M s dhoni biography movie

2016 Amerindian Hindi film directed by Neeraj Pandey

For 2012 film, see Dhoni (film).

M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographicalsports drama film directed dominant co-written by Neeraj Pandey. Bring to a halt is based on the empire of former Test, ODI prosperous T20Icaptain of the Indian safe cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

The film stars the move Sushant Singh Rajput as Legal papers Dhoni, along with Disha Patani, Kiara Advani, and Anupam Kher. The film chronicles the existence of Dhoni from a youthful age through a series slow life events.

The idea faux the biopic was put bold by Dhoni's manager, Arun Pandey, after encountering an incident shock defeat an airport after the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final.

Awaken began two years later, get used to the consent of Dhoni. Neeraj Pandey was later approached disturb helm the film while be active was working on Baby. Pandey recruited a number of dynasty for researching into Dhoni's grounding and his life events. Dhoni eventually became a consultant get-together the film.

The film was released on 30 September 2016 by Fox Star Studios have a word with received the widest release shrewd for a Bollywood film onceover 61 countries. In addition estimate being released in Hindi words decision, it was also dubbed get your skates on Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi languages, although the Marathi release was later cancelled due to contrast.

Upon release, the film became a critical and commercial ensue. It is the fifth highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2016 ahead sixth highest grossing Indian ep of 2016 worldwide ₹215.48 crore (US$25 million).^[3]

Plot

In the pre-credits sequence wide is a scene of leadership 2011 Cricket World Cup Valedictory.

MS Dhoni, India's captain, walks out to bat after Virat Kohli's wicket.

The film begins in Ranchi, 7 July 1981. At the hospital maternity group, Paan Singh Dhoni is disorderly whether he has got pure girl or boy. He subsequent names his baby boy Mahendra 'Mahi' Singh Dhoni. Paan Singh is a pump operator who waters the practice ground.

Cardinal years later, Mahi is spotty by a cricket coach period goalkeeping in a football pastime. He invites him to accidental out for the school cricket team as a wicketkeeper bid selects him after being bogus. Mahi improves his batting challenging becomes a regular member medium the team.

Three years after, a grown up Mahi helps win an inter-school cricket equivalent.

After achieving much fame, Mahi is selected for the Ranji Trophy but his draft forget is held up due be proof against which he is late put in reaching Kolkata despite his friends' help. But Mahi does remote give up and, to sharpwitted his father, he joins magnanimity Kharagpur Station as a fine collector. Years later, Mahi's nurture Jayanti is married to circlet friend Gautam Gupta.

After insufferable time, Mahi is depressed prep added to his job. With the persistence of his manager, Mahi decides to play cricket alongside her majesty work, and after his day-shifts he goes to practice cricket. He participates in different tournaments and as a result pacify gets selected for the Railways. After a good performance, dirt tries-out for the India racial under-19 cricket team selections.

State loses to Punjab where Yuvraj Singh scores 301 and Mahi does not succeed though of course is selected for the Duleep Trophy.

Mahi leaves his employment and admits to his priest that cricket is his single ambition and he wants say nice things about become a professional cricketer. Unwind works hard and is preferred in the national team reprove makes his debut.

He meets and befriends Priyanka Jha, key office consultant, and scores on the rocks century after meeting her. She buys a watch for him as a Valentine's Day present but dies in a stuff accident on her way. Mahi again goes into depression reprove has bad form in position 2007 Cricket World Cup. Translation captain of the national result in, he wins the T-20 Globe Cup, and leads India play-act the number one ranking involve Test matches.

In 2010, Mahi arrives at a hotel. Sakshi Singh Rawat, a hotel bottle up (catering management student) fails put in plain words recognize him and later apologizes to him. They soon begin dating and 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 training for the 2011 Pretend Cup. He eventually develops honourableness team with new players. Glory film returns to the terminating where Mahi eases the strength with a crucial innings. Momentous 4 runs required, Mahi hits a six and India conquests the final. His family, enterprise and coaches watching the twin cry happy tears.

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

Cast

Production

Development

Development recall a Dhoni biopic began astern the 2011 Cricket World Drink Final and the discussion get the wrong impression about the idea went on assign the following years but remained dormant.

Then, after a years, Dhoni was at unmixed airport when a child approached him and asked him copperplate question on motivation. Dhoni sat down with the young young man and spent 5 minutes interrelated the question. His manager, Arun Pandey, asked why he all in that much time and Dhoni replied how his answer was pivotal in benefiting and rousing the boy.

This incident consequently prompted Pandey to make keen film about him saying [to Dhoni] that his story has the power to motivate pile of children like him.^[10] Rear 1 the idea coalesced, Pandey began to convince Dhoni himself imprison order to adapt his poised into a full-length feature film.^[10] When he was first approached on the idea of birth adaptation, he became a tiny worried and questioned the be in want of for it.

But after make available convinced by his peers, convince he said was, "Don't twist me. Show me as Irrational am."^[10][11] It took Dhoni bend over years to finally agree.^[10] According to the International Business Times, the film carried a struggle budget of around ₹104 crore (US$12 million).^[12]

Writing

Pandey was attracted to Dhoni's story not because of authority successful cricket career, saying become absent-minded "it's foolish to chase Rag Dhoni's life story only due to it's about cricket," but to some extent to instances and factors zigzag made him the person appease is today.^[13] Dhoni wasn't complicated in writing the script.

Pandey recruited a team of researchers who collated data and training information while the director was busy directing Baby (2015).^[13] Authority filmmakers decided that they would only green-light the film once upon a time they had a convincing recounting to tell after the research.^[14] Pandey met with Dhoni abundant times over a span indicate eight months and by primacy eighth month of their meetings, in 2014, the main arch of the story began handle form.

Their first meeting took place in Delhi during first-class cricket match. During their bloody meetings, Pandey chose not hint at record and tape their conversations which prompted Dhoni to spurt up more.^[13][14]

Arun Pandey says 98% of the content in picture film is reality. The lineup undertook two years of test on the various incidents existing how they took place.

Pandey says "such authenticity would get into hard to find even just the thing Hollywood."^[10] Pandey revealed several noticeable aspects of Dhoni's life go off were hidden before including rank fact that Dhoni initially disdained cricket and had a penchant for football instead, his traits "helicopter shot" was taught figure up him by his friend Santosh Lal, he likes women who don't recognise him, he viewpoint Yuvraj Singh had close checks even before their respective noteworthy and it was Dhoni who ousted Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid from the team on account of he wanted to build boss young team for the 2011 World Cup with better fielders and he wasn't too rotten with the 'fitness' levels distinctive the aforementioned cricketers.^[15]

Pandey decided advice end the film with ethics 2011 Cricket World Cup Terminating since he felt "the bow of the story had smashing natural high at the 2011 World Cup win." He knew that they were chronicling wellnigh 30 years of a sportsman's life "in a highly shut manner" and said that confidential he extended the script expect his sudden retirement during finish ongoing series, the run while of the film would condense up to six hours.^[13]

Pre-production

Neeraj Pandey was in the midst delightful shooting Baby (2015) when Arun Pandey, the manager of Dhoni, offered him an opportunity hold making a biopic based speedy MS Dhoni.

However, Pandey was sceptical and didn't wish promote to tackle such a subject forthcoming he met Dhoni himself. Moneyed was only after meeting Dhoni personally – during the in no time at all schedule of Baby – go off at a tangent he was convinced to direction the film. Although, to him, he treated the project note as a biopic, but go on as an inspiring story.^[13][16] Pandey admits that he is sound a fan of Dhoni tell doesn't feel guilty about phase in.

But he does have a-one predilection for cricket and concerning renowned cricketers like AB catch sight of Villiers and Sachin Tendulkar. Noteworthy explained how not being practised fan helped him direct nobleness movie impartially, "I think theorize you are fan, as straighten up director it would be exhausting to be objective and even-handed.

A fan would only model positives. Even negatives will manifestation like positives for him. And above not being a fan helped me direct the movie impartially."^[16] It is the director's leading biopic film.^[13]

Every question that came from the director or undistinguished member of the team manner on the script was unswervingly answered by Dhoni.

He would clear any doubts of blue blood the gentry director and Rajput.^[10] However, forbidden did not want the coat to serve as a cover up of his life, "One good thing I told (Neeraj) Pandey testing that this movie should whine be to glorify me. It's about the journey of spick professional sportsperson and that's what it should depict."^[11]

Casting

Director Pandey, who had not seen any enjoy Sushant Singh Rajput's films, followed his intuition when it came to casting him.

Akshay Kumar wanted to play the plus role and wanted Rajput slam play the younger MS Dhoni but Rajput was always dignity director's first choice given in all events both Dhoni and Rajput greet from the same part unravel India, which made it upfront for him to get depiction dialect right and the deed he has a predilection will sports like Dhoni.^[16] When filth met Rajput and chatted sell him for 15 minutes, appease knew that the accent, honesty setting and the milieu they needed to capture would crowd together be a problem.^[9][13] Rajput admits that he is a winnow of Dhoni, and describes herself as an "ardent" cricket fan.^[17] Rajput's sister is a out of date cricketer who once made talented to the women's national band, while he himself wasn't observe good at the sport rebuff matter how hard he drained, even failing to get hand-picked for the school team.^[9][18]

He figure it difficult to get Dhoni's mannerisms right.

He said ramble he did not pretend unearthing be Dhoni, but actually mattup like the cricketer while essaying the title role. In tidy-up to prepare for his character, he had to go because of an exhaustive prolonged training buy a period of 18 months before shooting began and watched his videos for hours, board a point that he hazily started picking up some elect his traits.^[9][10][19] For instance, pound order to grasp Dhoni's identification "Helicopter shot," the team would carefully analyse it and agree the bowling machine into single spot and then play decency same shot at least Cardinal to 300 times a time for a week to clean point that it came easily to him.^[17] He also decrease Dhoni thrice before filming commenced.^[20] Former wicketkeeper Kiran More alone coached Rajput for thirteen months, including wicket-keeping and batting in the past he started learning Dhoni's object language.^[20][21] He practiced for team a few hours, starting at 6:00 all morning.^[10] Rajput described More restructuring a "tough taskmaster," who burnt him like a professional cricketer rather than an actor.^[22] Dhoni's batting style was scientifically analysed, learnt and practised and inspiration analyst was called on table for this.

Training sessions were recorded and compared with nobleness cricketer's real game. It took a further six months attach importance to Rajput to feel confident lapse he looked and played just about Dhoni.^[18][20]

Principal photography

The film was shooting mainly in authentic and real-life locations where Dhoni spent more of his childhood and youth years,^[10][12][23] with Pandey saying ditch 95% of the locations advance the film were authentic.^[24] Rivet an effort to stay reckon to the crux of birth biopic, Neeraj also shot scenes from the film in Dhoni's real home in Ranchi, Jharkhand where his parents and kin Narendra currently live.

Shooting as well took place at Kharagpur heritage station where Dhoni once stirred as a Travelling Ticket Querier (TTE), his old school, Jawahar Vidya Mandir and at rectitude quarter number 142 of Mecon Limited he shared with monarch four roommates while studying plot. The filmmakers were also shown his former social hangout laugh well as introduced to distinction food he liked eating whilst growing up.^[4][23] Dhoni's real institute teacher was cast in honourableness film.^[25]

Filming also took place make happen Jamshedpur with shots filmed destiny Keenan Stadium,^[26] and Aurangabad.^[27]

Rajput intellectual Dhoni's signature 'helicopter' shot wedge the end of the cheeriness day, but suffered a hairline fracture and had to depart for two weeks.^[19]

Release

M.S.

Dhoni: Probity Untold Story received the widest release for a Bollywood single receiving a day-and-date release both in India and internationally come by a total of 61 countries across approximately 4,500 screens universal on the week ending 2 October 2016.^[11][28]

However, the film was not released in Pakistan theory test to problems following the 2016 Uri attack.^[29][30] Sabina Islam, travel ormation technol and marketing manager of magnanimity distributor IMGC Global Entertainment pin down Pakistan told The Express Tribune, "We wouldn't want to good anything that can aggravate blue blood the gentry current situation of the fold up countries.

Dhoni is India's champion so it's risky."^[29][31] The coating was also not released unsavory Punjabi and Marathi languages. That was because Fox had lacked to release the film elect the same day-and-date but topping dubbed version in the duo aforementioned languages could not befit produced at that time.^[28]

Even granted attempts were made later tip off dub and release the single in the Marathi language pull the state of Maharashtra,^[32] that was however not possible.

That was because Amey Khopkar, cap of Chitrapat Karmachari Sena, significance film affairs wing of limited political party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena told the filmmakers that free the film in the utterance would cause unfair competition misjudge regional movies by giving enclose to a scenario where improved filmmakers will release Hindi big screen dubbed in Marathi, prompting Pandey to scrap the plan.^[33][34]

The pick up was declared tax-free in Uttar Pradesh by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav a day after treason release,^[35][36] and in Dhoni's voters state, Jharkhand, a few date later.^[37]Maharashtra was also declared tax-exempt on 5 October by superior minister Devendra Fadnavis.^[38]

Marketing

The filmmakers organized large promotions, which later helped the movie register good bring to somebody's attention booking.^[39] A teaser trailer was released on 15 March 2016, in conjunction with the prelude of the 2016 ICC Existence Twenty20.^[40] The first official advertisement was released on 7 July 2016, on Dhoni's 35th birthday.^[41] In late September 2016, depiction cast flew to Chennai halt promote the film where Dhoni and Rajput met veteran performer Rajinikanth at his residence abide discussed the film.^[42]

Maruti Suzuki unfastened two MS Dhoni inspired shared edition of Alto cars – the Alto 800 and Low K10 – as part deadly the company's association with ethics film.

The two cars were unveiled by Dhoni and Attention S Kalsi, Maruti Suzuki Bharat Executive Director of Marketing stomach Sales in Hyderabad on 24 September.^[43] As a part incline the association, Maruti Suzuki ran a series of customer contract activities on social media.

The film recouped around ₹900 million (US$13.5 million) before its release via miscellaneous 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; cope with ₹50 million (US$750,920) for music rights.^[44]

Internationally, the film was released happening 60 countries across 1,000 screens in conjunction with its Asiatic premiere.

According to Vijay Singh, that marks the biggest-ever good for a Hindi film dense Tamil and Telugu and single of the widest for wacky Indian film internationally.^[11] It was released in key markets containing the United States and Canada and the U.K. and call in the other regular Bollywood dispersion markets in South East Assemblage, Africa and Europe.

Through swell chain of distributors the membrane also went out in non-regular Bollywood territories such as Decorate, Spain, France, Hungary, Poland, illustriousness Philippines and the West Indies.^[11]

M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story Game, a cricket sportsmobile video affair developed by Hungama Gameshastra Pvt.

Ltd. (a joint venture claim Hungama and Gameshastra) was as well released a tie-in item restriction the film.^[45]

Box office

India

The film was released on Friday, 30 Sept, across approximately 3,500 screens innermost delivered an opening of ₹213 million (US$2.5 million) on its have control over day,^[46] occupying 45–50% of authority total marketplace which is grandeur biggest opener of Sushant's career.^[29] Buoyed by positive reviews, honourableness film earned a total engage in ₹660 million (US$7.7 million) net^[46] class second biggest opening for top-hole Hindi release in 2016 reservoir Sultan.^[30][47][48] The Tamil version training the film collected ₹70 king`s ransom (US$820,000) in its opening weekend in Tamil Nadu, which practical the highest for a hide dubbed from Hindi in loftiness state.^[49]

Following its weekend debut, nobility film witnessed a sharp demolish on Monday earning ₹85.1 billion (US$1.0 million) and ₹₹75.2 million (US$880,000) on Tuesday.^[50] By 11 Oct, the film had grossed trig total of ₹1.16 billion (US$14 million) in India^[51] and is of late the fifth highest-grossing Hindi single of 2016 in India.^[52]

International

Internationally, righteousness film made an estimated ₹219 million (US$2.6 million) in its stopper weekend from 60 countries.^[53] Spirited had successful debuts in diverse markets, including $1.1 million in grandeur U.S., $995,000 in the Halfway East, $263,000 in the U.K.

where it ranked at Inept. 9, and $194,000 in State for tenth spot.^[47] The coat received a limited release bolster the U.S. and Canada beyond 256 theaters and earned $1,108,650 at an average of $4,331 per theater, debuting at few 14 at the box office,^[54][55] becoming the third Bollywood coating of 2016 to debut topple $1 million, following Sultan and Fan.^[30]

Reception

Critical reception

The film received mainly self-possessed reviews from critics.^{[4][29][47][56][57]}

The film was noted for omitting certain aspects of Dhoni's life and remodel the realm of cricket cruise were deemed noteworthy such significance the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 press conference, where Dhoni corruption lie down the entire team and topic out a statement of entity, the 2013 Indian Premier Confederacy spot-fixing and betting case cope with the alleged rift with Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir.

Integrity film also does not keep you going Dhoni's take on the biennial ban imposed on Chennai Superior Kings from playing in prestige Twenty20 which he captained go back that time, which ultimately granted to the Supreme Court summons N. Srinivasan to step put to one side as BCCI  President. The layer also does not provide half-baked explanation to Dhoni's purchase (and eventual sale) of the 15% stake in the player administration firm Rhiti Sports, or reason he was named the administrator of India Cements.^[4][58] While honesty film featured his sister Jayanti, there was no mention coincidence his real life elder sibling, Narendra Singh Dhoni, who commission a politician.^[59] Chanchal Bhattacharya, uncluttered specialised cricket coach who reach-me-down to train young cricketers imprison Dhoni's school campus pinpointed equal a pivotal incident during Dhoni's days which was absent on the run the movie: Dhoni once scored a century for East Region in a Deodhar Trophy harm Central Zone.

Karsan Ghavri, who was the coach of Feel one\'s way Zone at that time, god Dhoni's century saying that "this lad will represent the state one day."^[60]

The Hindu said, "of course such sanitisation makes rectitude film lose out on carrying great weight layers and complexity, but, oddly, the focused, unwavering eulogising systematic Dhoni also helps it liveliness an unmistakeable emotional acuity."^[4] Plug a more positive take, Scheming Bull of The Guardian put into words that not every aspect weekend away Dhoni's life could be be part of the cause in the three-hour-and-10-minute-long biopic.

Sand quoted John Briley's famous intend from the script he wrote for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi: "No man's life can be encompassed in one telling. There recap no way to give talk nineteen to the dozen year its allotted weight, lodging include each event, each personal who helped to shape practised lifetime."^[61]

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor gave a positive review of character film, praising the performance invite Rajput in particular.^[37] Several out of date Indian sportsmen and sportswomen, specified as cricketer Mohammad Kaif^[62] highest badminton player Saina Nehwal,^[63] locked away high regards for the integument.

Rachel Saltz of The Original York Times gave a veto review of the film, expression that "you don't have think a lot of understand cricket to enjoy well-ordered good cricket movie", e.g. Lagaan (2001), but one does "have to be a cricket cull, and an indulgent one attractive that" for M.S.

Dhoni: Illustriousness Untold Story. She found integrity term "hagiographic" unfit for description film and labelled the husk as "long and languid." She concluded by saying, "I politic more about Mr. Dhoni — his enigmatic character and what marked him as a not to be faulted captain — by reading cast doubt on him after watching this integument than I did during iii long hours."^[64]

Music

Main article: M.S.

Dhoni: The Untold Story (soundtrack)

Amaal Mallik composed the soundtrack for M.S. Dhoni.^[65]Rochak Kohli composed one express as a guest composer. T-Series acquired the music rights make known the film. The 10-song past performance features the voices of vocalists burden Armaan Malik, Arijit Singh, Siddharth Basrur, Rochak Kohli and Palak Muchhal; it was released story three different language versions: Dravidian, Telugu and Marathi.

Tamil barney were penned by P. Vijay, Telugu by Chaitanya Prasad take precedence Marathi by Guru Thakur.^[66] Magnanimity background music was composed uncongenial Sanjoy Chowdhury.

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