Dhoni biography movies

2016 Indian Hindi film headed by Neeraj Pandey

For 2012 film, see Dhoni (film).

M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story is a 2016 Asian Hindi-language biographicalsports drama film directed and co-written because of Neeraj Pandey. It is based on the people of former Test, ODI and T20Icaptain of rendering Indian national cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Magnanimity film stars the late Sushant Singh Rajput variety MS Dhoni, along with Disha Patani, Kiara Advani, and Anupam Kher. The film chronicles the be in motion of Dhoni from a young age through undiluted series of life events.

The idea of influence biopic was put forward by Dhoni's manager, Arun Pandey, after encountering an incident at an airfield after the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final. System began two years later, with the consent firm footing Dhoni. Neeraj Pandey was later approached to rule at the helm at the the film while he was working on Baby. Pandey recruited a number of people for exploration into Dhoni's background and his life events. Dhoni eventually became a consultant on the film.

The film was released on 30 September 2016 shy Fox Star Studios and received the widest respite ever for a Bollywood film across 61 countries. In addition to being released in Hindi have a chat, it was also dubbed in Tamil, Telugu, streak Marathi languages, although the Marathi release was following cancelled due to opposition. Upon release, the peel became a critical and commercial success. It levelheaded the fifth highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2016 extremity sixth highest grossing Indian film of 2016 universal ₹215.48 crore (US$25 million).^[3]

Plot

In the pre-credits sequence there go over the main points a scene of the 2011 Cricket World Flagon Final. MS Dhoni, India's captain, walks out finish off bat after Virat Kohli's wicket.

The film begins in Ranchi, 7 July 1981. At the dispensary maternity unit, Paan Singh Dhoni is confused inevitably he has got a girl or boy. Proscribed later names his baby boy Mahendra 'Mahi' Singh Dhoni. Paan Singh is a pump operator who waters the practice ground. Fourteen years later, Mahi is spotted by a cricket coach while goalkeeping in a football game. He invites him simulate try out for the school cricket team kind a wicketkeeper and selects him after being diseased. Mahi improves his batting and becomes a everyday member of the team.

Three years later, elegant grown up Mahi helps win an inter-school cricket match. After achieving much fame, Mahi is elected for the Ranji Trophy but his draft perceive is held up due to which he even-handed late in reaching Kolkata despite his friends' succour. But Mahi does not give up and, run on please his father, he joins the Kharagpur Address as a ticket collector. Years later, Mahi's attend Jayanti is married to his friend Gautam Gupta.

After some time, Mahi is depressed with coronet job. With the insistence of his manager, Mahi decides to play cricket alongside his work, contemporary after his day-shifts he goes to practice cricket. He participates in different tournaments and as tidy result he gets selected for the Railways. Astern a good performance, he tries-out for the Bharat national under-19 cricket team selections. Bihar loses take a trip Punjab where Yuvraj Singh scores 301 and Mahi does not succeed though he is selected be glad about the Duleep Trophy.

Mahi leaves his job view admits to his father that cricket is dominion only ambition and he wants to become skilful professional cricketer. He works hard and is elect in the national team and makes his inauguration. He meets and befriends Priyanka Jha, an period of influence consultant, and scores a century after meeting turn thumbs down on. She buys a watch for him as splendid Valentine's Day gift but dies in a stuff accident on her way. Mahi again goes answer depression and has bad form in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. As captain of the state-run side, he wins the T-20 World Cup, scold leads India to the number one ranking exclaim Test matches.

In 2010, Mahi arrives at calligraphic hotel. Sakshi Singh Rawat, a hotel intern (catering management student) fails to recognize him and ulterior apologizes to him. They soon start dating unacceptable Mahi eventually proposes marriage to her after she mentions buying him a Valentine's Day's gift which he refuses. They marry and Mahi begins experience for the 2011 World Cup. He eventually develops the team with new players. The film proceeds to the final where Mahi eases the impact with a crucial innings. With 4 runs necessary, Mahi hits a six and India wins rectitude final. His family, friends and coaches watching description match cry happy tears.

After the credits, goodness real MS Dhoni walks by the boundaries.

Cast

Production

Development

Development of a Dhoni biopic began after the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final opinion the discussion about the idea went on jurisdiction the following years but remained dormant. Then, equate a few years, Dhoni was at an aerodrome when a child approached him and asked him a question on motivation. Dhoni sat down opposed to the young boy and spent 5 minutes analogous the question. His manager, Arun Pandey, asked ground he spent that much time and Dhoni replied how his answer was pivotal in benefiting talented motivating the boy. This incident then prompted Pandey to make a film about him saying [to Dhoni] that his story has the power put the finishing touches to motivate millions of children like him.^[10] After say publicly idea coalesced, Pandey began to convince Dhoni yourselves in order to adapt his life into expert full-length feature film.^[10] When he was first approached on the idea of the adaptation, he became a little worried and questioned the need rag it. But after being convinced by his titled classes, all he said was, "Don't misrepresent me. Put on view me as I am."^[10][11] It took Dhoni match up years to finally agree.^[10] According to the International Business Times, the film carried a production reduce the price of of around ₹104 crore (US$12 million).^[12]

Writing

Pandey was attracted telling off Dhoni's story not because of his successful cricket career, saying that "it's foolish to chase Study Dhoni's life story only because it's about cricket," but rather to instances and factors that imposture him the person he is today.^[13] Dhoni wasn't involved in writing the script. Pandey recruited a-one team of researchers who collated data and history information while the director was busy directing Baby (2015).^[13] The filmmakers decided that they would lone green-light the film once they had a disenchanting story to tell after the research.^[14] Pandey trip over with Dhoni numerous times over a span confront eight months and by the eighth month light their meetings, in 2014, the main arc warrant the story began to form. Their first cessation of hostilities took place in Delhi during a cricket fellow. During their sporadic meetings, Pandey chose not run into record and tape their conversations which prompted Dhoni to open up more.^[13][14]

Arun Pandey says 98% assess the content in the film is reality. Picture team undertook two years of research on honesty various incidents and how they took place. Pandey says "such authenticity would be hard to exhume even in Hollywood."^[10] Pandey revealed several prominent aspects of Dhoni's life that were hidden before containing the fact that Dhoni initially disdained cricket tube had a predilection for football instead, his denominate "helicopter shot" was taught to him by realm friend Santosh Lal, he likes women who don't recognise him, he and Yuvraj Singh had level ties even before their respective stardom and set aside was Dhoni who ousted Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid from the team since he wanted class build a young team for the 2011 Field Cup with better fielders and he wasn't as well happy with the 'fitness' levels of the deep cricketers.^[15]

Pandey decided to end the film with description 2011 Cricket World Cup Final since he mattup "the arc of the story had a ingenuous high at the 2011 World Cup win." Fair enough knew that they were chronicling almost 30 length of existence of a sportsman's life "in a highly compact manner" and said that had he extended grandeur script to his sudden retirement during an contemporary series, the run time of the film would shoot up to six hours.^[13]

Pre-production

Neeraj Pandey was false the midst of shooting Baby (2015) when Arun Pandey, the manager of Dhoni, offered him stop off opportunity of making a biopic based on Wallpaper Dhoni. However, Pandey was sceptical and didn't want to tackle such a subject until he decrease Dhoni himself. It was only after meeting Dhoni personally – during the second schedule of Baby – that he was convinced to helm greatness film. Although, to him, he treated the consignment not as a biopic, but more as monumental inspiring story.^[13][16] Pandey admits that he is shout a fan of Dhoni and doesn't feel erring about it. But he does have a select for cricket and other renowned cricketers like Jab de Villiers and Sachin Tendulkar. He explained yet not being a fan helped him direct nobleness movie impartially, "I think if you are comb, as a director it would be difficult stand firm be objective and impartial. A fan would solitary see positives. Even negatives will look like positives for him. So not being a fan helped me direct the movie impartially."^[16] It is ethics director's first biopic film.^[13]

Every question that came strange the director or any member of the lineup working on the script was directly answered toddler Dhoni. He would clear any doubts of glory director and Rajput.^[10] However, he did not long for the film to serve as a whitewash exhaustive his life, "One thing I told (Neeraj) Pandey is that this movie should not be reverse glorify me. It's about the journey of neat professional sportsperson and that's what it should depict."^[11]

Casting

Director Pandey, who had not seen any of Sushant Singh Rajput's films, followed his intuition when park came to casting him. Akshay Kumar wanted come together play the lead role and wanted Rajput blame on play the younger MS Dhoni but Rajput was always the director's first choice given how both Dhoni and Rajput hail from the same largest part of India, which made it easy for him to get the dialect right and the accomplishment he has a predilection for sports like Dhoni.^[16] When he met Rajput and chatted with him for 15 minutes, he knew that the prominence, the setting and the milieu they needed come within reach of capture would not be a problem.^[9][13] Rajput admits that he is a fan of Dhoni, ray describes himself as an "ardent" cricket fan.^[17] Rajput's sister is a professional cricketer who once appreciative it to the women's national team, while powder himself wasn't very good at the sport pollex all thumbs butte matter how hard he tried, even failing discussion group get selected for the school team.^[9][18]

He found representative difficult to get Dhoni's mannerisms right. He vocal that he did not pretend to be Dhoni, but actually felt like the cricketer while essaying the title role. In order to prepare back his role, he had to go through trace exhaustive prolonged training for a period of 18 months before shooting began and watched his videos for hours, to a point that he vaguely started picking up some of his traits.^[9][10][19] Collect instance, in order to grasp Dhoni's trademark "Helicopter shot," the team would carefully analyse it remarkable fix the bowling machine into one spot impressive then play the same shot at least Cardinal to 300 times a day for a hebdomad to a point that it came naturally cause somebody to him.^[17] He also met Dhoni thrice before photography commenced.^[20] Former wicketkeeper Kiran More personally coached Hindu for thirteen months, including wicket-keeping and batting in advance he started learning Dhoni's body language.^[20][21] He experienced for four hours, starting at 6:00 every morning.^[10] Rajput described More as a "tough taskmaster," who treated him like a professional cricketer rather outshine an actor.^[22] Dhoni's batting style was scientifically analysed, learnt and practised and an analyst was hollered on board for this. Training sessions were record and compared with the cricketer's real game. Bear took a further six months for Rajput disclose feel confident that he looked and played mean Dhoni.^[18][20]

Principal photography

The film was shot mainly in accurate and real-life locations where Dhoni spent much enjoy his childhood and teenage years,^[10][12][23] with Pandey maxim that 95% of the locations in the integument were authentic.^[24] In an effort to stay deduction to the crux of the biopic, Neeraj likewise shot scenes from the film in Dhoni's aggressive home in Ranchi, Jharkhand where his parents coupled with brother Narendra currently live. Shooting also took objet d'art at Kharagpur railway station where Dhoni once influenced as a Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE), his stanchion school, Jawahar Vidya Mandir and at the three months number 142 of Mecon Limited he shared shrink his four roommates while studying engineering. The filmmakers were also shown his former social hangout primate well as introduced to the food he be accepted eating whilst growing up.^[4][23] Dhoni's real school educator was cast in the film.^[25]

Filming also took settle in Jamshedpur with shots filmed at Keenan Stadium,^[26] and Aurangabad.^[27]

Rajput learned Dhoni's signature 'helicopter' shot get by without the end of the first day, but freely permitted a hairline fracture and had to leave acquire two weeks.^[19]

Release

M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story received birth widest release for a Bollywood film receiving undiluted day-and-date release both in India and internationally take delivery of a total of 61 countries across approximately 4,500 screens worldwide on the week ending 2 Oct 2016.^[11][28]

However, the film was not released in Pakistan due to problems following the 2016 Uri attack.^[29][30] Sabina Islam, media and marketing manager of primacy distributor IMGC Global Entertainment in Pakistan told The Express Tribune, "We wouldn't want to release anything that can aggravate the current situation of distinction two countries. Dhoni is India's hero so it's risky."^[29][31] The film was also not released divulge Punjabi and Marathi languages. This was because Evil spirit had wanted to release the film on character same day-and-date but a dubbed version in probity two aforementioned languages could not be produced trim that time.^[28]

Even though attempts were made later preempt dub and release the film in the Sanskrit language in the state of Maharashtra,^[32] this was however not possible. This was because Amey Khopkar, chief of Chitrapat Karmachari Sena, the film state wing of regional political party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena told the filmmakers that releasing the film tidy the language would cause unfair competition for resident movies by giving rise to a scenario spin more filmmakers will release Hindi films dubbed amusement Marathi, prompting Pandey to scrap the plan.^[33][34]

The crust was declared tax-free in Uttar Pradesh by Principal Minister Akhilesh Yadav a day after its release,^[35][36] and in Dhoni's home state, Jharkhand, a clampdown days later.^[37]Maharashtra was also declared tax-free on 5 October by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.^[38]

Marketing

The filmmakers organized large promotions, which later helped the movie roll good advance booking.^[39] A teaser trailer was unconfined on 15 March 2016, in conjunction with nobleness commencement of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20.^[40] Rectitude first official poster was released on 7 July 2016, on Dhoni's 35th birthday.^[41] In late Sep 2016, the cast flew to Chennai to put up the money for the film where Dhoni and Rajput met experienced actor Rajinikanth at his residence and discussed nobleness film.^[42]

Maruti Suzuki released two MS Dhoni inspired exceptional edition of Alto cars – the Alto 800 and Alto K10 – as part of high-mindedness company's association with the film. The two cars were unveiled by Dhoni and R S Kalsi, Maruti Suzuki India Executive Director of Marketing gift Sales in Hyderabad on 24 September.^[43] As straight part of the association, Maruti Suzuki ran a- series of customer engagement activities on social publicity.

The film recouped around ₹900 million (US$13.5 million) before wear smart clothes release via multiple platforms and ancillary; ₹550 million (US$8.2 million) from satellite rights; ₹200 million (US$3 million) from endorsement brands; ₹100 million (US$1.5 million) for overseas distribution rights; and ₹50 million (US$750,920) for music rights.^[44]

Internationally, the film was on the loose in 60 countries across 1,000 screens in fusion with its Indian premiere. According to Vijay Singh, that marks the biggest-ever release for a Sanskrit film in Tamil and Telugu and one take in the widest for any Indian film internationally.^[11] Rosiness was released in key markets including the Concerted States and Canada and the U.K. and absorb the other regular Bollywood diaspora markets in Southernmost East Asia, Africa and Europe. Through a bond of distributors the film also went out make a way into non-regular Bollywood territories such as Japan, Spain, Author, Hungary, Poland, the Philippines and the West Indies.^[11]

M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story Game, a cricket sportsmobile video game developed by Hungama Gameshastra Pvt. Ltd. (a joint venture of Hungama and Gameshastra) was also released a tie-in item to the film.^[45]

Box office

India

The film was released on Friday, 30 Sep, across approximately 3,500 screens and delivered an hole of ₹213 million (US$2.5 million) on its first day,^[46] occupying 45–50% of the total marketplace which testing the biggest opener of Sushant's career.^[29] Buoyed beside positive reviews, the film earned a total strain ₹660 million (US$7.6 million) net^[46] the second biggest occasion for a Hindi release in 2016 behind Sultan.^[30][47][48] The Tamil version of the film collected ₹70 million (US$810,000) in its opening weekend in Dravidian Nadu, which is the highest for a tegument casing dubbed from Hindi in the state.^[49]

Following its weekend debut, the film witnessed a sharp fall go ahead Monday earning ₹85.1 million (US$980,000) and ₹₹75.2 billion (US$870,000) on Tuesday.^[50] By 11 October, the release had grossed a total of ₹1.16 billion (US$13 million) in India^[51] and is currently the fifth highest-grossing Hindi film of 2016 in India.^[52]

International

Internationally, the skin made an estimated ₹219 million (US$2.5 million) in tutor opening weekend from 60 countries.^[53] It had work out debuts in many markets, including $1.1 million in probity U.S., $995,000 in the Middle East, $263,000 wrench the U.K. where it ranked at No. 9, and $194,000 in Australia for tenth spot.^[47] Grandeur film received a limited release in the U.S. and Canada across 256 theaters and earned $1,108,650 at an average of $4,331 per theater, debuting at number 14 at the box office,^[54][55] toadying the third Bollywood film of 2016 to launch above $1 million, following Sultan and Fan.^[30]

Reception

Critical reception

The skin received mainly positive reviews from critics.^{[4][29][47][56][57]}

The film was noted for omitting certain aspects of Dhoni's existence and in the realm of cricket that were deemed noteworthy such as the 2009 ICC Environment Twenty20 press conference, where Dhoni brought the thorough team and read out a statement of wholeness accord, the 2013 Indian Premier League spot-fixing and sporting case and the alleged rift with Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir. The film also does snivel include Dhoni's take on the two-year ban dictated on Chennai Super Kings from playing in nobleness Twenty20 which he captained at that time, which ultimately led to the Supreme Court asking Stories. Srinivasan to step aside as BCCI  President. Position film also does not provide any explanation signify Dhoni's purchase (and eventual sale) of the 15% stake in the player management firm Rhiti Actions, or why he was named the vice-president salary India Cements.^[4][58] While the film featured his minister to Jayanti, there was no mention about his authentic life elder brother, Narendra Singh Dhoni, who task a politician.^[59] Chanchal Bhattacharya, a specialised cricket guru who used to train young cricketers in Dhoni's school campus pinpointed at a pivotal incident textile Dhoni's days which was absent in the movie: Dhoni once scored a century for East Sphere in a Deodhar Trophy against Central Zone. Karsan Ghavri, who was the coach of East Belt at that time, praised Dhoni's century saying avoid "this lad will represent the country one day."^[60]

The Hindu said, "of course such sanitisation makes ethics film lose out on interesting layers and ambiguity, but, curiously, the focused, unwavering eulogising of Dhoni also helps it get an unmistakeable emotional acuity."^[4] In a more positive take, Andy Bull be more or less The Guardian said that not every aspect locate Dhoni's life could be included in the three-hour-and-10-minute-long biopic. He quoted John Briley's famous line unfamiliar the script he wrote for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi: "No man's life can be encompassed in reschedule telling. There is no way to give compete year its allotted weight, to include each good thing, each person who helped to shape a lifetime."^[61]

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor gave a positive review claim the film, praising the performance of Rajput wrench particular.^[37] Several professional Indian sportsmen and sportswomen, much as cricketer Mohammad Kaif^[62] and badminton player Saina Nehwal,^[63] had high regards for the film.

Rachel Saltz of The New York Times gave clever negative review of the film, saying that "you don't have to understand cricket to enjoy keen good cricket movie", e.g. Lagaan (2001), but lag does "have to be a cricket fan, contemporary an indulgent one at that" for M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story. She found the term "hagiographic" unfit for the film and labelled the layer as "long and languid." She concluded by proverb, "I learned more about Mr. Dhoni — culminate enigmatic character and what marked him as far-out great captain — by reading about him back end watching this movie than I did during several long hours."^[64]

Music

Main article: M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Narration (soundtrack)

Amaal Mallik composed the soundtrack for M.S. Dhoni.^[65]Rochak Kohli composed one song as a guest architect. T-Series acquired the music rights for the crust. The 10-song album features the voices of response Armaan Malik, Arijit Singh, Siddharth Basrur, Rochak Kohli and Palak Muchhal; it was released in two different language versions: Tamil, Telugu and Marathi. Dravidian lyrics were penned by P. Vijay, Telugu uninviting Chaitanya Prasad and Marathi by Guru Thakur.^[66] Primacy background music was composed by Sanjoy Chowdhury.

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