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ANALYSIS OF MORAL VALUE AND STRUGGLE OF PARENTS WITH HIS CHILDREN IN "DANGAL" FILM
Elpiza Febriyanti1*, Marudut Bernadtua Simanjuntak2, Sutrisno3
1IPB University, 2State University of Jakarta, 3Moriah College
123Bogor, West Java, Indonesia
*Email: [email protected]
Abstrak
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis perjuangan dan nilai moral orang tua dengan anak-anaknya yang berjuang untuk mencapai cita-citanya dalam dunia gulat. Film dengan judul “Dangal” ini disutradarai oleh Nitesh Tiwari dan aktor utamanya adalah Aamir Khan. Film ini diproduksi oleh Walt Disney Picture, Aamir Khan Productions dan UTV Motion Pictures dan dirilis pada 23 Desember 2016. Film ini diangkat dari kisah nyata seorang bapak yang bernama Mahavir Singh Phogat berasal dari india. Mahavir Sing Phogat merupakan mantan atlet pegulat nasional, karena keadaan ekonominya yang rendah, maka ia berhenti untuk menekuni gulat tersebut, namun ia mempunyai tekad agar olahraga gulat ini diteruskan oleh sang anaknya nanti di masa depan.
Katakunci : Dangal, Mahavir Sing Phogat, atlet gulat, kisah nyata, nilai moral.
Abstract
This study aims to analyze the struggles and moral values of parents and their children who struggle to achieve their goals in the world of wrestling. The film with the title "Dangal" is directed by Nitesh Tiwari and the main actor is Aamir Khan. This film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Aamir Khan Productions, and UTV Motion Pictures and was released on December 23, 2016. This film is based on the true story of a father named Mahavir Singh Phogat from India. Mahavir Sing Phogat is a former national wrestling athlete, because of his low economic situation, he stopped pursuing wrestling, but he has the determination that this sport of wrestling will be continued by his son in the future.
Keywords: Dangal, Mahavir Sing Phogat, wrestling athlete, true story, moral values.
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INTRODUCTIONThe film is a work made by displaying images on either widescreen or glass screens (Seel,2015). The film can also be referred to as a medium of public communication. Every film has a message to convey to the audience.
In the film, the message conveyed will be arranged systematically so that the audience can feel the plot and message well. The film is lifted from the habits or social behavior of the local community. For example, films originating from Indonesia will be different from films originating from India, because the customs and habits of these two countries are certainly different. Both in education, parenting, work, and so on. A film consists of several characters such as the main character and supporting character. The main character in the film is someone who always appears in the film and has more conflicts or stories about himself than the supporting characters. The supporting actor in the film is someone who appears slightly in the film's story. A good film can be seen from the acting and plot shown by the actors and actresses. Acting is very important in showing the film, when the actions performed by the film's players are good and professional, of course, this will attract the audience to watch the film he shows and make the audience curious about the ending or the end of the film. A film has its own unique story and in it, there are also messages of life, for example, a film that tells the story of parents nurturing and educating their children or commonly called parenting.
Parenting is a behavior or action taken by parents to their children, both in terms of how to care for, educate, and provide input and lessons in their children's lives (Altintas, 2016). Parenting aims so that children in the future can bring their lives to be better individuals, always think positively, and have a personality that never gives up. All parents always want success for their children, so that success can be useful for themselves and others. In addition, parenting also teaches that the education or upbringing of parents to their children is very influential on the lives of children. Parents who are firm and disciplined will be different from parents who leave everything to their children without teaching and educating them properly. In this modern era, there are not a few incidents that occur to underage children who fall into the adult world or in another sense promiscuity, this is due to the lack of parental attention to their children properly. However, it is also not entirely the fault of the parents, but also of their children.
Sometimes parents have educated and cared for them well and given direction, but it is from within their children who have rebellious nature. Environmental factors are also very influential on a person's life if a child gets along in a good environment and his religion is maintained, then he will also be affected by being a good person, and vice versa if the surrounding environment is not good, then the child will also fall into the environment. which is not good. Behind all this, of course, comes
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back to each person, if he wants to be a valuable person then follow the instructions of his parents. Parenting also has rules or techniques that must be followed so that children do not feel pressured and assume that their parents have very strict rules so that their children cannot explore and make their own choices. As narrated in this film, it tells the story of a father who is very obsessed with wrestling, but due to difficult economic factors making it very difficult to meet his daily needs, therefore he stopped pursuing the world of wrestling but his taste or desire to pass on to his children about this struggle still exists. This father was so obsessed with forcing his children to fulfill his wishes in any way that at first made his children depressed and tormented by how his father treated them.However, as already explained that no parent wants their children to fall into danger, but expects their children to be successful people in the future.
A struggle is a form of behavior or action taken by someone to achieve a dream that requires sacrifice, challenge, and time to achieve. One's struggle will not show results quickly, but it takes quite a long time and requires patience in fighting. The results will
not betray the effort, that's the saying that is often said. This proverb means that a person must always try and struggle in his life, sacrifice everything to achieve his goals, the results of the struggle will look good and good when someone has struggled with the maximum. When struggling, one must focus on his goals and be firm in his founding principles because the key to success lies in each person, if that person does not have a firm stance and is easily provoked by other people's words, it will be difficult for him to achieve his life goals. A person who is only busy commenting on other people's lives will not get a happy life, because he is busy with activities that do not have the slightest benefit.
Like the story in this film, a father who is willing to be scolded, scolded, and even insulted by his village residents because of the way his upbringing or way of educating his child is considered quite rude, especially his daughter who is required to do wrestling, even to compete with men who are taller in the body. bigger than him. However, this Mahavir stands firm in his stance and hopes that one day his children can win gold medals for his country, no matter what others say about him, he is only focused on training his children.
METHOD
The qualitative research method is the method used in this research. This method is a method used in research or observation of an object of research that can be witnessed directly or by reading trusted sources (Gavilan et al, 2019).
The object of research at this time is the film.
This qualitative method discusses a person's real life by observing, reading, and listening to the source of the object. This method is also used to see the habits of an area or population.
The author can analyze a story that occurs in the film in the form of words or actions. After
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that, relevant data were obtained to be used as research. This method aims to see the message or moral that the film character wants to convey to the audience, either directly, for example in the form of sentences or utterances, or indirectly, for example through the actions taken by the characters or film players. This method is very suitable to be applied in analyzing a film because this method is more inclined to the reality of a person's life or society. According to Rukin (2019), qualitative research is research that is descriptive and uses analysis with an inductive approach.Qualitative research is a research process to understand human or social phenomena by creating a picture that is complete and complex presented in words reported detailed views obtained from informant sources and carried out in a natural setting (Walidin et al, 2015) in Fadli (2021)
RESULTS
The result of this research is to take the moral values contained in the story of this DANGAL film. Besides that, it also sees and writes about the struggles carried out by the film actors in pursuing their goals and dreams in life. The results of the analysis in this film can be written in the form of dialogue by the players. The dialogues analyzed are the selected dialogues or the most important dialogues that can represent the film's story.
DIALOGUE 1
Employee: “Try to wrestle sometime, you must run away before the match starts.
Mahavir: "You seem very good at running in a hurry"
Employee: “if there is an arena here, we will know who will run”
Mahavir: Why do you need an arena? "
The dialogue above describes when a new employee challenges Mahavir to wrestle with him. Finally, Mahavir agrees and they wrestle in the office where they are working.
DIALOGUE 2
Employee: "You're great, you just beat the regional champion"
Mahavir: “Don't be discouraged, my friend.
You've just been beaten by a national champion."
The dialogue above depicts a time when Mahavir has defeated an arrogant employee.
DIALOGUE 3
Father: " when there is no food on your plate, what do you want to eat? medal? Nobody cared about wrestling just accepted the job offer. "
Mahavir: “(pensive)”
The dialogue above depicts the time Mahavir's father says that wrestling cannot make money and suggests that Mahavir accept the job offer.
DIALOGUE 4
Wife: "It's not your fault if you can't win a medal for your country, how long will that memory have to make you sad? "
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Mahavir: “what I can't do, our son will realize, he will win gold for our country. Our flag will fly the highest. Take my word"The dialogue above describes when the wife calms her husband who is pensive while looking at the medal he has won in ancient times.
DIALOGUE 5
Wife: "I can't give you a son"
Mahavir: "it's not your fault, and don't get me wrong, neither Geeta nor Babita, both I love, but only a boy can make my dreams come true"
The dialogue above describes when the wife feels guilty for not being able to give Mahavir a son but instead, he gets daughters named Geeta and Babita.
DIALOGUE 6
Mother: "Look how vicious they were beaten, they were all battered"
Mahavir: Why did you beat him? "
Nephew: "I'm not the one who beat him, uncle"
Wife: Geeta and Babita beat them up
Geeta: "They started first, eh. She calls me a loser and Babita the bitch. So we beat them up."
Mother: "They beat him like this? for such a trivial reason?
Mahavir: Yes, it shouldn't be necessary. Please forgive them, they are still children”
The dialogue above depicts the time when the parents of Geeta and Babita's school friends complained to their parents for beating their child to a pulp.
DIALOGUE 7
Mahavir: “From now on, Geeta and Babita don't have to take care of the household. There is wrestling in them. From now on, they would only wrestle”.
Wife: "Wrestling is only for men."
Mahavir: "You don't think our son is equal to a boy?"
Wife: "I've never seen a girl wrestle. What will the villagers say later?”
Mahavir says how long will they keep talking?
Wife: “what if their legs and arms are broken? "
Mahavir: “we will treat it”
Wife: "Don't destroy my daughter's life for your passion"
Mahavir: “Let me try a year first. During this year, put your feelings aside. If I'm proven wrong, I'll bury my dream forever."
The dialogue above depicts when Mahavir's wife is worried because Mahavir will make his daughter a wrestler.
DIALOGUE 8
Mahavir: “Now eat as much as you want.
Because from today onwards, you two will live as wrestlers. Wrestlers are not allowed to eat sour, oily, and spicy food. All your favorite foods. Let's just say this is the last time."
Geeta and Babita: “(shocked)”
The dialogue above describes when Mahavir invites his children to eat their favorite food, namely Gol Gappa before they stop eating that food because they will be trained to become wrestlers.
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DIALOGUE 9Father 1: "he has gone mad"
Father 2: "He's not crazy, but shameless. He told his daughter to wear shorts and fight men"
Mother 1: "His mother didn't protest either"
The dialogue above depicts when villagers talk about Mahavir for treating his child as a son and telling him to wrestle.
DIALOGUE 10
Geeta:” dad, our hair is damaged from wrestling in the mud. He already has fleas.
Tonight alone I killed 8 fleas."
Father: "That's just a serious problem, tomorrow get ready at 5 am"
The dialogue above depicts a time when Geeta and Babita are looking for excuses not to join wrestling training. Then his father shaved their hair like men.
DIALOGUE 11
Babita: " we just skipped training for a day, what's the need to make such a fuss?"
Does Geeta say what kind of father forces his daughter to become a wrestler? Forced to get up at 5 am to run. Treated them like slaves, forced them to fight against men and if they protested, she would shave their heads. I hope no one else is given such a father. "
Sunita:” I wish God gave me such a father. at least your father thought about your fate.
Otherwise, the fact is that when a daughter is born she is taught to cook and sweeps to make her do all the housework. And when he was 14 years old he was married. Remove the “burden”
and hand it over to a man she has never met, forcing her to have children and raise them.
That's his only purpose in life. At least your father considers you his son, he is against the whole world, he is patient with all mockery.
Why? so that both of you can have a future, a life. What did he do wrong? ”
The dialogue above describes the time Geeta and Babita went to their friend Sunita's wedding. They confide in the feelings and circumstances experienced as well as the treatment of their father, then Sunita gives an opinion about the life she has experienced, namely being forced to marry underage.
DIALOGUE 12
Committee: " Mr. Mahavir Singh Phogat welcome, I'm so glad you came to watch the match live. "
Mahavir:” I brought a wrestler too.”
Committee: "say his name."
Mahavir: “Geeta kumari phoagat.”
Committee: "what?"
Mahavir: “Geeta kumari phogat.”
Committee: "You want to ask women to wrestle?"
Mahavir: "yes, why?"
Committee: "(laughs)"
Mahavir: "Just write"
Committee: “Sir, when I have a cooking competition, only then can you invite Miss Geeta. It's a wrestling competition.
The dialogue above describes when Mahavir registered his child for the first wrestling match in the Rohtak area which is quite far from
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Mahavir's village, but the committee refused, but in the end, Geeta joined the match because the committee changed their mind, the committee assumed that women wrestled then the arena he opens will be crowded and he gets a big profit.DIALOGUE 13
Principal: "Leave? For 2 months? Does your daughter want to get married?”
Mahavir says I have to prepare Geeta for the national event, sir.
Principal: “Listen, stay in or forget it. If he wants to get married, maybe I'll consider it."
The dialogue above depicts when Mahavir asks Geeta's principal for permission to give Geeta 2 months' permission because he will train and prepare for the national wrestling match.
DIALOGUE 14
Committee: "Sir, your daughter is underweight."
Mahavir: "Then?"
Committee: "follow my advice, go home. Feed him, make him fat and come back next year. If he fights like this, he could break a bone."
Mahavir says just tell him he can join the wrestling or not.
Committee: "yes, he can (clumsy)"
The dialogue above depicts Mahavir registering Geeta in a national-level wrestling event.
DIALOGUE 15
Geeta: “dad, I need to talk to you”
Mahavir: "Just say it
Geeta: "Dad, now I'm a national champion, so...
Mahavir: "So?"
Geeta:” no, I mean all national champions have to go to Patiala for advanced training to National Sports Academy.”
Mahavir: What do you mean exactly? Say it clearly"
Geeta says I have to go too, dad. From now on, I have to train there, under the tutelage of the national coach.”
The dialogue above depicts when Geeta asks her father for permission to stay in a special dormitory for the national champions to practice there.
DIALOGUE 16
Mahavir: "Greetings, sir. Sir, I'm Mahavir Singh Phogat, Geeta’s father.
Coach: "Oh I see."
Mahavir:” I was the one who trained Geeta.”
Coach: "Oh, great."
Mahavir:” he is a good wrestler, very strong, full of stamina.”
Coach: "Where's my tea? (ask the waiter)”
Mahavir:” sir, I have one request. If Geeta is trained properly she can win an international medal."
Coach: “Geeta! The angle between your calf and thigh should be 90 degrees. Who taught you? Is this how you're going to win an international medal?"
The dialogue above describes when Mahavir asked the coach to train the Gita properly but the coach's response was very uncomfortable and underestimated Mahavir.
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DIALOGUE 17Coach: “Geeta, come here. Forget the techniques your father taught you, just learn what I taught you understand?”
Geeta:”(nods)”
The dialogue above describes when Geeta's coach ordered Geeta not to follow her father's wrong technique according to her coach so far.
DIALOGUE 18
Babita:” don't just attack, you have to defend too. Now, how do you break free? Hold this one, let go, and then attack. Understand?"
Geeta: "That's an old technique, let me show you. Hold me tight, push your thumb like this, then move it to the side. Not in front, but sideways. Release and then attack."
Mahavir: "what's wrong with dad's technique?"
Geeta: “No, dad. That's not wrong. This is more true, the coach who teaches."
Mahavir: So now you are an expert?
International? I want to know what your coach taught you that your father couldn't do."
The dialogue above describes when Babita teaches her father's technique to other friends, but Geeta argues that the technique is an old technique.
DIALOGUE 19
Babita: “dad does not look happy. I didn't fight well?"
Mahavir: “No, honey. You fought exactly as I expected. But, dad never imagined Geeta would fight like that. and now that you've won nationally too, you're going to the NSA too.
You're going to have a new coach, and your dad is going to get old."
Babita says no, dad.
Mahavir:” never forget how you got to this stage.”
Babita:”(nods)”
The dialogue above describes when Mahavir is looking at the medal that his two children have won but is in a gloomy state, because of Geeta's behavior and is afraid that Babita will also follow in her brother's footsteps who no longer want to listen to her father's words.
DIALOGUE 20
Babita: “can I say something? But don't be offended."
Geeta: "just say it"
Babita says you have changed a lot, I remember the first time you lost the match, you could not sleep all night, and now, despite losing the international match, you. I mean it doesn't show on your face at all.
Geeta: "did dad teach you to say like this?"
Babita: “I remember dad's training very well, you seem to have forgotten.”
Geeta:” you focus on your training and I focus on mine.”
The dialogue above depicts when Babita looks sad and advises her brother because his brother has changed from being very competitive but now it's normal even in international matches he doesn't show his sadness.
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DIALOGUE 21Geeta: "Do you even think I don't deserve an international medal?"
Babita:” I didn't know about it, all I know is that you are the girl who beat men in mud wrestling. If you don't deserve to win internationally, then I don't know which girls do in India. I trust you, but it's nothing compared to my father's trust in you. Talk to him."
Geeta: "how can I face him?"
Babita: “he is our dad, what worst thing will happen? He will scold you, accept it. His rebukes always help us, right?
The dialogue above depicts when Geeta is sad because she has lost several international wrestling events and her sister Babita always gives her support.
DIALOGUE 22
Coach: “Sir, judge their actions. I don't think they need the NSA, the rest is up to you.
NSA chief: "You guys want to say something?"
Geeta and Babita:”…”
NSA chief: "Then you admit you're wrong."
Mahavir: “Sir, they have only one fault, that their father is mad. He was very crazy about winning a gold medal for his country. When their childhood he grabbed and forced them to wrestle, when they refused, he cut their hair. To train them, he forces them to wrestle with men.
Receive ridicule and insults from the whole village, so that one day they can make this country proud. Look at this pack of 50 rupees he won in Rohtak, this in Hisar, this in
Chandigarh, this is all this sir. They've worked hard to get here, sir. Now don't tell them to come back. This is all my fault, please forgive me. The coach only wants to win three medals, it doesn't matter if the medal is bronze, but I want our country to win a gold medal, and he can do it, sir."
NSA chief: "All of you wait outside."
The dialogue above depicts when the coach Geeta complained to the head of the NSA that Mahavir had trained and brought her child outside the dormitory and considered it a violation.
DIALOGUE 23
Geeta: "what's the strategy for tomorrow, dad?"
Mahavir: “There is only one strategy for tomorrow, son. You have to compete in a way that people will remember you. If you win a silver medal, sooner or later you will be forgotten. If you win a gold medal, you will be an example to children who will never be forgotten. See that girl? If you win tomorrow, you won't win alone. Millions of girls like them will win with you. It would be a victory for any girl who was considered nothing more than a man forced to work in the household, who married her off just to raise a child. Tomorrow's match is the most important because tomorrow you're not only fighting those Australian wrestlers but everyone who takes girls for granted.”
The dialogue above depicts when Geeta asks for a technique for the match in the finals the next day and her father replies firmly that he
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must get a gold medal so that he can be a role model for children in the future.
DISCUSSION
In a small village, namely in Balali, Haryana, India. There lived a small family that had an economic life that was a little difficult even to buy chickens without having money.
This village has a tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation, namely that every girl born will be taught to sweep, cook, clean the house, and do other household chores. At the time of adolescence, this child will be married to a man they have never even known before. This is done so that the burden on parents will be reduced by handing over their daughters to men for marriage. However, unlike this family, the name of the head of his family is Mahavir Singh Phogat, who is a very strict and serious father figure. Mahavir is a former national wrestler in India. However, he was forced to stop wrestling because he did not get the attention of the local government and his efforts were not even appreciated. but in him, there is still a desire to pass on to his children wrestling in the future. One day his first child will be born and he really hopes that the child born from his wife's womb will be a girl, but fate has not been on his side, his first child is a girl which he named Geeta Kumari Phogat, then he did not give up, and he also had many asking the local people how to have a male offspring, many suggested that his wife should feed the black cow before sunrise, he even came to the shaman to ask for help so that he
could be given a male offspring, but it was a shame that his second child was also born female gender named Babita Kumari Phogat, and so on.
The moral is a trait or behavior that can be taken from a story or an act done by someone who has a positive influence on the lives of many people. In this film, many important events or messages can be picked up by the audience. The moral is the overall norm that regulates human attitudes and behavior in society to be able to carry out right and good behavior. ( syaparuddin and Elihami, 2019).
According to Murthada Muthahari (1995) in Iskarim M (2017), morality refers to human actions, actions that are more appropriate, and just natural actions such as eating, sleeping, and so on. Moral actions are actions that have value, such as khidmah to parents, and so on.
If a person gets good from another person, then that person will treat him or her well.
According to Soenarjati in Nurohmah and Dewi (2021), morality comes from the Latin mores, which means character, morals, and character. Along with the development of the times, morality is defined as a habit in behaving.
For example, in the first and second dialogues when Mahavir is challenged by a new employee to wrestle and the employee boasts and thinks that he is the greatest, this event teaches that everything that is in a person, such as talent, does not need to be boasted but is
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proven by deeds and show others who look down on you. Then in the seventh dialogue Mahavir's wife is worried about what her husband will do to her children, but Mahavir assures his wife that nothing will happen and believes in him, this incident teaches that every life must have its challenges, and everyone must have a solution. to solve the challenges it faces.In dialogue nine, almost all the villagers mock, berate, and even call Mahavir a madman, he has no shame, but Mahavir remains in his position to make his son a wrestler. This incident teaches that whatever you want to achieve, focus and don't pay attention to what other people say, because other people can only judge and judge without knowing a clear reason. In the eleventh dialogue, Geeta and Babita tell about their life to their friend who just got married, they tell their father is very cruel and always tortures them, they hope that no child will get a father like their father. Then responded by his friend, his friend said that he wanted a father like Mahavir, because such a father is more concerned with the future of his child, not marrying his child under age to relieve the burden. This incident wakes up Geeta and Babita that their friend Sunita's words are true.
This proves that friends or associations are very influential on a person's life, if their friends always support and support positive things, they will automatically be affected.
In the twelfth dialogue, Mahavir registers his son Geeta to take part in a wrestling match
against men, because previously in India's history there had never been a woman in a wrestling match, let alone physical wrestling, but Mahavir didn't care about that, he still forced his son. to join the wrestling match, in the end, the committee agreed because he also thought this match was rare, of course, there would be a lot of spectators watching so it would increase their turnover. This event teaches that if you want to achieve success then do things that no one else has done or in another sense set a different path, this will be unique for each person.
Over time Geeta has won many awards in wrestling matches starting from the regional level to the national level. Before that, Mahavir had many difficulties that came, such as not being given the funds to buy a mattress by the local government until he made it himself, besides that he also sacrificed his work to train his baby so that he could win a gold medal at the international level. By the time Geeta is in the dormitory her attitude changes completely and assumes that the techniques her father taught her are old techniques and that she was instigated by her trainer at the NSA. But when he abandons his father's technique and follows the technique taught by the coach, Geeta always loses the match. Fortunately, he quickly realized that it was his parents' words, messages, and actions that helped him get to where he is today. This incident teaches that a child must obey his parents' orders, no parent wants to harm his child.
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CONCLUSIONThis film teaches a lot about the struggles and sacrifices of parents to their children so that this film can awaken people who are still complaining about the economy, work, and so on in achieving their dreams.
Obstacles and challenges will arise, the thing that needs to be done is not to be afraid, live and face it as much as possible, later it will be fine. Then in pursuing your goals, don't be influenced by what other people say, no struggle is wasted, everything will be beautiful if you are diligent and diligent in trying, and don't forget the services of parents who have cared for, educated, and raised their children so that they can achieve success. . The blessing of parents is very influential on the life of the child if the parents have approved then anything that is done by the child will produce good results.
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