Indian movies filmed on sports stars # M. S Dhoni :The Untold Story
The world is full of talented people, some people use the talent inside them with perfection and some show lethargic approach and their talent remains within them. I don't think there will be anyone who loves cricket doesn't know M. S Dhoni. He is the former captain and wicketkeeper-batsman of Indian team . He is the man who has made the country proud, there is no title which he hasn't gifted to the country under his capitancy. Under his Capitancy India has won 50 over world cup, T20 world cup, champions trophy, and many big clashes between strong cricketing nations. India became no.1 ranked cricket team under his capitancy in all the three formats of the game.
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In addition to the achievements which he did for the country with his capitancy he hasn't used only his brain, he is a very talented and dangerous middle order batsman and his a number of personal milestones. M. S Dhoni has 90 test matches, 320 one day matches, 93 T20 matches and 121 first class matches and has a batting average of 38.09 51.25 37.17 36.84 respectively in these formats. Dhoni has scored 4,876, 10,046, 1,487 , 7,038 runs respectively in all the formats. In addition to this M. S Dhoni has been the recipient of many awards, including the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first player to win the award twice), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2007, the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan.
Getting inspired by the way Dhoni put his sweat out to make the country proud a person from Bollywood industry whose name is Neeraj Pandey decided to make a Bollywood movie on the life of this great player and the movie was titled as M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story.
This movie is written and directed by Neeraj Pandey, this movie is based on the life history of M. S Dhoni and the struggle which he has done in his life to reach the place where he is right now. The film stars who worked in the movie Sushant Singh Rajput as Dhoni, along with Disha Patani, Kiara Advani, and Anupam Kher.
This movie took two years to be filmed and finally it was released on 30 September 2016 by Fox Star Studios and received the widest release ever for a Bollywood film across 61 countries. After the release of the movie it got a lot of positives from the critics and it boomed box office and came up with huge collection. This movie is currently the fifth highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2016 in India with ₹1.16 billion (US$17 million).