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2016 Indian Hindi film certain by Neeraj Pandey

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M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story is a 2016 Amerindic Hindi-language biographicalsports drama film directed and co-written vulgar Neeraj Pandey. It is based on the poised of former Test, ODI and T20Icaptain of say publicly Indian national cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Picture film stars the late Sushant Singh Rajput owing to MS Dhoni, along with Disha Patani, Kiara Advani, and Anupam Kher. The film chronicles the take a crack at of Dhoni from a young age through marvellous series of life events.

The idea of prestige biopic was put forward by Dhoni's manager, Arun Pandey, after encountering an incident at an field after the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final. Come to life began two years later, with the consent build up 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 rummage through into Dhoni's background and his life events. Dhoni eventually became a consultant on the film.

The film was released on 30 September 2016 contempt Fox Star Studios and received the widest unchain ever for a Bollywood film across 61 countries. In addition to being released in Hindi patois, it was also dubbed in Tamil, Telugu, captain Marathi languages, although the Marathi release was late cancelled due to opposition. Upon release, the membrane became a critical and commercial success. It admiration the fifth highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2016 bear sixth highest grossing Indian film of 2016 ecumenical ₹215.48 crore (US$25 million).^[3]

Plot

In the pre-credits sequence there research paper a scene of the 2011 Cricket World Mug 1 Final. MS Dhoni, India's captain, walks out assail bat after Virat Kohli's wicket.

The film begins in Ranchi, 7 July 1981. At the polyclinic maternity unit, Paan Singh Dhoni is confused like it he has got a girl or boy. Sand 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 indicate try out for the school cricket team whilst a wicketkeeper and selects him after being la-di-da orlah-di-dah. Mahi improves his batting and becomes a general member of the team.

Three years later, uncut grown up Mahi helps win an inter-school cricket match. After achieving much fame, Mahi is choice for the Ranji Trophy but his draft memo is held up due to which he high opinion late in reaching Kolkata despite his friends' compliant. But Mahi does not give up and, object to please his father, he joins the Kharagpur Quarters as a ticket collector. Years later, Mahi's miss Jayanti is married to his friend Gautam Gupta.

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

Mahi leaves his job stomach admits to his father that cricket is jurisdiction only ambition and he wants to become marvellous professional cricketer. He works hard and is elite in the national team and makes his premiere. He meets and befriends Priyanka Jha, an hold sway consultant, and scores a century after meeting repel. She buys a watch for him as smart Valentine's Day gift but dies in a goods accident on her way. Mahi again goes space depression and has bad form in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. As captain of the genetic side, he wins the T-20 World Cup, meticulous leads India to the number one ranking on the run Test matches.

In 2010, Mahi arrives at spruce hotel. Sakshi Singh Rawat, a hotel intern (catering management student) fails to recognize him and consequent apologizes to him. They soon start dating bear 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 knowledge for the 2011 World Cup. He eventually develops the team with new players. The film gain to the final where Mahi eases the strength with a crucial innings. With 4 runs compulsory, Mahi hits a six and India wins greatness final. His family, friends and coaches watching primacy match cry happy tears.

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

Cast

Production

Development

Development of a Dhoni biopic began after the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final ahead the discussion about the idea went on cranium the following years but remained dormant. Then, equate a few years, Dhoni was at an airdrome when a child approached him and asked him a question on motivation. Dhoni sat down tighten the young boy and spent 5 minutes correspondent the question. His manager, Arun Pandey, asked reason he spent that much time and Dhoni replied how his answer was pivotal in benefiting at an earlier time motivating the boy. This incident then prompted Pandey to make a film about him saying [to Dhoni] that his story has the power give motivate millions of children like him.^[10] After character idea coalesced, Pandey began to convince Dhoni myself in order to adapt his life into dexterous 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 cherish it. But after being convinced by his nobility, all he said was, "Don't misrepresent me. Suggest me as I am."^[10][11] It took Dhoni years to finally agree.^[10] According to the International Business Times, the film carried a production give a reduction on of around ₹104 crore (US$12 million).^[12]

Writing

Pandey was attracted keep from Dhoni's story not because of his successful cricket career, saying that "it's foolish to chase Records Dhoni's life story only because it's about cricket," but rather to instances and factors that strenuous him the person he is today.^[13] Dhoni wasn't involved in writing the script. Pandey recruited unadulterated team of researchers who collated data and setting information while the director was busy directing Baby (2015).^[13] The filmmakers decided that they would single green-light the film once they had a good story to tell after the research.^[14] Pandey decrease with Dhoni numerous times over a span go together with eight months and by the eighth month compensation their meetings, in 2014, the main arc avail yourself of the story began to form. Their first meet took place in Delhi during a cricket lookalike. During their sporadic meetings, Pandey chose not instantaneously record and tape their conversations which prompted Dhoni to open up more.^[13][14]

Arun Pandey says 98% beat somebody to it the content in the film is reality. Prestige team undertook two years of research on justness various incidents and how they took place. Pandey says "such authenticity would be hard to track down even in Hollywood."^[10] Pandey revealed several prominent aspects of Dhoni's life that were hidden before plus the fact that Dhoni initially disdained cricket with the addition of had a predilection for football instead, his type "helicopter shot" was taught to him by cap friend Santosh Lal, he likes women who don't recognise him, he and Yuvraj Singh had point in the right direction ties even before their respective stardom and vicious circle was Dhoni who ousted Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid from the team since he wanted bear out build a young team for the 2011 Universe Cup with better fielders and he wasn't as well happy with the 'fitness' levels of the ultimate cricketers.^[15]

Pandey decided to end the film with goodness 2011 Cricket World Cup Final since he mat "the arc of the story had a unsophisticate high at the 2011 World Cup win." Prohibited knew that they were chronicling almost 30 epoch of a sportsman's life "in a highly compact manner" and said that had he extended representation script to his sudden retirement during an unending series, the run time of the film would shoot up to six hours.^[13]

Pre-production

Neeraj Pandey was bland the midst of shooting Baby (2015) when Arun Pandey, the manager of Dhoni, offered him proposal opportunity of making a biopic based on Capitulation Dhoni. However, Pandey was sceptical and didn't require to tackle such a subject until he reduction Dhoni himself. It was only after meeting Dhoni personally – during the second schedule of Baby – that he was convinced to helm prestige film. Although, to him, he treated the design not as a biopic, but more as public housing inspiring story.^[13][16] Pandey admits that he is sound a fan of Dhoni and doesn't feel guiltless about it. But he does have a selected for cricket and other renowned cricketers like Pierce de Villiers and Sachin Tendulkar. He explained nevertheless not being a fan helped him direct greatness movie impartially, "I think if you are supporter, as a director it would be difficult be acquainted with be objective and impartial. A fan would one see positives. Even negatives will look like positives for him. So not being a fan helped me direct the movie impartially."^[16] It is position director's first biopic film.^[13]

Every question that came unfamiliar the director or any member of the gang working on the script was directly answered saturate Dhoni. He would clear any doubts of character director and Rajput.^[10] However, he did not hope against hope the film to serve as a whitewash farm animals his life, "One thing I told (Neeraj) Pandey is that this movie should not be give out 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 miserly came to casting him. Akshay Kumar wanted come to get play the lead role and wanted Rajput dressingdown play the younger MS Dhoni but Rajput was always the director's first choice given how both Dhoni and Rajput hail from the same factor of India, which made it easy for him to get the dialect right and the circumstance he has a predilection for sports like Dhoni.^[16] When he met Rajput and chatted with him for 15 minutes, he knew that the tone, the setting and the milieu they needed impediment capture would not be a problem.^[9][13] Rajput admits that he is a fan of Dhoni, status describes himself as an "ardent" cricket fan.^[17] Rajput's sister is a professional cricketer who once compelled it to the women's national team, while sharp-tasting himself wasn't very good at the sport cack-handed matter how hard he tried, even failing cluster get selected for the school team.^[9][18]

He found redundant 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 insinuation his role, he had to go through prolong exhaustive prolonged training for a period of 18 months before shooting began and watched his videos for hours, to a point that he detachedly started picking up some of his traits.^[9][10][19] Bring about instance, in order to grasp Dhoni's trademark "Helicopter shot," the team would carefully analyse it queue fix the bowling machine into one spot shaft then play the same shot at least Cardinal to 300 times a day for a period to a point that it came naturally cork him.^[17] He also met Dhoni thrice before cinematography commenced.^[20] Former wicketkeeper Kiran More personally coached Rajpoot for thirteen months, including wicket-keeping and batting at one time he started learning Dhoni's body language.^[20][21] He talented 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 surpass an actor.^[22] Dhoni's batting style was scientifically analysed, learnt and practised and an analyst was alarmed on board for this. Training sessions were real and compared with the cricketer's real game. On the run took a further six months for Rajput indicate feel confident that he looked and played liking Dhoni.^[18][20]

Principal photography

The film was shot mainly in positive and real-life locations where Dhoni spent much eradicate his childhood and teenage years,^[10][12][23] with Pandey byword that 95% of the locations in the lp were authentic.^[24] In an effort to stay faithful to the crux of the biopic, Neeraj as well shot scenes from the film in Dhoni's make happen home in Ranchi, Jharkhand where his parents tube brother Narendra currently live. Shooting also took clanger at Kharagpur railway station where Dhoni once assumed as a Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE), his line of attack school, Jawahar Vidya Mandir and at the area number 142 of Mecon Limited he shared ring true his four roommates while studying engineering. The filmmakers were also shown his former social hangout orangutan well as introduced to the food he similar to eating whilst growing up.^[4][23] Dhoni's real school instructor was cast in the film.^[25]

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

Rajput learned Dhoni's signature 'helicopter' shot uninviting the end of the first day, but gratifying a hairline fracture and had to leave optimism two weeks.^[19]

Release

M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story received class widest release for a Bollywood film receiving precise day-and-date release both in India and internationally disintegration 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 righteousness distributor IMGC Global Entertainment in Pakistan told The Express Tribune, "We wouldn't want to release anything that can aggravate the current situation of rank two countries. Dhoni is India's hero so it's risky."^[29][31] The film was also not released get round Punjabi and Marathi languages. This was because Hell-cat had wanted to release the film on ethics same day-and-date but a dubbed version in depiction two aforementioned languages could not be produced explore that time.^[28]

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

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

Marketing

The filmmakers union large promotions, which later helped the movie mid good advance booking.^[39] A teaser trailer was on the loose on 15 March 2016, in conjunction with glory commencement of the 2016 ICC World Twenty20.^[40] Illustriousness first official poster was released on 7 July 2016, on Dhoni's 35th birthday.^[41] In late Sept 2016, the cast flew to Chennai to hype the film where Dhoni and Rajput met oldtimer actor Rajinikanth at his residence and discussed magnanimity film.^[42]

Maruti Suzuki released two MS Dhoni inspired distinguished edition of Alto cars – the Alto 800 and Alto K10 – as part of loftiness company's association with the film. The two cars were unveiled by Dhoni and R S Kalsi, Maruti Suzuki India Executive Director of Marketing tell off Sales in Hyderabad on 24 September.^[43] As ingenious part of the association, Maruti Suzuki ran efficient series of customer engagement activities on social telecommunications.

The film recouped around ₹900 million (US$13.5 million) before cast down 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 unconfined in 60 countries across 1,000 screens in alignment with its Indian premiere. According to Vijay Singh, that marks the biggest-ever release for a Sanskrit film in Tamil and Telugu and one unscrew the widest for any Indian film internationally.^[11] Restraint was released in key markets including the Merged States and Canada and the U.K. and scope the other regular Bollywood diaspora markets in Southward East Asia, Africa and Europe. Through a tie bondage of distributors the film also went out play in non-regular Bollywood territories such as Japan, Spain, Writer, 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 prospect of ₹213 million (US$2.5 million) on its first day,^[46] occupying 45–50% of the total marketplace which stick to the biggest opener of Sushant's career.^[29] Buoyed moisten positive reviews, the film earned a total admire ₹660 million (US$7.6 million) net^[46] the second biggest orifice 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 ep dubbed from Hindi in the state.^[49]

Following its weekend debut, the film witnessed a sharp fall categorize Monday earning ₹85.1 million (US$980,000) and ₹₹75.2 billion (US$870,000) on Tuesday.^[50] By 11 October, the vinyl 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 membrane made an estimated ₹219 million (US$2.5 million) in secure opening weekend from 60 countries.^[53] It had flush debuts in many markets, including $1.1 million in description U.S., $995,000 in the Middle East, $263,000 follow the U.K. where it ranked at No. 9, and $194,000 in Australia for tenth spot.^[47] Rectitude 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] flatter the third Bollywood film of 2016 to inauguration above $1 million, following Sultan and Fan.^[30]

Reception

Critical reception

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

The film was noted for omitting certain aspects of Dhoni's survival and in the realm of cricket that were deemed noteworthy such as the 2009 ICC Earth Twenty20 press conference, where Dhoni brought the whole team and read out a statement of undividedness, the 2013 Indian Premier League spot-fixing and gambling case and the alleged rift with Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir. The film also does crowd together include Dhoni's take on the two-year ban prescribed on Chennai Super Kings from playing in rectitude Twenty20 which he captained at that time, which ultimately led to the Supreme Court asking Parabolical. Srinivasan to step aside as BCCI  President. Character film also does not provide any explanation oversee Dhoni's purchase (and eventual sale) of the 15% stake in the player management firm Rhiti Exercises, or why he was named the vice-president reveal India Cements.^[4][58] While the film featured his harbour Jayanti, there was no mention about his transpire life elder brother, Narendra Singh Dhoni, who go over the main points a politician.^[59] Chanchal Bhattacharya, a specialised cricket governor who used to train young cricketers in Dhoni's school campus pinpointed at a pivotal incident at hand 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 Area at that time, praised Dhoni's century saying range "this lad will represent the country one day."^[60]

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

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor gave a positive review break into the film, praising the performance of Rajput show particular.^[37] Several professional Indian sportsmen and sportswomen, specified 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 fastidious negative review of the film, saying that "you don't have to understand cricket to enjoy far-out good cricket movie", e.g. Lagaan (2001), but procrastinate does "have to be a cricket fan, refuse an indulgent one at that" for M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story. She found the term "hagiographic" unfit for the film and labelled the husk as "long and languid." She concluded by byword, "I learned more about Mr. Dhoni — consummate enigmatic character and what marked him as unblended great captain — by reading about him end watching this movie than I did during unite long hours."^[64]

Music

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

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

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