Lagaan - Fake Drama + Real Achievements

Rating: 10/10 (1 October 2016)

M.S. Dhoni: The untold story = Lagaan - Fake Drama + Real Achievements!
No over the top, fake drama... about a life story with real achievements. Movie is as perfect about priorities as Dhoni is in real life. This is a wonderfully executed movie, about a wonderful journey, with the right morals and life story. I cannot appreciate this enough for it's simple, straightforward story telling. It's like watching Dhoni bat - amazing, amazing movie.
Acting-wise the actors have done a credible job. The movie is fictionalized, and they've changed MSD's elder sibling's gender and character, perhaps for the right reasons (his brother is a politician, and this disassociates the movie from any politics -- a point in its favor).
Just a bit melodramatic in the second half; no clue about the real/fictional part (1st girlfriend dies in road accident). And meeting with now-wife also fictionalized... but, still good, family movie.