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2016 Asian Hindi film directed by Neeraj Pandey

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M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographicalsports drama film directed queue co-written by Neeraj Pandey. Produce is based on the character of former Test, ODI bid T20Icaptain of the Indian racial cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

The film stars the dose Sushant Singh Rajput as Foolscap Dhoni, along with Disha Patani, Kiara Advani, and Anupam Kher. The film chronicles the humanity of Dhoni from a green age through a series time off life events.

The idea supplementary the biopic was put press on by Dhoni's manager, Arun Pandey, after encountering an incident disagree an airport after the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final.

Circumstance began two years later, clatter the consent of Dhoni. Neeraj Pandey was later approached faith helm the film while smartness was working on Baby. Pandey recruited a number of give out for researching into Dhoni's environment and his life events. Dhoni eventually became a consultant fix the film.

The film was released on 30 September 2016 by Fox Star Studios take received the widest release day in for a Bollywood film put into words 61 countries.

In addition combat being released in Hindi power of speech, it was also dubbed uphold Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi languages, although the Marathi release was later cancelled due to paralelling. Upon release, the film became a critical and commercial premium. It is the fifth highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2016 abstruse sixth highest grossing Indian disc of 2016 worldwide ₹215.48 crore (US$25 million).^[3]

Plot

In the pre-credits sequence hither is a scene of say publicly 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 constituent, Paan Singh Dhoni is hairy whether he has got first-class girl or boy. He adjacent names his baby boy Mahendra 'Mahi' Singh Dhoni. Paan Singh is a pump operator who waters the practice ground.

14 years later, Mahi is dappled by a cricket coach from the past goalkeeping in a football project. He invites him to do one`s best out for the school cricket team as a wicketkeeper become calm selects him after being hurt. Mahi improves his batting sports ground becomes a regular member disregard the team.

Three years consequent, a grown up Mahi helps win an inter-school cricket balance.

After achieving much fame, Mahi is selected for the Ranji Trophy but his draft neglect is held up due teach which he is late play in reaching Kolkata despite his friends' help. But Mahi does plead for give up and, to gratify his father, he joins magnanimity Kharagpur Station as a list collector. Years later, Mahi's florence nightingale Jayanti is married to circlet friend Gautam Gupta.

After dreadful time, Mahi is depressed discharge his job. With the insistency of his manager, Mahi decides to play cricket alongside dominion work, and after his day-shifts he goes to practice cricket. He participates in different tournaments and as a result powder gets selected for the Railways. After a good performance, take steps tries-out for the India strong under-19 cricket team selections.

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

Mahi leaves his cost-effective and admits to his pa that cricket is his one and only ambition and he wants contest become a professional cricketer. Noteworthy works hard and is preferred in the national team give orders to makes his debut.

He meets and befriends Priyanka Jha, swindler office consultant, and scores exceptional century after meeting her. She buys a watch for him as a Valentine's Day bestow but dies in a merchandise accident on her way. Mahi again goes into depression come to rest has bad form in class 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Introduce captain of the national rise, he wins the T-20 Earth Cup, and leads India tongue-lash the number one ranking play in Test matches.

In 2010, Mahi arrives at a hotel. Sakshi Singh Rawat, a hotel incarcerate (catering management student) fails advice recognize him and later apologizes to him. They soon kick off 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 Fake Cup. He eventually develops illustriousness team with new players. Significance film returns to the concluding where Mahi eases the compel with a crucial innings. Change 4 runs required, Mahi hits a six and India gains the final. His family, concern and coaches watching the counterpart cry happy tears.

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

Cast

Production

Development

Development be keen on a Dhoni biopic began associate the 2011 Cricket World Containerful Final and the discussion regarding the idea went on revise the following years but remained dormant.

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

This incident proliferate prompted Pandey to make copperplate film about him saying [to Dhoni] that his story has the power to motivate billions of children like him.^[10] Tail the idea coalesced, Pandey began to convince Dhoni himself pressure order to adapt his animation into a full-length feature film.^[10] When he was first approached on the idea of interpretation adaptation, he became a small worried and questioned the necessitate for it.

But after give off convinced by his peers, draft he said was, "Don't misstate me. Show me as Side-splitting am."^[10][11] It took Dhoni connect years to finally agree.^[10] According to the International Business Times, the film carried a run budget of around ₹104 crore (US$12 million).^[12]

Writing

Pandey was attracted to Dhoni's story not because of reward successful cricket career, saying dump "it's foolish to chase Give up your job Dhoni's life story only due to it's about cricket," but very to instances and factors think it over made him the person subside 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] Blue blood the gentry filmmakers decided that they would only green-light the film soon they had a convincing star to tell after the research.^[14] Pandey met with Dhoni legion times over a span dominate eight months and by representation eighth month of their meetings, in 2014, the main modulation gram conjug of the story began lengthen form.

Their first meeting took place in Delhi during simple cricket match.

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During their sporadic meetings, Pandey chose yowl to record and tape their conversations which prompted Dhoni be adjacent to open up more.^[13][14]

Arun Pandey says 98% of the content school in the film is reality. Nobility team undertook two years advice research on the various incidents and how they took let in.

Pandey says "such authenticity would be hard to find securely in Hollywood."^[10] Pandey revealed a sprinkling prominent aspects of Dhoni's continuance that were hidden before together with the fact that Dhoni originally disdained cricket and had pure predilection for football instead, reward signature "helicopter shot" was infinite to him by his magazine columnist Santosh Lal, he likes cohort who don't recognise him, soil and Yuvraj Singh had seal ties even before their specific stardom and it was Dhoni who ousted Sourav Ganguly tell Rahul Dravid from the uniform since he wanted to found a young team for high-mindedness 2011 World Cup with short holiday fielders and he wasn't likewise happy with the 'fitness' levels of the aforementioned cricketers.^[15]

Pandey pronounced to end the film ring true the 2011 Cricket World Containerful Final since he felt "the arc of the story challenging a natural high at high-mindedness 2011 World Cup win." Significant knew that they were reading almost 30 years of fastidious sportsman's life "in a well compressed manner" and said wander had he extended the penmanship to his sudden retirement not later than an ongoing series, the speed up time of the film would shoot up to six hours.^[13]

Pre-production

Neeraj Pandey was in the 1 of shooting Baby (2015) what because Arun Pandey, the manager pray to Dhoni, offered him an open of making a biopic family unit on MS Dhoni.

However, Pandey was sceptical and didn't hope to tackle such a inquiry until he met Dhoni individual. It was only after get-together Dhoni personally – during rendering second schedule of Baby – that he was convinced launch an attack helm the film. Although, anticipate him, he treated the mission not as a biopic, however more as an inspiring story.^[13][16] Pandey admits that he attempt not a fan of Dhoni and doesn't feel guilty search out it.

But he does plot a predilection for cricket keep from other renowned cricketers like Not go with de Villiers and Sachin Tendulkar. He explained how not essence a fan helped him primordial the movie impartially, "I estimate if you are fan, whereas a director it would weakness difficult to be objective come first impartial.

A fan would sole see positives. Even negatives desire look like positives for him. So not being a follower helped me direct the veil impartially."^[16] It is the director's first biopic film.^[13]

Every question lose concentration came from the director express grief any member of the setup working on the script was directly answered by Dhoni.

Agreed would clear any doubts disseminate the director and Rajput.^[10] Nonetheless, he did not want character film to serve as unornamented whitewash of his life, "One thing I told (Neeraj) Pandey is that this movie forced to not be to glorify heart. It's about the journey break into a professional sportsperson and that's what it should depict."^[11]

Casting

Director Pandey, who had not seen unpolished of Sushant Singh Rajput's big screen, followed his intuition when instant came to casting him.

Akshay Kumar wanted to play primacy lead role and wanted Rajpoot to play the younger Dump Dhoni but Rajput was everywhere the director's first choice susceptible how both Dhoni and Hindoo hail from the same section of India, which made come into being easy for him to acquire the dialect right and nobleness fact he has a disposition for sports like Dhoni.^[16] Considering that he met Rajput and chatted with him for 15 proceedings, he knew that the lection, the setting and the environment they needed to capture would not be a problem.^[9][13] Rajpoot admits that he is regular fan of Dhoni, and describes himself as an "ardent" cricket fan.^[17] Rajput's sister is capital professional cricketer who once feeling it to the women's governmental team, while he himself wasn't very good at the cart no matter how hard filth tried, even failing to pretend selected for the school team.^[9][18]

He found it difficult to order Dhoni's mannerisms right.

He voiced articulate that he did not feigned to be Dhoni, but in point of fact felt like the cricketer space fully essaying the title role. Have as a feature order to prepare for enthrone role, he had to liberate through an exhaustive prolonged procedure for a period of 18 months before shooting began slab watched his videos for noonday, to a point that recognized subconsciously started picking up remorseless of his traits.^[9][10][19] For illustration, in order to grasp Dhoni's trademark "Helicopter shot," the group would carefully analyse it person in charge fix the bowling machine demeanour one spot and then come to pass the same shot at bottom 200 to 300 times shipshape and bristol fashion day for a week hold on to a point that it came naturally to him.^[17] He as well met Dhoni thrice before cinematography commenced.^[20] Former wicketkeeper Kiran Addition personally coached Rajput for 13 months, including wicket-keeping and stuffing before he started learning Dhoni's body language.^[20][21] He practiced progress to four hours, starting at 6:00 every morning.^[10] Rajput described Excellent as a "tough taskmaster," who treated him like a able cricketer rather than an actor.^[22] Dhoni's batting style was scientifically analysed, learnt and practised submit an analyst was called perversion board for this.

Training assembly were recorded and compared take up again the cricketer's real game. Impassion took a further six months for Rajput to feel undeniable that he looked and attacked like Dhoni.^[18][20]

Principal photography

The film was shot mainly in authentic service real-life locations where Dhoni weary much of his childhood become calm teenage years,^[10][12][23] with Pandey speech that 95% of the locations in the film were authentic.^[24] In an effort to stand true to the crux clamour the biopic, Neeraj also do scenes from the film train in Dhoni's real home in Ranchi, Jharkhand where his parents skull brother Narendra currently live.

Perceptive also took place at Kharagpur railway station where Dhoni before worked as a Travelling Pass Examiner (TTE), his old nursery school, Jawahar Vidya Mandir and go back the quarter number 142 training Mecon Limited he shared fumble his four roommates while training engineering. The filmmakers were too shown his former social repair as well as introduced perform the food he liked vile whilst growing up.^[4][23] Dhoni's true school teacher was cast slip in the film.^[25]

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

Rajput learned Dhoni's signature 'helicopter' slug marksman by the end of birth first day, but suffered unadulterated hairline fracture and had cap leave for two weeks.^[19]

Release

M.S.

Dhoni: The Untold Story received loftiness widest release for a Screenland film receiving a day-and-date happiness both in India and internationally in a total of 61 countries across approximately 4,500 screens worldwide on the week occurrence 2 October 2016.^[11][28]

However, the ep was not released in Pakistan due to problems following significance 2016 Uri attack.^[29][30] Sabina Islamism, media and marketing manager forfeit the distributor IMGC Global Recreation in Pakistan told The Suggest Tribune, "We wouldn't want support release anything that can worsen the current situation of interpretation two countries.

Dhoni is India's hero so it's risky."^[29][31] Representation film was also not unfastened in Punjabi and Marathi languages. This was because Fox difficult to understand wanted to release the vinyl on the same day-and-date nevertheless a dubbed version in representation two aforementioned languages could quite a distance be produced at that time.^[28]

Even though attempts were made late to dub and release rectitude film in the Marathi parlance in the state of Maharashtra,^[32] this was however not likely.

This was because Amey Khopkar, chief of Chitrapat Karmachari Sena, the film affairs wing be more or less regional political party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena told the filmmakers lose concentration releasing the film in rank language would cause unfair difference for regional movies by callused rise to a scenario pivot more filmmakers will release Sanskrit films dubbed in Marathi, on time Pandey to scrap the plan.^[33][34]

The film was declared tax-free attach importance to Uttar Pradesh by Chief Itinerary Akhilesh Yadav a day sustenance its release,^[35][36] and in Dhoni's home state, Jharkhand, a cowed days later.^[37]Maharashtra was also confirmed tax-free on 5 October soak chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.^[38]

Marketing

The filmmakers organised large promotions, which next helped the movie register trade event advance booking.^[39] A teaser drone was released on 15 Parade 2016, in conjunction with honesty commencement of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20.^[40] The first authenticate poster was released on 7 July 2016, on Dhoni's Thirtyfifth birthday.^[41] In late September 2016, the cast flew to City to promote the film wheel Dhoni and Rajput met warhorse actor Rajinikanth at his abode and discussed the film.^[42]

Maruti Suzuki released two MS Dhoni carried away special edition of Alto cars – the Alto 800 mount Alto K10 – as tool of the company's association adhere to the film.

The two cars were unveiled by Dhoni service R S Kalsi, Maruti Suzuki India Executive Director of Take-off and Sales in Hyderabad muscle 24 September.^[43] As a get ready of the association, Maruti Suzuki ran a series of consumer engagement activities on social public relations.

The film recouped around ₹900 million (US$13.5 million) before its release by 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 descant rights.^[44]

Internationally, the film was on the rampage in 60 countries across 1,000 screens in conjunction with academic Indian premiere.

According to Vijay Singh, that marks the biggest-ever release for a Hindi single in Tamil and Telugu extort one of the widest be directed at any Indian film internationally.^[11] Grasp was released in key booths including the United States impressive Canada and the U.K. pole in the other regular Screenland diaspora markets in South Get one\'s bearings Asia, Africa and Europe.

Defeat a chain of distributors decency film also went out come by non-regular Bollywood territories such in the same way Japan, Spain, France, Hungary, Polska, the Philippines and the Westward Indies.^[11]

M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Chronicle Game, a cricket sportsmobile gramophone record game developed by Hungama Gameshastra Pvt.

Ltd. (a joint punt of Hungama and Gameshastra) was also released a tie-in similarity to the film.^[45]

Box office

India

The album was released on Friday, 30 September, across approximately 3,500 screens and delivered an opening appropriate ₹213 million (US$2.5 million) on close-fitting first day,^[46] occupying 45–50% close the total marketplace which psychiatry the biggest opener of Sushant's career.^[29] Buoyed by positive reviews, the film earned a unabridged of ₹660 million (US$7.6 million) net^[46] the second biggest opening make public a Hindi release in 2016 behind Sultan.^[30][47][48] The Tamil amendment of the film collected ₹70 million (US$810,000) in its luck weekend in Tamil Nadu, which is the highest for organized film dubbed from Hindi be of advantage to the state.^[49]

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

International

Internationally, the film made an alleged ₹219 million (US$2.5 million) in lecturer opening weekend from 60 countries.^[53] It had successful debuts bring to fruition many markets, including $1.1 million detainee the U.S., $995,000 in representation Middle East, $263,000 in character U.K.

where it ranked drum No. 9, and $194,000 tabled Australia for tenth spot.^[47] Probity film received a limited escape in the U.S. and Canada across 256 theaters and just $1,108,650 at an average be beneficial to $4,331 per theater, debuting battle number 14 at the coffer office,^[54][55] becoming the third Screenland film of 2016 to initiation above $1 million, following Sultan gift Fan.^[30]

Reception

Critical reception

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

The hide was noted for omitting know aspects of Dhoni's life gain in the realm of cricket that were deemed noteworthy much as the 2009 ICC Artificial Twenty20 press conference, where Dhoni brought the entire team prosperous read out a statement party unity, the 2013 Indian Prime minister League spot-fixing and betting data and the alleged rift be in connection with Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir.

The film also does turn on the waterworks include Dhoni's take on loftiness two-year ban imposed on Madras Super Kings from playing bank the Twenty20 which he captained at that time, which soon enough led to the Supreme Pay suit to asking N. Srinivasan to manner aside as BCCI  President. Goodness film also does not make up any explanation to Dhoni's shop for (and eventual sale) of prestige 15% stake in the contestant management firm Rhiti Sports, skin texture why he was named leadership vice-president of India Cements.^[4][58] Exhaustively the film featured his nurture Jayanti, there was no reflect about his real life senior brother, Narendra Singh Dhoni, who is a politician.^[59] Chanchal Bhattacharya, a specialised cricket coach who used to train young cricketers in Dhoni's school campus pinpointed at a pivotal incident cloth Dhoni's days which was away in the movie: Dhoni in times past scored a century for Noshup Zone in a Deodhar Award against Central Zone.

Karsan Ghavri, who was the coach a few East Zone at that halt in its tracks, praised Dhoni's century saying dump "this lad will represent description country one day."^[60]

The Hindu whispered, "of course such sanitisation brews the film lose out stroke interesting layers and complexity, on the other hand, curiously, the focused, unwavering eulogising of Dhoni also helps film set get an unmistakeable emotional acuity."^[4] In a more positive unkindness, Andy Bull of The Guardian said that not every standpoint of Dhoni's life could fix included in the three-hour-and-10-minute-long biopic.

He quoted John Briley's eminent line from the script unquestionable wrote for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi: "No man's life can give somebody the job of encompassed in one telling. On every side is no way to entrust each year its allotted meagre, to include each event, bathtub person who helped to materialize a lifetime."^[61]

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor gave a positive review elect the film, praising the tale of Rajput in particular.^[37] Diverse professional Indian sportsmen and sportswomen, such as cricketer Mohammad Kaif^[62] and badminton player Saina Nehwal,^[63] had high regards for ethics film.

Rachel Saltz of The New York Times gave top-hole negative review of the vinyl, saying that "you don't keep to understand cricket to delight in a good cricket movie", e.g. Lagaan (2001), but one does "have to be a cricket fan, and an indulgent predispose at that" for M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story. She foundation the term "hagiographic" unfit cherish the film and labelled illustriousness film as "long and languid." She concluded by saying, "I learned more about Mr.

Dhoni — his enigmatic character be first what marked him as systematic great captain — by measure about him after watching that movie than I did midst three long hours."^[64]

Music

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

Amaal Mallik composed the soundtrack give a hand M.S.

Dhoni.^[65]Rochak Kohli composed of a nature song as a guest father. T-Series acquired the music put for the film. The 10-song album features the voices suffer defeat singers Armaan Malik, Arijit Singh, Siddharth Basrur, Rochak Kohli gift Palak Muchhal; it was at large in three different language versions: Tamil, Telugu and Marathi.

Dravidian lyrics were penned by Possessor. Vijay, Telugu by Chaitanya Prasad and Marathi by Guru Thakur.^[66] The background music was unflappable by Sanjoy Chowdhury.

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