The two sisters are still wrestling, forming part of a team called UP Dangal in India’s pro-wrestling League.
A film about two female wrestlers helmed by the Indian megastar Aamir Khan has become the highest-grossing Bollywood film of all time, earning £41.7m in three weeks.
Dangal was released on 23 December and was India’s second hit wrestling film of 2016.
Geeta won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and in 2012 was the first Indian female wrestler to qualify for the Olympics.