No other movie trailer has given
me goose bumps like this movie. In the country where only Bollywood and cricket
sell, ‘MS Dhoni: The Untold Story’ is the movie that all have been waiting for.
The trailer is now out.
Mahi – India’s favourite, who
helped India lift the World Cup one more time, the most popular, multi-record
holding Captain of India was always a subject of attention for the junta, not
only for his cricket but also for his background and his looks, and this is portrayed
brilliantly in the trailer. The journey of a Ranchi born ticket collector in
Kharagpur, getting Rs. 1500 as stipend, to one of the highest paid athletes in the
world, against the odds of his background and then being questioned once he
succeeds, is what quintessential Masala Bollywood movies are made of.
While the story sells itself but
portrayal of great story on the screen is as important as the story itself and
this looks like a movie which will not disappoint. Sushant Singh Rajput looks
every bit of Mahendra Singh Dhoni in all frames of the trailer. Though they
could have done away with the VFX when they showed the school boy Dhoni with
Sushant’s face.
Bollywood loves biopics but many
of them fail as the focus on the portrayal of the story supersedes the desire
to create the effect that the story deserves. There is big bang drama created
by this story, drawn by the award winning director of A Wednesday, Special 26
& Baby – Neeraj Pandey. Neeraj knows that art of showing biopics frozen in
their time frame and aesthetics, and this is no different. The multi-shades of
Mahi’s journey and the aspects of his life – school days, struggle with family,
initial cricket days, Indian cricket team days, are all shown not only with the
dimension of time period but also with the complexity of the change in the
person that comes when someone grows in life and career.
The background narrative, which
is provided by the intertwining of obstacles or opinions of people in Dhoni’s
life and the counter responses, helps in building up the milestones along with
the protagonist’s perspective. One of the most impactful scenes, apart from the
cricket shots, are those that depict his Railway days with the multi-angular influence
from his employees, father, sister, mother and the juggle in his own mind.
While Neeraj Pandey experiments
with his protagonist, his second line of actors is usually the same – Anupam Kher
and Rajesh Sharma, two of the most brilliant actors of today’s times. Bhumika
Chawla is also seen after a long time taking a centre stage as Dhoni’s sister.
As in all Neeraj Pandey’s movies,
we can expect this movie to have a tight story build up, which is also very obvious
from the trailer, most appropriate depiction of a biopic, accuracy of art
designs, strong background score, and a strong lines of performances.
If Sushant pulls this off then
this could change his course of career placing him in the league of Ranbir
Kapoor & Ranveer Singh.
Basis the trailer, I can say that
this movie will get a 4.5/5 rating.
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