Healthcare in India population had some form of health insurance in 2010. A 2014 Indian government study found this to be an over-estimate, and claimed that only about 17% of India's population was insured. Private healthcare providers in India typically offer high quality treatment at unreasonable costs as there is no regulatory authority or statutory neutral body to check for medical malpractices. In Rajasthan, 40% of practitioners did not have a medical degree and 20% have not complete a secondary education. On 27 May 2012, the popular actor Aamir Khans program Satyamev Jayate did an episode on "Does Healthcare Need Healing?" which highlighted
Dangal (film) that Aamir Khan play Phogat. Months prior to being approached for with the script, Aamir Khan had invited the Phogat sisters onto his television talk show "Satyamev Jayate", interviewing them on the first episode of season three in 2014. A few months after he interviewed them on "Satyamev Jayate", he was approached by Tiwari. Kapur and Tiwari went to Khan with the story, and Khan loved it in its first narration. Khan had just finished "Dhoom 3" and had begun shooting for "PK". He wanted to do the film after 5–10 years when he would turn 60, because the role