No wonder, the greatest cheers in the movie hall was when they showed actual match footage of the 2011 World Cup final, a close-up of Virat Kohli, the carrying of Sachin Tendulkar on the shoulder, and one final actual glimpse of Dhoni on the screen from that memorable 2011 April night. The fanatical ‘I love you, you are my life Dhoni’ fans might like it but they too could have more fun in spending three and half hours on YouTube cricket videos of Dhoni instead. It’s a movie seemingly made by an adolescent public relations firm and it comes as a surprise to realise that its the same director Neeraj Pandey who has produced a fairly gripping A Wednesday, or even the fun-filled con movie Special Chabbees. But they just skim through them, leaving characters without depth. There was enough potential even in the episodes they chose to portray to show us some insights into his mind – be it in the struggle of a lower middle class family in a small town, the depression after being caught in a soul-sucking job as railways ticket collector with the cricket dreams in threat of being buried, the pain of lost love, and trouble of selection breakthrough. Just as it seemed, the episode might lead to a revelation of personality, and some vulnerability could seep through, they just move on to the final of T20 World Cup. Her death leaves Dhoni breaking down, hunched on middle of the road. Even its treatment is so amaeturish – in nearly every interaction she mouths a dialogue, “Mahi, sach bolo hamare pass time hai na”, foretelling her death in such an amaeturish way that it took out any possible pathos when she dies in an accident. One of them is shown as his first love but who dies just as the relationship was about to turn serious.
This one on Dhoni is full of cardboard characters who exist just to prop up Dhoni – even his childhood friends seem to be there to add some silly attempt at humour, or to show how Dhoni remains grounded even after becoming famous.Īnd yes, there are those song and dances with couple of heroines. That was full of childish spite with character-revealing mudslinging of astonishing proportions but it was at least so bad-it-was-funny.
It even pales in front of Azhar the movie. This doesn’t work as a sports movie, it certainly doesn’t as a character sketch heck it’s not even a paisa-vasool masala. Barring a stray scene where he and a young Yuvraj Singh walk past each other, and share a slightly unpleasant introduction to each other on field, there is not a single scene with any cricketer. In a team of legendary stars, he is shown as a one-man army, his batting reduced just to swinging those helicopter shots, and his illustrious captaincy non-existent on reel. Instead, he has been reduced to a husk of a man, almost narcissistic and dull. But you won’t find it in the Untold story. MS Dhoni is a smart man, reticent – shy in his initial days, guarded as he grew into his role as a captain – but with a sharp sense of humour and a relaxed air about him that defied his legendary status.
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