Whats Untold & Why a Love Song "AGAIN"

Rating: 5/10 (4 October 2016)

First things first: How is the movie: Not good (When I compare it to the likes of Cinderella Man, Pele, Fighter and so on.)
We are presented with same old multiple times told story of a common man to exceptional man. Its portrayed as Untold Story with a label of a great player over it and VIOLA - People going gaga over it like its one of the best biopic ever. But its nowhere even close to what it should have been.
What is wrong with the movie?
LOVE SONG - The only thing that pops in my mind is "WHY??". Why there has to be a love song every time. Why can't it be a real life romantic situation where characters are more believable. Instead of wasting 5 minutes over a futile song, it could have been used for better character and situation development.
INNOVATION - It lacks innovation in terms of direction and cinematography. Portrayal of intense sequences limited only to Slow Motion camera work with a person standing in front of it and totally confused if he/she should shed tears (and look weak) or not (and look strong). Its accompanied with a typical Bollywood background score that desperately attempts to squeeze out a few teardrops, but fails.
THE UNTOLD STORY - As the title suggests, the focus of the whole deal should have never been a series of events that happened in the life of MS Dhoni. Its already known what events occurred in his life or one can simply google it. The real untold would have been - What crossed Dhoni's mind when he was hit by tough situations? How the world looked through his eyes when he was struggling? Unfortunately the movie fails terribly to tell this untold aspect of a great player.
REAL LIFE FOOTAGES - There is nothing wrong with footage (Apart from poor VFX), but the problem is that it gets extremely repetitive after a while. Its like watching 2 couples of typical Dhoni shots over and over again for some 40 minutes - which in my opinion is not very gripping.
After 3 hours and 5 minutes, when I came out of the theater with a minor headache, it felt like the Director Neeraj Pandey ran out of ideas pretty much in the early stages of the production and decided to juggle between real life cricket clips, love scenes and day to day events in Dhoni's life. Tragically the juggling din't go well and all the juggling balls got floored. All in all the movie deserves no more than 5.0/10.0