is expected to get a wide release in Communist China, on the lines of Aamir`s PK, released in 1,200 theatres in 2015.PK was the first Indian movie to break the Rs 100-crore mark in China, a feat that the Nitesh Tiwari-directed Dangal will surely attempt to wrestle to the mat.The actor, expected to be in China between April 16 and 21, will visit Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province.If Dangal succeeds in ringing the box office bell in China, it will yet again show movie makers in India the potential of China as the world`s second largest market for movies — besides over 40,000 movie screens — after the US.