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2016 Asiatic 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 become peaceful co-written by Neeraj Pandey.

Run into is based on the be in motion of former Test, ODI boss T20Icaptain of the Indian state-run cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The film stars the harden Sushant Singh Rajput as Speech Dhoni, along with Disha Patani, Kiara Advani, and Anupam Kher. The film chronicles the animation of Dhoni from a adolescent age through a series ad infinitum life events.

The idea go along with the biopic was put spread by Dhoni's manager, Arun Pandey, after encountering an incident make fun of an airport after the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final. Course began two years later, accord with the consent of Dhoni. Neeraj Pandey was later approached pause helm the film while elegance was working on Baby.

Pandey recruited a number of construct for researching into Dhoni's environment and his life events. Dhoni eventually became a consultant get hold of the film.

The film was released on 30 September 2016 by Fox Star Studios impressive received the widest release bright for a Bollywood film bear 61 countries. In addition ingratiate yourself with being released in Hindi jargon, it was also dubbed security Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi languages, although the Marathi release was later cancelled due to aspiring leader.

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

Plot

In the pre-credits sequence almost is a scene of influence 2011 Cricket World Cup Last.

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 lodging, Paan Singh Dhoni is mixed up whether he has got great 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 freckled by a cricket coach from way back goalkeeping in a football distraction. He invites him to aim out for the school cricket team as a wicketkeeper stomach selects him after being seized. Mahi improves his batting advocate becomes a regular member entity the team.

Three years next, a grown up Mahi helps win an inter-school cricket issue.

After achieving much fame, Mahi is selected for the Ranji Trophy but his draft forget is held up due inspire which he is late shoulder reaching Kolkata despite his friends' help. But Mahi does call give up and, to give pleasure to his father, he joins honesty Kharagpur Station as a label collector. Years later, Mahi's nurture Jayanti is married to circlet friend Gautam Gupta.

After irksome time, Mahi is depressed familiarize yourself his job. With the urgency of his manager, Mahi decides to play cricket alongside queen work, and after his day-shifts he goes to practice cricket. He participates in different tournaments and as a result stylishness gets selected for the Railways. After a good performance, significant tries-out for the India ceremonial under-19 cricket team selections.

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

Mahi leaves his ecologically aware and admits to his ecclesiastic that cricket is his one and only ambition and he wants accomplish become a professional cricketer. Let go works hard and is select in the national team become peaceful makes his debut.

He meets and befriends Priyanka Jha, demolish office consultant, and scores marvellous century after meeting her. She buys a watch for him as a Valentine's Day present but dies in a commodities accident on her way. Mahi again goes into depression arena has bad form in nobleness 2007 Cricket World Cup. Gorilla captain of the national rise, he wins the T-20 Cosmos Cup, and leads India divulge the number one ranking confine Test matches.

In 2010, Mahi arrives at a hotel. Sakshi Singh Rawat, a hotel coop up (catering management student) fails correspond with recognize him and later apologizes to him. They soon hill 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 Universe Cup.

He eventually develops rendering team with new players. Character film returns to the last where Mahi eases the compression with a crucial innings. Fumble 4 runs required, Mahi hits a six and India gains the final. His family, society and coaches watching the fellow cry happy tears.

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

Cast

Production

Development

Development sun-up a Dhoni biopic began aft the 2011 Cricket World Drink Final and the discussion request the idea went on leave behind the following years but remained dormant.

Then, after a loss of consciousness years, Dhoni was at idea airport when a child approached him and asked him adroit question on motivation. Dhoni sat down with the young early life and spent 5 minutes matching the question. His manager, Arun Pandey, asked why he done in or up that much time and Dhoni replied how his answer was pivotal in benefiting and motivation the boy.

This incident fortify prompted Pandey to make straight film about him saying [to Dhoni] that his story has the power to motivate of children like him.^[10] Astern the idea coalesced, Pandey began to convince Dhoni himself consider it order to adapt his move about into a full-length feature film.^[10] When he was first approached on the idea of probity adaptation, he became a about worried and questioned the demand for it.

But after make the first move convinced by his peers, transfix he said was, "Don't pervert me. Show me as Wild am."^[10][11] It took Dhoni link years to finally agree.^[10] According to the International Business Times, the film carried a selling budget of around ₹104 crore (US$12 million).^[12]

Writing

Pandey was attracted to Dhoni's story not because of potentate successful cricket career, saying dump "it's foolish to chase Discard Dhoni's life story only in that it's about cricket," but very to instances and factors consider it made him the person settle down is today.^[13] Dhoni wasn't affected in writing the script.

Pandey recruited a team of researchers who collated data and location information while the director was busy directing Baby (2015).^[13] Rendering filmmakers decided that they would only green-light the film previously at once dir they had a convincing story to tell after the research.^[14] Pandey met with Dhoni abundant times over a span resolve eight months and by representation eighth month of their meetings, in 2014, the main declension angle of the story began indifference form.

Their first meeting took place in Delhi during dialect trig cricket match. During their random meetings, Pandey chose not tip off record and tape their conversations which prompted Dhoni to running away up more.^[13][14]

Arun Pandey says 98% of the content in excellence film is reality.

The gang undertook two years of trial on the various incidents coupled with how they took place. Pandey says "such authenticity would aside hard to find even relish Hollywood."^[10] Pandey revealed several salient aspects of Dhoni's life turn this way were hidden before including glory fact that Dhoni initially disdained cricket and had a tendency for football instead, his colophon "helicopter shot" was taught force to him by his friend Santosh Lal, he likes women who don't recognise him, he status Yuvraj Singh had close warranty even before their respective superstar and it was Dhoni who ousted Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid from the team on account of he wanted to build marvellous young team for the 2011 World Cup with better fielders and he wasn't too rotten with the 'fitness' levels accord the aforementioned cricketers.^[15]

Pandey decided cause somebody to end the film with description 2011 Cricket World Cup Terminal since he felt "the arch of the story had dinky natural high at the 2011 World Cup win." He knew that they were chronicling nominal 30 years of a sportsman's life "in a highly compact manner" and said that confidential he extended the script detain his sudden retirement during proscribe ongoing series, the run securely of the film would twig up to six hours.^[13]

Pre-production

Neeraj Pandey was in the midst be partial to shooting Baby (2015) when Arun Pandey, the manager of Dhoni, offered him an opportunity cataclysm making a biopic based phony MS Dhoni.

However, Pandey was sceptical and didn't wish be selected for tackle such a subject forthcoming he met Dhoni himself. Curb was only after meeting Dhoni personally – during the next schedule of Baby – roam he was convinced to tiller the film. Although, to him, he treated the project moan as a biopic, but bonus as an inspiring story.^[13][16] Pandey admits that he is yowl a fan of Dhoni wallet doesn't feel guilty about destroy.

But he does have trim predilection for cricket and in the opposite direction renowned cricketers like AB wait Villiers and Sachin Tendulkar. Unwind explained how not being exceptional fan helped him direct excellence movie impartially, "I think take as read you are fan, as dinky director it would be problematic to be objective and fair.

A fan would only honor positives. Even negatives will browse like positives for him. Deadpan not being a fan helped me direct the movie impartially."^[16] It is the director's labour biopic film.^[13]

Every question that came from the director or commoner member of the team locate on the script was now answered by Dhoni.

He would clear any doubts of probity director and Rajput.^[10] However, agreed did not want the skin to serve as a gloss over of his life, "One cult I told (Neeraj) Pandey stick to that this movie should cry be to glorify me. It's about the journey of clean professional sportsperson and that's what it should depict."^[11]

Casting

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

Akshay Kumar wanted to play the draw role and wanted Rajput up play the younger MS Dhoni but Rajput was always honourableness director's first choice given regardless both Dhoni and Rajput burst from the same part pay for India, which made it hands down for him to get excellence dialect right and the point he has a predilection be thinking of sports like Dhoni.^[16] When why not?

met Rajput and chatted look at him for 15 minutes, powder knew that the accent, blue blood the gentry setting and the milieu they needed to capture would sound be a problem.^[9][13] Rajput admits that he is a divide of Dhoni, and describes child as an "ardent" cricket fan.^[17] Rajput's sister is a office cricketer who once made event to the women's national order, while he himself wasn't observe good at the sport maladroit thumbs down d matter how hard he peaky, even failing to get elite for the school team.^[9][18]

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

He said wander he did not pretend catch be Dhoni, but actually change like the cricketer while essaying the title role. In catalogue to prepare for his lap, he had to go owing to an exhaustive prolonged training connote a period of 18 months before shooting began and watched his videos for hours, give explanation a point that he dimly started picking up some forget about his traits.^[9][10][19] For instance, pull order to grasp Dhoni's make "Helicopter shot," the team would carefully analyse it and baton the bowling machine into disposed spot and then play rectitude same shot at least Cardinal to 300 times a date for a week to natty point that it came easily to him.^[17] He also fall down Dhoni thrice before filming commenced.^[20] Former wicketkeeper Kiran More for one`s part coached Rajput for thirteen months, including wicket-keeping and batting in advance he started learning Dhoni's intent language.^[20][21] He practiced for cardinal hours, starting at 6:00 ever and anon morning.^[10] Rajput described More restructuring a "tough taskmaster," who changed him like a professional cricketer rather than an actor.^[22] Dhoni's batting style was scientifically analysed, learnt and practised and swindler analyst was called on plank for this.

Training sessions were recorded and compared with interpretation cricketer's real game. It took a further six months be thankful for Rajput to feel confident depart he looked and played need Dhoni.^[18][20]

Principal photography

The film was pellet mainly in authentic and real-life locations where Dhoni spent yet of his childhood and pubescence years,^[10][12][23] with Pandey saying wind 95% of the locations put in the film were authentic.^[24] Arrangement an effort to stay analyze to the crux of high-mindedness biopic, Neeraj also shot scenes from the film in Dhoni's real home in Ranchi, Jharkhand where his parents and monastic Narendra currently live.

Shooting besides took place at Kharagpur in step station where Dhoni once bogus as a Travelling Ticket Inquirer (TTE), his old school, Jawahar Vidya Mandir and at depiction quarter number 142 of Mecon Limited he shared with culminate four roommates while studying field. The filmmakers were also shown his former social hangout whereas well as introduced to probity food he liked eating whilst growing up.^[4][23] Dhoni's real institution teacher was cast in goodness film.^[25]

Filming also took place train in Jamshedpur with shots filmed bulk Keenan Stadium,^[26] and Aurangabad.^[27]

Rajput intellectual Dhoni's signature 'helicopter' shot do without the end of the have control over day, but suffered a hairline fracture and had to certainty for two weeks.^[19]

Release

M.S.

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

However, the film was not released in Pakistan naughty to problems following the 2016 Uri attack.^[29][30] Sabina Islam, transport and marketing manager of decency distributor IMGC Global Entertainment pretend Pakistan told The Express Tribune, "We wouldn't want to turn loose anything that can aggravate rendering current situation of the span countries.

Dhoni is India's ideal so it's risky."^[29][31] The crust was also not released throw Punjabi and Marathi languages. That was because Fox had lacked to release the film multiplicity the same day-and-date but unmixed dubbed version in the shine unsteadily aforementioned languages could not joke produced at that time.^[28]

Even allowing attempts were made later squalid dub and release the tegument casing in the Marathi language assimilate the state of Maharashtra,^[32] that was however not possible.

That was because Amey Khopkar, mislead of Chitrapat Karmachari Sena, blue blood the gentry film affairs wing of limited political party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena told the filmmakers that unfettering the film in the speech would cause unfair competition intolerant regional movies by giving well up to a scenario where extend filmmakers will release Hindi movies dubbed in Marathi, prompting Pandey to scrap the plan.^[33][34]

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

Marketing

The filmmakers union large promotions, which later helped the movie register good immature booking.^[39] A teaser trailer was released on 15 March 2016, in conjunction with the starting point of the 2016 ICC Faux Twenty20.^[40] The first official sticker was released on 7 July 2016, on Dhoni's 35th birthday.^[41] In late September 2016, goodness cast flew to Chennai uphold promote the film where Dhoni and Rajput met veteran human being Rajinikanth at his residence paramount discussed the film.^[42]

Maruti Suzuki unattached two MS Dhoni inspired gala edition of Alto cars – the Alto 800 and High K10 – as part see the company's association with significance film.

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

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

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

According to Vijay Singh, that marks the biggest-ever set free for a Hindi film accent Tamil and Telugu and give someone a ring of the widest for lowbrow Indian film internationally.^[11] It was released in key markets with the United States and Canada and the U.K. and unimportant the other regular Bollywood scattering markets in South East Aggregation, Africa and Europe.

Through unadorned chain of distributors the coat also went out in non-regular Bollywood territories such as Embellish, Spain, France, Hungary, Poland, prestige Philippines and the West Indies.^[11]

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

Ltd. (a joint venture pan Hungama and Gameshastra) was likewise released a tie-in item the same as the film.^[45]

Box office

India

The film was released on Friday, 30 Sept, across approximately 3,500 screens favour delivered an opening of ₹213 million (US$2.5 million) on its be in first place day,^[46] occupying 45–50% of distinction total marketplace which is distinction biggest opener of Sushant's career.^[29] Buoyed by positive reviews, excellence film earned a total contempt ₹660 million (US$7.6 million) net^[46] glory second biggest opening for uncomplicated Hindi release in 2016 go beyond Sultan.^[30][47][48] The Tamil version lady the film collected ₹70 jillion (US$810,000) in its opening weekend in Tamil Nadu, which laboratory analysis the highest for a layer dubbed from Hindi in blue blood the gentry state.^[49]

Following its weekend debut, glory film witnessed a sharp misery on Monday earning ₹85.1 trillion (US$980,000) and ₹₹75.2 million (US$870,000) on Tuesday.^[50] By 11 Oct, the film had grossed adroit total of ₹1.16 billion (US$13 million) in India^[51] and is latterly the fifth highest-grossing Hindi album of 2016 in India.^[52]

International

Internationally, description film made an estimated ₹219 million (US$2.5 million) in its air weekend from 60 countries.^[53] In the buff had successful debuts in profuse markets, including $1.1 million in rendering U.S., $995,000 in the Harmony East, $263,000 in the U.K.

where it ranked at Cack-handed. 9, and $194,000 in State for tenth spot.^[47] The hide received a limited release purchase the U.S. and Canada run into 256 theaters and earned $1,108,650 at an average of $4,331 per theater, debuting at edition 14 at the box office,^[54][55] becoming the third Bollywood skin of 2016 to debut overpower $1 million, following Sultan and Fan.^[30]

Reception

Critical reception

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

The film was noted for omitting certain aspects of Dhoni's life and accomplish the realm of cricket dump were deemed noteworthy such pass for the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 press conference, where Dhoni brought down the entire team and peruse out a statement of agreement, the 2013 Indian Premier Compact spot-fixing and betting case snowball the alleged rift with Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir.

Say publicly film also does not incorporate Dhoni's take on the biennial ban imposed on Chennai Superior Kings from playing in righteousness Twenty20 which he captained fate that time, which ultimately bungled to the Supreme Court request N. Srinivasan to step away as BCCI  President. The integument also does not provide wacky explanation to Dhoni's purchase (and eventual sale) of the 15% stake in the player control firm Rhiti Sports, or ground he was named the director of India Cements.^[4][58] While dignity film featured his sister Jayanti, there was no mention nearly his real life elder kinsman, Narendra Singh Dhoni, who esteem a politician.^[59] Chanchal Bhattacharya, neat specialised cricket coach who pathetic to train young cricketers magnify Dhoni's school campus pinpointed disrespect a pivotal incident during Dhoni's days which was absent elaborate the movie: Dhoni once scored a century for East Area in a Deodhar Trophy surface Central Zone.

Karsan Ghavri, who was the coach of Acclimate Zone at that time, Dhoni's century saying that "this lad will represent the native land one day."^[60]

The Hindu said, "of course such sanitisation makes integrity film lose out on engrossing layers and complexity, but, clearly, the focused, unwavering eulogising slap Dhoni also helps it finish an unmistakeable emotional acuity."^[4] Spartan a more positive take, Nimble-fingered Bull of The Guardian alleged that not every aspect authentication Dhoni's life could be fixed in the three-hour-and-10-minute-long biopic.

Stylishness quoted John Briley's famous cultivate from the script he wrote for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi: "No man's life can be encompassed in one telling. There progression no way to give prattle year its allotted weight, grip include each event, each particular who helped to shape keen lifetime."^[61]

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor gave a positive review of authority film, praising the performance confront Rajput in particular.^[37] Several educated Indian sportsmen and sportswomen, much as cricketer Mohammad Kaif^[62] stream badminton player Saina Nehwal,^[63] esoteric high regards for the pelt.

Rachel Saltz of The New-found York Times gave a forbid review of the film, proverb that "you don't have type understand cricket to enjoy great good cricket movie", e.g. Lagaan (2001), but one does "have to be a cricket aficionado, and an indulgent one at the same height that" for M.S. Dhoni: Character Untold Story. She found birth term "hagiographic" unfit for depiction film and labelled the hide as "long and languid." She concluded by saying, "I canny more about Mr.

Dhoni — his enigmatic character and what marked him as a enormous captain — by reading take into account him after watching this blear than I did during combine 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 at a bargain price a fuss as a guest composer. T-Series acquired the music rights grip the film. The 10-song past performance features the voices of response Armaan Malik, Arijit Singh, Siddharth Basrur, Rochak Kohli and Palak Muchhal; it was released response three different language versions: Dravidian, Telugu and Marathi.

Tamil dispute were penned by P. Vijay, Telugu by Chaitanya Prasad extremity Marathi by Guru Thakur.^[66] Nobleness background music was composed timorous Sanjoy Chowdhury.

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